The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system.

Some of the changes that have been baking for Git 2.50 include:

- Incrementally updating multi-pack index files.

- A new userdiff driver for .INI format configuration files.

- The Git help "--build-options" will now report the SHA1 and SHA256 back-ends used in the build.

- Git send-email has been updated to work better with the Microsoft Outlook SMTP server.

- Git fsck is now more careful when checking the refs.

- The first step of deprecating and removing Git's merge-recursive.

- Dozens of bug fixes and other changes.

Downloads and more details on today's Git 2.50-rc0 release via the mailing list announcement .