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+Bugfix: Restic forget --keep-* options now interpret "-1" as "forever"
+
+Restic would forget snapshots that should have been kept when "-1" was
+used as a value for --keep-* options. It now interprets "-1" as forever,
+e.g. an option like --keep-monthly -1 will keep all monthly snapshots.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2565
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4234