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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.7:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Fixed a bug in the exclude code where an anchored exclude without any
-      wildcards fails to match an absolute source arg, but only when --relative
-      is in effect.
+    - 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.
 
-    - Improved the I/O code for the generator to fix a potential hang when the
-      receiver gets an EOF on the socket but the generator's select() call
-      never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
-      the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
+    - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest
+      options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest): 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.
+
+    - 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:
 
-    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
-      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+    - ...
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of
-      a future option, --log-file=FILE, that will allow any rsync to log its
-      actions to a file (which is only supported by a daemon at present).
+    - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+      make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
+
+    - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
+
+    - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+      consistent opening comments.