This release introduces several new features, such as support for local paths in remotes, Kerberos support, and official binaries for S390x and little-endian 64-bit PowerPC systems. In addition, numerous bugs have been fixed and miscellaneous issues have been addressed.

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

• @ganadist for fixing a bug in the output of git lfs env
• @exceed-alae for fixing a possible nil pointer dereference
• @slonopotamus for improvements to Windows support and code cleanups
• @nataliechen1 for fixing a data race
• @ssgelm for writing and updating the code to use a new cookie jar parser
• @austintraver for improving the output of git lfs status
• @nikola-sh for improving option parity with Git
• @alrs for fixing several error checks in the testsuite
• @pluehne for improving our support for uncommon references

Features

• Optimize pushes for multiple refs #3978 (@bk2204)
• Include ppc64le and s390x Linux builds in releases #3983 (@bk2204)
• Kerberos (SPNEGO) support for HTTP #3941 (@bk2204)
• Add support for local paths #3918 (@bk2204)
• Allow specifying HTTP version to use #3887 (@bk2204)

Bugs

• t-duplicate-oids: use correct awk indexing #3981 (@bk2204)
• Improved proxy support #3972 (@bk2204)
• install: don't print error if run outside repository #3969 (@bk2204)
• debian: bump version of golang-go #3959 (@bk2204)
• lfshttp: Set valid default value for lfs.concurrenttransfers #3949 (@ganadist)
• Add nil-check on defer block of DoTransfer() #3936 (@exceed-alae)
• Retry batch failures #3930 (@bk2204)
• rpm: use old setup code on CentOS 7 #3938 (@bk2204)
• Interpret relative hook paths as relative to working tree #3926 (@bk2204)
• Handle missing cygpath gracefully #3910 (@bk2204)
• Update index before showing status #3921 (@bk2204)
• Honor lfs.url when deciding on transfer adapters #3905 (@bk2204)
• Implement retry logic to fix LFS storage race conditions on Windows #3890 (@slonopotamus)
• Avoid hang when using git hash-object --stdin --path #3902 (@bk2204)
• synchronize access to netrcCredentialHelper.skip #3896 (@nataliechen1)

Misc

• Improve license files #3973 (@bk2204)
• Add CI link to CI badge in README #3960 (@slonopotamus)
• Clarify output shown by git lfs status #3953 (@austintraver)
• Revert "ci: force Windows Git version to 2.22.0" #3903 (@bk2204)
• Better document pointer format constraints #3944 (@bk2204)
• Don't abort with newer Git when in a bare repo #3940 (@bk2204)
• Fix more Linux package issues #3932 (@bk2204)
• docs: explain shell metacharacters better #3920 (@bk2204)
• Reset the text attribute on export #3913 (@bk2204)
• Support schannel ssl backend #3868 (@nikola-sh)
• Allow migrate export to handle non-pointer files gracefully #3911 (@bk2204)
• git/gitattr: fix dropped test errors #3904 (@alrs)
• Accept all local references with git lfs push #3876 (@pluehne)
• Drop pre-1.6 Go compatibility code #3897 (@slonopotamus)
• tools/kv: Fix dropped test error #3882 (@alrs)
• Use different parser for cookiejar files #3886 (@ssgelm)
• Stop replacing files in LFS storage when downloading them concurrently on Windows #3880 (@slonopotamus)
• Fix error strings to follow Go guidelines #3871 (@slonopotamus)
• Miscellaneous release fixes #3866 (@bk2204)

Packages

Up to date packages are available on PackageCloud and Homebrew.

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

SHA-256 hashes:

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