Because we do not always update the version number, multiple releases have
shown version string, which is not useful for helping debug issues, or for
knowing what features are enabled.
This adds the git hash or reads from a file a copy of the git hash (useful for
doing packaged builds without git) so that it is clear the origin of a
particular metasploit-framework version.
On August 15, shuckins-r7 merged the Metasploit 4.10.0 branch
(staging/electro-release) into master. Rather than merging with
history, he squashed all history into two commits (see
149c3ecc63 and
82760bf5b3).
We want to preserve history (for things like git blame, git log, etc.).
So on August 22, we reverted the commits above (see
19ba7772f3).
This merge commit merges the staging/electro-release branch
(62b81d6814) into master
(48f0743d1b). It ensures that any changes
committed to master since the original squashed merge are retained.
As a side effect, you may see this merge commit in history/blame for the
time period between August 15 and August 22.
Metasploit
Chris Doughty
Samuel Huckins
William Vu
Brent Cook
Brandon Turner
David Maloney
Luke Imhoff