The following (critical) fixes have been backported to this maintenance release.
All users of the library are encouraged to update.
- af769f4 checkout: introduce git_checkout_perfdata
- fc478d2 git_path_join_unrooted: return base len
- 629a579 checkout: don't recreate previous directory
- dd3c53f checkout tests: nasty symlinks
- 186177a checkout: drop newline in error message
- 7268a5a checkout: remove files before writing new ones
- e517b62 checkout tests: emulate p_realpath poorly on Win32
- 9a8753d checkout tests: cleanup realpath impl on Win32
- 8433078 Introduce test for checkout case-changing rename
- d853fb9 Always checkout with case sensitive iterator