The details about the Windows security issue can be found in this advisory.

Special thanks go to @EliahKagan who reported the issue and fixed it in a single stroke, while being responsible for an incredible amount of improvements that he contributed over the last couple of months ❤️.

What's Changed

• Add __all__ in git.exc by @EliahKagan in #1719
• Set submodule update cadence to weekly by @EliahKagan in #1721
• Never modify sys.path by @EliahKagan in #1720
• Bump git/ext/gitdb from 8ec2390 to ec58b7e by @dependabot in #1722
• Revise comments, docstrings, some messages, and a bit of code by @EliahKagan in #1725
• Use zero-argument super() by @EliahKagan in #1726
• Remove obsolete note in _iter_packed_refs by @EliahKagan in #1727
• Reorganize test_util and make xfail marks precise by @EliahKagan in #1729
• Clarify license and make module top comments more consistent by @EliahKagan in #1730
• Deprecate compat.is_, rewriting all uses by @EliahKagan in #1732
• Revise and restore some module docstrings by @EliahKagan in #1735
• Make the rmtree callback Windows-only by @EliahKagan in #1739
• List all non-passing tests in test summaries by @EliahKagan in #1740
• Document some minor subtleties in test_util.py by @EliahKagan in #1749
• Always read metadata files as UTF-8 in setup.py by @EliahKagan in #1748
• Test native Windows on CI by @EliahKagan in #1745
• Test macOS on CI by @EliahKagan in #1752
• Let close_fds be True on all platforms by @EliahKagan in #1753
• Fix IndexFile.from_tree on Windows by @EliahKagan in #1751
• Remove unused TASKKILL fallback in AutoInterrupt by @EliahKagan in #1754
• Don't return with operand when conceptually void by @EliahKagan in #1755
• Group .gitignore entries by purpose by @EliahKagan in #1758
• Adding dubious ownership handling by @marioaag in #1746
• Avoid brittle assumptions about preexisting temporary files in tests by @EliahKagan in #1759
• Overhaul noqa directives by @EliahKagan in #1760
• Clarify some Git.execute kill_after_timeout limitations by @EliahKagan in #1761
• Bump actions/setup-python from 4 to 5 by @dependabot in #1763
• Don't install black on Cygwin by @EliahKagan in #1766
• Extract all "import gc" to module level by @EliahKagan in #1765
• Extract remaining local "import gc" to module level by @EliahKagan in #1768
• Replace xfail with gc.collect in TestSubmodule.test_rename by @EliahKagan in #1767
• Enable CodeQL by @EliahKagan in #1769
• Replace some uses of the deprecated mktemp function by @EliahKagan in #1770
• Bump github/codeql-action from 2 to 3 by @dependabot in #1773
• Run some Windows environment variable tests only on Windows by @EliahKagan in #1774
• Fix TemporaryFileSwap regression where file_path could not be Path by @EliahKagan in #1776
• Improve hooks tests by @EliahKagan in #1777
• Fix if items of Index is of type PathLike by @stegm in #1778
• Better document IterableObj.iter_items and improve some subclasses by @EliahKagan in #1780
• Revert "Don't install black on Cygwin" by @EliahKagan in #1783
• Add missing pip in $PATH on Cygwin CI by @EliahKagan in #1784
• Shorten Iterable docstrings and put IterableObj first by @EliahKagan in #1785
• Fix incompletely revised Iterable/IterableObj docstrings by @EliahKagan in #1786
• Pre-deprecate setting Git.USE_SHELL by @EliahKagan in #1782
• Deprecate Git.USE_SHELL by @EliahKagan in #1787
• In handle_process_output don't forward finalizer result by @EliahKagan in #1788
• Fix mypy warning "Missing return statement" by @EliahKagan in #1789
• Fix two remaining Windows untrusted search path cases by @EliahKagan in #1792

New Contributors

• @marioaag made their first contribution in #1746
• @stegm made their first contribution in #1778

Full Changelog: 3.1.40...3.1.41