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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
-Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.3:
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.7:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Restore the list-clearing behavior of "!" in a .cvsignore file (2.6.3
-      was only treating it as a special token in an rsync include/exclude
-      file).
+    - 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.
 
-    - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
-      that already exists in the --backup-dir.
-
-    - An OS that has a binary mode for its files (such as cygwin0 needed
-      setmode(fd, O_BINARY) called on the temp-file we opened with
-      mkstemp().  (Fix picked up from the cygwin package.)
-
-    - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
-      the sender, and the file-list is large.
-
-    - We now check if the OS doesn't support using mknod() for creating
-      FIFOs and sockets, and compile-in using mkfifo() and socket() when
-      necessary.
-
-    - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
-
-    - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
-
-    - The "ignore nonreadable" daemon parameter no longer affects symlinks
-      that are being copied, even if they point nowhere.
-
-    - If the OS does not have lchown() and its chown() tries to set the
-      referent of a symlink (as it should), we no longer try to set the
-      user and group of a symlink.
+    - 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).
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    - Rsync now supports popt's option aliases, which means that you can
-      use /etc/popt and/or ~/.popt to create your own option aliases.
-
-    - Added the --copy-dest option, which works like --link-dest except
-      that it includes copies of identical files.
-
-    - Added support for specifying multiple --compare-dest, --copy-dest, or
-      --link-dest options, but only of a single type. (Promoted from the
-      patches dir and enhanced.)
-
-    - Added the --max-size option. (Promoted from the patches dir.)
-
-    - The daemon-mode options were separated from the normal rsync options
-      so that they can't be mixed together.  This makes it impossible to
-      start a daemon that had improper default option values that could
-      cause problems (such as a hang or an abort) when a client connects.
-
-    - The --bwlimit option may now be used in combination with --daemon
-      to specify a default value for the daemon side and also a value
-      that cannot be exceeded by a user-specified --bwlimit option.
-
-    - Added the "port" parameter to the rsyncd.conf file. (Promoted from
-      the patches dir.)
-
-    - In _exit_cleanup(): when we are exiting with a partially-received
-      file, we now flush any data in the write-cache before closing the
-      partial file.
+    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
+      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
 
-    - Added support/atomic-rsync -- a perl script that will transfer some
-      files using rsync, and then move the updated files into place all at
-      once at the end of the transfer.  Only works when pulling, and uses
-      --link-dest.
+    - A new script, support/file-attr-restore, can be used to restore the
+      attributes of a fileset (the permissions, ownership, and group info)
+      taken from the cached output of a "find ARG... -ls" command.
 
-  BUILD CHANGES:
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
+    - 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 (something that only a daemon supports at present).