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+Enhancement: Improve backup performance for small files
+
+When backing up small files restic was slower than it could be. In particular
+this affected backups using maximum compression.
+
+This has been fixed by reworking the internal parallelism of the backup
+command.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3955