{"thread":{"id":"65831","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc1","startedAt":"2026-06-18T07:07:56Z","lastAt":"2026-06-18T07:07:56Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"545828","messageId":"1MXp5Q-1whtHK2dGG-00PznI@mail.gmx.net","threadId":"65831","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc1","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2026-06-18T07:07:55Z","receivedAt":"2026-06-18T07:07:56Z","isPatch":false,"body":"Dear Git users,\n\nI hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc1 is available from:\n\n    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.55.0-rc1.windows.1\n\nChanges since Git for Windows v2.54.0 (April 20th 2026)\n\nFollowing the MSYS2 project, on which Git for Windows is based, Windows\n8.1 support will be dropped after Git for Windows v2.55.\n\nNew Features\n\n  * Comes with Git v2.55.0-rc1.\n  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on\n    Cygwin v3.6.9.\n  * Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.8.0.\n  * Comes with cURL v8.20.0.\n  * Comes with less 702.\n  * The FSCache now accelerates more git add scenarios.\n  * Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.7.\n  * The diff helper handling Word documents was ported from Perl to\n    Rust.\n  * Comes with Bash v5.3.15.\n\nBug Fixes\n\n  * A regression in v2.54.0 that could cause endless \"Unlink of file\n    '.git/objects/pack/pack-.idx' failed. Should I try again?\" loops on\n    older Windows 10 versions during git fetch operations was fixed.\n  * A bug that prevented proper shutdown of processes launched via Git\n    Bash under certain circumstances was fixed.\n  * A bug was fixed which could cause parallel checkouts to fail under\n    certain circumstances when the FSCache is enabled.\n  * Git Bash (MinTTY) now respects screen scaling settings under more\n    circumstances.\n\nGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | 40ccf96f6cb90e1c1e987108d339bf59cf883f4f62fe1d811bf7f453f216a3c2\nGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.exe | 32ea9f89ebdcb4b5386bb8d91ac09bddca05f97aab2bb97f3a30e4a2ee13dfd7\nPortableGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | cea2707ee1a25ef33d9db4235c1b4ae33d22c2fe618dd3d4ec8574b34ec6f3d9\nPortableGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe | 70da0c29b0c60d7417d698c0d1850a2c409ab89cf9d5431ab75ff203356f5132\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | bb7d17aa2e1cf1b015b7fe2f0312465fa0e035699b0970a5898c07595a61985f\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.zip | 49df32406f57d2886c93acf8ce2fcb9640a1b73c1829fdbb36ea069c41d216c7\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 7d8c7828ee2490d406a4a9132a6a2e61f955c26c0a9cdebaf05ccde9bf156ebb\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | 22abdf14fceaa1172a3416df33fb535a790faab7584a8ba903f3f88d4d0c45af\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | 0139489b7baae8c9738cd3ea8dcbaf946c4f758716e9d64a6b2491db0c0cc229\nGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 87be9bf3d21a53b6e415e0650b4c4632e4226ae9c148a6d5b090e3521d5cfa6e\nGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2 | 9d7786f3dfb29d1715ff2a73a0f08abcd298fe610c70d1117dcffdb0d15e43ce\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}