>> Has anyone had experience bootstrapping from 7.6.1? WIll it work?

I've done it from 7.6, 7.6.1, and 8.0.  All work OK, with versions 1.9.4,
1.9.5, and 1.10.x (the ones I've tried) of the Booter.

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