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+git-annex 10.20220127 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""  * New v10 repository version (with v9 as a stepping-stone to it).
+    v8 remains the default version for now.
+  * In v10, object files are locked using separate lock files. This allows
+    the object files to be kept non-writable even in repositories where
+    core.sharedRepository is set.
+  * The v10 upgrade will happen automatically, one year after the v9
+    upgrade, in order to allow time for any old git-annex processes that
+    are not aware of the locking change to finish. Or git-annex upgrade
+    can be used to upgrade to v10 immediately.
+  * In v9 upgrade, set filter.annex.process. This makes git add/checkout faster
+    when there are a lot of unlocked annexed files or non-annexed files, but can
+    also make git add of large files to the annex somewhat slower.
+    If this tradeoff does not work for your use case, you can still unset
+    filter.annex.process.
+  * export: When a non-annexed symlink is in the tree to be exported, skip it.
+  * import: When the previously exported tree contained a non-annexed symlink,
+    preserve it in the imported tree so it does not get deleted.
+  * enableremote, renameremote: Better handling of the unusual case where
+    multiple special remotes have been initialized with the same name.
+  * Recover from corrupted content being received from a git remote,
+    by deleting the temporary file when it fails to verify. This prevents
+    a retry from failing again.
+    (reversion introduced in version 8.20210903)
+  * adb: Added ignorefinderror configuration parameter.
+  * Avoid crashing when run in a bare git repo that somehow contains an
+    index file.
+  * Reject combinations of --batch (or --batch-keys) with options like
+    --all or --key or with filenames."""]]
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-git-annex 8.20211011 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * Added annex.bwlimit and remote.name.annex-bwlimit config to limit
-    the bandwidth of transfers. It works for git remotes and many
-    but not all special remotes.
-  * Bug fix: Git configs such as annex.verify were incorrectly overriding
-    per-remote git configs such as remote.name.annex-verify.
-    (Reversion in version 4.20130323)
-  * borg: Significantly improved memory use when a borg repository
-    contains many archives.
-  * borg: Avoid trying to extract xattrs, ACLS, and bsdflags when
-    retrieving from a borg repository.
-  * Sped up git-annex smudge --clean by 25%.
-  * Resume where it left off when copying a file to/from a local git remote
-    was interrupted.
-  * sync --content: Avoid a redundant checksum of a file that was
-    incrementally verified, when used on NTFS and perhaps other filesystems.
-  * reinject: Fix crash when reinjecting a file from outside the repository.
-    (Reversion in version 8.20210621)
-  * Avoid cursor jitter when updating progress display."""]]
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