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@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ Changes since 3.0.4:
     - Changed the way --progress overwrites its prior output in order to make
       it nearly impossible for the progress to get overwritten by an error.
 
+    - An absolute-path filter rule (i.e. with a '/' modifier) no longer loses
+      its modifier when sending the filter rules to the remote rsync.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
     - Added the --remote-option=OPT (-M OPT) command-line option that is useful
@@ -34,9 +37,10 @@ Changes since 3.0.4:
       control over what is output.  Added an extra type of --progress output
       using --info=progress2.
 
-    - Added the --delete-missing option to delete user-specified files on the
-      receiver that are missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-
-      specified files generates an error).
+    - Added the --delete-missing-args and --ignore-missing-args options to
+      either delete or ignore user-specified files on the receiver that are
+      missing on the sender (normally the absence of user-specified files
+      generates an error).
 
     - Added a "T" (terabyte) category to the --human-readable size suffixes.
 
@@ -59,6 +63,12 @@ Changes since 3.0.4:
       file.  Also made explicitly-set uid/gid values no longer ignored by a
       daemon that was not run by a super-user.
 
+    - When replacing a non-dir with a symlink/hard-link/device/special-file,
+      the update should now be done in an atomic manner.
+
+    - When backing up a file, try to hard-link the file into place so that the
+      upcoming replacement of the destination file will be atomic.
+
   EXTRAS:
 
     - Added an "instant-rsyncd" script to the support directory, which makes
@@ -70,6 +80,9 @@ Changes since 3.0.4:
 
   DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
+    - The filter code received some refactoring to make it more extendable, to
+      read better, and do better sanity checking.
+
     - Added more conditional debug output.
 
     - Really big numbers are now output using our own big-num routine rather