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-git-annex 8.20210428 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * New annex.private and remote.name.annex-private configs that can
-    prevent storing information about a repository and remotes in the
-    git-annex branch.
-  * initremote: Added --private option to set up a private special remote.
-  * importfeed: Made "checking known urls" phase run 12 times faster.
-  * Added --debugfilter (and annex.debugfilter)
-  * diffdriver: Support unlocked files.
-  * forget: Preserve currently exported trees, avoiding problems with
-    exporttree remotes in some unusual circumstances.
-  * fsck: When downloading content from a remote, if the content is able
-    to be verified during the transfer, skip checksumming it a second time.
-  * directory: When cp supports reflinks, use it.
-  * Avoid excess commits to the git-annex branch when stall detection is
-    enabled.
-  * git-annex-config: Allow setting annex.securehashesonly, which has
-    otherwise been supported since 2019, but was missing from the list of
-    allowed repo-global configs.
-  * init: Fix a crash when the repo's was cloned from a repo that had an
-    adjusted branch checked out, and the origin remote is not named "origin".
-  * Fix some bugs that made git-annex not see recently recorded status
-    information when configured with annex.alwayscommit=false.
-  * When mincopies is set to a larger value than numcopies, make sure that
-    mincopies is satisfied. Before, it assumed a sane configuration would
-    have numcopies larger or equal to mincopies. It's still a good idea
-    not to configure git-annex this way.
-  * Avoid more than 1 gpg password prompt at the same time, which
-    could happen occasionally before when concurrency is enabled.
-  * Fix build with persistent-2.12.0.1"""]]
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+git-annex 8.20210903 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""  * Deal with clock skew, both forwards and backwards, when logging
+    information to the git-annex branch.
+  * GIT\_ANNEX\_VECTOR\_CLOCK can now be set to a fixed value (eg 1)
+    rather than needing to be advanced each time a new change is made.
+  * Misuse of GIT\_ANNEX\_VECTOR\_CLOCK will no longer confuse git-annex.
+  * add: When adding a dotfile, avoid treating its name as an extension.
+  * rsync special remote: Stop displaying rsync progress, and use
+    git-annex's own progress display.
+  * Many special remotes now checksum content while it is being retrieved,
+    instead of in a separate pass at the end. This is supported for all
+    special remotes on Linux (except for bittorrent), and for many
+    on other OS's (except for adb, external, gcrypt, hook, and rsync).
+  * unused: Skip the refs/annex/last-index ref that git-annex recently
+    started creating.
+  * Fix test suite failure on Windows.
+  * New --batch-keys option added to these commands:
+    get, drop, move, copy, whereis
+  * Added annex.youtube-dl-command config. This can be used to run some
+    forks of youtube-dl.
+  * Run cp -a with --no-preserve=xattr, to avoid problems with copied
+    xattrs, including them breaking permissions setting on some NFS
+    servers.
+  * add, import: Detect when xattrs or perhaps ACLs prevent removing
+    write permissions from an annexed file, and fail with an informative
+    message.
+  * Fix support for readonly git remotes.
+    (Reversion in version 8.20210621)
+  * When downloading urls fail, explain which urls failed for which
+    reasons.
+  * web: Avoid displaying a warning when downloading one url failed
+    but another url later succeeded."""]]
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