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-git-annex 8.20201129 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * New borg special remote. This is a new kind of remote, that examines
-    borg backups of git-annex repositories, learns what files have been
-    backed up, and can restore files from the backup and so on. As well
-    as backups, it can be useful for archival storage, since borg can
-    efficiently store many related versions of files.
-  * New config annex.stalldetection, remote.name.annex-stalldetection,
-    which can be used to deal with remotes that stall during transfers,
-    or are sometimes too slow to want to use.
-  * Support special remotes that are configured with importtree=yes but
-    without exporttree=yes.
-  * Fix bug that made the next download after an empty file from a ssh
-    or tor remote fail.
-  * Avoid spurious "verification of content failed" message when downloading
-    content from a ssh or tor remote fails due to the remote no longer
-    having a copy of the content.
-  * Fix bug that matched include= and exclude= in preferred/required content
-    expressions relative to the current directory, rather than the path
-    from the top of the repository.
-    (Reversion introduced in version 8.20201116.)
-  * Fix hang on shutdown of external special remote using ASYNC protocol
-    extension.
-    (Reversion introduced in version 8.20201007.)
-  * Guard against running in a repo where annex.uuid is set but
-    annex.version is not set, or vice-versa.
-  * Avoid autoinit when a repo does not have annex.version or annex.uuid
-    set, but has a git-annex objects directory, suggesting it was used
-    by git-annex before, and the git config may have been lost.
-  * importfeed: Avoid using youtube-dl when a feed does not contain an
-    enclosure, but only a link to an url which youtube-dl does not support.
-  * initremote: Prevent enabling encryption with exporttree=yes or
-    importtree=yes.
-  * Windows: include= and exclude= containing '/' will also match filenames
-    that are written using '\'. (And vice-versa, but it's better to use '/'
-    for portability.)
-  * Fix a bug that could prevent getting files from an importtree=yes
-    remote, because the imported tree was allowed to be garbage collected.
-  * stack.yaml: Updated to lts-16.27."""]]
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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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