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-git-annex 7.20190507 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Fix reversion in last release that caused wrong tree to be written
-     to remote tracking branch after an export of a subtree.
-   * Improved locking when multiple git-annex processes are writing to
-     the .git/index file"""]]
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+git-annex 7.20190819 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * New git-lfs special remote, which can be used to store data on any git-lfs
+     server, including github, gitlab, and gogs.
+   * Support fully encrypting all data sent to a git-lfs special remote,
+     using a combination of gcrypt to encrypt the git data, and git-annex's
+     encryption of its data.
+   * Use the same optimisation for --in=here as has always been
+     used for --in=. rather than the slow code path that unncessarily
+     queries the git-annex branch.
+   * Allow setting up a gcrypt special remote with encryption=shared.
+   * Fix querying git for object type when operating on a file containing
+     newlines.
+   * merge: When run with a branch parameter, merges from that branch.
+     This is especially useful when using an adjusted branch, because
+     it applies the same adjustment to the branch before merging it.
+   * init: Install working hook scripts when run on a crippled filesystem
+     and on Windows. If your repository was set up by an old version
+     of git-annex that omitted the hooks, you can simply re-run git-annex init
+     to install them.
+   * init: When the repo is already initialized, and --version requests a
+     different version, error out rather than silently not changing the
+     version.
+   * S3: Fix encoding when generating public urls of S3 objects.
+   * Make git-annex-standalone.deb include the shell completions again.
+   * Makefile: Changed default zsh completion location to zsh default fpath.
+     Systems such as Debian that have overridden the default fpath will
+     need to set ZSH\_COMPLETIONS\_PATH.
+   * test: Add pass using adjusted unlocked branch.
+   * Fix intermittent failure of the test suite, where its repeated opening
+     and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused inode cache information
+     to occasionally be lost.
+   * Fix several test suite failures on Windows.
+   * Windows installer: Always install to 64 bit program files directory,
+     since it needs 64 bit git now.
+   * Build with silently-1.2.5.1 on Windows; the old one used "NUL" device
+     which is not supported with recent versions of ghc."""]]
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