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Recently, the Mercurial project has
been discussing its plans to migrate away from the compromised SHA-1 hashing algorithm in favor of
a more secure alternative. So far, the discussion is in the planning stages
of algorithm selection and migration strategy, with a general transition plan
for users. The project, for the moment, is favoring the BLAKE2 hashing algorithm.