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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7d794ca01a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Git v2.17.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release is to address the security issue: CVE-2020-5260
+
+Fixes since v2.17.3
+-------------------
+
+ * With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential
+   helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for
+   a wrong host.  The attack has been made impossible by forbidding
+   a newline character in any value passed via the credential
+   protocol.
+
+Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Felix Wilhelm of Google
+Project Zero.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2abb821a73
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+Git v2.17.5 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release is to address a security issue: CVE-2020-11008
+
+Fixes since v2.17.4
+-------------------
+
+ * With a crafted URL that contains a newline or empty host, or lacks
+   a scheme, the credential helper machinery can be fooled into
+   providing credential information that is not appropriate for the
+   protocol in use and host being contacted.
+
+   Unlike the vulnerability CVE-2020-5260 fixed in v2.17.4, the
+   credentials are not for a host of the attacker's choosing; instead,
+   they are for some unspecified host (based on how the configured
+   credential helper handles an absent "host" parameter).
+
+   The attack has been made impossible by refusing to work with
+   under-specified credential patterns.
+
+Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Carlo Arenas.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..25143f0cec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.18.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e8ef858a00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.18.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.18.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..35d0ae561b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.19.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.5.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18a4dcbfd6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.5.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.19.5 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f6eccd103b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.20.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5a9e24e470
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.20.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a0fb83bb53
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.21.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2ca0aa5c62
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.21.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.21.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..57296f6d17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.22.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8b5f3e3f37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.22.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.22.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b697cbe0e3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.23.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..2e35490137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.23.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.23.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0049f65503
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.24.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5302e0f73b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.24.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.24.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.3.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.3.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..15f7f21f10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.3.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.25.3 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.4.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0dbb5daeec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.25.4.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.25.4 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.1.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.1.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1b4ecb3fdc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.26.1 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.4; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.2.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.2.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d434d0c695
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.2.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Git v2.26.2 Release Notes
+=========================
+
+This release merges the security fix that appears in v2.17.5; see
+the release notes for that version for details.
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
index 7a5c7fff80..680dfe661a 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.27.0.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,48 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    exists, and neither --[no-]rebase nor --ff-only is given (which
    would result a merge).
 
+ * "git p4" learned four new hooks and also "--no-verify" option to
+   bypass them (and the existing "p4-pre-submit" hook).
+
+ * "git pull" shares many options with underlying "git fetch", but
+   some of them were not documented and some of those that would make
+   sense to pass down were not passed down.
+
+ * "git rebase" learned the "--no-gpg-sign" option to countermand
+   commit.gpgSign the user may have.
+
+ * The output from "git format-patch" uses RFC 2047 encoding for
+   non-ASCII letters on From: and Subject: headers, so that it can
+   directly be fed to e-mail programs.  A new option has been added
+   to produce these headers in raw.
+
+ * "git log" learned "--show-pulls" that helps pathspec limited
+   history views; a merge commit that takes the whole change from a
+   side branch, which is normally omitted from the output, is shown
+   in addition to the commits that introduce real changes.
+
+ * The interactive input from various codepaths are consolidated and
+   any prompt possibly issued earlier are fflush()ed before we read.
+
+ * Allow "git rebase" to reapply all local commits, even if the may be
+   already in the upstream, without checking first.
+
+ * The 'pack.useSparse' configuration variable now defaults to 'true',
+   enabling an optimization that has been experimental since Git 2.21.
+
+ * "git rebase" happens to call some hooks meant for "checkout" and
+   "commit" by this was not a designed behaviour than historical
+   accident.  This has been documented.
+
+ * "git merge" learns the "--autostash" option.
+
+ * "sparse-checkout" UI improvements.
+
+ * "git update-ref --stdin" learned a handful of new verbs to let the
+   user control ref update transactions more explicitly, which helps
+   as an ingredient to implement two-phase commit-style atomic
+   ref-updates across multiple repositories.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -60,6 +102,41 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
  * "git stash" has kept an escape hatch to use the scripted version
    for a few releases, which got stale.  It has been removed.
 
+ * Enable tests that require GnuPG on Windows.
+
+ * Minor test usability improvement.
+
+ * Trace2 enhancement to allow logging of the environment variables.
+
+ * Test clean-up continues.
+
+ * Perf-test update.
+
+ * A Windows-specific test element has been made more robust against
+   misuse from both user's environment and programmer's errors.
+
+ * Various tests have been updated to work around issues found with
+   shell utilities that come with busybox etc.
