diff --git a/doc/news/version_7.20190819.mdwn b/doc/news/version_7.20190819.mdwn
deleted file mode 100644
index 7bf9df631e..0000000000
--- a/doc/news/version_7.20190819.mdwn
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-git-annex 7.20190819 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * New git-lfs special remote, which can be used to store data on any git-lfs
-     server, including github, gitlab, and gogs.
-   * Support fully encrypting all data sent to a git-lfs special remote,
-     using a combination of gcrypt to encrypt the git data, and git-annex's
-     encryption of its data.
-   * Use the same optimisation for --in=here as has always been
-     used for --in=. rather than the slow code path that unncessarily
-     queries the git-annex branch.
-   * Allow setting up a gcrypt special remote with encryption=shared.
-   * Fix querying git for object type when operating on a file containing
-     newlines.
-   * merge: When run with a branch parameter, merges from that branch.
-     This is especially useful when using an adjusted branch, because
-     it applies the same adjustment to the branch before merging it.
-   * init: Install working hook scripts when run on a crippled filesystem
-     and on Windows. If your repository was set up by an old version
-     of git-annex that omitted the hooks, you can simply re-run git-annex init
-     to install them.
-   * init: When the repo is already initialized, and --version requests a
-     different version, error out rather than silently not changing the
-     version.
-   * S3: Fix encoding when generating public urls of S3 objects.
-   * Make git-annex-standalone.deb include the shell completions again.
-   * Makefile: Changed default zsh completion location to zsh default fpath.
-     Systems such as Debian that have overridden the default fpath will
-     need to set ZSH\_COMPLETIONS\_PATH.
-   * test: Add pass using adjusted unlocked branch.
-   * Fix intermittent failure of the test suite, where its repeated opening
-     and writing to the sqlite database somehow caused inode cache information
-     to occasionally be lost.
-   * Fix several test suite failures on Windows.
-   * Windows installer: Always install to 64 bit program files directory,
-     since it needs 64 bit git now.
-   * Build with silently-1.2.5.1 on Windows; the old one used "NUL" device
-     which is not supported with recent versions of ghc."""]]
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/news/version_7.20191024.mdwn b/doc/news/version_7.20191024.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8786301d5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/news/version_7.20191024.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+News for git-annex 7.20191024:
+
+   When annex.largefiles is not configured, `git add` and `git commit -a`
+   add files to git, not to the annex. If you have gotten used to `git add`
+   adding all files to the annex, you can get that behavior back by running:
+   git config annex.largefiles anything
+
+git-annex 7.20191024 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * Changed git add/git commit -a default behavior back to what it was
+     before v7; they add file contents to git, not to the annex.
+     (However, if a file was annexed before, they will still add it to
+     the annex, to avoid footgun.)
+   * Configuring annex.largefiles overrides that; once git-annex has
+     been told which files are large git add/git commit -a will annex them.
+   * Added annex.gitaddtoannex configuration. Setting it to false prevents
+     git add from adding files to the annex even when annex.largefiles
+     is configured. (Unless the file was annexed before.)
+   * smudge: Made git add smarter about renamed annexed files. It can tell
+     when an annexed file was renamed, and will add it to the annex,
+     and not to git, unless annex.largefiles tells it to do otherwise.
+   * init: Fix a failure when used in a submodule on a crippled filesystem.
+   * sync: Fix crash when there are submodules and an adjusted branch is
+     checked out.
+   * enable-tor: Deal with pkexec changing to root's home directory
+     when running a command."""]]
\ No newline at end of file