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-ikiwiki 2.53 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""
-   * search: generate configuration files once only when rebuilding
-     (Gabriel McManus)
-   * attachment: Fix an uninitialised value warning when editing a page
-     that currently has no attachments.
-   * Fix a bug with links to pages whose names contained colons.
-   * attachment: Support old versions of CGI.pm that lack an upload method.
-   * Include ikiwiki.setup in examples in the debian package.
-   * attachment: Support perl 5.8's buggy version of CGI.pm.
-   * otl: Support utf-8 files. (Recai Oktaş)"""]]
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+ikiwiki 2.61 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""
+   * poll: Fix typo that broke plugin.
+   * graphviz: Fix breakage of the name of the preprocessor directive."""]]
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