New Features

• VFS for Git will check the GitHub releases for the configured ring and prompt occasionally when running Git commands in a VFS for Git repository. To configure your ring, use the new gvfs config verb, like: gvfs config upgrade.ring ["fast", "slow", "none"] VFS for Git will check in the background for an available upgrade. If one is available, a message will be shown periodically to the user in the post-command hook to run gvfs upgrade to install the new version.
• In the future, VFS for Git will automatically upgrade as new bits become available in the configured ring, eliminating the need to run gvfs upgrade to

Performance Improvements

• Upgraded to Git 2.19. This version brings with it improvements to unpack_trees to speed up checkout, merge, reset, and rebase.
• Improvements to compact and maintain the ModifiedPaths.dat database to help mitigate the problem of command perf degrading over time in an enlistment.

General Improvements

• A couple of fixes for using VS Code on top of VFS for Git.
• Other perf and reliability fixes.