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@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
  * #1212: Fix an error when restoring multiple directory-format database dumps at once.
  * #1220: Cleanup snapshots immediately after ZFS, LVM, or Btrfs hooks error—rather than waiting
    until the next time borgmatic runs.
+ * #1221: Add an "unsafe_skip_path_validation_before_create" option to skip pre-backup safety checks
+   so as to reduce backup times on large filesystems.
  * #1224: When running an "extract" check with the "--progress" flag, show file extraction progress.
  * When syslog verbosity is enabled, log to systemd's journal (if present) with
    structured data. See the documentation for more information: