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The 2.19 series release notes contain important changes in this release series.

Bug Fixes

SAML Authentication requests and Metadata were not strictly encoded, causing some Identity Providers to not correctly process Service Provider initiated Authentication requests.
When using GitHub Connect, the GHES license sync process sent information that was not required.
When pushing to a Gist, an exception could be triggered during the post-receive hook.

On a freshly set up GitHub Enterprise Server without any users, an attacker could create the first admin user.
Custom firewall rules are not maintained during an upgrade.
Git LFS tracked files uploaded through the web interface are incorrectly added directly to the repository.
Issues cannot be closed if they contain a permalink to a blob in the same repository where the file path is longer than 255 characters.
When pushing to a gist, an exception could be triggered during the post-receive hook.
When "Users can search GitHub.com" is enabled with GitHub Connect, issues in private and internal repositories are not included in GitHub.com search results.

Thanks!

The GitHub Team