add news item for git-annex 8.20211231

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-git-annex 8.20210903 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
-[[!toggleable text="""  * Deal with clock skew, both forwards and backwards, when logging
-    information to the git-annex branch.
-  * GIT\_ANNEX\_VECTOR\_CLOCK can now be set to a fixed value (eg 1)
-    rather than needing to be advanced each time a new change is made.
-  * Misuse of GIT\_ANNEX\_VECTOR\_CLOCK will no longer confuse git-annex.
-  * add: When adding a dotfile, avoid treating its name as an extension.
-  * rsync special remote: Stop displaying rsync progress, and use
-    git-annex's own progress display.
-  * Many special remotes now checksum content while it is being retrieved,
-    instead of in a separate pass at the end. This is supported for all
-    special remotes on Linux (except for bittorrent), and for many
-    on other OS's (except for adb, external, gcrypt, hook, and rsync).
-  * unused: Skip the refs/annex/last-index ref that git-annex recently
-    started creating.
-  * Fix test suite failure on Windows.
-  * New --batch-keys option added to these commands:
-    get, drop, move, copy, whereis
-  * Added annex.youtube-dl-command config. This can be used to run some
-    forks of youtube-dl.
-  * Run cp -a with --no-preserve=xattr, to avoid problems with copied
-    xattrs, including them breaking permissions setting on some NFS
-    servers.
-  * add, import: Detect when xattrs or perhaps ACLs prevent removing
-    write permissions from an annexed file, and fail with an informative
-    message.
-  * Fix support for readonly git remotes.
-    (Reversion in version 8.20210621)
-  * When downloading urls fail, explain which urls failed for which
-    reasons.
-  * web: Avoid displaying a warning when downloading one url failed
-    but another url later succeeded."""]]
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+git-annex 8.20211231 released with [[!toggle text="these changes"]]
+[[!toggleable text="""  * Improved support for using git-annex in a read-only repository,
+    git-annex branch information from remotes that cannot be merged into
+    the git-annex branch will now not crash it, but will be merged in
+    memory.
+  * addurl, youtube-dl: When --check-raw prevents downloading an url,
+    still continue with any downloads that come after it, rather than
+    erroring out.
+  * Fix locking problems when annex.pidlock is set and concurrency is
+    enabled eg with -J.
+  * Improve error message display when autoinit fails due to eg, a
+    permissions problem.
+  * export: Avoid unncessarily re-exporting non-annexed files that were
+    already exported.
+  * Improve git command queue flushing so that eg, addurl of several
+    large files that take time to download will update the index for each
+    file, rather than deferring the index updates to the end.
+  * sync: Better error message when unable to export to a remote because
+    remote.name.annex-tracking-branch is configured to a ref that does not
+    exist.
+  * Fix build with ghc 9.0.1
+  * Fix build with old versions of feed library."""]]
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