NEWS for rsync 3.0.4 (UNRELEASED) Protocol: 30 (unchanged) Changes since 3.0.3: BUG FIXES: - Fixed a bug in the hard-linking code where it would sometimes try to allocate 0 bytes of memory (which fails on some OSes, such as AIX). - Fixed the hard-linking of files from a device that has a device number of 0 (which seems to be a common device number on NetBSD). - Fixed the handling of a --partial-dir that cannot be created. This particularly impacts the --delay-updates option (since the files cannot be delayed without a partial-dir), and was potentially destructive if the --remove-source-files was also specified. - Fixed a couple issues in the --fake-super handling of xattrs when the destination files have root-level attributes (e.g. selinux values) that a non-root copy can't affect. - Improved the keep-alive check in the generator to fire consistently in incremental-recursion mode when --timeout is enabled. - The --iconv option now converts the content of a symlink too, instead of leaving it in the wrong character-set. - When using --iconv, if a filename fails to convert on the receiving side, this no longer interferes with deletions in the root-dir of the transfer. - When using --iconv, if a server-side receiver can't convert a filename, it now outputs the name back to the client without mangling the charset. - Fixed a bug where --delete-during could delete in a directory before it noticed that the sending side sent an I/O error for that directory. - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. - Changed some errors that were going to stdout to go to stderr. ENHANCEMENTS: - Rsync will avoid sending an -e option to the server if an older protocol is requested (and thus the option would not be useful). This lets the user specify the --protocol=29 option to access an overly-restrictive server that is rejecting the protocol-30 use of -e to the server. DEVELOPER RELATED: - The Makefile will not halt for just a timestamp change on the Makefile or the configure files, only for actual changes in content. - Enhanced the release scripts to be able to handle a branch release.