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Update draft release notes to 1.8.4

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Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ Updates since v1.8.3
Foreign interfaces and ports. Foreign interfaces and ports.
* MediaWiki remote helper (in contrib/) has been updated to use the
credential helper interface from Git.pm.
* Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that * Update build for Cygwin 1.[57]. Torsten Bögershausen reports that
this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it this is fine with Cygwin 1.7 ($gmane/225824) so let's try moving it
ahead. ahead.
@ -85,6 +88,13 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
Performance, Internal Implementation, etc. Performance, Internal Implementation, etc.
* Memory ownership and lifetime rules for what for-each-ref feeds to
its callbacks have been clarified (in short, "you do not own it, so
make a copy if you want to keep it").
* The revision traversal logic to improve culling of irrelevant
parents while traversing a mergy history has been updated.
* Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other * Some leaks in unpack-trees (used in merge, cherry-pick and other
codepaths) have been plugged. codepaths) have been plugged.
@ -122,6 +132,13 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.8.3 in the maintenance
track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for track are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
details). details).
* Logic used by git-send-email to suppress cc mishandled names like
"A U. Thor" <author@example.xz>, where the human readable part
needs to be quoted (the user input may not have the double quotes
around the name, and comparison was done between quoted and
unquoted strings).
(merge 1495266 mt/send-email-cc-match-fix later to maint).
* "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each * "gitweb" forgot to clear a global variable $search_regexp upon each
request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one request, mistakenly carrying over the previous search to a new one
when used as a persistent CGI. when used as a persistent CGI.