[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.55.0 is available from:

https://gitforwindows.org/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.54.0 (April 20th 2026)

Following the MSYS2 project, on which Git for Windows is based, Windows
8.1 support will be dropped after Git for Windows v2.55.

New Features

* Comes with Git v2.55.0.
* Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
Cygwin v3.6.9.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.8.0.
* Comes with less 702.
* The FSCache now accelerates more git add scenarios.
* Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.7.
* The diff helper handling Word documents was ported from Perl to
Rust.
* Comes with Bash v5.3.15.
* Comes with cURL v8.21.0.

Bug Fixes

* A regression in v2.54.0 that could cause endless "Unlink of file
'.git/objects/pack/pack-.idx' failed. Should I try again?" loops on
older Windows 10 versions during git fetch operations was fixed.
* A bug that prevented proper shutdown of processes launched via Git
Bash under certain circumstances was fixed.
* A bug was fixed which could cause parallel checkouts to fail under
certain circumstances when the FSCache is enabled.
* Git Bash (MinTTY) now respects screen scaling settings under more
circumstances.
* A couple of bugs revolving around very large clones/packfiles/
objects were fixed.
* Following TortoiseGit v2.19, .git file validations have been
tightened. As a consequence, access to remote repositories via UNC
file paths needs to be allowed explicitly via the safe.directory
configuration.

Git-2.55.0-64-bit.exe | 0c66e4a5875da5a74f9754386de7555ba301503b03bbdcdbafa69dc6464e548d
Git-2.55.0-arm64.exe | 1c28f00262df9e2721036492d5e206862420325516a9a074d3fec1b9f44431d8
PortableGit-2.55.0-64-bit.7z.exe | dfa8cad3ce7e685b9bfbbb2125afcf7c68d4f53490426702ffac367dac62e928
PortableGit-2.55.0-arm64.7z.exe | b1fe421482c6e5a1aa1135406d7eeb89adf5436b3e5af183cdcd6ffe3c6bc8f2
MinGit-2.55.0-64-bit.zip | 31497e7968196332263459ee319d2524e3ebc5786ab895e2abad34ffdd4f4ebf
MinGit-2.55.0-arm64.zip | 377e283290e2de455cdd5cdbd99653bd911db752a8986d1ad914a5ac2fbd1192
MinGit-2.55.0-32-bit.zip | 04e432c04015e07fc01f3fd2d1b2e1d5c3340e44ba1ebb88dd2397a28444f2ae
MinGit-2.55.0-busybox-64-bit.zip | c6e2825dbb596afc89f27e205b4c3d573c3533f7f8c2fd2c1e02baaaaabf219b
MinGit-2.55.0-busybox-32-bit.zip | 393405be25c80aa3825a556f9ab94f85344ac199bdac10f7e02d6a3ecc5d89bf
Git-2.55.0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 25bc3235291249f39bd463cd9fb86d9b4295b19d53d81af0238414bc68e16110
Git-2.55.0-arm64.tar.bz2 | 440998321e239588588ce5c8df1a45ffe99551691ac47d148dbbdae76776b582

Ciao,
Johannes