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@@ -4,25 +4,60 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Fixed the sanitizing of acceptable ../ dirs in 2 cases where an rsync
-      daemon is receiving files when "use chroot" is not enabled and the
-      destination dir is not at the top of the module's path:  both the value
-      of a symlink and the arg of the --FOO-dest options (i.e.  --link-dest,
-      --copy-dest, and --compare-dest) now know how deep the destination dir
-      is in the module, and allow a safe number of ../ references instead of
-      preventing the references from leaving the destination hierarchy (use
-      the age-old --safe-links for that behavior).
-
-    - Fixed a bug where a deferred FLOG message would get sent from the
-      generator to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite().  This
-      fixes the "unexpected tag 3" fatal error.
+    - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
+      sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that each symlink's
+      value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info
+      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any
+      dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
+      manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
+      of the module's path.  These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+      same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
+      potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
+      module's hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest,
+      --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if
+      the copy's destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path,
+      these options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references
+      (since these options are relative to the destination dir).  The old code
+      incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+      how deep the destination directory was in the module's hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+      directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+      generator.  This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+      also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+      the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+      process.  (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+      receiving files.)
 
     - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
-      or --size-only is specified.
+      is specified.
+
+    - If --link-dest is specified with --checksum but without --times, rsync
+      will now allow a hard-link to be created to a matching link-dest file
+      regardless of the file's modify-time.
+
+    - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+      chroot.  This should help some C libraries to generate proper timestamps
+      from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
+      over and over again).
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+      it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+      to successfully update a destination file.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    - ...
+    - Added the --log-file=FILE and --log-file-format=FORMAT options.  These
+      can be used to tell any rsync to output what it is doing to a log file.
+      They work with a client rsync, a non-daemon server rsync (see the man
+      page for instructions), and also allows the overriding of rsyncd.conf
+      settings when starting a daemon.
+
+    - The --log-format option was renamed to be --out-format to avoid confusing
+      it with affecting the log-file output.  (The old option remains as an
+      alias for the new to preserve backward compatibility.)
 
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