Git 2.9 Released: Adds Git-MultiMail, Many Sub-Command Improvements

Git 2.9.0 was announced today by Junio Hamano as the latest stable version of this distributed revision control system.

Git 2.9 adds git-multimail to its contrib area: git-multimail has been around independently for a while as a way for offering email notifications on Git pushes. Git 2.9 also has some Git merge changes, improvements to Git pull, and various other sub-command changes.

Git 2.9 also has some performance improvements, more code porting to C, build updates for MSVC, and a variety of fixes.

More details on Git v2.9.0 can be found via the release announcement.