+
+ * The config API made mixed uses of int and size_t types to represent
+   length of various pieces of text it parsed, which has been updated
+   to use the correct type (i.e. size_t) throughout.
+
+ * The "--decorate-refs" and "--decorate-refs-exclude" options "git
+   log" takes have learned a companion configuration variable
+   log.excludeDecoration that sits at the lowest priority in the
+   family.
+
+ * A new CI job to build and run test suite on linux with musl libc
+   has been added.
+
+ * Update the CI configuration to use GitHub Actions, retiring the one
+   based on Azure Pipelines.
+
+ * The directory traversal code had redundant recursive calls which
+   made its performance characteristics exponential with respect to
+   the depth of the tree, which was corrected.
+
 
 Fixes since v2.26
 -----------------
@@ -85,6 +162,149 @@ Fixes since v2.26
    was rewritten in C back in 2.20 era, which has been corrected.
    (merge f08132f889 at/rebase-fork-point-regression-fix later to maint).
 
+ * The import-tars importer (in contrib/fast-import/) used to create
+   phony files at the top-level of the repository when the archive
+   contains global PAX headers, which made its own logic to detect and
+   omit the common leading directory ineffective, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge c839fcff65 js/import-tars-do-not-make-phony-files-from-pax-headers later to maint).
+
+ * Simplify the commit ancestry connectedness check in a partial clone
+   repository in which "promised" objects are assumed to be obtainable
+   lazily on-demand from promisor remote repositories.
+   (merge 2b98478c6f jt/connectivity-check-optim-in-partial-clone later to maint).
+
+ * The server-end of the v2 protocol to serve "git clone" and "git
+   fetch" was not prepared to see a delim packets at unexpected
+   places, which led to a crash.
+   (merge cacae4329f jk/harden-protocol-v2-delim-handling later to maint).
+
+ * When fed a midx that records no objects, some codepaths tried to
+   loop from 0 through (num_objects-1), which, due to integer
+   arithmetic wrapping around, made it nonsense operation with out of
+   bounds array accesses.  The code has been corrected to reject such
+   an midx file.
+   (merge 796d61cdc0 dr/midx-avoid-int-underflow later to maint).
+
+ * Utitiles run via the run_command() API were not spawned correctly
+   on Cygwin, when the paths to them are given as a full path with
+   backslashes.
+   (merge 05ac8582bc ak/run-command-on-cygwin-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git pull --rebase" tried to run a rebase even after noticing that
+   the pull results in a fast-forward and no rebase is needed nor
+   sensible, for the past few years due to a mistake nobody noticed.
+   (merge fbae70ddc6 en/pull-do-not-rebase-after-fast-forwarding later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" with the merge backend did not work well when the
+   rebase.abbreviateCommands configuration was set.
+   (merge de9f1d3ef4 ag/rebase-merge-allow-ff-under-abbrev-command later to maint).
+
+ * The logic to auto-follow tags by "git clone --single-branch" was
+   not careful to avoid lazy-fetching unnecessary tags, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 167a575e2d jk/use-quick-lookup-in-clone-for-tag-following later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase -i" did not leave the reflog entries correctly.
+   (merge 1f6965f994 en/sequencer-reflog-action later to maint).
+
+ * The more aggressive updates to remote-tracking branches we had for
+   the past 7 years or so were not reflected in the documentation,
+   which has been corrected.
+   (merge a44088435c pb/pull-fetch-doc later to maint).
+
+ * We've left the command line parsing of "git log :/a/b/" broken for
+   about a full year without anybody noticing, which has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 0220461071 jc/missing-ref-store-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Misc fixes for Windows.
+   (merge 3efc128cd5 js/mingw-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git rebase" (again) learns to honor "--no-keep-empty", which lets
+   the user to discard commits that are empty from the beginning (as
+   opposed to the ones that become empty because of rebasing).  The
+   interactive rebase also marks commits that are empty in the todo.
+   (merge 50ed76148a en/rebase-no-keep-empty later to maint).
+
+ * Parsing the host part out of URL for the credential helper has been corrected.
+   (merge 4c5971e18a jk/credential-parsing-end-of-host-in-URL later to maint).
+
+ * Document the recommended way to abort a failing test early (e.g. by
+   exiting a loop), which is to say "return 1".
+   (merge 7cc112dc95 jc/doc-test-leaving-early later to maint).
+
+ * The code that refreshes the last access and modified time of
+   on-disk packfiles and loose object files have been updated.
+   (merge 312cd76130 lr/freshen-file-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Validation of push certificate has been made more robust against
+   timing attacks.
+   (merge 719483e547 bc/constant-memequal later to maint).
