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-rsync changes since last release
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.3:
 
   BUG FIXES:
-  
-    * Fix "forward name lookup failed" errors on AIX 4.3.3.  (John
-      L. Allen, Martin Pool)
 
-    * Fix compilation on Tru64.  (Albert Chin, Zoong Pham)
+    - 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).
 
-    * Better handling of some client-server errors.  (Martin Pool)
+    - Avoid a mkdir warning when removing a directory in the destination
+      that already exists in the --backup-dir.
 
-    * When -e is specified along with an rsyncd url, the client should
-      get a warning but it should not be treated as an error.  (Bill
-      Nottingham)
+    - 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.)
 
-      http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62489
+    - Fixed a potential hang when verbosity is high, the client side is
+      the sender, and the file-list is large.
 
-    * The --delete-after option now implies --delete.
+    - 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.
 
-  INTERNAL:
+    - Fixed an off-by-one error in the handling of --max-delete=N.
 
-    * Many code cleanups and improved internal documentation.  (Martin 
-      Pool, Nelson Beebe)
+    - One place in the code wasn't checking if fork() failed.
 
-    * More test cases.  (Martin Pool)
+    - 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.
+
+  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.
+
+    - 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.
+
+  BUILD CHANGES:
+
+    - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().