[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.46.0-rc1

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.46.0-rc1 is available from:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.0-rc1.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.45.2 (June 3rd 2024)

Git for Windows for Windows v2.46 is the last version to support for Windows 7 and for Windows 8, see MSYS2's corresponding deprecation announcement (Git for Windows relies on MSYS2 for components such as Bash and Perl).

Please also note that the 32-bit variant of Git for Windows is deprecated; Its last official release is planned for 2025.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.46.0-rc1.
  * Comes with OpenSSL v3.2.2.
  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.44.
  * Comes with OpenSSH v9.8.P1.
  * Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.5.1.
  * Comes with MinTTY v3.7.4.
  * git config respects two user-wide configs: .gitconfig in the home
    directory, and .config/git/config. Since the latter isn't a
    Windows-native directory, Git for Windows now looks for Git/config
    in the AppData directory, unless .config/git/config exists.
  * The FSMonitor feature is no longer experimental, and therefore no
    longer offered as installer option. Users are encouraged to enable
    this on a per-repository basis, via the config setting
    core.fsmonitor=true (scalar clone does this automatically).
  * The server-side component of OpenSSH, which had been shipped with
    Git for Windows for historical reasons only, is now no longer
    distributed with it.

Bug Fixes

  * Git Bash's ls command can now be used in OneDrive-managed folders
    without having to hydrate all the files.
  * Git LFS v3.5.x and newer no longer support Windows 7. Instead of a
    helpful error message, it now simply crashes on that Windows
    version, leaving the user with the error message "panic before
    malloc heap initialized". This has been addressed: In addition to
    the unhelpful error message, Git is now saying what is going on and
    how to get out of the situation.
  * As of v2.45.0, the manual pages of git clone and git init were
    broken, which has been fixed.

Git-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | f5d15b031edefa1922ea1003a43c7d7544ce97bb708a1456988f7756b31fb670 Git-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.exe | 653b50a1e8adcb36245e544480427afe0040086b43f549aec77b203aee2cf438 PortableGit-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | 1078d579a704ca5a760b3b20b6b534c9facc50788670136973363224e8ea2fa3 PortableGit-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.7z.exe | 97bf609641a47af7ac88cf97f4da2ca1eeb0f8b76a852331f95801f3ef55911f MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | c5cb8c340977848908c0b19c27b75e0639c6adcc391eac425cbe0cbbf8d7f7a3 MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 1c90b55863a0b62027200a2141d5dc6a41b4b2268194cadf1aa6c2b991096acc MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | fc51ef382a747231cc9cb64659a13f3a2a7936ef2de79308edf7fc90517db77a MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | b1800f48904446d54d9cfcc432d75635aa0e194d742fe0bc731315797dc91e73 Git-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 81f59d7c2f0f47f80d2f9c8cd4e4a293f3afcd416f24807df8cf83482d521298 Git-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.tar.bz2 | b2c6b2eb008914c2cde713a78bcabd9472855b5dd61e814e5aff03235932b44e

Ciao, Johannes