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+Git v2.51 Release Notes
+=======================
+
+UI, Workflows & Features
+------------------------
+
+ * Userdiff patterns for the R language have been added.
+
+ * Documentation for "git send-email" has been updated with a bit more
+   credential helper and OAuth information.
+
+ * "git cat-file --batch" learns to understand %(objectmode) atom to
+   allow the caller to tell missing objects (due to repository
+   corruption) and submodules (whose commit objects are OK to be
+   missing) apart.
+
+ * "git diff --no-index dirA dirB" can limit the comparison with
+   pathspec at the end of the command line, just like normal "git
+   diff".
+
+ * "git subtree" (in contrib/) learned to grok GPG signing its commits.
+
+ * "git whatchanged" that is longer to type than "git log --raw"
+   which is its modern rough equivalent has outlived its usefulness
+   more than 10 years ago.  Plan to deprecate and remove it.
+
+ * An interchange format for stash entries is defined, and subcommand
+   of "git stash" to import/export has been added.
+
+ * "git merge/pull" has been taught the "--compact-summary" option to
+   use the compact-summary format, intead of diffstat, when showing
+   the summary of the incoming changes.
+
+ * "git imap-send" has been broken for a long time, which has been
+   resurrected and then taught to talk OAuth2.0 etc.
+
+ * Some error messages from "git imap-send" has been updated.
+
+ * When "git daemon" sees a signal while attempting to accept() a new
+   client, instead of retrying, it skipped it by mistake, which has
+   been corrected.
+
+ * The reftable ref backend has matured enough; Git 3.0 will make it
+   the default format in a newly created repositories by default.
+
+ * "netrc" credential helper has been improved to understand textual
+   service names (like smtp) in addition to the numeric port numbers
+   (like 25).
+
+
+Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
+--------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ * "git pack-objects" learned to find delta bases from blobs at the
+   same path, using the --path-walk API.
+
+ * CodingGuidelines update.
+
+ * Add settings for Solaris 10 & 11.
+
+ * Meson-based build/test framework now understands TAP output
+   generated by our tests.
+
+ * "Do not explicitly initialize to zero" rule has been clarified in
+   the CodingGuidelines document.
+
+ * A test helper "test_seq" function learned the "-f <fmt>" option,
+   which allowed us to simplify a lot of test scripts.
+
+ * A lot of stale stuff has been removed from the contrib/ hierarchy.
+
+ * "git push" and "git fetch" are taught to update refs in batches to
+   gain performance.
+
+ * Some code paths in the "git prune" used to ignore passed in
+   repository object and used the_repository singleton instance
+   instead, which has been corrected.
+
+ * Update ".clang-format" and ".editorconfig" to match our style guide
+   a bit better.
+
+ * "make coccicheck" succeeds even when spatch made suggestions, which
+   has been updated to fail in such a case.
+
+ * Code clean-up around object access API.
+
+
+Fixes since v2.50
+-----------------
+
+Unless otherwise noted, all the changes in 2.50.X maintenance track,
+including security updates, are included in this release.
+
+ * A memory-leak in an error code path has been plugged.
+   (merge 7082da85cb ly/commit-graph-graph-write-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * A memory-leak in an error code path has been plugged.
+   (merge aedebdb6b9 ly/fetch-pack-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Some leftover references to documentation source files that no
+   longer exist, due to recent ".txt" -> ".adoc" renaming, have been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 3717a5775a jw/doc-txt-to-adoc-refs later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash -p <pathspec>" improvements.
+   (merge 468817bab2 pw/stash-p-pathspec-fixes later to maint).
+
+ * "git send-email" incremented its internal message counter when a
+   message was edited, which made logic that treats the first message
+   specially misbehave, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 2cc27b3501 ag/send-email-edit-threading-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git stash" recorded a wrong branch name when submodules are
+   present in the current checkout, which has been corrected.
+   (merge ffb36c64f2 kj/stash-onbranch-submodule-fix later to maint).
