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Open Source Git Project Releases Version 2.40
Recently, the open-source Git project released its latest version 2.40, bringing some new features and bug fixes. Highlights of this release include updates to git jump tool, enhancements to cat-file tool, and faster response on Windows.
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Farewell to Subversion: GitHub Sunsets Support after 13 Years
Next January GitHub will remove Subversion support from GitHub.com, with GitHub Enterprise Server following soon after. Introduced in 2010 to provide developers with a path to Git, the SVN endpoint now receives only 0.02% of the requests to the source control service.
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Akka 22.10 Introduces Projections over gRPC
Akka 22.10 is the first release using the new Business License (BSL) 1.1 release. The Projections over gRPC module is introduced and Java 17 and Scala 3.1 are now supported.
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Git 2.37 Brings Built-in File Monitor, Improved Pruning, and More
Git 2.37 brings many new and improved features, including a built-in file system monitor on Windows and macOS, better unreachable objects management, improved external diff, faster git add, and more.
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GitHub Codespaces Can Now Be Templated to Improve Performance
GitHub has introduced prebuilt Codespaces to reduce the time it takes to spin up a full development environment for large, complex projects.
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How Project Cyclop Enabled GitHub to Reduce Push Failures to Nearly Zero
GitHub spawned Project Cyclop several months ago to identify what caused occasional push failures and to find a fix. It turns out there was no single culprit, and a careful analysis led to identifying a number of changes that improved push traffic by at least an order of magnitude, according to GitHub.
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Cloud Spanner Adds Support for Liquibase
Google Cloud has recently added support for Liquibase on Cloud Spanner. The new extension allows developers to use the open-source database library to manage and automate schema changes for the globally distributed SQL database on Google Cloud.
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Git 2.29 Introduces Experimental Support for SHA-256
The latest version of Git experimentally enables using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 for file hashing, thus removing a long-standing vulnerability which in principle allowed an attacker to forge a counterfeited repository with a HEAD not distinguishable from the original's.
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GitHub Public Roadmap Will Give Users More Visibility into Upcoming Features
GitHub has started publishing a public roadmap for its future releases. GitHub's public roadmap will provide more information about what features GitHub is working on and when it will ship them.
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GitHub Introduces Codespaces, Discussions, and Extends Security Features
At GitHub Satellite 2020, GitHub announced two new collaboration features: Codespaces, which provide a complete, ready-to-use dev environment within GitHub, and Discussions, aimed to enable the creation of knowledge bases in a threaded Q&A format. Additionally, vulnerability scanning is now integrated within GitHub's main interface, and secret scanning is extended to private repositories, too.
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Git Becomes 15: Q&A with GitHub and GitLab
On April 7, 2005, exactly 15 years ago, Git reached a sufficient maturity state to be self-hosting, meaning Git itself could be used to commit a part of its code. InfoQ has taken the chance to talk about Git's significance with GitHub's distinguished software engineer Jeff King and GitLab's senior developer evangelist Brendan O'Leary.
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Git 2.26 Makes Protocol Version 2 the Default
Introduced in Git 2.18, Git wire protocol version 2 is now used by default in Git's latest version, 2.26. Git 2.26 also improves configuration option handling and sparse-checkouts, among other things.
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Git 2.25 Improves Support for Sparse Checkout
Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced the latest release of Git, version 2.25, including over 500 changes since 2.24. Most notably, Git 2.25 adds a new command to manage sparse checkouts, mostly useful with huge or monolithic repositories.
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GitHub Launches Mobile App, Notifications Beta, and Code Navigation Features
At this year's Universe Conference, GitHub made a number of announcements aimed at improving developer experience in the daily use of the platform, including a mobile client app and notification, as well as promoting workflow automation tools such as GitHub Actions and GitHub Packages to general availability.
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Git 2.22 Adds Topology-Preserving, Interactive Rebase
The most significant new feature in the latest Git release, Git 2.22, enables rebasing non-trivial branch topologies, e.g., those including merges, without flattening them while also allowing to use interactive rebase features.