Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
3Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
2Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WindowsArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.232,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The filesystem shim can now recognise Cygwin-style symlink files and Windows .lnk shortcuts by their leading bytes, plus a name pattern for .lnk and .exe pairs, when classifying directory entries on Windows.
Evidence
!<symlink>
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
