{"thread":{"id":"64881","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc2","startedAt":"2026-01-28T14:27:13Z","lastAt":"2026-01-28T14:27:13Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"534762","messageId":"1M3lYB-1vkpf32K7H-005Id3@mail.gmx.net","threadId":"64881","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc2","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2026-01-28T14:27:08Z","receivedAt":"2026-01-28T14:27:13Z","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-rc2 is available from:\n\n    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.53.0-rc2.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-rc2.\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  * Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.5.\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-rc2-64-bit.exe | 8d04f1be821342971d0b0b21e6c5345298849b69f0be018e93c770f027429fa5\nGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.exe | 8abca21317aa6686e951a7adf18badb7c99d08b92cf3c126fcb96f1765e52482\nPortableGit-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.7z.exe | 24668b9ab15bb83becc0b6c2aecb622236473be741b5b6de94aa678008f9189f\nPortableGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.7z.exe | ef8dd7c8b3583e62786ed491c5daa9294bccc3d03b583d3bccc40c7c2942df65\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.zip | b2b148f2489e1cc93ccf8f12ef67266b60e45790b59b0438ca700cd2c54226ea\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.zip | b719fac6ec206b029270bdbf6a5ea9a301897adc69093d30fcc0ccfd3dcd76ef\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc2-32-bit.zip | 52ca2e283cd20acbdb03628e6067dc5e83c56d884c7ea315fdd7e383532b07c5\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc2-busybox-64-bit.zip | 343b9859def91cef588c50d279c18bd7fb8406a87c9ab85890ed2415d512eed9\nMinGit-2.53.0-rc2-busybox-32-bit.zip | 4f7bd12a9979eb13d490c6136468be16c6a789fbbaf775bff7420b2f8d3fd5bf\nGit-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 6087e25459b821df57294cd905a3a2e5f4403f132c5508b50983a0d3c5f294f9\nGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.tar.bz2 | e4bb529efa52cb759e1c72b53d9ade65a5774eebba723b52eefd7aec074c1620\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}