Documentation/RelNotes/2.39.3.txt

   1 Git v2.39.3 Release Notes
   2 =========================
   3
   4 This release merges up the fix that appears in v2.30.9, v2.31.8,
   5 v2.32.7, v2.33.8, v2.34.8, v2.35.8, v2.36.6, v2.37.7 and v2.38.5 to
   6 address the security issues CVE-2023-25652, CVE-2023-25815, and
   7 CVE-2023-29007; see the release notes for these versions for
   8 details.
   9
  10 This release also merges fixes that have accumulated on the 'master'
  11 front to prepare for the 2.40 release that are still relevant to
  12 2.39.x maintenance track.
  13
  14 Fixes since v2.39.2
  15 -------------------
  16
  17  * Stop running win+VS build by default.
  18
  19  * CI updates.  We probably want a clean-up to move the long shell
  20    script embedded in yaml file into a separate file, but that can
  21    come later.
  22
  23  * Avoid unnecessary builds in CI, with settings configured in
  24    ci-config.
  25
  26  * Redefining system functions for a few functions did not follow our
  27    usual "implement git_foo() and #define foo(args) git_foo(args)"
  28    pattern, which has broken build for some folks.
  29
  30  * Deal with a few deprecation warning from cURL library.
  31
  32  * Newer regex library macOS stopped enabling GNU-like enhanced BRE,
  33    where '\(A\|B\)' works as alternation, unless explicitly asked with
  34    the REG_ENHANCED flag.  "git grep" now can be compiled to do so, to
  35    retain the old behaviour.
  36
  37  * When given a pattern that matches an empty string at the end of a
  38    line, the code to parse the "git diff" line-ranges fell into an
  39    infinite loop, which has been corrected.
  40
  41  * Fix the sequence to fsync $GIT_DIR/packed-refs file that forgot to
  42    flush its output to the disk..
  43
  44  * "git diff --relative" did not mix well with "git diff --ext-diff",
  45    which has been corrected.
  46
  47  * The logic to see if we are using the "cone" mode by checking the
  48    sparsity patterns has been tightened to avoid mistaking a pattern
  49    that names a single file as specifying a cone.
  50
  51  * Doc update for environment variables set when hooks are invoked.
  52
  53  * Document ORIG_HEAD a bit more.
  54
  55  * "git ls-tree --format='%(path) %(path)' $tree $path" showed the
  56    path three times, which has been corrected.
  57
  58  * Document that "branch -f <branch>" disables only the safety to
  59    avoid recreating an existing branch.
  60
  61  * Clarify how "checkout -b/-B" and "git branch [-f]" are similar but
  62    different in the documentation.
  63
  64 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.