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@@ -4,10 +4,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
+    - Fixed a really old bug that caused --checksum (-c) to checksum all the
+      files encountered during the delete scan (ouch).
+
     - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
 
-    - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device
-      instead of just updating the permissions.
+    - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+      permissions without recreating the file.
 
     - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
       we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
@@ -17,24 +20,61 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
       the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
 
+    - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+      algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
+
+    - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+      fails.
+
+    - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
+
+    - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
+      require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
+
+    - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+      the exit status properly and generate a better error.
+
+    - Fixed some glitches in the double-verbose output when using --copy-dest,
+      --link-dest, or --compare-dest.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
       that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
       files).
 
+    - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+      transfer.
+
+    - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+      rsync's compression should be (this option implies --compress).
+
+    - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size
+      to allow easy entry of multiples of 1000 (instead of just multiples
+      of 1024) and off-by-one values too (e.g. --max-size=8mb-1).
+
+    - The options --human-readable (-h) and --si change the output of the
+      --stats and the end-of-run summary to be easier to read.
+
     - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
       preservation of attributes on symlinks.
 
+    - The --link-dest option now affects symlinks and devices (when
+      possible).
+
+    - Improved the output of hard-linked and copied files when using
+      --link-dest, --copy-dest, or --compare-dest.
+
     - Added two config items to the rsyncd.conf parsing:  "pre-xfer exec"
       and "post-xfer exec".  These allow a command to be specified on a
       per-module basis that will be run before and/or after a daemon-mode
-      transfer. 
+      transfer.  (See the manpage for a list of the environment variables
+      that are set with information about the transfer.)
 
     - When using the --relative option, you can now insert a dot dir in
       the source path to indicate where the replication of the source dirs
       should start.  For example, if you specify a source path of
-      rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync would only
+      rsync://host/module/foo/bar/./baz/dir with -R, rsync will now only
       replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
       dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
 
@@ -43,6 +83,28 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
       file ownership that is implied by -a.
 
+    - Added the --chmod=MODE option that allows the destination permissions
+      to be changed from the source permissions.  E.g. --chmod=g+w,o-rwx
+
+    - Allow the --temp-dir option to be specified when starting a daemon,
+      which sets the default temporary directory for incoming files.
+
+    - If --delete is combined with --dirs without --recursive, rsync will
+      now delete in any directory whose content is being synchronized.
+
+    - If --backup is combined with --delete without --backup-dir (and
+      without --delete-excluded), we add a protect filter-rule to ensure
+      that files with the backup suffix are not deleted.
+
+    - The file-count stats that are output by --progress were improved to
+      better indicate what the numbers mean.  For instance, the output:
+      "(xfer#5, to-check=8383/9999)" indicates that this was transferred
+      file #5, and we still need to check 8383 files out of 9999 total.
+
+    - Some minor documentation improvements.
+
+    - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
+
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
@@ -50,3 +112,16 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
 
     - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
       with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+
+    - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+      the VA_COPY macro.
+
+    - Reduced the amount of stack memory needed for each level of directory
+      recursion by nearly MAXPATHLEN bytes.
+
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
+
+    - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
+      configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
+      the newly patched feature.
+