A bit more before -rc2

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Junio C Hamano committed Jan 23, 2026 at 13:34 UTC ea24e2c55433012a0a6c4ae947a87bc66404e484
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Documentation/RelNotes/2.53.0.adoc
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@@ -42,8 +42,10 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
42 deal better with rebased history.
43
44 * The iconv library on macOS fails to correctly handle stateful
45 - ISO/IEC 2022 encoded strings. Work it around instead of replacing
46 - it wholesale from homebrew.
45 + ISO/IEC 2022:1994 encoded strings. Work it around instead of
46 + replacing it wholesale from homebrew.
47 +
48 + * Upstream symbolic link support on Windows from Git-for-Windows.
49
50
51 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
@@ -114,6 +116,17 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
116 around tree objects and make it explicit which repository to work
117 in.
118
119 + * "git bugreport" and "git version --build-options" learned to
120 + include use of 'gettext' feature, to make it easier to diagnose
121 + problems around l10n.
122 +
123 + * Dscho observed that SVN tests are taking too much time in CI leak
124 + checking tasks, but most time is spent not in our code but in libsvn
125 + code (which happen to be written in Perl), whose leaks have little
126 + value to discover for us. Skip SVN, P4, and CVS tests in the leak
127 + checking tasks.
128 + (merge 047bd7dfe3 js/ci-leak-skip-svn later to maint).
129 +
130
131 Fixes since v2.52
132 -----------------
@@ -322,3 +335,5 @@ Fixes since v2.52
335 (merge 555c8464e5 je/doc-reset later to maint).
336 (merge 220f888d7e ps/t1410-cleanup later to maint).
337 (merge 5814b04c02 ps/config-doc-get-urlmatch-fix later to maint).
338 + (merge 5ae594f30b sb/doc-update-ref-markup-fix later to maint).
339 + (merge bc8556d066 ty/t1005-test-path-is-helpers later to maint).