diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt
index 01e8642..9768293 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.9.4.txt
@@ -80,4 +80,11 @@
    the file descriptor still open.  Open tempfile with O_CLOEXEC flag
    to avoid this (on Windows, this is mapped to O_NOINHERIT).
 
+ * "git-shell" rejects a request to serve a repository whose name
+   begins with a dash, which makes it no longer possible to get it
+   confused into spawning service programs like "git-upload-pack" with
+   an option like "--help", which in turn would spawn an interactive
+   pager, instead of working with the repository user asked to access
+   (i.e. the one whose name is "--help").
+
 Also contains minor documentation updates and code clean-ups.
diff --git a/Documentation/git.txt b/Documentation/git.txt
index cfe4570..80da7b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git.txt
@@ -43,9 +43,11 @@
 branch of the `git.git` repository.
 Documentation for older releases are available here:
 
-* link:v2.9.3/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.3]
+
+* link:v2.9.4/git.html[documentation for release 2.9.4]
 
 * release notes for
+  link:RelNotes/2.9.4.txt[2.9.4],
   link:RelNotes/2.9.3.txt[2.9.3],
   link:RelNotes/2.9.2.txt[2.9.2],
   link:RelNotes/2.9.1.txt[2.9.1],
diff --git a/GIT-VERSION-GEN b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
index 0011c3f..f0c6bb0 100755
--- a/GIT-VERSION-GEN
+++ b/GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 GVF=GIT-VERSION-FILE
-DEF_VER=v2.9.3
+DEF_VER=v2.9.4
 
 LF='
 '