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-rsync 2.5.3 (not released yet)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.6:
 
-  SECURITY FIXES:
+  BUG FIXES:
 
-    * (CVE CAN-2002-0059)
+    - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
 
-    * Make sure that supplementary groups are removed from a server
-      process after changing uid and gid. (Ethan Benson) (Debian bug
-      #132272, CVE CAN-2002-0080)
+    - If a device-file/special-file changes permissions, rsync now updates the
+      permissions without recreating the file.
 
-  BUG FIXES:
+    - 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.
 
-    * Fixed problem that in many cases caused the error message 
-	unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
-      and resulted in the wrong data being copied.
+    - Reject the combination of --inplace and --sparse since the sparse-output
+      algorithm doesn't work when overwriting existing data.
 
-    * Fixed compilation errors on some systems caused by the use of
-      "unsigned int64" in rsync.h.
+    - Fixed the directory name in the error that is output when pop_dir()
+      fails.
 
-    * Fixed problem on systems such as Sunos4 that do not support realloc
-      on a NULL pointer; error was "out of memory in flist_expand".
+    - Really fixed the parsing of a "!" entry in .cvsignore files this time.
 
-    * Fix for rsync server processes hanging around after the client
-      unexpectedly disconnects.  (Colin Walters) (Debian bug #128632)
+    - 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).
 
-    * Cope with BSD systems on which mkdir() will not accept a trailing
-      slash.
+    - If waitpid() fails or the child rsync didn't exit cleanly, we now handle
+      the exit status properly and generate a better error.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    * Command to initiate connections is only shown with -vv, rather
-      than -v as in 2.5.2.  Output from plain -v is more similar to
-      what was historically used so as not to break scripts that try
-      to parse the output.
+    - Added the --append option that makes rsync append data onto files
+      that are longer on the source than the destination (this includes new
+      files).
+
+    - Added the --min-size=SIZE option to exclude small files from the
+      transfer.
+
+    - Added the --compress-level option to allow you to set how aggressive
+      rsync's compression should be (the option implies --compress).
+
+    - Enhanced the parsing of the SIZE value for --min-size and --max-size.
+
+    - 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:
+
+    - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
+      MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+
+    - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
+      with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+
+    - If a va_copy macro is defined, lib/snprintf.c will use it when defining
+      the VA_COPY macro.
 
-    * Added --no-whole-file and --no-blocking-io options (Dave Dykstra)
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    * Made the --write-batch and --read-batch options actually work
-      and added documentation in the man page (Jos Backus)
+    - 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.
 
-    * If the daemon is unable to fork a child to accept a connection,
-      print an error message.  (Colin Walters)