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@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.3:
 
     - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
       setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
-      mkstemp().
+      mkstemp().  (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
+
+    - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+      the sender, and the file-list is large.
 
     - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
       FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
@@ -21,28 +24,56 @@ Changes since 2.6.3:
 
     - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
 
-    - One fork() call needed to check for and handle a failure.
+    - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
+
+    - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
+      that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
+
+    - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
+      referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
+      user and group of a symlink.
+
+    - The generator now properly runs the hard-link loop and the dir-time
+      rewriting loop after we're sure that the redo phase is complete.
+
+    - When --backup was specified with --partial-dir=DIR, don't try to
+      backup a file in DIR when DIR is relative.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
       use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
 
-    - Added the --max-size option (promoted from the patches dir).
+    - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
+      that it includes copies of identical files.
+
+    - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
+      --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
+      patches dir and enhanced.)
+
+    - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
 
     - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
-      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible for a
-      user to start a daemon that had improper default option values that
-      could cause problems (a hang or an exit) when a client connects.
+      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible to
+      start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
+      cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
 
     - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
       to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
       that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
 
+    - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
+      the patches dir.)
+
     - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
       file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
       partial file.
 
+    - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
+      files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
+      once at the end of the transfer.  Only works when pulling, and uses
+      --link-dest.
+
   BUILD CHANGES:
 
     - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().