Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
1Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
0Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
ElsewhereArea: what it touches
Internal ChangesKind: in v2.1.272,
Internal ChangesSection of the release
What
The embedded VERSION, BUILD_TIME, and GIT_SHA constants were updated from 2.1.271 to 2.1.272 in many places throughout the bundled code, where the same metadata block is duplicated across chunks.
Why
This is routine release bookkeeping with no behavior change on its own.