Mention the latest bugfix and improved an old description.

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f477712..bd6f9ef 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
     - 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
+      intact.  Also, in order to keep things safe, all arg paths and any
+      dereferenced symlinks (e.g. via --copy-links or --keep-dirlinks) are
+      manually verified to ensure that no symlinks try to escape past the top
+      of the module's path.  These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the
+      same way 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.
 
@@ -40,6 +39,10 @@ Changes since 2.6.8:
       from inside a chrooted daemon (and to not try to access /etc/timezone
       over and over again).
 
+    - Fixed a bug in the handling of an absolute --partial-dir=ABS_PATH option:
+      it now deletes an alternate basis file from the partial-dir that was used
+      to successfully update a destination file.
+
   ENHANCEMENTS:
 
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