Updating git to 1.8.2.1 in EL-5
by Todd Zullinger
Hi all,
This is a heads-up that git-1.8.2.1-1.el5 is being pushed to the
stable EL-5 repository. The package has been in the testing repo
since April 23 with no negative feedback (nor positive, sadly).
Per the update description¹:
Details
Update to 1.8.2.1. Refer to the release notes for details.
The release notes are available online at:
https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/Documentation/RelNotes/
After installation, the release notes can also be found at:
/usr/share/doc/git-1.8.2.1/RelNotes/
Bugs Fixed
909977 - CVE-2013-0308: git: Incorrect IMAP server's SSL x509.v3 certificate validation in git-imap-send command
918148 - RFE: Update to git >= 1.7.9 for git-credential-cache
¹ https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2013-5517/git-1.8.2.1...
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