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Hot on the heels of Projectile 3.0 comes Projectile 3.1! Three days apart, yes. There’s a story there. A big chunk of what’s in 3.1 was originally meant for 3.0, but 3.0 was already turning into a monster of a release and I decided to cut it into two, so I’d actually be able to reason about each of them. So think of 3.1 less as “the next release” and more as “the second half of 3.0 that I was too scared to ship all at once”. There was also a bit of calendar mischief involved. I really wanted a release on the 1st of July - that’s July Morning, which is a bit of a thing here in Bulgaria1 - and then another one on the 4th of July. Partly because it’s the 250th US Independence Day, and partly because it happens to be my wedding anniversary. When else am I going to get a round number like that to line up? So here we are. Unlike 3.0, 3.1 has no breaking changes. Nothing was removed, no command or option changed its name. What it does instead is knock out a pile of long-standing ideas and…

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