+
+ * When asking to apply mailmap to both author and committer field
+   while showing a commit object, the field that appears later was not
+   correctly parsed and replaced, which has been corrected.
+   (merge abf94a283f sa/multi-mailmap-fix later to maint).
+
+ * "git maintenance" lacked the care "git gc" had to avoid holding
+   onto the repository lock for too long during packing refs, which
+   has been remedied.
+   (merge 1b5074e614 ps/maintenance-ref-lock later to maint).
+
+ * Avoid regexp_constraint and instead use comparison_constraint when
+   listing functions to exclude from application of coccinelle rules,
+   as spatch can be built with different regexp engine X-<.
+   (merge f2ad545813 jc/cocci-avoid-regexp-constraint later to maint).
+
+ * Updating submodules from the upstream did not work well when
+   submodule's HEAD is detached, which has been improved.
+   (merge ca62f524c1 jk/submodule-remote-lookup-cleanup later to maint).
+
+ * Remove unnecessary check from "git daemon" code.
+   (merge 0c856224d2 cb/daemon-fd-check-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Use of sysctl() system call to learn the total RAM size used on
+   BSDs has been corrected.
+   (merge 781c1cf571 cb/total-ram-bsd-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Drop FreeBSD 4 support and declare that we support only FreeBSD 12
+   or later, which has memmem() supported.
+   (merge 0392f976a7 bs/config-mak-freebsd later to maint).
+
+ * A diff-filter with negative-only specification like "git log
+   --diff-filter=d" did not trigger correctly, which has been fixed.
+   (merge 375ac087c5 jk/all-negative-diff-filter-fix later to maint).
+
+ * A failure to open the index file for writing due to conflicting
+   access did not state what went wrong, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 9455397a5c hy/read-cache-lock-error-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Tempfile removal fix in the codepath to sign commits with SSH keys.
+   (merge 4498127b04 re/ssh-sign-buffer-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Code and test clean-up around string-list API.
+   (merge 6e5b26c3ff sj/string-list later to maint).
+
+ * "git apply -N" should start from the current index and register
+   only new files, but it instead started from an empty index, which
+   has been corrected.
+   (merge 2b49d97fcb rp/apply-intent-to-add-fix later to maint).
+
+ * Leakfix with a new and a bit invasive test on pack-bitmap files.
+   (merge bfd5522e98 ly/load-bitmap-leakfix later to maint).
+
+ * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
+   (merge b257adb571 lo/my-first-ow-doc-update later to maint).
+   (merge 8b34b6a220 ly/sequencer-update-squash-is-fixup-only later to maint).
+   (merge 5dceb8bd05 ly/do-not-localize-bug-messages later to maint).
+   (merge 61372dd613 ly/commit-buffer-reencode-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 81cd1eef7d ly/pack-bitmap-root-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge bfc9f9cc64 ly/submodule-update-failure-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 65dff89c6b ma/doc-diff-cc-headers later to maint).
+   (merge efb61591ee jm/bundle-uri-debug-output-to-fp later to maint).
+   (merge a3d278bb64 ly/prepare-show-merge-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 1fde1c5daf ac/preload-index-wo-the-repository later to maint).
+   (merge 855cfc65ae rm/t2400-modernize later to maint).
+   (merge 2939494284 ly/run-builtin-use-passed-in-repo later to maint).
+   (merge ff73f375bb jg/mailinfo-leakfix later to maint).
+   (merge 996f14c02b jj/doc-branch-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 1e77de1864 cb/ci-freebsd-update-to-14.3 later to maint).
+   (merge b0e9d25865 jk/fix-leak-send-pack later to maint).
+   (merge f3a9558c8c bs/remote-helpers-doc-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge c4e9775c60 kh/doc-config-subcommands later to maint).
+   (merge de404249ab ps/perlless-test-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge 953049eed8 ts/merge-orig-head-doc-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 0c83bbc704 rj/freebsd-sysinfo-build-fix later to maint).