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-git-annex 6.20160511 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * Fix bug that sometimes prevented git-annex smudge --clean from consuming
-     all its input, which resulted in git add bypassing git-annex.
-   * Fix build with directory-1.2.6.2.
-   * Improve behavior when a just added http remote is not available
-     during uuid probe. Do not mark it as annex-ignore, so it will be tried
-     again later.
-   * Android: Icon refresh.
-     Thanks, freewheelinfranks.
-   * Added DIRHASH-LOWER to external special remote protocol.
-   * git-annex.cabal: Add Setup-Depends.
-   * stack.yaml: Enable explicit-setup-deps.
-   * Windows: Fix several bugs in propigation of changes from the adjusted
-     branch back to the master branch.
-   * Windows: Fix an over-long temp directory name.
-   * map: Hide dead repositories that are not connected to the graph.
-   * map: Changed colors; red is used for untrusted repositories and grey
-     for dead.
-   * version: Display OS version and architecture too.
-   * Propigate GIT\_DIR and GIT\_WORK\_TREE environment to external special
-     remotes.
-   * Added annex.gnupg-decrypt-options and
-     remote.<name>.annex-gnupg-decrypt-options, which are passed to gpg
-     when it's decrypting data.
-   * fsck: When a key is not previously known in the location log,
-     record something so that reinject --known will work.
-   * In the unusual configuration where annex.crippledfilesystem=true but
-     core.symlinks=true, store object contents in mixed case hash
-     directories so that symlinks will point to them.
-   * Added new encryption=sharedpubkey mode for special remotes.
-     This is useful for makking a special remote that anyone with a clone
-     of the repo and your public keys can upload files to, but only you can
-     decrypt the files stored in it."""]]
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+git-annex 6.20160808 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * metadata --json output format has changed, adding a inner json object
+     named "fields" which contains only the fields and their values.
+     This should be easier to parse than the old format, which mixed up
+     metadata fields with other keys in the json object.
+     Any consumers of the old format will need to be updated.
+   * Added metadata --batch option, which allows getting, setting, deleting,
+     and modifying metadata for multiple files/keys.
+   * Added --branch option to copy, drop, fsck, get, metadata, mirror, move,
+     and whereis commands. This option makes git-annex operate on files that
+     are included in a specified branch (or other treeish).
+   * git-annex.cabal: Temporarily limit to http-conduit <2.2.0
+     since aws 0.14.0 is not compatible with the newer version.
+   * git-annex.cabal: Temporarily limit to persistent <2.5
+     since esqueleto 2.4.3 is not compatible with the newer version.
+   * Removed dependency on json library; all JSON is now handled by aeson.
+   * When built with uuid-1.3.12, generate more random UUIDs than before.
+     (However, this did not impact git-annex much, so a hard depedency has
+     not been added on uuid-1.3.12.)
+   * info: When run on a file now includes an indication of whether
+     the content is present locally.
+   * get, move, copy, mirror: Added --failed switch which retries
+     failed copies/moves.
+   * Re-enable accumulating transfer failure log files for command-line
+     actions (disabled in 5.20150522), and remove the log files after
+     successful transfers."""]]
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