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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
index 63345b9595..a4b4b1d826 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.41.0.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Git v2.41 Release Notes
 
 UI, Workflows & Features
 
- * Allow information carried on the WWW-AUthenticate header to be
+ * Allow information carried on the WWW-Authenticate header to be
    passed to the credential helpers.
 
  * A new "fetch.hideRefs" option can be used to exclude specified refs
@@ -73,6 +73,50 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    number of input files and where in the sequence each invocation is
    via environment variables.
 
+ * When "gc" needs to retain unreachable objects, packing them into
+   cruft packs (instead of exploding them into loose object files) has
+   been offered as a more efficient option for some time.  Now the use
+   of cruft packs has been made the default and no longer considered
+   an experimental feature.
+
+ * The output given by "git blame" that attributes a line to contents
+   taken from the file specified by the "--contents" option shows it
+   differently from a line attributed to the working tree file.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned to give the e-mail headers to the validate
+   hook by passing an extra argument from the command line.
+
+ * The credential subsystem learns to help OAuth framework.
+
+ * The titles of manual pages used to be chomped at an unreasonably
+   short limit, which has been removed.
+
+ * Error messages given when working on an unborn branch that is
+   checked out in another worktree have been improved.
+
+ * The documentation was misleading about the interaction between
+   GIT_DEFAULT_HASH and "git clone", which has been clarified to
+   stress that the variable is to be ignored by the command.
+
+ * "git send-email" learned "--header-cmd=<cmd>" that can inject
+   arbitrary e-mail header lines to the outgoing messages.
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to detect bit-flip breakages in the reachability
+   bitmap files.
+
+ * The "--stdin" option of "git name-rev" has been replaced with
+   the "--annotate-stdin" option more than a year ago.  We stop
+   advertising it in the "git name-rev -h" output.
+
+ * "git push --all" gained an alias "git push --branches".
+
+ * "git fetch" learned the "--porcelain" option that emits what it did
+   in a machine-parseable format.
+
+ * "git --attr-source=<tree> cmd $args" is a new way to have any
+   command to read attributes not from the working tree but from the
+   given tree object.
+
 
 Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
@@ -113,6 +157,42 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc.
 
  * "git write-tree" learns to work better with sparse-index.
 
+ * The on-disk reverse index that allows mapping from the pack offset
+   to the object name for the object stored at the offset has been
+   enabled by default.
+
+ * "git fsck" learned to validate the on-disk pack reverse index files.
+
+ * strtok() and strtok_r() are banned in this codebase.
+
+ * The detect-compilers script to help auto-tweaking the build system
+   had trouble working with compilers whose version number has extra
+   suffixes.  The script has been taught that certain suffixes (like
+   "-win32" in "gcc 10-win32") can be safely stripped as they share
+   the same features and bugs with the version without the suffix.
+
+ * ctype tests have been taught to test EOF, too.
+
+ * The implementation of credential helpers used fgets() over fixed
+   size buffers to read protocol messages, causing the remainder of
+   the folded long line to trigger unexpected behaviour, which has
+   been corrected.
+
+ * The implementation of the default "negotiator", used to find common
+   ancestor over the network for object tranfer, used to be recursive;
+   it was updated to be iterative to conserve stackspace usage.
+
+ * Our custom callout formatter is no longer used in the documentation
+   formatting toolchain, as the upstream default ones give better
+   output these days.
+
+ * The tracing mechanism learned to notice and report when
+   auto-discovered bare repositories are being used, as allowing so
+   without explicitly stating the user intends to do so (with setting
+   GIT_DIR for example) can be used with social engineering as an
+   attack vector.
+
+ * "git diff-files" learned not to expand sparse-index unless needed.
 
 
 Fixes since v2.40
@@ -253,6 +333,42 @@ Fixes since v2.40
    case bugs, which have been corrected.
    (merge d85cd18777 ps/fix-geom-repack-with-alternates later to maint).
 
+ * The "%GT" placeholder for the "--format" option of "git log" and
+   friends caused BUG() to trigger on a commit signed with an unknown
+   key, which has been corrected.
+   (merge 7891e46585 jk/gpg-trust-level-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The completion script used to use bare "read" without the "-r"
+   option to read the contents of various state files, which risked
+   getting confused with backslashes in them.  This has been
+   corrected.
+   (merge 197152098a ek/completion-use-read-r-to-read-literally later to maint).
+
+ * A small API fix to the ort merge strategy backend.
+   (merge 000c4ceca7 en/ort-finalize-after-0-merges-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The commit object parser has been taught to be a bit more lenient
+   to parse timestamps on the author/committer line with a malformed
+   author/committer ident.
+   (merge 90ef0f14eb jk/parse-commit-with-malformed-ident later to maint).
+
+ * Retitle a test script with an overly narrow name.
+   (merge 8bb19c14fb ob/t3501-retitle later to maint).
+
+ * Doc update to clarify how text and eol attributes interact to
+   specify the end-of-line conversion.
+   (merge 6696077ace ah/doc-attributes-text later to maint).
+
+ * Gitk updates from GfW project.
+   (merge 99e70f3077 js/gitk-fixes-from-gfw later to maint).
+
+ * "git diff --dirstat" leaked memory, which has been plugged.
+   (merge 83973981eb jc/dirstat-plug-leaks later to maint).
+
+ * "git merge-tree" reads the basic configuration, which can be used
+    by git forges to disable replace-refs feature.
+   (merge b6551feadf ds/merge-tree-use-config later to maint).
+
  * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc.
    (merge f7111175df as/doc-markup-fix later to maint).
    (merge 90ff7c9898 fc/test-aggregation-clean-up later to maint).
@@ -269,3 +385,11 @@ Fixes since v2.40
    (merge 4833b08426 ow/ref-format-remove-unused-member later to maint).
    (merge d0ea2ca1cf dw/doc-submittingpatches-grammofix later to maint).
    (merge fd72637423 ar/t2024-checkout-output-fix later to maint).
+   (merge d45cbe3fe0 ob/sequencer-i18n-fix later to maint).
+   (merge b734fe49fd ob/messages-capitalize-exception later to maint).
+   (merge ad353d7e77 ma/gittutorial-fixes later to maint).
+   (merge a5855fd8d4 ar/test-cleanup-unused-file-creation-part2 later to maint).
+   (merge 0c5308af30 sd/doc-gitignore-and-rm-cached later to maint).
+   (merge cbb83daeaf kh/doc-interpret-trailers-updates later to maint).
+   (merge 3d77fbb664 ar/config-count-tests-updates later to maint).
+   (merge b7cf25c8f4 jc/t9800-fix-use-of-show-s-raw later to maint).