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@@ -10,6 +10,11 @@
 - Fixed an buffer overflow in the checksum2 code if SHA1 is being used for
   the checksum2 algorithm.
 
+- Fixed an issue when rsync is compiled using `_FORTIFY_SOURCE` so that the
+  extra tests don't complain about a strlcpy() limit value (which was too
+  large, even though it wasn't possible for the larger value to cause an
+  overflow).
+
 - Add a backtick to the list of characters that the filename quoting needs to
   escape using backslashes.
 
@@ -49,6 +54,8 @@
 - Changed the mapfrom & mapto perl scripts (in the support dir) into a single
   python script named idmap.  Converted a couple more perl scripts into python.
 
+- Changed the mnt-excl perl script (in the support dir) into a python script.
+
 ### DEVELOPER RELATED:
 
  - Updated config.guess (timestamp 2023-01-01) and config.sub (timestamp