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 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.