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dist/changelogs/8.0.md

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-This update includes many changes that are necessary going forward to allow for many future features to come. These new implementations can take into account everything learned so far and are more robust, especially when considering the long-term timeline.
+This is this biggest update yet and includes many changes that are necessary going forward to allow for many future features to come. These new implementations take everything into account learned so far and are more intuitive and robust. Especially when considering the long-term timeline, these changes will come in handy.
 
 The versioning scheme has also been changed to simplify version numbers. So we are going straight from 1.7 to 8.0!
 
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 ## Improved professional edition preview
 
-Any new professional features, such as the Proxmox support, will be available for free for a couple of weeks after their initial release. There is now a new dialog available to allow you to quickly set up the XPipe preview plan.
+Any new professional features, such as the Proxmox support, will be available for free for a couple of weeks after their initial release. There is now a new dialog available to allow you to quickly set up the XPipe professional preview plan.
 
 This allows anyone interested in playing around with new features to do so without limitation and no commitment.
 
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 ## File browser improvements
 
-The file browser has been reworked in terms of performance and reliability. Any errors that can occur are now handled better.
+The file browser has been reworked in terms of performance and reliability. File transfers of many files or now faster and any errors that can occur are now handled better.
 
 In terms of the interface, there is also now a progress indicator for files being transferred. For any file conflicts, there is now a new dialog to choose how to resolve any conflict when copying or moving files.
 
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 Previously all settings were stored on a per-system basis. This caused some problems with git vaults, as all relevant settings that should persist across systems were not synced. From now on, all options that should be the same on all synced systems are automatically included in the git vault.
 
+## Authentication improvements
+
+This update comes with a newly created system for handling authentication that is better suited for arbitrary authentication prompts. This allows for better support for things like 2FA and other keyboard interactive authentications schemes. The sudo elevation authentication also has been reworked to be more intuitive and mirror the behavior of the system in regard to password prompts.
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+You also now have finer control over the caching behaviour of passwords and the sudo behaviour via additional settings.
+
+## Temporary containers
+
+You can now run a temporary docker container using a specified image that will get automatically removed once it is stopped. The container will keep running even if the image does not have any command specified that will run.
+
+This can be useful if you quickly want to set up a certain environment by using a certain container image, e.g. a simple `ubuntu` image. You can then enter the container as normal in XPipe, perform your operations, and stop the container once it's no longer needed. It is then removed automatically.
+
 ## Fish and dumb shells
 
 Up until now, connecting to fish shells or various dumb shells you typically find in devices like routers and links, did not work as there was no proper support for them. The shell handling implementation has now been rewritten to support fish login shells (after some timeout).
@@ -61,23 +73,17 @@ The implementation also now supports dumb shells that can be reached via ssh for
 
 For now, it should work with MikroTik routers at least.
 
-## Temporary containers
-
-You can now run a temporary docker container using a specified image that will get automatically removed once it is stopped. The container will keep running even if the image does not have any command specified that will run.
-
-This can be useful if you quickly want to set up a certain environment by using a certain container image, e.g. a simple `ubuntu` image. You can then enter the container as normal in XPipe, perform your operations, and stop the container once it's no longer needed. It is then removed automatically.
-
 ## macOS tray and dock handling
 
 Due to some confusion, XPipe will no longer use the system tray in macOS as an option when minimizing. It will instead conform to the usual macOS app handling that allows to reopen the window by clicking on the dock icon.
 
 ## PowerShell fallback
 
-Some Windows admins disable cmd on their systems for some security reasons. Previously this would have caused XPipe to not function on these systems as it relied on cmd. From now on, it can also dynamically fall back to PowerShell if needed without utilizing cmd at all.
+Some Windows admins disable cmd on their systems for security reasons. Previously this would have caused XPipe to not function on these systems as it relied on cmd. From now on, it can also dynamically fall back to PowerShell if needed without utilizing cmd at all.
 
 ## Bundled OpenSSH on Windows
 
-One common problem in the past has been to fact that Microsoft ships relatively outdated OpenSSH versions on Windows, which do not support newer features like FIDO2 keys. Due to the permissive license of OpenSSH and its Windows fork, XPipe can bundle the latest OpenSSH versions on Windows. There is now an option the preferences menu to use the bundled OpenSSH version.
+One common problem in the past has been to fact that Microsoft ships relatively outdated OpenSSH versions on Windows, which do not support newer features like FIDO2 keys. Due to the permissive license of OpenSSH and its Windows fork, XPipe can bundle the latest OpenSSH versions on Windows. There is now an option the settings menu to use the latest bundled OpenSSH version.
 
 ## Dependency upgrades
 
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 ## Timeout handling
 
-The timeout model has been reworked. It is now set to a fixed amount of 30s while any active password prompts do no longer count towards it, meaning you can take your time when typing your passwords. An increased timeout value also allows for better handling of third party authentication schemes that XPipe has no control over, e.g. ones that will open a site in your browser for authentication.
+The timeout model has been reworked. It is now set to a fixed amount of 30s while any active password prompts do no longer count towards it, meaning you can take your time when typing your passwords. An increased timeout value also allows for better handling of third party authentication schemes that XPipe has no control over, e.g. ones that will open a website in your browser for authentication.
 
 ## Other changes
 

version

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-8.0-11
+8.0