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-ikiwiki 2.66 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * recentchanges: Fix redirects to non-page files.
-   * aggregate: Avoid uninitialized value warnings for pages with no recorded
-     ctime.
-   * attachment: Add admin() pagespec to test if the uploading user is a wiki
-     admin.
-   * git: Fix handling of utf-8 filenames in recentchanges.
-   * tag: Make edit link for new tags ensure that the tags are created
-     inside tagbase, when it's set.
-   * template: Make edit link for new templates ensure the page is located
-     under toplevel templates directory.
-   * htmlscrubber: Add a config setting that can be used to disable the
-     scrubber acting on a set of pages.
-   * Expand usage message and add --help. Closes: #[500344](http://bugs.debian.org/500344)
-   * Beautify urls used in various places. (smcv)
-   * Export pagetitle, titlepage, linkpage.
-   * htmltidy: Avoid returning undef if tidy fails. Also avoid returning the
-     untidied content if tidy crashes. In either case, it seems best to tidy
-     the content to nothing.
-   * htmltidy: Avoid spewing tidy errors to stderr.
-   * Reorganize index file, add a format version field. Upgrades to the new
-     index format should be transparent.
-   * Add %wikistate, which is like %pagestate except not specific to a given
-     page, and is preserved across rebuilds.
-   * editpage: Be more aggressive (and less buggy) about cleaning up
-     temporary files rendered during page preview.
-   * Add an indexpages option, which causes foo/index.mdwn to be the source
-     for page foo when foo.mdwn doesn't exist. Also, when it's enabled,
-     creating a new page will save it to foo/index.mdwn by default.
-     Closes: #[474611](http://bugs.debian.org/474611)
-     (Sponsored by The TOVA Company.)
-   * httpauth: Document that ikiwiki.cgi has to be in a directory subject to
-     authentication. Closes: #[500524](http://bugs.debian.org/500524)
-   * inline: Fix handling of rootpage that doesn't exist.
-   * attachment: Support adding attachments to pages even as they are being
-     created.
-   * remove, rename: Allow acting on attachments as a page is being created.
-   * Updated French translation. Closes: #[500929](http://bugs.debian.org/500929)"""]]
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+ikiwiki 2.71 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * comments: Blog-style comment support, contributed by Simon McVittie.
+   * htmlbalance: New plugin contributed by Simon McVittie.
+   * Change deb dependencies to list Text::Markdown before markdown (really
+     this time).
+   * Improve escaping of wikilinks and preprocessor directives in content
+     produced by aggregate and recentchanges.
+   * French translation update from Philippe Batailler. Closes: #[506250](http://bugs.debian.org/506250)
+   * Spanish translation update from Victor Moral.
+   * Fix handling of wrappergroup option.
+   * Correct --dumpsetup to include the srcdir in the setup file.
+   * German translation update from Kai Wasserbäch. Closes: #[507056](http://bugs.debian.org/507056)
+   * inline: Support emptyfeeds=no option to skip generating empty feeds.
+   * inline: Support feedfile option to change the filename of the feed
+     generated.
+   * meta: Pass info to htmlscrubber so htmlscrubber\_skip can take effect.
+   * htmlbalance: don't compact whitespace, and set misc other options (smcv)
+   * rename: Fix double-escaping of page name in edit box.
+   * monotone: When getting the log, tell monotone how many entries
+     we want, rather than closing the pipe, which it dislikes. (thm)
+   * Coding style change: Remove explcit vim folding markers.
+   * aggregate: If a feed fails to be downloaded, try again immediatly
+     next time aggregation is run, even if the usual time has not passed.
+     Closes: #[508622](http://bugs.debian.org/508622) (Michael Gold)
+   * meta: Process meta date during scan pass so that the date will always
+     affect sorting in inlines.
+   * Improve display of some openids (smcv)"""]]
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