# Announcing Git for Windows 2.6.3

1 messages from 2015-11-10 to 2015-11-10. Participants: Johannes Schindelin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40765

## Johannes Schindelin, 2015-11-10 20:13

Subject: Announcing Git for Windows 2.6.3
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URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.DEB.1.00.1511102106360.1686%40s15462909.onlinehome-server.info

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Dear Git users,

it is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.6.3 is available from
https://git-for-windows.github.io/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.6.2 (October 19th 2015)

New Features

  • Comes with Git v2.6.3.
  • Enables the stack smasher to protect against buffer overflows.

Bug Fixes

  • Git Bash works now even when choosing Windows' default console and
    installing into a short path (e.g. C:\Git).
  • Notepad can now really be used to edit commit messages.
  • Git's garbage collector now handles stale refs/remotes/origin/HEAD
    gracefully.
  • The regression in Git for Windows 2.6.2 that it required administrator
    privileges to be installed is now fixed.
  • When notepad is configured as default editor, we no longer do anything
    specially unless editing files inside .git/.

Ciao,
Johannes
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