This release is a feature release which includes package support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and compatible OSes, experimental support for multiple remotes, and some command-line helpers for git lfs push.

In this release, we no longer include vendored versions of our dependencies in the repository or the tarballs. These were a source of noise and bloat, and users can easily download the required dependencies with Go itself. Users who need to continue to vendor the dependencies can use the make vendor target.

In addition, we've also switched the documentation to AsciiDoc from ronn-flavoured Markdown and included the FAQ in the repository. This means that the manual pages now render properly in the GitHub web interface and it's also much easier to create additional formats, such as PDF, by leveraging the ability of Asciidoctor to convert to DocBook.

It should also be noted that git lfs migrate import --everything now processes all refs that aren't special to Git instead of just branches and tags. This is what it was documented to do, but didn't, so we've fixed it.

Finally, please note that future releases may be done by a different member of the core team than many of the past releases, and thus may be signed by a different OpenPGP key. Please follow the steps in the README to download all of the keys for the core team to verify releases successfully in the future.

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

• @dhiwakarK for fixing a broken link
• @dscho for improving our installer
• @Leo1690 for speeding things up with sparse checkout
• @pratap043 for proposing an extension to locking
• @rcoup for fixing our Makefile and adding scripting features to git lfs push
• @srohmen for adding support for alternative remotes
• @WhatTheFuzz for improving our error messages
• @wuhaochen for fixing a long-standing bug with git lfs migrate import

Features

• Add the FAQ in the repository #5167 (@bk2204)
• Add support for Rocky Linux 9 #5144 (@bk2204)
• push: add ability to read refs/oids from stdin #5086 (@rcoup)
• Allow alternative remotes to be handled by LFS #5066 (@srohmen)
• Switch documentation to AsciiDoc #5054 (@bk2204)

Bugs

• Handle macro attribute references with unspecified flag #5168 (@chrisd8088)
• Fixed broken link for git-lfs-migrate #5153 (@dhiwakarK)
• ssh: disable concurrent transfers if no multiplexing #5136 (@bk2204)
• Fix setting commit & vendor variables via make #5141 (@rcoup)
• ssh: don't leak resources when falling back to legacy protocol #5137 (@bk2204)
• Bump gitobj to v2.1.1 #5130 (@bk2204)
• tools: don't match MINGW as Cygwin #5106 (@bk2204)
• installer: handle BashOnly Git for Windows gracefully #5048 (@dscho)
• Change git-lfs migrate import --everything to migrate everything except for special git refs #5045 (@wuhaochen)

Misc

• Use --sparse parameter for ls-files for performance optimization #5187 (@Leo1690)
• Add information to ambiguous error message. #5172 (@WhatTheFuzz)
• Distro update for v3.3.0 #5169 (@bk2204)
• docs/man: clarify Git LFS setup instructions #5166 (@larsxschneider)
• Update more stale comments relating to object scanning #5164 (@chrisd8088)
• Update stale comments relating to object scanning and uploading #5163 (@chrisd8088)
• script/cibuild: exclude icons from whitespace check #5142 (@bk2204)
• Update to Go version 1.19 #5126 (@chrisd8088)
• Drop vendoring #4903 (@bk2204)
• Adding locking_notes.md #5079 (@pratap043)
• t: set init.defaultBranch #5082 (@bk2204)
• go.mod: require gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 #5033 (@bk2204)
• script/upload: improve readability of asset verification #5032 (@bk2204)

Packages

Up to date packages are available on PackageCloud and Homebrew.

RPM RHEL 7/CentOS 7 RPM RHEL 8/Rocky Linux 8 RPM RHEL 9/Rocky Linux 9 Debian 10 Debian 11

SHA-256 hashes:

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