+ * git-svnimport was removed in favor of git-svn.
+
+ * git-bisect learned "skip" action to mark untestable commits.
+
+ * rename detection diff family, while detecting exact matches,
+ has been greatly optimized.
+
+ * Example update and post-receive hooks have been improved.
+
+ * In addition there are quite a few internal clean-ups. Notably
+
+ - many fork/exec have been replaced with run-command API,
+ brought from the msysgit effort.
+
+ - introduction and more use of the option parser API.
+
+ - enhancement and more use of the strbuf API.
+
+