NEWS: advertise that rsync now supports TLS

Author: lazka

web/dev/mirrors.md

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ with the distribution of sizes like this:
 You can use rsync to update your mirror using
 
 ```shell
-rsync -rlptH --safe-links --delete-delay --delay-updates \
+rsync-ssl -rlptH --safe-links --delete-delay --delay-updates \
     rsync://repo.msys2.org/builds/ ./msys2
 ```
 
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ source_url='rsync://repo.msys2.org/builds/'
 lastupdate_url='https://repo.msys2.org/lastupdate'
 ```
 
+Since our server has TLS/SSL support, you can replace the `rsync` command in the
+script with `rsync-ssl`.
+
 To register your mirror please open an issue here:
 https://github.com/msys2/msys2.github.io/issues
 

web/news.md

@@ -5,6 +5,17 @@ summary: Important events happening.
 
 This page lists important changes or issues affecting MSYS2 users. We also post them to [Twitter](https://twitter.com/msys2org) and [Mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@msys2org), including some not-so-important things :)
 
+### 2024-04-23 - TLS/SSL Support for the Repository Rsync Server
+
+We have added TLS/SSL support for the repository rsync server. This means that
+you can now use
+
+```console
+$ rsync-ssl rsync://repo.msys2.org/builds
+```
+
+to sync the repository over an encrypted connection.
+
 ### 2024-04-02 - Automated Vulnerability Reporting System
 
 The [package index](https://packages.msys2.org/security) now has some