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Git 2.46-rc0 Continues Preparations For Switching To SHA256 By Default WIth Git 3.0


Git 2.46-rc0 was published on Friday as the first tagged development release on the trek toward Git 2.46.

Git 2.46-rc0 is also no longer setting SHA1 as the default object hash type when initializing a repository. Git 2.46 is also bringing small additions to various CLI sub-commands, a new option to migrate a repository that uses the files backend for its ref storage to using the reftable backend, various performance improvements, and dozens of bug fixes. Ads are what have allowed this site to be maintained on a daily basis for the past 20+ years.

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