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-git-annex 8.20210223 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * annex.stalldetection can now be set to "true" to make git-annex
-    do automatic stall detection when it detects a remote is updating its
-    transfer progress consistently enough for stall detection to work.
-  * When annex.stalldetection is not enabled and a likely stall is
-    detected, display a suggestion to enable it.
-  * Commands can be added to git-annex, by installing a program in PATH
-    with a name starting with "git-annex-"
-  * Fix a reversion that made import of a tree from a special remote
-    result in a merge that deleted files that were not preferred content
-    of that special remote.
-  * Bugfix: fsck --from a ssh remote did not actually check that the
-    content on the remote is not corrupted.
-  * unannex, uninit: When an annexed file is modified, don't overwrite
-    the modified version with an older version from the annex.
-  * When adding files to an adjusted branch set up by --unlock-present,
-    add them unlocked, not locked.
-  * Fix an oddity in matching options and preferred content expressions
-    such as "foo (bar or baz)", which was incorrectly handled as if
-    it were "(foo or bar) and baz)" rather than the intended
-    "foo and (bar or baz)"
-  * Checksum as content is received from a remote git-annex repository,
-    rather than doing it in a second pass.
-  * Tahoe: Avoid verifying hash after download, since tahoe does sufficient
-    verification itself.
-  * unannex, uninit: Don't run git rm once per annexed file,
-    for a large speedup.
-  * When a git remote is configured with an absolute path, use that
-    path, rather than making it relative.
-  * get: Improve output when failing to get a file fails.
-  * Fix build on openbsd.
-    Thanks, James Cook for the patch.
-  * Include libkqueue.h file needed to build the assistant on BSDs."""]]
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+git-annex 8.20210630 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""  * Fixed bug that interrupting git-annex repair (or assistant) while
+    it was fixing repository corruption would lose objects that were
+    contained in pack files. Also the assistant might sometimes have
+    crashed with the same result.
+  * repair: Fix reversion in version 8.20200522 that prevented fetching
+    missing objects from remotes.
+  * sync: Partly work around github behavior that first branch to be pushed
+    to a new repository is assumed to be the head branch, by not pushing
+    synced/git-annex first.
+  * Added annex.freezecontent-command and annex.thawcontent-command
+    configs.
+  * Improve display of errors when transfers fail.
+  * Dropping an unused object with drop --unused or dropunused will
+    mark it as dead, preventing fsck --all from complaining about it
+    after it's been dropped from all repositories.
+  * addurl, importfeed: Added --no-raw option that forces download
+    with youtube-dl or a special remote. In particular this can avoid
+    falling back to raw download when youtube-dl is blocked for some
+    reason."""]]
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