Git 2.8.3 Source Code Management System Introduces over 20 Improvements | Linux Today

Git 2.8.3 Source Code Management System Introduces over 20 Improvements

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Marius Nestor
May 20, 2016

Among other interesting changes implemented in Git 2.8.3, we can mention better support for the CRAM-MD5 authentication method in the “git imap-send” command, support for socks5h:// proxies to the socks5:// proxy support added in Git 2.6.4, and it some changes to prepare the popular source code management software for the upcoming OpenSSL 1.1.0 release were implemented.

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Marius Nestor

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