This release adds support for SOCKS proxies and Windows junctions, adds native packages for Debian 10 and similar distributions, reduces the number of situations in which running git lfs fetch --all is required, improves compatibility with Cygwin, and numerous other bug fixes and modifications.

We would like to extend a special thanks to the following open-source contributors:

• @mstrap for adding support for listing lock owners
• @h-hirokawa for adding support for rewriting object URLs
• @slonopotamus for helping get our specs and implementation in sync
• @ssgelm for improving our Debian packaging
• @TBK for fixing a test
• @hartzell for improving the compatibility of our Makefile
• @AJH16 for implementing support for NTLM SSO

Features

• Don't fail if we lack objects the server has #3634 (@bk2204)
• Add support for Debian 10 #3697 (@bk2204)
• Migrate tags pointing to other tags #3690 (@bk2204)
• Add support for SOCKS proxies #3677 (@bk2204)
• Allow vendors to customize the version info #3636 (@bk2204)
• Wrap credential data to allow late credential prompting and update NTLM/SSPI to attempt SSPI login prior to prompting for credentials. #3617 (@AJH16)
• git-lfs locks should optionally denote own locks #3569 (@mstrap)
• tq/adapterbase: support rewriting href #3590 (@h-hirokawa)
• Handle Windows junctions properly #3560 (@bk2204)
• Allow specifying multiple insteadOf aliases #3550 (@bk2204)

Bugs

• Make API documentation lock creation example less confusing #3648 (@bk2204)
• Use a download token when searching locks #3715 (@bk2204)
• Copy mode from original file when rewriting objects #3694 (@bk2204)
• Don't recurse into submodules when walking repository #3686 (@bk2204)
• Be more precise about what timestamps we accept #3680 (@bk2204)
• Canonicalize common directory paths on Cygwin #3671 (@bk2204)
• Ensure we always use correct Content-Type and Accept headers #3663 (@bk2204)
• Fix 'owner' lock field not documented as optional #3651 (@slonopotamus)
• Improve error handling in git lfs install #3624 (@bk2204)
• Properly handle config options for URLs with upper case letters #3584 (@bk2204)
• Detect Cygwin-style pipe TTYs as TTYs #3582 (@bk2204)
• Set push remote for pre-push #3579 (@bk2204)
• Switch from manually running go generate to using dh-golang to run it #3549 (@ssgelm)
• Install worktree hooks in the proper directory #3547 (@bk2204)
• Avoid nil pointer dereference on download failure #3537 (@bk2204)
• Avoid nil pointer dereference on unexpected failure #3534 (@bk2204)

Misc

• Update gitobj to v1.3.1 #3716 (@bk2204)
• Use default line endings for core.autocrlf=input #3712 (@bk2204)
• Fix CircleCI #3710 (@bk2204)
• Vendor in gitobj v1.3.0 #3685 (@bk2204)
• Update CONTRIBUTING #3673 (@bk2204)
• Fix typo in t-locks.sh #3666 (@TBK)
• Make 'locked_at' required in JSON schema #3655 (@slonopotamus)
• Document a new batch error code #3639 (@bk2204)
• Fix invalid JSON in LFS locking API documentation #3650 (@slonopotamus)
• Fix invalid JSON in locking protocol docs #3644 (@slonopotamus)
• Various release updates #3623 (@bk2204)
• tq/adapterbase: fix typo enableHrefRerite to enableHrefRewrite #3594 (@h-hirokawa)
• Use git-lfs version of go-ntlm #3588 (@bk2204)
• Log test server standard error to log file #3577 (@bk2204)
• Don't set -extldflags unless LDFLAGS has a value #3545 (@hartzell)
• Retry on oversize file #3518 (@bk2204)
• Fix asset uploading during releases #3538 (@bk2204)

Packages

Up to date packages are available on PackageCloud and Homebrew.

RPM RHEL 6/CentOS 6 RPM RHEL 7/CentOS 7 Debian 8 Debian 9 Debian 10

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