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New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.7.8 plus Windows specific patches.
• Updated Tcl/Tk to 8.5.11 and libiconv to 1.14.
• Some changes to support building with MSVC compiler.

Bugfixes:

• Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.8.
• Git documentation submodule location fixed.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.7.9 plus Windows specific patches.
• Improvements to the installer running application detection.

Bugfixes:

• Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.9.
• Fixed initialization of the git-cheetah submodule in net-installer.
• Fixed duplicated context menu items with git-cheetah on Windows 7.
• Patched gitk to display filenames when run on a subdirectory.
• Tabbed gitk preferences dialog to allow use on smaller screens.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.7.10 plus Windows specific patches.
• UTF-8 file name support.

Bugfixes:

• Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.10.
• Clarifications in the installer.
• Console output is now even thread-safer.
• Better support for foreign remotes (Mercurial remotes are disabled for now, due to lack of a Python version that can be compiled within the development environment).
• Git Cheetah no longer writes big log files directly to C:.
• Development environment: enhancements in the script to make a 64-bit setup.
• Development environment: enhancements to the 64-bit Cheetah build.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.4 plus Windows specific patches.
• Enabled unicode support in bash (#42 and #79).
• Included iconv.exe to assist in writing encoding filters.
• Updated openssl to 0.9.8y.

Bugfixes:

• Avoid emitting non-printing chars to set console title.
• Various encoding fixes for the git test suite.
• Ensure wincred handles empty username/password.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.3 plus Windows specific patches.
• Updated curl to 7.30.0 with IPv6 support enabled.
• Updated gnupg to 1.4.13.
• Installer improvements for update or reinstall options.

Bugfixes:

• Avoid emitting color coded ls output to pipes.
• ccache binary updated to work on XP.
• Fixed association of .sh files setup by the installer.
• Fixed registry-based explorer menu items for XP (#95).

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.1.2 plus Windows specific patches.
• Includes support for using the Windows Credential API to store access credentials securely and provide access via the control panel tool to manage git credentials.
• Rebase autosquash support is now enabled by default. See http://goo.gl/2kwKJ for some suggestions on using this.
• All msysGit development is now done on 'master' and the devel branches are deleted.
• Tcl/Tk upgraded to 8.5.13.
• InnoSetup updated to 5.5.3 (Unicode).

Bugfixes:

• Some changes to avoid clashing with cygwin quite so often.
• The installer will attempt to handle files mirrored in the virtualstore.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.0 plus Windows specific patches.
• InnoSetup updated to 5.5.2.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed icon backgrounds on low color systems.
• Avoid installer warnings during writability testing.
• Fix bash prompt handling due to upstream changes.

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.7.11 plus Windows specific patches.
• Updated curl to 7.26.0.
• Updated zlib to 1.2.7.
• Updated Inno Setup to 5.5.0 and avoid creating symbolic links (issue #16).
• Updated openssl to 0.9.8x and support reading certificate files from Unicode paths (issue #24).
• Version resource built into git executables.
• Support the Large Address Aware feature to reduce chance out-of-memory on 64 bit windows when repacking large repositories.

Bugfixes:

• Please refer to the release notes for official Git 1.7.11.
• Fix backspace/delete key handling in rxvt terminals.
• Fixed TERM setting to avoid a warning from less.
• Various fixes for handling unicode paths.

New Features:

• Comes with the beautiful Git logo from http://git-scm.com/downloads/logos.
• The installer no longer asks for the directory and program group when updating.
• The installer now also auto-detects TortoisePlink that comes with TortoiseGit.

Bugfixes:

• Git::SVN is correctly installed again.
• The default format for git help is HTML again.
• Replaced the git.cmd script with an exe wrapper to fix issue #36.
• Fixed executable detection to speed up help -a display.

Bugfixes:

• Propagate error codes from git wrapper (issue #43, #45).
• Include CAcert root certificates in SSL bundle (issue #37).