This release introduces several new features, such as better support for unnamed local paths and URLs as remotes, support for submodule.recurse, exponential backoff on failure, and support for renegotiation. 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:

• @bluekeyes for adding support for exponential backoff
• @pluehne for adding support for submodule.recurse
• @Electric26 for fixing the default behavior of a prompt
• @nataliechen1 for fixing certain upload retry failures
• @shalashik for fixing a panic during cherry-pick
• @swisspol for updating our documentation to reflect supported .lfsconfig keys
• @dan2468 for updating the copyright year

Features

• Allow literal local paths as remotes #4119 (@bk2204)
• pre-push: find named remote for URL if possible #4103 (@bk2204)
• tq: add exponential backoff for retries #4097 (@bluekeyes)
• migrate import: set text to unspecified for excluded fields #4068 (@bk2204)
• Update list of distros for packagecloud.io #4080 (@bk2204)
• lfshttp: allow renegotiation #4066 (@bk2204)
• Support submodule.recurse = true #4063 (@pluehne)
• add man page for the post-commit hook command #4052 (@chrisd8088)
• Add an option to control warning about files larger than 4 GiB #4009 (@bk2204)

Bugs

• commands/command_migrate.go: fix bug #4116 (@Electric26)
• git: avoid "bad object" messages when force-pushing #4102 (@bk2204)
• git: avoid trying to rewrite remote tags as remote branches #4096 (@bk2204)
• make Go tests run consistently using local binary #4084 (@chrisd8088)
• commands: don't honor lfs.fetch* for ls-files #4083 (@bk2204)
• commands: print help output with --help #4059 (@bk2204)
• fail dedup command with explanation when LFS extensions configured #4045 (@chrisd8088)
• fix upload retry 'file already closed' issue' #4042 (@nataliechen1)
• commands/command_filter_process: cherry-pick of several commits cause panic error #4017 (@shalashik)
• Check error when creating local storage directory #4016 (@bk2204)
• track: detect duplicate patterns with --filename #4000 (@bk2204)

Misc

• Removed lfs.extension.* from list of supported keys for .lfsconfig #4044 (@swisspol)
• Tidy modules #4035 (@bk2204)
• README: explain how to verify releases #4022 (@bk2204)
• docs: document git lfs migrate --yes #4023 (@bk2204)
• Stop using cgo on amd64 Linux #4026 (@bk2204)
• updated copyright year #3995 (@dan2468)

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

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