[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.51.0-rc1

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 7, 2025, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <1MLzBj-1v1tpB2shF-00MQbz@mail.gmx.net>

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.51.0-rc1 is available from:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.51.0-rc1.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.50.1 (July 8th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.0-rc1.
  * The Portable Git installers (which are self-extracting 7-Zip
    archives) are now based off of 7-Zip 25.00
  * Comes with cURL v8.15.0.
  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
    Cygwin v3.6.4.

Git-2.51.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | ef8dad28ffad12eb1baefa4d2ed108cf5e3235d6ec00837590b0020bddaf88be Git-2.51.0-rc1-arm64.exe | a590d46d4408c7a072af3bb9e9dd9f129f0d97006d68c797a00297dc32eba34f PortableGit-2.51.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | 83db99592683faa184da5eec9874e13e11c218093c8ea260ecd0045014edcbe2 PortableGit-2.51.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe | ca19a6b04d06732644f8999c5d61d231f1e396c37345624006e9a59169a00a3f MinGit-2.51.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | 57a42fec5bea403fc7cef60880b28c90ab810a30ce0c015be50870f768b31add MinGit-2.51.0-rc1-arm64.zip | 8f1f6a4f3348c68c7673e15cb16b7481f90b19af7ff794524c8bd6e80fedab88 MinGit-2.51.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | f66662fec8206f0214391d237a19e140e79b9f46ad90f58e0bf653746568e06b MinGit-2.51.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | 5711d4db0e3160e30e6bce4e969b3f6828ce89bc64a3767ca081ae2391ccaa51 MinGit-2.51.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | 52763ec1fcd5d70f35b6e0df4cea4791f32af4d5427ef803f8d3070342648e15 Git-2.51.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | d4159c2b8d937bc615e7e2f37705db1e8a06364b55172bc36a3ae519d6800f27 Git-2.51.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2 | bc923a8218000d952ac86ed73b9f08746e3c53bfb186a59a41749da0f1c07620

Ciao, Johannes