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+### 🐛 Bug Fixes
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+- fix: do load extension interfaces if early parsing errors out.  Fixes [#7678](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/issues/7678) via [PR #7679](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7679) (by [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))