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+NEWS for rsync 2.6.5 (1 Jun 2005)
+Protocol: 29 (unchanged)
+Changes since 2.6.4:
+
+  OUTPUT CHANGES:
+
+    - Non-printable chars in filenames are now output using backslash-
+      escaped characters rather than '?'s.  Any non-printable character is
+      output using 3 digits of octal (e.g. "\n" -> "\012"), and a backslash
+      is now output as "\\".  Rsync also uses your locale setting, which
+      can make it treat fewer high-bit characters as non-printable.
+
+    - If rsync received an empty file-list when pulling files, it would
+      output a "nothing to do" message and exit with a 0 (success) exit
+      status, even if the remote rsync returned an error (it did not do
+      this under the same conditions when pushing files).  This was changed
+      to make the pulling behavior the same as the pushing behavior:  we
+      now do the normal end-of-run outputting (depending on options) and
+      exit with the appropriate exit status.
+
+  BUG FIXES:
+
+    - A crash bug was fixed when a daemon had its "path" set to "/", did
+      not have chroot enabled, and used some anchored excludes in the
+      rsyncd.conf file.
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the transfer of a single file when -H is specified
+      (rsync would either infinite loop or perhaps crash).
+
+    - Fixed a case where the generator might try (and fail) to tweak the
+      write-permissions of a read-only directory in list-only mode (this
+      only caused an annoying warning message).
+
+    - If --compare-dest or --link-dest uses a locally-copied file as the
+      basis for an updated version, log this better when --verbose or -i
+      is in effect.
+
+    - Fixed the accidental disabling of --backup during the --delete-after
+      processing.
+
+    - Restored the ability to use the --address option in client mode (in
+      addition to its use in daemon mode).
+
+    - Make sure that some temporary progress information from the delete
+      processing does not get left on the screen when it is followed by a
+      newline.
+
+    - When --existing skips a directory with extra verbosity, refer to it
+      as a "directory", not a "file".
+
+    - When transferring a single file to a different-named file, any
+      generator messages that are source-file related no longer refer to
+      the file by the destination filename.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where hard-linking a group of files might fail if the
+      generator hasn't created a needed destination directory yet.
+
+    - Fixed a bug where a hard-linked group of files that is newly-linked
+      to a file in a --link-dest dir doesn't link the files from the rest
+      of the cluster.
+
+    - When deleting files with the --one-file-system (-x) option set, rsync
+      no longer tries to remove files from inside a mount-point on the
+      receiving side.  Also, we don't complain about being unable to remove
+      the mount-point dir.
+
+    - Fixed a compatibility problem when using --cvs-ignore (-C) and
+      sending files to an older rsync without using --delete.
+
+    - Make sure that a "- !" or "+ !" include/exclude pattern does not
+      trigger the list-clearing action that is reserved for "!".
+
+    - Avoid a timeout in the generator when the sender/receiver aren't
+      handling the generator's checksum output quickly enough.
+
+    - Fixed the omission of some directories in the delete processing when
+      --relative (-R) was combined with a source path that had a trailing
+      slash.
+
+    - Fixed a case where rsync would erroneously delete some files and then
+      re-transfer them when the options --relative (-R) and --recursive
+      (-r) were both enabled (along with --delete) and a source path had a
+      trailing slash.
+
+    - Make sure that --max-size doesn't affect a device or a symlink.
+
+    - Make sure that a system with a really small MAXPATHLEN does not cause
+      the buffers in readfd_unbuffered() to be too small to receive normal
+      messages.  (This mainly affected Cygwin.)
+
+    - If a source pathname ends with a filename of "..", treat it as if
+      "../" had been specified (so that we don't copy files to the parent
+      dir of the destination).
+
+    - If --delete is combined with a file-listing rsync command (i.e. no
+      transfer is happening), avoid outputting a warning that we couldn't
+      delete anything.
+
+    - If --stats is specified with --delete-after, ensure that all the
+      "deleting" messages are output before the statistics.
+
+    - Improved one "if" in the deletion code that was only checking errno
+      for ENOTEMPTY when it should have also been checking for EEXIST (for
+      compatibility with OS variations).
+
+  ENHANCEMENTS:
+
+    - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead
+      of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any
+      actual updating of the destination.  This allows you to divert all
+      the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you
+      are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch).
+
+    - When the generator is taking a long time to fill up its output buffer
+      (e.g. if the transferred files are few, small, or missing), it now
+      periodically flushes the output buffer so that the sender/receiver
+      can get started on the files sooner rather than later.
+
+    - Improved the keep-alive code to handle a long silence between the
+      sender and the receiver that can occur when the sender is receiving
+      the checksum data for a large file.
+
+    - Improved the auth-errors that are logged by the daemon to include
+      some information on why the authorization failed:  wrong user,
+      password mismatch, etc.  (The client-visible message is unchanged!)
+
+    - Improved the client's handling of an "@ERROR" from a daemon so that
+      it does not complain about an unexpectedly closed socket (since we
+      really did expect the socket to close).
+
+    - If the daemon can't open the log-file specified in rsyncd.conf, fall
+      back to using syslog and log an appropriate warning.  This is better
+      than what was typically a totally silent (and fatal) failure (since a
+      daemon is not usually run with the --no-detach option that was
+      necessary to see the error on stderr).
+
+    - The man pages now consistently refer to an rsync daemon as a "daemon"
+      instead of a "server" (to distinguish it from the server process in a
+      non-daemon transfer).
+
+    - Made a small change to the rrsync script (restricted rsync -- in the
+      support dir) to make a read-only server reject all --remove-* options
+      when sending files (to future-proof it against the possibility of
+      other similar options being added at some point).
+
+  INTERNAL:
+
+    - Rsync now calls setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "").  This enables isprint() to
+      better discern which filename characters need to be escaped in
+      messages (which should result in fewer escaped characters in some
+      locales).
+
+    - Improved the naming of the log-file open/reopen/close functions.
+
+    - Removed some protocol-compatibility code that was only needed to help
+      someone running a pre-release of 2.6.4.
+
+  BUILD CHANGES:
+
+    - Added configure option "--disable-locale" to disable any use of
+      setlocale() in the binary.
+
+    - Fixed a bug in the SUPPORT{,_HARD}_LINKS #defines which prevented
+      rsync from being built without symlink or hard-link support.
+
+    - Only #define HAVE_REMSH if it is going to be set to 1.
+
+    - Configure now disables the use of mkstemp() under HP-UX (since they
+      refuse to fix its broken handling of large files).
+
+    - Configure now explicitly checks for the lseek64() function so that
+      the code can use HAVE_LSEEK64 instead of inferring lseek64()'s
+      presence based on the presence of the off64_t type.
+
+    - Configure no longer mentions the change in the default remote-shell
+      (from rsh to ssh) that occurred for the 2.6.0 release.
+
+    - Some minor enhancements to the test scripts.
+
+    - Added a few new *.diff files to the patches dir, including a patch
+      that enables the optional copying of extended attributes.
+
+
 NEWS for rsync 2.6.4 (30 March 2005)
 Protocol: 29 (changed)
 Changes since 2.6.3:
@@ -389,6 +572,8 @@ Changes since 2.6.3:
     - Handle an operating system that use mkdev() in place of makedev().
 
     - Improved configure to better handle cross-compiling.
+
+
 NEWS for rsync 2.6.3 (30 Sep 2004)
 Protocol: 28 (unchanged)
 Changes since 2.6.2: