[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.46.0

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

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

https://gitforwindows.org/

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.
* 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.
* Comes with cURL v8.9.0.

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-2.46.0-64-bit.exe | e6337d172590cea1f673acfeef218733e9352adeb863a3a9e8fa20ee0719a40f
Git-2.46.0-32-bit.exe | 8f330c0f33499ee6438d337351c1cc2354fbc067a63713ec4fb83ec1bd001ca3
PortableGit-2.46.0-64-bit.7z.exe | dedae83f4d0851bcbf473c516701e2da6a5d7c574d694d5eceec46d1307132ea
PortableGit-2.46.0-32-bit.7z.exe | 5a5b07eabc2737f1fa2e00cdf19559f385859d42b717afbf5d19bad371182d86
MinGit-2.46.0-64-bit.zip | 9f3c58e50e265043b1dd7bdaea9db4e2f23b939c189aa0fc820eb8dcfee523be
MinGit-2.46.0-32-bit.zip | 479f2de8a230a884f68ae7009b07e5581b07cecf593cc749d6961215af63b6d6
MinGit-2.46.0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 7c9296c007398188cd9a831840d6f8952ecd16aea775152fa237ca164ea07392
MinGit-2.46.0-busybox-32-bit.zip | b8a211098a72d5b86e30a86321ac2d037a64d4677dd1ac786338d12273b0dffb
Git-2.46.0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 6eb8f52f61e50b3009fc93c57c50d430799423ab8f027ad837b713df2d3efb16
Git-2.46.0-32-bit.tar.bz2 | a420c89679838b6167c1d91396a067fe346b456e01c8464647b3f5c783c5c711

Ciao,
Johannes