- Added the --copy-dirlinks option, a more limited version of --copy-links.
+ - The sender's hash table for checksum information was improved to make it
+ more efficient when updating really large files (starting from around
+ 2.5GB, but most visibly for much larger files). This prevents the hash
+ table from getting overloaded, which saves CPU time (and real time) at
+ the expense of a little extra memory (and it actually saves memory for
+ normal sized files).
+
- Various documentation improvements, including: a better synopsis, some
improved examples, a better discussion of the presence and absence of
--perms (including how it interacts with the new --executability and