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mods: I used "git" tag. Do need a vcs tag?
Taken a liberty with the title as those details are potentially interesting on their own.
An example I found: http://puntoblogspot.blogspot.de/2017/05/git-213-has-been-released.html
Major feature seems to be vastly improved capabilities for type parameters.
This is the first public Subversion 1.10 alpha release (alpha 1 and 2 were not released due to problems found during internal testing).
I do not believe that many users on this site will be interested themselves. But if you know anyone who is using SVN somewhere (e.g. at $dayjob), please let them...
Most notable changes:
* Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP) for Mac
* the preferences come with a new control center that helps preventing permission requests spamming (e.g., geolocation, desktop notifications)
Quoting the most interesting bits:
> All versions of Mercurial prior to 4.5.2 have vulnerabilities in the HTTP server that allow permissions bypass to:
>
> * Perform writes on repositories that should be read-only
> * Perform reads on repositories that shouldn't allow read access
>
> Th...