Git 2.46 has been released, featuring improvements and bug fixes from over 96 contributors, including 31 new ones, and introduces several notable updates such as faster traversals with pseudo-merge bitmaps, a more user-friendly interface for the git config command, and enhancements to the credential helper protocol. The release also supports the experimental reftable storage backend, allowing for near constant-time lookups and atomic updates, and offers a new --no-advice option to suppress all advice messages during scripting. Additionally, Git has started converting some integration tests to unit tests to facilitate more efficient testing of lower-level components. The Git Merge conference, co-hosted by GitHub and GitButler, will take place in Berlin on September 19-20, offering talks by developers working on Git and related tools, with a call for proposals closing on August 8.