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   printing a summary to stderr.
   [bug introduced in coreutils-6.11]
 
+** New features
+
+  cp --reflink accepts a new "auto" parameter which falls back to
+  a standard copy if creating a copy-on-write clone is not possible.
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 7.5 (2009-08-20) [stable]