๐ Enhancements and New Features
- Address gitlab API special character restrictions. [PR 7407](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7407) (by [jsheunis](https://github.com/jsheunis))
- BF: The default layout of create-sibling-gitlab is now ``collection``. The previous default, ``hierarchy`` has been removed as it failed in --recursive mode in different edgecases. For single-level datasets, the outcome of ``collection`` and ``hierarchy`` is identical. [PR 7410](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7410) (by [jsheunis](https://github.com/jsheunis) and [adswa](https://github.com/adswa))
๐ Bug Fixes
- WTF - bring back and extend information on metadata extractors etc, and allow for sections to have subsections and be selected at both levels [PR 7309](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7309) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
- BF: Run an actual git invocation with interactive commit config. [PR 7398](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7398) (by [adswa](https://github.com/adswa))
๐ฉ Dependencies
- Raise minimal version of tqdm (progress bars) to v.4.32.0
[PR 7330](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7330)
(by [mslw](https://github.com/mslw))
๐ Documentation
- DOC: Add a "User messaging" design doc. [PR 7310](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7310) (by [jsheunis](https://github.com/jsheunis))
๐งช Tests
- Remove nose-based testing utils and possibility to test extensions using nose. [PR 7261](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7261) (by [yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))
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