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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.8 (UNRELEASED)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
+Changes since 2.6.7:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
+    - 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.
 
-    - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
-      permissions without recreating the file.
-
-    - If the user specifies a remote-host for both the source and destination,
-      we now output a syntax error rather than trying to open the destination
-      hostspec as a filename.
-
-    - When --inplace creates a new destination file, rsync now creates it with
-      permissions 0600 instead of 0000 -- this makes restarting possible when
-      the transfer gets interrupted in the middle of sending a new file.
-
-    - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
-      algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
-
-    - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
-      fails.
-
-    - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
-
-    - If the generator gets a stat() error on a file, output it (this used to
-      require at least -vv for the error to be seen).
-
-    - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
-      the exit status properly and generate a better error.
+    - 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:
 
-    - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
-      that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
-      files).
-
-    - If lutimes() and/or lchmod() are around, use them to allow the
-      preservation of attributes on symlinks.
-
-    - 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. 
-
-    - 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
-      replicate the "baz/dir" part of the source path (note: a trailing
-      dot dir is unaffected unless it also has a trailing slash).
-
-    - Added some new --no-FOO options that make it easier to override
-      unwanted implied or default options.  For example, "-a --no-o" (aka
-      "--archive --no-owner") can be used to turn off the preservation of
-      file ownership that is implied by -a.
-
-    - 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.
-
-    - Some minor documentation improvements.
-
-    - Updated some diffs in the patches dir.
-
-  INTERNAL:
+    - In daemon mode, if rsync fails to bind to the requested port, the
+      error(s) returned by socket() and/or bind() are now logged.
 
-    - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
-      MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+    - The support/rsyncstats script has an improved line-parsing regex that is
+      easier to read and also allows it to parse syslog-generated lines.
 
-    - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
-      with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+    - 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.
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    - Several diffs in the patches dir now use the proper --enable-FOO
-      configure option instead of --with-FOO to turn on the inclusion of
-      the newly patched feature.
+    - 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
+      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).