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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt index ef8b0d158e..cf0c7d8d40 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.31.0.txt @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ Backward incompatible and other important changes * The support for deprecated PCRE1 library has been dropped. + * Fixes for CVE-2021-21300 in Git 2.30.2 (and earlier) is included. + UI, Workflows & Features @@ -197,6 +199,36 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The code to implement "git merge-base --independent" was poorly done and was kept from the very beginning of the feature. + * Preliminary changes to fsmonitor integration. + + * Performance improvements for rename detection. + + * The common code to deal with "chunked file format" that is shared + by the multi-pack-index and commit-graph files have been factored + out, to help codepaths for both filetypes to become more robust. + + * The approach to "fsck" the incoming objects in "index-pack" is + attractive for performance reasons (we have them already in core, + inflated and ready to be inspected), but fundamentally cannot be + applied fully when we receive more than one pack stream, as a tree + object in one pack may refer to a blob object in another pack as + ".gitmodules", when we want to inspect blobs that are used as + ".gitmodules" file, for example. Teach "index-pack" to emit + objects that must be inspected later and check them in the calling + "fetch-pack" process. + + * The logic to handle "trailer" related placeholders in the + "--format=" mechanisms in the "log" family and "for-each-ref" + family is getting unified. + + * Raise the buffer size used when writing the index file out from + (obviously too small) 8kB to (clearly sufficiently large) 128kB. + + * It is reported that open() on some platforms (e.g. macOS Big Sur) + can return EINTR even though our timers are set up with SA_RESTART. + A workaround has been implemented and enabled for macOS to rerun + open() transparently from the caller when this happens. + Fixes since v2.30 ----------------- @@ -318,6 +350,12 @@ Fixes since v2.30 corrected. (merge 20e416409f jc/push-delete-nothing later to maint). + * Test script modernization. + (merge 488acf15df sv/t7001-modernize later to maint). + + * An under-allocation for the untracked cache data has been corrected. + (merge 6347d649bc jh/untracked-cache-fix later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge e3f5da7e60 sg/t7800-difftool-robustify later to maint). (merge 9d336655ba js/doc-proto-v2-response-end later to maint). |