Git 1.7.8

Git 1.7.8 is finally out.

The most notable improvement from my point of view is tightening of the checks on the data that go and come over the wire between repositories, but it probably is and should be invisible to the end users. Many other small improvements are all over the place.

The release tarballs are found at:

    http://code.google.com/p/git-core/downloads/list

and their SHA-1 checksums are:

7453e737e008f7319a5eca24a9ef3c5fb1f13398  git-1.7.8.tar.gz

2734079e22a0a6e3e78779582be9138ffc7de6f7  git-htmldocs-1.7.8.tar.gz

93315f7f51d7f27d3e421c9b0d64afa27f3d16df  git-manpages-1.7.8.tar.gz

Have fun.

The development cycle for the next release is expected to last for 8 weeks til the end of January, and some of the major planned topics are listed here.