I've started work towards a 3.5.0 release, though I will likely end up
doing more 3.4.x patch releases if users report issues with 3.4.3.
Three key changes planned so far for 3.5.x with more likely:
 - converted the test suite to python from shell scripts
 - add --fileflags option which was a patch on freebsd, but will now
be supported on more platforms including linux
 - workaround issues with rsync on android/termux

I'd particularly like people to try to --fileflags (and associated
options) changes. The fileflags option has been a patch in the freebsd
ports for quite a while (maybe 2006 or so?) but it languished in
rsync-patches repo. It allows rsync to sync file flags, like those you
change on linux with chattr/lsattr. The PR is a work in progress, it
will likely change once I start digging into possible security issues.

The PR for --fileflags is here: https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/pull/894

On linux the current PR only supports the 'a' (append-only), 'd'
(no-dump) and 'i' (immutable) flags from lsattr/chattr. We could
potentially support more, please let me know if there is a good use
case for others.

On FreeBSD the PR is a bit more complex, this table gives you an idea:
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