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+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/b60e3ac7b4aeeb9b8760f43eea9576c0e23309e9) allow downloading draft releases assets.
+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/1fca15529ac8fefb60d86b0c1f4bec8dae9a8566) API endpoints for managing tag protection
+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/4334c705b5f9388b16af23c7e75a69d027d07d5e) extract and display readme and comments for Composer packages
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+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/364922c6e4f28264add9e2501a352c25ad6a0993) when a repository is adopted, its object format is not set in the database
+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/e7f332a55d6a48a3f3b4f2bfa43d18455ac00acc) during a migration from bitbucket, LFS downloads fail
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+- [commit](https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/commit/358cd67c4f316f2d4f1d3be6dcb891dc04a2ff07) reduce memory usage for chunked artifact uploads to S3