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Git, the popular and acclaimed source code management system has received its third point release, version 2.8.3, bringing over 20 improvements and bug fixes to the current stable 2.8 branch.
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Git 2.8 received three maintenance release, the last one being Git 2.8.3 announced on May 19, 2016. Git 2.8.3 comes three weeks after the previous maintenance build, Git 2.8.2, adding fixes or small enhancements to the "git send-email," "git worktree," "git format-patch --help," "git submodule," "git commit," "git replace -e," "git push," "git mv old new," and "git config" commands.
Among other interesting changes implemented in Git 2.8.3, we can mention better support for the CRAM-MD5 authentication method in the "git imap-send" command, support for socks5h:// proxies to the socks5:// proxy support added in Git 2.6.4, and it some changes to prepare the popular source code management software for the upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 release were implemented. Full Story |
