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Open Source NewsSeptember 11, 20262 min read

Git 2.56-rc0 Released

By BIOS Founding Team

Git 2.56-rc0 Released

The first release candidate for Git 2.56 became available for testing, containing over 700 non-merge commits. Highlights include hardening of the ORT merge backend against corrupt trees, a new git refs subcommand set for creating, deleting, and renaming references, and quadratic-to-O(n log n) performance improvements for loose-object enumeration during git status.

Full details: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.56-rc0