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+### 🐛 Bug Fixes
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+- Provide detail on why CHECKURL failed for datalad and archive special remotes (would require new AnnexRemote release (above 1.6.5) to take advantage of this PR).  [PR #7648](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7648) (by [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))