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+### 🧪 Tests
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+- For appveyor ssh setup, setup MaxSessions 100 to avoid 'channel 22: open failed: connect failed: open failed'.  [PR #7617](https://github.com/datalad/datalad/pull/7617) (by [@yarikoptic](https://github.com/yarikoptic))