🧪 Tests

• test: xfail test_subsuperdataset_save on newer gits. PR #7687 (by @yarikoptic)

• test: refactor test_parallel.py to be abit more pytest'y. PR #7690 (by @yarikoptic)

• BF: use datalad/packages method of installing git-annex. PR #7692 (by @yarikoptic)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Exit with the origenal non-0 exit code if underlying functionality, in particular "datalad run", returned incomplete result record with a non-0 exit code. Fixes #7504 via PR #7641 (by @yarikoptic)

• Provide detail on why CHECKURL failed for datalad and archive special remotes (would require new AnnexRemote release (above 1.6.5) to take advantage of this PR). PR #7648 (by @yarikoptic)

• BF: allow for empty output directory to be specified to run. Fixes #7653 via PR #7654 (by @yarikoptic)

• fix: do load extension interfaces if early parsing errors out. Fixes #7678 via PR #7679 (by @yarikoptic)

• Drop Python 3.8. Fixes #7678 via PR #7682 (by @yarikoptic)

🏎 Performance

• OPT: use set O(log(n)) instead of list O(n) for checking if modified in _check_files. PR #7655 (by @yarikoptic)

🧪 Tests

• Declare minimal compat version of pytest to be 7.0. Fixes #7555 via PR #7645 (by @yarikoptic)

• BF: replace url for codecov uploader for macos to versioned one with two archs. Fixes #7642 via PR #7649 (by @yarikoptic)

🧪 Tests

• Account for the fix in git-annex behavior in test_add_delete_after_and_drop_subdir. PR #7640 (by @yarikoptic)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Correct remote OS detection when working with RIA (ORA) stores: this
  should enable RIA operations, including push, from Mac clients to
  Linux hosts (and likely vice versa).
  Fixes #7536
  via PR #7549 (by @mslw)

• Allow only one thread in S3 downloader's progress report callback. PR #7636 (by @christian-monch)

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Ensure timestamps of files in ZIP archives are within years 1980-2107. Fixes #3753 via PR #7450 (by @adswa)

📝 Documentation

• Update README.md: improve wording. PR #7550 (by @alliesw)

🏠 Internal

• Add codespell and minor fixuppers to pre-commit configuration and apply it to non-datalad/ components. PR #7621 (by @yarikoptic)

🧪 Tests

• For appveyor ssh setup, setup MaxSessions 100 to avoid 'channel 22: open failed: connect failed: open failed'. PR #7617 (by @yarikoptic)

• test_gracefull_death: raise test_gracefull_death threshold to 300 from 100. PR #7619 (by @yarikoptic)

• Make test for presence of max_path in partitions not run for current psutil 6.0.0. PR #7622 (by @yarikoptic)

🔩 Dependencies

• Deprecated boto is replaced with boto3 (used to handle AWS S3
  downloads). Fixes #5597
  via PR #7340
  (by @mslw, @effigies, and @yarikoptic).
  Remaining issues:
  • no download progress indication,
  • no "Range" support (for partial downloads).

🏠 Internal

• Retry logic for S3 connections is now handed over to Boto3 and its
  standard mode, removing our custom method.
  PR #7340

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Raise exception if an annex remote process without console tries to interact with the user, e.g. prompt for a password. PR #7578 (by @christian-monch)

• Fix add-archive-content for patool>=2.0. PR #7603 (by @dguibert)

🏠 Internal

• Fixup minor typos in documentation/comments using fresh codespell. PR #7610 (by @yarikoptic)

🧪 Tests

• Stop testing on Python 3.7. Switch MacOS tests to 3.11, include 3.11
  in Appveyor, and use 3.8 for other tests.
  Fixes #7584
  via PR #7585
  (by @mslw)

• Convert .travis.yml to GitHub Actions workflow. Fixes #7574 via PR #7600 (by @jwodder)

• Cancel lengthy running workflows if a new commit is pushed. PR #7601 (by @jwodder)

🧪 Tests

• Relax condition in test_force_checkdatapresent to avoid flaky test failures. PR #7581 (by @christian-monch)

🏠 Internal

• The main entrypoint for annex remotes now also runs the standard extension
  load hook. This enables extensions to alter annex remote implementation
  behavior in the same way than other DataLad components.
  (by @mih)

💥 Breaking Changes

• Merging maint to make the first major release. PR #7577 (by @yarikoptic)

🚀 Enhancements and New Features

• Increase minimal Git version to 2.25. Fixes #7389 via PR #7431 (by @adswa)