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+Change: Update dependencies and require Go 1.21 or newer
+
+We have updated all dependencies. Since some libraries require newer Go standard
+library features, support for Go 1.19 and 1.20 has been dropped, which means that
+restic now requires at least Go 1.21 to build.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4938