A ?nasty bug that made git-annex store content on gcrypt and git-lfs without encrypting it led to a bugfix-only release, 7.20200226.
Since v8 was already close to release -- I was thinking probably Friday -- and the autobuilders are already building that version, it made sense to move up the v8 release as well, so that's also been released today.
That bug was happened because of an oversight when I was doing the big remote config parsing change. I tested that a lot, but I didn't think to test that gcrypt actually stored content encrypted! I need to do something about network test suite, so this kind of breakage in special remotes can be caught.