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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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