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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt index b974d49..63c0482 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.8.4.txt @@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Updates since v1.8.3 Foreign interfaces and ports. + * MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the + credential helper interface from Git.pm. + * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it ahead. @@ -85,6 +88,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. + * Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to + its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so + make a copy if you want to keep it"). + + * The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant + parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated. + * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other codepaths) have been plugged. @@ -122,6 +132,13 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for details). + * Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like + "A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part + needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes + around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and + unquoted strings). + (merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint). + * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one when used as a persistent CGI. |