[ANNOUNCE] Git v2.5.0-rc3

A release candidate Git v2.5.0-rc3 is now available for testing at the usual places. It is comprised of 579 non-merge commits since v2.4.0, contributed by 70 people, 21 of which are new faces.

The tarballs are found at:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/testing/

The following public repositories all have a copy of the 'v2.5.0-rc3' tag and the 'master' branch that the tag points at:

url = https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/git/git
url = git://repo.or.cz/alt-git.git
url = https://code.google.com/p/git-core/
url = git://git.sourceforge.jp/gitroot/git-core/git.git
url = git://git-core.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/git-core/git-core
url = https://github.com/gitster/git

New contributors whose contributions weren't in v2.4.0 are as follows. Welcome to the Git development community!

Allen Hubbe, Ariel Faigon, Blair Holloway, Christian Neukirchen, Danny Lin, Enrique Tobis, Frans Klaver, Fredrik Medley, Joe Cridge, Lars Kellogg-Stedman, Lawrence Siebert, Lex Spoon, Luke Mewburn, Miguel Torroja, Mike Edgar, Ossi Herrala, Panagiotis Astithas, Quentin Neill, Remi Lespinet, Sébastien Guimmara, and Thomas Schneider.

Returning contributors who helped this release are as follows. Thanks for your continued support.

Alexander Shopov, Alex Henrie, brian m. carlson, Carlos Martín Nieto, Charles Bailey, Clemens Buchacher, David Aguilar, David Turner, Dennis Kaarsemaker, Dimitriy Ryazantcev, Elia Pinto, Eric Sunshine, Fredrik Gustafsson, Jean-Noel Avila, Jeff King, Jiang Xin, Jim Hill, Johannes Schindelin, Johannes Sixt, Jonathan Nieder, Junio C Hamano, Karsten Blees, Karthik Nayak, Luke Diamand, Matthieu Moy, Max Kirillov, Michael Coleman, Michael Haggerty, Michael J Gruber, Mike Hommey, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Patrick Steinhardt, Paul Tan, Peter Krefting, Phil Hord, Phillip Sz, Ralf Thielow, Ramsay Allan Jones, René Scharfe, Richard Hansen, Sebastian Schuberth, Stefan Beller, SZEDER Gábor, Thomas Braun, Thomas Gummerer, Tony Finch, Torsten Bögershausen, Trần Ngọc Quân, and Vitor Antunes.