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-rsync 2.5.5 "Snowy River" (2 April 2002)
+NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (UNRELEASED)
+Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.2:
+
+  BUG FIXES:
+
+    - Fixed a crash bug that might appear when --delete was used and
+      multiple source directories were specified.
+
+    - The --backup code no longer attempts to create some directories
+      over and over again (generating warnings along the way).
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the reading of the secrets file (by the daemon) and
+      the password file (by the client):  the files no longer need to be
+      terminated by a newline for their content to be read in.
+
+    - If a file has a read error on the sending side, the receiver will
+      no longer keep the resulting file unless the --partial option was
+      specified.  (Note:  both sides must be running 2.6.3 for this to
+      work -- older receivers always keep the file, and older senders
+      don't tell the receiver that the file was not read correctly.)
+
+    - Fixed an age-old crash problem with --read-batch on a local copy
+      (rsync was improperly assuming --whole-file for the local copy).
+
+    - Files specified in the daemon's "exclude" or "exclude from" config
+      items are now excluded from being uploaded (assuming that the module
+      allows uploading at all) in addition to the old download exclusion.
+
+    - Got rid of a potential hang in the receiver when near the end of a
+      phase.
+
+    - When using --backup without a --backup-dir, rsync no longer preserves
+      the modify time on directories.  This avoids confusing NFS.
+
+    - When --copy-links (-L) is specified, we now output a separate error
+      for a symlink that has no referent instead of claiming that a file
+      "vanished".
+
+    - Error messages from the daemon server's option-parsing (such as
+      refused options) now get sent back to the client (the server used
+      to just exit).
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the daemon authentication code when using one of the
+      batch-processing options.
 
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
-    * With --progress, when a transfer is complete show the time taken;
-      otherwise show expected time to complete. (Cameron Simpson)
+    - Added --keep-dirlinks (-K), which allows you to symlink a directory
+      onto another patition on the receiving side and have rsync treat it
+      as matching a normal directory from the sender.
 
-    * Make "make install-strip" works properly, and "make install"
-      accepts a DESTDIR variable for help in building binary packages.
-      (Peter Breitenlohner, Greg Louis)
+    - Added the "write only" option to the daemon's config file.
 
-    * If configured with --enable-maintainer-mode, then on receipt of
-      a fatal signal rsync will try to open an xterm running gdb,
-      similarly to Samba's "panic action" or GNOME's bug-buddy.
-      (Martin Pool)
+    - Added long-option names for -4 and -6 (namely --ipv4 and --ipv6)
+      and documented all these options in the man page.
 
+    - Improved the handling of the --bwlimit option so that it's less
+      bursty, more accurate, and works properly over a larger range of
+      values.
 
-  BUG FIXES:
+    - The rsync daemon-over-ssh code now looks for SSH_CONNECTION and
+      SSH2_CLIENT in addition to SSH_CLIENT to figure out the IP address.
+
+    - Added the --checksum-seed=N option for advanced users.
+
+  INTERNAL:
+
+    - Some cleanup in the exclude code has saved some per-exclude memory
+      and made the code easier to maintain.
+
+    - Use rsyserr() in the various places that were still calling
+      rprintf() with strerror() as an arg.
+
+  BUILD CHANGES:
 
-    * Fix situation where failure to fork (e.g. because out of process
-      slots) would cause rsync to kill all processes owned by the
-      current user.  Yes, really!  (Paul Haas, Martin Pool)
+    - Added a "gen" target to rebuild most of the generated files,
+      including configure, config.h.in, the man pages, and proto.h.
 
-    * Fix test suite on Solaris.  (Jos Backus, Martin Pool)
+    - If "make proto" doesn't find some changes in the prototypes, the
+      proto.h file is left untouched (its timestamp used to always be
+      updated).
 
-    * Fix minor memory leak in socket code.  (Dave Dykstra, Martin
-      Pool.)
+  DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
-    * Fix --whole-file problem that caused it to be the default even
-      for remote connections.  (Martin Pool, Frank Schulz)
+    - The scripts in the testsuite dir were cleaned up a bit.
 
-    * Work around bug in Mac OS X mkdir(2), which cannot handle
-      trailing slashes.
-      <http://www.opensource.apple.com/bugs/X/BSD%20Kernel/2734739.html>
-      (Martin Pool)
+    - A few new diffs were added to the patches dir, and some accepted
+      ones were removed.
 
-    * Improved network error handling.  (Greg A. Woods)