{"thread":{"id":"65866","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc2","startedAt":"2026-06-24T13:07:42Z","lastAt":"2026-06-24T13:07:42Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"546318","messageId":"1MSKuA-1wiwvU3fzM-00Im1Q@mail.gmx.net","threadId":"65866","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc2","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2026-06-24T13:07:44Z","receivedAt":"2026-06-24T13:07:42Z","isPatch":false,"body":"Dear Git users,\n\nI hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc2 is available from:\n\n    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.55.0-rc2.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-rc2.\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  * A couple of bugs revolving around very large clones/packfiles/\n    objects were fixed.\n  * Following TortoiseGit v2.19, .git file validations have been\n    tightened. As a consequence, access to remote repositories via UNC\n    file paths needs to be allowed explicitly via the safe.directory\n    configuration.\n\nGit-2.55.0-rc2-64-bit.exe | 804b7e3392c94c26b5bd3a979febcf5f0bdac04b09d20572c10ab3daca67dd0e\nGit-2.55.0-rc2-arm64.exe | 08009883dd388a2de7f6fbaa0e2efafe35d3a041269760d265c0462a52cd5802\nPortableGit-2.55.0-rc2-64-bit.7z.exe | ed27e72d93a42ab9f4e62ff0a9f7b54a84c8712d29b3817af60b2a986b0a626f\nPortableGit-2.55.0-rc2-arm64.7z.exe | cf1a4ab5f7ba0d35d4a9919d84327fd3e0ca170fbdcea4a82a49091614e925e5\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc2-64-bit.zip | 8cb142c6bc4d8385d5efbe0068f8804573e3b569720f6f7f64e90425b92d05c9\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc2-arm64.zip | 64226274ad601325aa181bca160529d0d26f13cd64742ce1b939ac096297476c\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc2-32-bit.zip | a57922d0c1cd8925f24affee4a42e8e216dacb0ac51f675bbd85ef8e2ebfde01\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc2-busybox-64-bit.zip | caf5daa4d5d9b251cc7d109202aee424100bffa12f9e146810255e908d02e9fb\nMinGit-2.55.0-rc2-busybox-32-bit.zip | 1edddbfa04d2f544a9f34b275fd9844d3b365d7c318ab29f996bca9bb48963a2\nGit-2.55.0-rc2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | a700459442bff0705e62e3441c1f6e5cfdaf191156e7cc06b68544678d663f3a\nGit-2.55.0-rc2-arm64.tar.bz2 | 44fc3dfd5235c17fa607dcd9972f7c6b67fb106a4bdbcabb74ab17313d9aeaaa\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}