This release introduces several new features, such as support for the SHA-256 repositories coming in a future version of Git, restored support for Go 1.11, the ability to read the contents of .lfsconfig from the repository, signed and notarized binaries on macOS, and pre-built 32-bit ARM binaries on Linux. In addition, several bugs have been fixed and miscellaneous fixes included.

Note that macOS releases are now shipped as zip files, not tarballs, since it is not possible to notarize tarballs. macOS releases are now also built on macOS, so git lfs dedup should now function.

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

• @saracen for adding support for ARM binaries
• @mversluys for improving locking support
• @cccfeng for updating our documentation to make it more readable
• @bluekeyes for improving performance and tracing
• @gertcuykens for adding missing parts of our documentation

Features

• config: optionally read .lfsconfig from the repository #4200 (@bk2204)
• Support SHA-256 repositories #4186 (@bk2204)
• allow Go 1.11 builds by using WaitStatus.ExitStatus() #4183 (@chrisd8088)
• add --worktree option to install and uninstall commands #4159 (@chrisd8088)
• Sign and notarize binaries on macOS #4143 (@bk2204)
• Makefile: add linux arm build and release targets #4126 (@saracen)
• Allow locking and unlocking non-existent files #3992 (@mversluys)

Bugs

• docs/api/locking: add an explicit
  #4208 (@cccfeng)
• Fix hang when the user lacks permissions #4207 (@bk2204)
• Don't mark unlocked files that aren't lockable as read-only #4171 (@bk2204)
• locking: make patterns with slashes work on Windows #4139 (@bk2204)
• git: consider full refspec when determining seen refs #4133 (@bk2204)

Misc

• Fix Windows CI #4199 (@bk2204)
• Fix testsuite when working with non-master default branch #4174 (@bk2204)
• git: improve performance of remote ref listing #4176 (@bluekeyes)
• subprocess: trace all command execution #4175 (@bluekeyes)
• Update git-lfs-migrate.1.ronn #3869 (@gertcuykens)
• t: use repo v1 with extensions #4177 (@bk2204)
• Makefile: ensure temp Go modules can be deleted #4157 (@chrisd8088)
• Improve test suite robustness via environment #4132 (@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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