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-git-annex 8.20200720.1 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Fix a bug in find --batch in the previous version."""]]
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-git-annex 8.20200720 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * import: Added --no-content option, which avoids downloading files
-     from a special remote. Currently only supported by the directory
-     special remote.
-   * Honor annex.largefiles when importing a tree from a special remote.
-     (Except for when --no-content is used.)
-   * Fix a deadlock that could occur after git-annex got an unlocked
-     file, causing the command to hang indefinitely. Known to happen on
-     vfat filesystems, possibly others.
-   * Build with the http-client-restricted and git-lfs libraries when
-     available, otherwise use the vendored copy as before.
-   * testremote: Fix over-allocation of resources and bad caching,
-     including starting up a large number of external special remote processes.
-     (Regression introduced in version 8.20200501)
-   * test: Fix some test cases that assumed git's default branch name.
-   * importfeed: Added some additional --template variables:
-     itempubyear, itempubmonth, itempubday, itempubhour,
-     itempubminute, itempubsecond.
-   * Made several special remotes support locking content on them,
-     which allows dropping from other special remotes in some situations
-     where it was not possible before. Supported special remotes:
-     S3 (with versioning=yes), git-lfs, tahoe
-   * Fix reversion that broke passing annex.* and remote.*.annex-*
-     git configs with -c. (Since version 8.20200330.)
-   * Bring back git-annex branch read cache. This speeds up some operations,
-     eg git-annex sync --content --all gets 20% faster.
-   * Fix a recently introduced bug that could cause a "fork: resource exhausted"
-     after getting several thousand files.
-   * Sped up the --all option by 2x to 16x by using git cat-file --buffer.
-     Thanks to Lukey for finding this optimisation.
-   * Sped up seeking for annexed files to operate on by a factor of nearly 2x.
-   * Sped up sync --content by 2x and other commands like fsck --fast and
-     whereis by around 50%, by using git cat-file --buffer.
-   * importfeed: Made checking known urls step around 15% faster.
-   * fsck: Detect if WORM keys contain a carriage return, and recommend
-     upgrading the key. (git-annex could have maybe created such keys back
-     in 2013).
-   * When on an adjust --hide-missing branch, fix handling of files that
-     have been deleted but the deletion is not yet staged."""]]
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+git-annex 8.20201103 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+git-annex (8.20201103) upstream; urgency=medium
+.
+  * move: Improve resuming a move that was interrupted after the object
+    was transferred, in cases where numcopies checks prevented the resumed
+    move from dropping the object from the source repository.
+  * When a special remote has chunking enabled, but no chunk sizes are
+    recorded (or the recorded ones are not found), speculatively try
+    chunks using the configured chunk size.
+  * Fixed some problems that prevented this command from working:
+    git submodule foreach git annex init
+  * Improve shutdown process for external special remotes and external
+    backends. Make sure to relay any remaining stderr from the process,
+    and potentially avoid the process getting a SIGPIPE if it writes to
+    stderr too late.
+  * Fix a bug that prevented linux standalone bundle from working on a fresh
+    install.
+  * Windows build changed to one done by the datalad-extensions project
+    using Github actions.
+  * Windows build now includes libmagic, so mimetype and mimeencoding
+    will work.
+    Thanks to John Thorvald Wodder II and Yaroslav Halchenko for their work
+    on this.
+  * view: Avoid using ':' from metadata when generating a view, because
+    it's a special character on Windows ("c:")
+  * Fix a memory leak introduced in the last release.
+  * add, import: Fix a reversion in 7.20191009 that broke handling
+    of --largerthan and --smallerthan.
+  * view: Fix a reversion in 8.20200522 that broke entering or changing views.
+  * Fix build on Windows with network-3.
+  * testremote: Display exceptions when tests fail, to aid debugging.
+"""]]
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