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-git-annex 0.03 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Fix support for file:// remotes.
-   * Add --verbose
-   * Fix SIGINT handling.
-   * Fix handling of files with unusual characters in their name.
-   * Fixed memory leak; git-annex no longer reads the whole file list
-     from git before starting, and will be much faster with large repos.
-   * Fix crash on unknown symlinks.
-   * Added remote.annex-scp-options and remote.annex-ssh-options.
-   * The backends to use when adding different sets of files can be configured
-     via gitattributes.
-   * In .gitattributes, the git-annex-backend attribute can be set to the
-     names of backends to use when adding different types of files.
-   * Add fsck subcommand. (For now it only finds unused key contents in the
-     annex.)"""]]
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+git-annex 0.08 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * Fix `git annex add ../foo` (when ran in a subdir of the repo).
+   * Add configure step to build process.
+   * Only use cp -a if it is supported, falling back to cp -p or plain cp
+     as needed for portability.
+   * cp --reflink=auto is used if supported, and will make git annex unlock
+     much faster on filesystems like btrfs that support copy on write."""]]
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