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 CHANGES
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+1.19.0 (2018-10-31)
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+
+- 🎃
+- Use -0 ... -9 to explicitly specify compression level if format allows; if unset, lib's default is used
+- Checking for file exclusion is optimized, the process is spawned only once per repo / submodule
+
 1.18.3 (2018-09-27)
+-------------------
+
 - Fix broken support for zip files
 
 1.18.2 (2018-09-19)