+
+ * The custom hash function used by "git fast-import" has been
+   replaced with the one from hashmap.c, which gave us a nice
+   performance boost.
+   (merge d8410a816b jk/fast-import-use-hashmap later to maint).
+
+ * The "git submodule" command did not initialize a few variables it
+   internally uses and was affected by variable settings leaked from
+   the environment.
+   (merge 65d100c4dd lx/submodule-clear-variables later to maint).
+
+ * Raise the minimum required version of docbook-xsl package to 1.74,
+   as 1.74.0 was from late 2008, which is more than 10 years old, and
+   drop compatibility cruft from our documentation suite.
+   (merge 3c255ad660 ma/doc-discard-docbook-xsl-1.73 later to maint).
+
+ * "git log" learns "--[no-]mailmap" as a synonym to "--[no-]use-mailmap"
+   (merge 88acccda38 jc/log-no-mailmap later to maint).
+
+ * "git commit-graph write --expire-time=<timestamp>" did not use the
+   given timestamp correctly, which has been corrected.
+   (merge b09b785c78 ds/commit-graph-expiry-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Tests update to use "test-chmtime" instead of "touch -t".
+   (merge e892a56845 ds/t5319-touch-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff" in a partial clone learned to avoid lazy loading blob
+   objects in more casese when they are not needed.
+   (merge 95acf11a3d jt/avoid-prefetch-when-able-in-diff later to maint).
+
+ * "git push --atomic" used to show failures for refs that weren't
+   even pushed, which has been corrected.
+   (merge dfe1b7f19c jx/atomic-push later to maint).
+
+ * Code in builtin/*, i.e. those can only be called from within
+   built-in subcommands, that implements bulk of a couple of
+   subcommands have been moved to libgit.a so that they could be used
+   by others.
+   (merge 9460fd48b5 dl/libify-a-few later to maint).
+
+ * Allowing the user to split a patch hunk while "git stash -p" does
+   not work well; a band-aid has been added to make this (partially)
+   work better.
+
+ * "git diff-tree --pretty --notes" used to hit an assertion failure,
+   as it forgot to initialize the notes subsystem.
+   (merge 5778b22b3d tb/diff-tree-with-notes later to maint).
+
+ * "git range-diff" fixes.
+   (merge 8d1675eb7f vd/range-diff-with-custom-pretty-format-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other
+   commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run
+   from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected.
+   (merge 45115d8490 mt/grep-cquote-path later to maint).
+
+ * GNU/Hurd is also among the ones that need the fopen() wrapper.
+   (merge 274a1328fb jc/gnu-hurd-lets-fread-read-dirs later to maint).
+
+ * Those fetching over protocol v2 from linux-next and other kernel
+   repositories are reporting that v2 often fetches way too much than
+   needed.
+   (merge 11c7f2a30b jn/demote-proto2-from-default later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge 564956f358 jc/maintain-doc later to maint).
    (merge 7422b2a0a1 sg/commit-slab-clarify-peek later to maint).
@@ -92,3 +312,20 @@ Fixes since v2.26
    (merge 757c2ba3e2 en/oidset-uninclude-hashmap later to maint).
    (merge 8312aa7d74 jc/config-tar later to maint).
    (merge d00a5bdd50 ss/submodule-foreach-cb later to maint).
+   (merge 64d1022e14 ar/test-style-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge 4a465443a6 ds/doc-clone-filter later to maint).
+   (merge bb2dbe301b jk/t3419-drop-expensive-tests later to maint).
+   (merge d3507cc712 js/test-junit-finalization-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 2149b6748f bc/faq later to maint).
+   (merge 12dc0879f1 jk/test-cleanup later to maint).
+   (merge 344420bf0f pb/rebase-doc-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 7cd54d37dc dl/wrapper-fix-indentation later to maint).
+   (merge 78725ebda9 jc/allow-strlen-substitution-in-shell-scripts later to maint).
+   (merge 2ecfcdecc6 jm/gitweb-fastcgi-utf8 later to maint).
+   (merge 0740d0a5d3 jk/oid-array-cleanups later to maint).
+   (merge a1aba0c95c js/t0007-typofix later to maint).
+   (merge 76ba7fa225 ma/config-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 826f0c0df2 js/subtree-doc-update-to-asciidoctor-2 later to maint).
+   (merge 88eaf361e0 eb/mboxrd-doc later to maint).
+   (merge 051cc54941 tm/zsh-complete-switch-restore later to maint).
+   (merge 39102cf4fe ms/doc-revision-illustration-fix later to maint).