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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ 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-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
@@ -41,9 +44,14 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
       transfer.
 
     - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
-      rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
+      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).
 
-    - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size.
+    - 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.
@@ -51,12 +59,13 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
     - 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).
 
@@ -65,12 +74,20 @@ 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.
 
+    - 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.
@@ -86,6 +103,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.6:
     - 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