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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt | 46 |
5 files changed, 71 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..723360295c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.4.11.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.4.11 Release Notes +========================= + +Fixes since v2.4.10 +------------------- + + * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap + corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of + pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of + these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer + when formulating pathnames while tree traversal. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..37eae9a2d9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.5.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.5.5 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.5.4 +------------------ + + * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap + corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of + pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of + these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer + when formulating pathnames while tree traversal. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..023ad85ec6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.6.6.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.6.6 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.6.5 +------------------ + + * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap + corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of + pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of + these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer + when formulating pathnames while tree traversal. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..883ae896fe --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.7.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Git v2.7.4 Release Notes +======================== + +Fixes since v2.7.3 +------------------ + + * Bugfix patches were backported from the 'master' front to plug heap + corruption holes, to catch integer overflow in the computation of + pathname lengths, and to get rid of the name_path API. Both of + these would have resulted in writing over an under-allocated buffer + when formulating pathnames while tree traversal. diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt index 14b6c70ed6..5ec39bc300 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.8.0.txt @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features the source repository has packed references for a long time, and nobody noticed nor complained about it. - * "branch --delete" has "branch -d" but "push --delete" does not. + * "push" learned that its "--delete" option can be shortened to + "-d", just like "branch --delete" and "branch -d" are the same + thing. * "git blame" learned to produce the progress eye-candy when it takes too much time before emitting the first line of the result. @@ -131,8 +133,8 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * Across the transition at around Git version 2.0, the user used to get a pretty loud warning when running "git push" without setting - push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn, given that - the transition is over long time ago. + push.default configuration variable. We no longer warn because the + transition was completed a long time ago. * README has been renamed to README.md and its contents got tweaked slightly to make it easier on the eyes. @@ -143,8 +145,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel. - * A slight update to the Makefile to mark "phoney" targets - as such correctly. + * A slight update to the Makefile to mark ".PHONY" targets as such + correctly. * In-core storage of the reverse index for .pack files (which lets you go from a pack offset to an object name) has been streamlined. @@ -187,14 +189,8 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few - calls to strcpy(3) in test-path-utils that are already safe has - been rewritten to avoid false wanings. - - * Some calls to strcpy(3) triggers a false warning from static - analysers that are less intelligent than humans, and reducing the - number of these false hits helps us notice real issues. A few - calls to strcpy(3) in "git rerere" that are already safe has been - rewritten to avoid false wanings. + calls to strcpy(3) in a couple of protrams that are already safe + has been rewritten to avoid false warnings. * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct the full path out of a series of path components while walking a @@ -240,6 +236,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * 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. + * The "name_path" API was an attempt to reduce the need to construct + the full path out of a series of path components while walking a + tree hierarchy, but over time made less efficient because the path + needs to be flattened, e.g. to be compared with another path that + is already flat, in many cases. The API has been removed and its + users have been rewritten to simplify the overall code complexity. + This incidentally also closes some heap-corruption holes. + + * Recent versions of GNU grep is pickier than before to decide if a + file is "binary" and refuse to give line-oriented hits when we + expect it to, unless explicitly told with "-a" option. As our + scripted Porcelains use sane_grep wrapper for line-oriented data, + even when the line may contain non-ASCII payload we took from + end-user data, use "grep -a" to implement sane_grep wrapper when + using an implementation of "grep" that takes the "-a" option. + + Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups. @@ -281,11 +294,6 @@ notes for details). listing and sparse checkout selection areas in 2.7.0; the change that is responsible for the regression has been reverted. - * Another try to improve the ignore mechanism that lets you say "this - is excluded" and then later say "oh, no, this part (that is a - subset of the previous part) is not excluded". This has still a - known limitation, though. - * Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR (e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to @@ -334,7 +342,7 @@ notes for details). * dirname() emulation has been added, as Msys2 lacks it. * The underlying machinery used by "ls-files -o" and other commands - have been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a + has been taught not to create empty submodule ref cache for a directory that is not a submodule. This removes a ton of wasted CPU cycles. |