After the big security fix push, I've had a bit of a vacation. Several new features have also landed in git-annex though. git-worktree support is a feature I'm fairly excited by. It turned out to be possible to make git-annex just work in working trees set up by `git worktree`, and they share the same object files. So, if you need several checkouts of a repository for whatever reason, this makes it really efficient to do. It's much better than the old method of using `git clone --shared`. A new `--accessedwithin` option matches files whose content was accessed within a given amount of time. (Using the atime.) Of course it can be combined with other options, for example `git annex move --to archive --not --accessedwithin=30d` There are a few open requests for other new file matching options that I hope to get to soon. A small configuration addition of remote.name.annex-speculate-present to make git-annex try to get content from a remote even if its records don't indicate the remote contains the content allows setting up an interesting kind of [local cache of annexed files](https://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/local_caching_of_annexed_files/) which can even be shared between unrelated git-annex repositories, with inter-repository deduplication. I suspect that remote.name.annex-speculate-present may also have other uses. It warps git-annex's behavior in a small but fundamental way which could let it fit into new places. Will be interesting to see. There's also a annex.commitmessage config, which I am much less excited by, but enough people have asked for it over the years. Also fixed a howler of a bug today: In -J mode, remotes were sorted not by cost, but by UUID! How did that not get noticed for 2 years? Much of this work was sponsored by NSF-funded DataLad project at Dartmouth Colledge, as has been the case for the past 4 years. All told they've funded over 1000 hours of work on git-annex. This is the last month of that funding.