add news item for git-annex 5.20150824

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-git-annex 5.20150710 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * add: Stage symlinks the same as git add would, even if they are not a
-     link to annexed content.
-   * sync: When annex.autocommit=false, avoid making any commit of local
-     changes, while still merging with remote to the extent possible.
-   * unused: --used-refspec can now be configured to look at refs in the
-     reflog. This provides a way to not consider old versions of files to be
-     unused after they have reached a specified age, when the old refs in
-     the reflog expire.
-   * log: Fix reversion introduced in version 5.20150528 that broke this command.
-   * assistant --autostart: First stop any daemons that are already running,
-     which might be left over from a previous login session and so unable to
-     use the ssh agent of a new login session.
-   * assistant: Fix local pairing to not include newline in ssh pubkey,
-     which is rejected on the other end for security reasons.
-   * assistant: Fix ANNEX\_SHELL\_DIR written to ~/.ssh/authorized\_keys
-     in local pairing to be the absolute path to the repository, not "."
-     This was a reversion caused by the relative path changes in 5.20150113.
-   * Brought back the setkey plumbing command that was removed in 2011, since
-     we found a use case for it. Note that the command's syntax was changed
-     for consistency.
-   * bugfix: Pass --full-tree when using git ls-files to get a list of files
-     on the git-annex branch, so it works when run in a subdirectory.
-     This bug affected git-annex unused, and potentially also transitions
-     running code and other things.
-   * Support git's undocumented core.sharedRepository=2 value, which
-     is equivalent to "world", and is set when a repo was created using
-     git init --shared=world.
-   * When building on linux, pass --as-needed to linker to avoid linking
-     with unused shared libraries including libyaml.
-   * import: Fix failure of cross-device import on Windows.
-   * merge: Avoid creating the synced/master branch.
-   * Removed support for optparse-applicative versions older than 0.10."""]]

doc/news/version_5.20150824.mdwn

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+git-annex 5.20150824 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * Sped up downloads of files from ssh remotes, reducing the
+     non-data-transfer overhead 6x.
+   * sync: Support --jobs
+   * sync --content: Avoid unnecessary second pull from remotes when
+     no file transfers are made.
+   * External special remotes can now be built that can be used in readonly
+     mode, where git-annex downloads content from the remote using regular
+     http.
+   * Added WHEREIS to external special remote protocol.
+   * importfeed --relaxed: Avoid hitting the urls of items in the feed.
+   * Fix reversion in init when ran as root, introduced in version 5.20150731.
+   * Reorder declaration to fix build with yesod-core > 1.4.13.
+     Thanks, Michael Alan Dorman.
+   * Fix building without quvi and without database.
+     Thanks, Ben Boeckel.
+   * Avoid building the assistant on the hurd, since an inotify equivalent
+     is not yet implemented in git-annex for the hurd.
+   * --debug log messages are now timestamped with fractional seconds.
+   * --debug is passed along to git-annex-shell when git-annex is in debug mode.
+   * Makefile: Pass LDFLAGS, CFLAGS, and CPPFLAGS through ghc and on to
+     ld, cc, and cpp.
+   * As a result of the Makefile changes, the Debian package is built
+     with various hardening options. Although their benefit to a largely
+     haskell program is unknown."""]]