@@ -133,6 +133,15 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
133133 These object names are now sorted according to their types for
134134 easier eyeballing.
135135
136+ * "git fetch $there $refspec" that talks over protocol v2 can take
137+ advantage of server-side ref filtering; the code has been extended
138+ so that this mechanism triggers also when fetching with configured
139+ refspec.
140+
141+ * Our HTTP client code used to advertise that we accept gzip encoding
142+ from the other side; instead, just let cURL library to advertise
143+ and negotiate the best one.
144+
136145
137146Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
138147
@@ -272,6 +281,23 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
272281
273282 * Conversion from uchar[20] to struct object_id continues.
274283
284+ * By code restructuring of submodule merge in merge-recursive,
285+ informational messages from the codepath are now given using the
286+ same mechanism as other output, and honor the merge.verbosity
287+ configuration. The code also learned to give a few new messages
288+ when a submodule three-way merge resolves cleanly when one side
289+ records a descendant of the commit chosen by the other side.
290+
291+ * Avoid unchecked snprintf() to make future code auditing easier.
292+ (merge ac4896f007 jk/snprintf-truncation later to maint).
293+
294+ * Many tests hardcode the raw object names, which would change once
295+ we migrate away from SHA-1. While some of them must test against
296+ exact object names, most of them do not have to use hardcoded
297+ constants in the test. The latter kind of tests have been updated
298+ to test the moral equivalent of the original without hardcoding the
299+ actual object names.
300+
275301
276302Also contains various documentation updates and code clean-ups.
277303
@@ -461,6 +487,15 @@ Fixes since v2.17
461487 This has been corrected.
462488 (merge e30d833671 sb/submodule-update-try-harder later to maint).
463489
490+ * Error behaviour of "git grep" when it cannot read the index was
491+ inconsistent with other commands that uses the index, which has
492+ been corrected to error out early.
493+ (merge b2aa84c789 sb/grep-die-on-unreadable-index later to maint).
494+
495+ * We used to call regfree() after regcomp() failed in some codepaths,
496+ which have been corrected.
497+ (merge 17154b1576 ma/regex-no-regfree-after-comp-fail later to maint).
498+
464499 * Other minor doc, test and build updates and code cleanups.
465500 (merge 248f66ed8e nd/trace-with-env later to maint).
466501 (merge 14ced5562c ys/bisect-object-id-missing-conversion-fix later to maint).
@@ -491,3 +526,4 @@ Fixes since v2.17
491526 (merge 92c4a7a129 nd/completion-aliasfiletype-typofix later to maint).
492527 (merge 58bd77b66a nd/pack-unreachable-objects-doc later to maint).
493528 (merge 4ed79d5203 sg/t6500-no-redirect-of-stdin later to maint).
529+ (merge 17b8a2d6cd jk/config-blob-sans-repo later to maint).
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