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 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. - Fixed a potential alignment issue in the IRIX ACL code when allocating the initial "struct acl" object. Also, cast mallocs to avoid warnings. 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.