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+git-annex 6.20180316 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * New protocol for communicating with git-annex-shell increases speed
+     of operations involving ssh remotes. When not transferring large files,
+     git-annex is between 200% and 400% faster using the new protocol,
+     and it's just as fast as before when transferring large files.
+     (When the remote has an old git-annex-shell, git-annex falls back
+     to the old slower code. This fallback is planned to be removed
+     after 5 years or so.)
+   * Note that, due to not using rsync to transfer files over ssh
+     any longer, permissions and other file metadata of annexed files
+     will no longer be preserved when copying them to and from ssh remotes.
+     Other remotes never supported preserving that information, so
+     this is not considered a regression.
+   * Fix data loss bug in content locking over tor, when the remote
+     repository is in direct mode, it neglected to check that the content
+     was actually present when locking it. This could cause git annex drop
+     to remove the only copy of a file when it thought the tor remote had
+     a copy.
+   * Fix data loss bug when the local repository uses direct mode, and a
+     locally modified file is dropped from a remote repsitory. The bug
+     caused the modified file to be counted as a copy of the original file.
+     (This is not a severe bug because in such a situation, dropping
+     from the remote and then modifying the file is allowed and has the same
+     end result.)
+   * Some downloads will be verified, even when annex.verify=false.
+     This is done in some edge cases where there's a likelyhood than an
+     object was downloaded incorrectly.
+   * Support exporttree=yes for rsync special remotes.
+   * Added backends for the BLAKE2 family of hashes, when built with
+     a new enough version of cryptonite.
+   * Improve SHA*E extension extraction code to not treat parts of the
+     filename that contain punctuation or other non-alphanumeric characters
+     as extensions. Before, such characters were filtered out.
+   * Better ssh connection warmup when using -J for concurrency.
+     Avoids ugly messages when forced ssh command is not git-annex-shell.
+   * Fix race condition in ssh warmup that caused git-annex to get
+     stuck and never process some files when run with high levels of
+     concurrency.
+   * Fix reversion introduced in 6.20171214 that caused concurrent
+     transfers to incorrectly fail with "transfer already in progress".
+   * Note that Remote/Git.hs now contains AGPL licensed code,
+     thus the license of git-annex as a whole is AGPL. This was already
+     the case when git-annex was built with the webapp enabled.
+   * Include amount of data transferred in progress display.
+   * Dial back optimisation when building on arm, which prevents
+     ghc and llc from running out of memory when optimising some files."""]]
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