{"thread":{"id":"65889","subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0","startedAt":"2026-06-29T18:26:02Z","lastAt":"2026-06-29T18:26:02Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Johannes Schindelin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"546695","messageId":"1N79yQ-1xCEzM30ns-00vPbV@mail.gmx.net","threadId":"65889","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0","fromName":"Johannes Schindelin","fromEmail":"johannes.schindelin@gmx.de","sentAt":"2026-06-29T18:26:02Z","receivedAt":"2026-06-29T18:26:02Z","isPatch":false,"body":"Dear Git users,\n\nI hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.55.0 is available from:\n\n    https://gitforwindows.org/\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.\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 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  * Comes with cURL v8.21.0.\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-2.55.0-64-bit.exe | 0c66e4a5875da5a74f9754386de7555ba301503b03bbdcdbafa69dc6464e548d\nGit-2.55.0-arm64.exe | 1c28f00262df9e2721036492d5e206862420325516a9a074d3fec1b9f44431d8\nPortableGit-2.55.0-64-bit.7z.exe | dfa8cad3ce7e685b9bfbbb2125afcf7c68d4f53490426702ffac367dac62e928\nPortableGit-2.55.0-arm64.7z.exe | b1fe421482c6e5a1aa1135406d7eeb89adf5436b3e5af183cdcd6ffe3c6bc8f2\nMinGit-2.55.0-64-bit.zip | 31497e7968196332263459ee319d2524e3ebc5786ab895e2abad34ffdd4f4ebf\nMinGit-2.55.0-arm64.zip | 377e283290e2de455cdd5cdbd99653bd911db752a8986d1ad914a5ac2fbd1192\nMinGit-2.55.0-32-bit.zip | 04e432c04015e07fc01f3fd2d1b2e1d5c3340e44ba1ebb88dd2397a28444f2ae\nMinGit-2.55.0-busybox-64-bit.zip | c6e2825dbb596afc89f27e205b4c3d573c3533f7f8c2fd2c1e02baaaaabf219b\nMinGit-2.55.0-busybox-32-bit.zip | 393405be25c80aa3825a556f9ab94f85344ac199bdac10f7e02d6a3ecc5d89bf\nGit-2.55.0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 25bc3235291249f39bd463cd9fb86d9b4295b19d53d81af0238414bc68e16110\nGit-2.55.0-arm64.tar.bz2 | 440998321e239588588ce5c8df1a45ffe99551691ac47d148dbbdae76776b582\n\nCiao,\nJohannes\n"}]}