{"thread":{"id":"64859","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc1","startedAt":"2026-01-23T15:20:11Z","lastAt":"2026-01-23T15:20:11Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"534553","messageId":"1N0oG5-1vxFJ536aT-00yb0K@mail.gmx.net","threadId":"64859","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc1","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2026-01-23T15:20:05Z","receivedAt":"2026-01-23T15:20:11Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/127790?v=4"},"body":"Dear Git users,\n\nI hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc1 is available from:\n\n    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.53.0-rc1.windows.1\n\nChanges since Git for Windows v2.52.0 (November 17th 2025)\n\nNew Features\n\n  * Comes with Git v2.53.0-rc1.\n  * Pressing the Tab key in an empty line in Git Bash no longer causes\n    the session to \"freeze\".\n  * Git for Windows' installer is now built by InnoSetup v6.6.1.\n  * Comes with cURL v8.18.0.\n  * Microsoft Edit can now be specified as Git editor.\n  * Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.7.0, the \"anniversary release\"\n    after one release-less year, which brings native x64 and ARM64\n    binaries for the respective flavors of Git for Windows.\n  * Upgrades the memory allocator mimalloc that is used by Git for\n    Windows to v2.2.7.\n  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on\n    Cygwin v3.6.6.\n\nBug Fixes\n\n  * The installer of Git for Windows v2.52 showed clipped text in some\n    setups, which was fixed.\n  * When calling Microsoft Store apps, their standard I/O is now set up\n    correctly (meaning: You can call an interactive Python interpreter\n    without the winpty hack mentioned in the release notes' Known\n    Issues).\n  * The astextplain tool (which is used by Git for Windows to generate\n    diffs of .pdf and .doc files) used to handle empty files\n    gracefully. This behavior is now reinstated.\n\nGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | f096761d49f49a28ecde93931ff9ad6a224f6723e01cce280fceafe448395643\nGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.exe | 902cf8b5ac724f560c97d562a20b5408fe7ed10e090892758cb65068206c6396\nPortableGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | ee0a577cb05c7d4724d1e46c37a343db1a20b8d0296961ebd26e2354146f8493\nPortableGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe | f0d9da4591cfe3c4ea9776486a4efb5b172b3505f0da46195cd842bf656c8e49\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | a5b6e44e6a26fbd331735834d42e78415e2656f54dba3ed693d55697c609bfcf\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.zip | 024dcd91ca2d25956136db047a07b3da0b11814ca2553bc049f3ca714f2ea3be\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 826ae0958f038d196dd285ed1545c246cfab7f34f8f8d3ea8d94e837ca2bd92c\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | fc4447e513c77288b2c654b77dd6918484541b9df2c4d550e2a5b18dca9e3617\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | 1ac1a46b656ac55bc982b5c8be2ae0a5c1e13c82ea138d2d7c0582700f51c2e7\nGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 59c23033cc5e14dd25c6ab9ac205db395d5f68949a1a37353c755cc336e089e0\nGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2 | 8f96cb5dbc7418157c36935f304e6d99c37af5b3b2c8455a643850afebcd44f1\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}