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"The latest feature release GIT 1.5.4 is available at the usual places," began Git maintainer Junio Hamano. He continued, "it has been an unusually long cycle. 5 months since the last feature release 1.5.3 was really a bit too long. But I hope it was worth waiting for. Thanks everybody for working hard to improve it." He noted that there were 165 contributers resulting in 684 changed files, included 70,435 insertions and 28,984 deletions.

The Git distributed version control system was originally written by Linus Torvalds in April of 2005 to temporarily replace BitKeeper, which he had been using to manage kernel source code since February of 2002. Junio Hamano took over maintainership of Git a few months later, in July of 2005, and the tool has long since become quite popular outside of even Linux kernel development. Regarding the latest stable release, Junio highlighted some of the changes, including:

"Comes with much improved gitk, with i18n; comes with git-gui 0.9.2 with i18n; progress displays from many commands are a lot nicer to the eye; rename detection of diff family while detecting exact matches has been greatly optimized; 'git diff' sometimes did not quote paths with funny characters properly; various Perforce importer updates; 'git clean' has been rewritten in C; 'git push' learned --dry-run option to show what would happen if a push is run; 'cvs' is recognized as a synonym for 'git cvsserver', so that CVS users can be switched to git just by changing their login shell; 'git add -i' UI has been colorized; 'git commit' has been rewritten in C; 'git bisect' learned 'skip' action to mark untestable commits; 'git svn' wasted way too much disk to record revision mappings between svn and git, a new representation that is much more compact for this information has been introduced to correct this; in addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups."

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