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+Added `git-annex-shell notifychanges` command, which uses inotify (etc)
+to detect when git refs have changed, and informs the caller about the
+changes. This was relatively easy to write; I reused the existing inotify
+code, and factored out code for simple line-based protocols from the
+external special remote protocol. Also implemented the git-remote-daemon
+protocol. 200 lines of code total.
+
+Meanwhile, Johan Kiviniemi improved the dbus notifications, making them
+work on Ubuntu and adding icons. Awesome!
+
+There's going to be some fun to get git-annex-shell upgraded so that the
+assistant can use this new notify feaure. While I have not started working
+on the assistant side of this, you can get a jump by installing today's
+release of git-annex. I had to push this out early because there was a bug
+that prevented the webapp from running on non-gnome systems. Since
+all changes in this release only affected Linux, today's release is a
+Linux-only release.