14 DAY TRIAL // The Git development team has announced the immediate availability for download of the seventh maintenance release for the stable 2.3 branch of the acclaimed Git open source distributed version control system used by developers worldwide.
According to the short release notes, Git 2.3.7 is here to repair an issue with the completion script found in the "contrib" directory that affected shell variable $x and corrupted global namespace. It also addresses an issue with the parser that dissects a URL address.
"An earlier update to the parser that dissects a URL broke an address, followed by a colon, followed by an empty string (instead of the port number), e.g. ssh://example.com:/path/to/repo" is stated in the changelog for Git 2.3.7.
The "git push --signed" command has received some attention in the new Git 2.3 milestone, as it didn't limit how long a string chosen by a server can be and what it contains. Therefore, the length and the alphabet are now limited to a rationally small space.
As usual with any new maintenance release of the Git software, the documentation has been updated, various typos corrected, and minor code cleanup applied. Download Git 2.3.7 right now from Softpedia.