add news item for git-annex 6.20170101

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-git-annex 6.20161027 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * lock, smudge: Fix edge cases where data loss could occur in v6 mode
-     when the keys database was not populated.
-   * upgrade: Handle upgrade to v6 when the repository already contains
-     v6 unlocked files whose content is already present.
-   * Improve style of offline html build of website.
-   * importfeed: Drop URL parameters from file extension.
-     Thanks, James MacMahon.
-   * Assistant, repair: Improved filtering out of git fsck lines about
-     duplicate file entries in tree objects.
-   * test: Deal with gpg-agent behavior change that broke the test suite.
-   * Improve ssh socket cleanup code to skip over the cruft that
-     NFS sometimes puts in a directory when a file is being deleted.
-   * If a transfer fails for some reason, but some data managed to be sent,
-     the transfer will be retried. (The assistant already did this.)
-   * Run ssh with ServerAliveInterval 60, so that stalled transfers will
-     be noticed within about 3 minutes.
-     (Any setting in your ~/.ssh/config or /etc/ssh/ssh\_config
-     overrides this.)"""]]

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+News for git-annex 6.20170101:
+
+   XMPP support has been removed from the assistant in this release.
+   If your repositories used XMPP to keep in sync, that will no longer
+   work, and you should enable some other remote to keep them in sync.
+   A ssh server is one way, or use the new Tor pairing feature.
+
+git-annex 6.20170101 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * XMPP support has been removed from the assistant in this release.
+     If your repositories used XMPP to keep in sync, that will no longer
+     work, and you should enable some other remote to keep them in sync.
+     A ssh server is one way, or use the new Tor pairing feature.
+   * p2p --pair makes it easy to pair repositories, over Tor, using
+     Magic Wormhole codes to find the other repository.
+     See http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/peer\_to\_peer\_network\_with\_tor/
+   * webapp: The "Share with a friend" and "Share with your other devices"
+     pages have been changed to pair repositories using Tor and Magic Wormhole.
+   * metadata --batch: Fix bug when conflicting metadata changes were
+     made in the same batch run.
+   * Pass annex.web-options to wget and curl after other options, so that
+     eg --no-show-progress can be set by the user to disable the default
+     --show-progress.
+   * Revert ServerAliveInterval change in 6.20161111, which caused problems
+     with too many old versions of ssh and unusual ssh configurations.
+     It should have not been needed anyway since ssh is supposted to
+     have TCPKeepAlive enabled by default.
+   * Make all --batch input, as well as fromkey and registerurl stdin
+     be processed without requiring it to be in the current encoding.
+   * p2p: --link no longer takes a remote name, instead the --name
+     option can be used.
+   * Linux standalone: Improve generation of locale definition files,
+     supporting locales such as en\_GB.UTF-8.
+   * rekey --force: Incorrectly marked the new key's content as being
+     present in the local repo even when it was not.
+   * enable-tor: Put tor sockets in /var/lib/tor-annex/, rather
+     than in /etc/tor/hidden\_service/.
+   * enable-tor: No longer needs to be run as root.
+   * enable-tor: When run as a regular user, also tests a connection back to
+     the hidden service over tor.
+   * Support all common locations of the torrc file.
+   * Always use filesystem encoding for all file and handle reads and
+     writes.
+   * Fix build with directory-1.3.
+   * Debian: Suggest tor and magic-wormhole.
+   * Debian: Build webapp on armel."""]]