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@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
       rsyncd.conf file.
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+      that might have caused an infininte loop or perhaps a crash.
+
     - Fixed a case where the generator might try to tweak the write
       permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode.
 
@@ -28,11 +31,24 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
     - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, don't refer
       to it as a "file".
 
+    - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+      generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+      the file by the destination filename.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+      generator hasn't created the destination directory yet.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+      to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+      of the cluster.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
       of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
-      actual updating of the destination.
+      actual updating of the destination.  This allows you to divert all
+      the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+      are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
 
     - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped
       characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is output
@@ -46,6 +62,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.4:
       it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
       really did expect the socket to close).
 
+    - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+      back to using syslog.  This is better than a (typically) totally
+      silent failure (since a daemon is not usually run with --no-detach).
+
   INTERNAL:
 
     - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").