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-git-annex 5.20151102 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Use statvfs on OSX.
-   * Symlink timestamp preservation code uses functions
-     from unix-2.7.0 when available, which should be more portable.
-   * enableremote: List uuids and descriptions of remotes that can be
-     enabled, and accept either the uuid or the description in leu if the
-     name.
-   * Catch up with current git behavior when both repo and repo.git exist;
-     it seems it now prefers repo in this case, although historically it may
-     have preferred repo.git.
-   * Fix failure to build with aws-0.13.0.
-   * When built with aws-0.13.0, the S3 special remote can be used to create
-     google nearline buckets, by setting storageclass=NEARLINE."""]]
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+git-annex 6.20160114 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   "hexapodia as the key insight"
+   * Added v6 repository mode, but v5 is still the default for now.
+   * unlock, lock: In v6 mode, unlocking a file changes it from a symlink to a
+     pointer file, and this change can be committed to the git repository.
+     For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/tips/unlocked\_files/
+   * The upgrade to version 6 is not done fully automatically yet, because
+     upgrading a direct mode repository to version 6 will prevent old
+     versions of git-annex from working in other clones of that repository.
+     For details, see http://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/
+   * init: --version parameter added to control which supported repository
+     version to use.
+   * init, upgrade: Configure .git/info/attributes to use git-annex
+     as a smudge filter. In v6 repository mode, this makes git add
+     add files to the annex in unlocked mode, unless overridden by
+     annex.largefiles configuration.
+   * assistant: In v6 mode, adds files in unlocked mode, so they can
+     continue to be modified.
+   * Added annex.thin setting, which makes unlocked files in v6 repositories
+     be hard linked to their content, instead of a copy. This saves disk
+     space but means any modification of an unlocked file will lose the local
+     (and possibly only) copy of the old version.
+   * Enable annex.thin by default on upgrade from direct mode to v6, since
+     direct mode made the same tradeoff.
+   * fix: Adjusts unlocked files as configured by annex.thin.
+   * persistent-sqlite is now a hard build dependency, since v6 repository
+     mode needs it.
+   * status: On crippled filesystems, was displaying M for all annexed files
+     that were present. Probably caused by a change to what git status
+     displays in this situation. Fixed by treating files git thinks are
+     modified the same as typechanged files.
+   * addurl: Added --batch and --with-files options.
+   * addurl: Support --json, particularly useful in --batch mode.
+   * addurl: Refuse to overwrite any existing, non-annexed file.
+   * Debian: Adjust build dependencies for webapp, DAV. Now available on
+     mips, mipsel, but temporarily removed armel since build is failing
+     there.
+   * info: Fix "backend usage" numbers, which were counting present keys
+     twice.
+   * info --json: Improve json for "backend usage", using a nested object
+     with fields for each backend instead of the previous weird nested lists.
+     This may break existing parsers of this json output, if there were any.
+   * whereis --json: Make url list be included in machine-parseable form.
+   * test: Added --keep-failures option.
+   * unused: Bug fix when a new file was added to the annex, and then
+     removed (but not git rmed). git still has the add staged in this case,
+     so the content should not be unused and was wrongly treated as such.
+   * migrate: Copy over metadata to new key.
+   * rekey: No longer copies over urls from the old to the new key.
+     It makes sense for migrate to do that, but not for this low-level
+     (and little used) plumbing command to.
+   * view: Fix crash in non-unicode capable locale when entering a view
+     of metadata containing a slash or backslash.
+   * When annex.http-headers is used to set the User-Agent header, avoid
+     sending User-Agent: git-annex
+   * Windows: Fix rsync cross-drive hack to work with msys2 rsync.
+     Thanks, Pieter Kitslaar."""]]
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