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@@ -83,6 +83,14 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
taken from the file specified by the "--contents" option shows it
differently from a line attributed to the working tree file.
+ * "git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate
+ hook by passing an extra argument from the command line.
+
+ * The credential subsystem learns to help OAuth framework.
+
+ * The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably
+ short limit, which has been removed.
+
Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -131,6 +139,27 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
* strtok() and strtok_r() are banned in this codebase.
+ * The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system
+ had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra
+ suffixes. The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like
+ "-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share
+ the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix.
+
+ * ctype tests have been taught to test EOF, too.
+
+ * The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed
+ size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of
+ the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has
+ been corrected.
+
+ * The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common
+ ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive;
+ it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage.
+
+ * Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation
+ formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better
+ output these days.
+
Fixes since v2.40
-----------------
@@ -284,6 +313,18 @@ Fixes since v2.40
* A small API fix to the ort merge strategy backend.
(merge 000c4ceca7 en/ort-finalize-after-0-merges-fix later to maint).
+ * The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient
+ to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed
+ author/committer ident.
+ (merge 90ef0f14eb jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident later to maint).
+
+ * Retitle a test script with an overly narrow name.
+ (merge 8bb19c14fb ob/t3501-retitle later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to
+ specify the end-of-line conversion.
+ (merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint).
+
* Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
(merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
(merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint).
@@ -300,3 +341,8 @@ Fixes since v2.40
(merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint).
(merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint).
(merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint).
+ (merge d45cbe3fe0 ob/sequencer-i18n-fix later to maint).
+ (merge b734fe49fd ob/messages-capitalize-exception later to maint).
+ (merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint).
+ (merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint).
+ (merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint).