Summarize all the changes since 2.4.6 so we have them in one place.

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+rsync 2.4.7 (sometime in 2001, maybe :)
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+  ANNOUNCEMENTS
+
+    * Martin Pool <mbp@samba.org> is now a co-maintainer.
+
+  NEW FEATURES
+
+    * Support for LSB-compliant packaging <http://www.linuxbase.org/>
+
+    * Shell wildcards are allowed in "auth users" lines.
+
+  ENHANCEMENTS
+
+    * Include/exclude cluestick: with -vv, print out whether files are
+      included or excluded and why.
+
+    * Many error messages have more friendly explanations and more
+      details.
+
+    * Manual page improvements plus scanty protocol documentation.
+
+    * When running as --daemon in the background and using a "log
+      file" rsyncd.conf directive, close the log file every time it is
+      open when going to sleep on the socket.  This allows the log
+      file to get cleaned out by another process.
+
+    * Change to using libpopt rather than getopt for processing
+      options.  This makes the code cleaner and the behaviour more
+      consistent across platforms.  popt is included and built if not
+      installed on the platform.
+
+    * More details in --version, including note about whether 64-bit
+      files, symlinks and hardlinks are supported.
+
+    * MD4 code may use less CPU cycles.
+
+    * Use mkstemp on systems where it is secure.  If we use mktemp,
+      explain that we do it in a secure way.
+
+    * --whole-file is the default when source and target are on the
+        local machine.
+
+  BUG FIXES:
+
+    * Attempt to fix Large File Summit support on AIX.
+
+    * Attempt to fix error handling lockup bug.
+
+    * Give a non-0 exit code if *any* of the files we have been asked
+      to transfer fail to transfer 
+
+    * Fix --cvs-exclude sigsegv bug.
+
+    * Applied "simple nohang patch" from Wayne Davison.
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