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+Enhancement: Improve `dump` performance for large files
+
+The `dump` command now retrieves the data chunks for a file in parallel. This
+improves the download performance by up to the configured number of parallel
+backend connections.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/3406
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/4796