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-git-annex 8.20210330 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * Behavior change: When autoenabling special remotes of type S3, weddav,
-    or glacier, do not take login credentials from environment variables,
-    as the user may not be expecting the autoenable to happen, or may
-    have those set for other purposes and not intend git-annex to use them.
-  * New annex.supportunlocked config that can be set to false to avoid
-    some expensive things needed to support unlocked files, if you do not
-    use them.
-  * Fix bug importing from a special remote into a subdirectory more than
-    one level deep, which generated unusual git trees that could confuse
-    git merge.
-  * borg: Fix a bug that prevented importing keys of type URL and WORM.
-  * borg: Support importing files that are hard linked in the borg backup.
-  * export: When a submodule is in the tree to be exported, skip it.
-  * import: When the previously exported tree contained a submodule,
-    preserve it in the imported tree so it does not get deleted.
-  * export --json: Fill in the file field.
-  * rmurl: When youtube-dl was used for an url, it no longer needs to be
-    prefixed with "yt:" in order to be removed.
-  * rmurl: If an url is both used by the web and also claimed by another
-    special remote, fix a bug that caused the url to to not be removed.
-  * unregisterurl: Fix a bug that caused an url to not be unregistered
-    when it is claimed by a special remote other than the web.
-  * whereis: Don't include yt: prefix when showing url to content
-    retrieved with youtube-dl.
-  * webdav: Work around some buggy webdav server behavior involving
-    renaming files.
-  * Make --debug also enable debugging in child git-annex processes.
-  * fsck: When --from is used in combination with --all or similar options,
-    do not verify required content, which can't be checked properly when
-    operating on keys.
-  * Sped up git-annex init in a clone of an existing repository.
-  * Improved display of errors when accessing a git http remote fails.
-  * Fix build with attoparsec-0.14."""]]
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+git-annex 8.20210803 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""  * whereused: New command, finds what files use a key, or where a key
+    was used historically.
+  * Fix a bug that prevented getting content from a repository that
+    started out as a bare repository, or had annex.crippledfilesystem
+    set, and was converted to a non-bare repository.
+  * Fix retrieval of content from borg repos accessed over ssh.
+  * sync: When --quiet is used, run git commit, push, and pull without
+    their ususual output.
+  * merge: When --quiet is used, run git merge without its usual output.
+  * sync, merge, post-receive: Avoid merging unrelated histories,
+    which used to be allowed only to support direct mode repositories.
+    (However, sync does still merge unrelated histories when importing
+    trees from special remotes, and the assistant still merges unrelated
+    histories.)
+  * sync, merge: Added --allow-unrelated-histories option, which
+    is the same as the git merge option.
+  * Fix bug that caused some transfers to incorrectly fail with
+    "content changed while it was being sent", when the content was not
+    changed.
+  * Fix bug that could prevent pointer files from being populated,
+    in a repository that was upgraded from v7.
+  * fsck: Detect and correct stale or missing inode caches.
+  * Fix a rounding bug in display of data sizes.
+  * git-annex get when run as the first git-annex command in a new repo
+    did not populate unlocked files.
+    (Reversion in version 8.20210621)"""]]
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