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@@ -13,12 +13,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.7:
       never indicates that the socket is writable for it to be notified about
       the EOF.  (This can happen when using stunnel).
 
+    - Fixed a problem with the file-reading code where a failed read (such as
+      that caused by a bad sector) would not advance the file's read-position
+      beyond the failed read's data.
+
     - Fixed a logging bug where the "log file" directive was not being honored
-      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection).
+      in a single-use daemon (one spawned by a remote-shell connection or by
+      init).
 
     - If rsync cannot honor the --delete option, we output an error and exit
       instead of silently ignoring the option.
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the --link-dest code that prevented special files (such as
+      fifos) from being linked.
+
+    - The ability to hard-link symlinks and special files is now determined at
+      configure time instead of at runtime.  This fixes a bug with --link-dest
+      creating a hard-link to a symlink's referent on a BSD system.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
@@ -27,15 +39,23 @@ Changes since 2.6.7:
     - When we output a fatal error, we now output the version of rsync in the
       message.
 
-    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
-      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+    - Improved the documentation for the --owner and --group options.
 
-    - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
-      attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+    - The rsyncstats script in "support" has an improved line-parsing regex
+      that is easier to read and also makes it to parse syslog-generated lines.
+
+    - A new script in "support": file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+      attributes of a file-set (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
       taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
+    - Removd two unused configure checks and two related (also unused)
+      compatibility functions.
+
+    - The xattrs.diff patch received a security fix that prevents a potential
+      buffer overflow in the receive_xattr() code.
+
     - The acls.diff patch has been improved quite a bit, with more to come.
 
     - A new patch was added: log-file.diff.  This contains an early version of