From ea24e2c55433012a0a6c4ae947a87bc66404e484 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:34:17 -0800
Subject: A bit more before -rc2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc')

diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
index be8df25477..8ae76e0f3e 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    deal better with rebased history.
 
  * The iconv library on macOS fails to correctly handle stateful
-   ISO/IEC 2022 encoded strings.  Work it around instead of replacing
-   it wholesale from homebrew.
+   ISO/IEC 2022:1994 encoded strings.  Work it around instead of
+   replacing it wholesale from homebrew.
+
+ * Upstream symbolic link support on Windows from Git-for-Windows.
 
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -114,6 +116,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
    around tree objects and make it explicit which repository to work
    in.
 
+ * "git bugreport" and "git version --build-options" learned to
+   include use of 'gettext' feature, to make it easier to diagnose
+   problems around l10n.
+
+ * Dscho observed that SVN tests are taking too much time in CI leak
+   checking tasks, but most time is spent not in our code but in libsvn
+   code (which happen to be written in Perl), whose leaks have little
+   value to discover for us.  Skip SVN, P4, and CVS tests in the leak
+   checking tasks.
+   (merge 047bd7dfe3 js/ci-leak-skip-svn later to maint).
+
 
 Fixes since v2.52
 -----------------
@@ -322,3 +335,5 @@ Fixes since v2.52
    (merge 555c8464e5 je/doc-reset later to maint).
    (merge 220f888d7e ps/t1410-cleanup later to maint).
    (merge 5814b04c02 ps/config-doc-get-urlmatch-fix later to maint).
+   (merge 5ae594f30b sb/doc-update-ref-markup-fix later to maint).
+   (merge bc8556d066 ty/t1005-test-path-is-helpers later to maint).
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