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-git-annex 6.20171124 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Display progress meter when uploading a key without size information,
-     getting the size by statting the content file.
-   * Fix build with dns-3.0."""]]
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-git-annex 6.20171214 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Use youtube-dl rather than quvi to download media from web pages,
-     since quvi is not being actively developed and youtube-dl supports
-     many more sites.
-   * addurl --relaxed got slower, since youtube-dl has to hit the network
-     to check for embedded media. If you relied on --relaxed not hitting the
-     network for speed reasons, using --relaxed --raw will get the old level
-     of speed, but can't be used for urls with embedded videos.
-   * importfeed now downloads things linked to by feeds, even when they are
-     not media files.
-   * Removed no longer needed dependency on yesod-default.
-   * Allow exporttree remotes to be marked as dead.
-   * initremote, enableremote: Really support gpg subkeys suffixed with an
-     exclamation mark, which forces gpg to use a specific subkey.
-     (Previous try had a bug.)
-   * lookupkey: Support being given an absolute filename to a file
-     within the current git repository.
-   * A top-level .noannex file will prevent git-annex init from being used
-     in a repository. This is useful for repositories that have a policy
-     reason not to use git-annex. The content of the file will be displayed
-     to the user who tries to run git-annex init."""]]
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+git-annex 6.20180409 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * Added adb special remote which allows exporting files to Android devices.
+   * For url downloads, git-annex now defaults to using a http library,
+     rather than wget or curl. But, if annex.web-options is set, it will
+     use curl. To use the .netrc file, run:
+       git config annex.web-options --netrc
+   * git-annex no longer uses wget (and wget is no longer shipped with
+     git-annex builds).
+   * Enable HTTP connection reuse across multiple files for improved speed.
+   * Fix calculation of estimated completion for progress meter.
+   * OSX app: Work around libz/libPng/ImageIO.framework version skew
+     by not bundling libz, assuming OSX includes a suitable libz.1.dylib.
+   * Added annex.retry, annex.retry-delay, and per-remote versions
+     to configure transfer retries.
+   * Also do forward retrying in cases where no exception is thrown,
+     but the transfer failed.
+   * When adding a new version of a file, and annex.genmetadata is enabled,
+     don't copy the data metadata from the old version of the file,
+     instead use the mtime of the file.
+   * Avoid running annex.http-headers-command more than once.
+   * info: Added "combined size of repositories containing these files"
+     stat when run on a directory.
+   * info: Changed sorting of numcopies stats table, so it's ordered
+     by the variance from the desired number of copies.
+   * Fix resuming a download when using curl."""]]
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