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 ## Bug fixes
 
-* Allow branch references to contain multi-element `path` vectors with cloud metadata (#1382).
+* Allow branch references to contain multi-element `path` vectors with cloud metadata (#1382, @n8layman).
 
 # targets 1.9.0