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-NEWS for rsync 2.6.7 (UNRELEASED)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.9 (unreleased)
 Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
-Changes since 2.6.6:
+Changes since 2.6.8:
 
   BUG FIXES:
 
-    - Made hard-links work with symlinks and devices again.
-
-    - If a device changed permissions, rsync no longer recreates the device
-      instead of just updating the permissions.
-
-    - 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.
+    - An rsync daemon that is receiving files with "use chroot = no" no longer
+      sanitizes the symlink target strings.  This means that each symlink's
+      value will now be accepted (and thus returned) with its symlink info
+      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, any option that tells a
+      non-chroot daemon to treat some symlinks as their referent (such as
+      --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) now manually checks the symlink chain
+      to ensure that the symlinks do not try to escape past the top of the
+      module's path.  Both these changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+      same as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a
+      potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the
+      module's hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed a overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --*-dest
+      options (--link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest):  if the copy's
+      destination dir is deeper than the top of the module's path, these
+      options now accept a safe number of ../ (parent-dir) references (since
+      these options are relative to the destination dir).  The old code
+      incorrectly chopped off all "../" prefixes for these options, no matter
+      how deep the destination directory was in the hierarchy.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a deferred info/error/log message could get sent
+      directly to the sender instead of being handled by rwrite() in the
+      generator.  This fixes an "unexpected tag 3" fatal error, and should
+      also fix a potential problem where a deferred info/error message from
+      the receiver might bypass the log file and get sent only to the client
+      process.  (These problems could only affect an rsync daemon that was
+      receiving files.)
+
+    - Make sure that the --link-dest option can still do its job even when -I
+      or --size-only is specified.
+
+    - The daemon now calls more timezone-using functions prior to doing a
+      chroot.
 
   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.
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-  INTERNAL:
+    - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to
+      make them much closer to being acceptable in the main distribution.
 
-    - Some buffer sizes were expanded a bit, particularly on systems where
-      MAXPATHLEN is overly small (e.g. cygwin).
+    - Updated config.guess and config.sub to their 2006-02-23 version.
 
-    - If io_printf() tries to format more data than fits in the buffer, exit
-      with an error instead of transmitting a truncated buffer.
+    - Updated various files to include the latest FSF address and to have
+      consistent opening comments.