Git 2.8-rc1

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
index 290774e61a..b7a6d6826d 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt
@@ -233,6 +233,13 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * There is a new DEVELOPER knob that enables many compiler warning
    options in the Makefile.
 
+ * The way the test scripts configure the Apache web server has been
+   updated to work also for Apache 2.4 running on RedHat derived
+   distros.
+
+ * Out of maintenance gcc on OSX 10.6 fails to compile the code in
+   'master'; work it around by using clang by default on the platform.
+
 
 Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
 
@@ -410,6 +417,11 @@ notes for details).
    but didn't say the reason correctly.
    (merge 638fa62 js/config-set-in-non-repository later to maint).
 
+ * The code to read the pack data using the offsets stored in the pack
+   idx file has been made more carefully check the validity of the
+   data in the idx.
+   (merge 7465feb jk/pack-idx-corruption-safety later to maint).
+
  * Other minor clean-ups and documentation updates
    (merge f459823 ak/extract-argv0-last-dir-sep later to maint).
    (merge 63ca1c0 ak/git-strip-extension-from-dashed-command later to maint).
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index b872b6e7d6..61c424056a 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.8.0-rc0
+DEF_VER=v2.8.0-rc1
 
 LF='
 '