[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.53.0 is available from:

https://gitforwindows.org/

Changes since Git for Windows v2.52.0 (November 17th 2025)

New Features

* Comes with Git v2.53.0.
* Pressing the Tab key in an empty line in Git Bash no longer causes
the session to "freeze".
* Git for Windows' installer is now built by InnoSetup v6.6.1.
* Comes with cURL v8.18.0.
* Microsoft Edit can now be specified as Git editor.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.7.0, the "anniversary release"
after one release-less year, which brings native x64 and ARM64
binaries for the respective flavors of Git for Windows.
* Upgrades the memory allocator mimalloc that is used by Git for
Windows to v2.2.7.
* Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
Cygwin v3.6.6.
* Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.5.

Bug Fixes

* The installer of Git for Windows v2.52 showed clipped text in some
setups, which was fixed.
* When calling Microsoft Store apps, their standard I/O is now set up
correctly (meaning: You can call an interactive Python interpreter
without the winpty hack mentioned in the release notes' Known
Issues).
* The astextplain tool (which is used by Git for Windows to generate
diffs of .pdf and .doc files) used to handle empty files
gracefully. This behavior is now reinstated.

Git-2.53.0-64-bit.exe | 3b4e1b127dbebea2931f2ae9dfafa0c2343a488a1222009debfe78d5d335e6a9
Git-2.53.0-arm64.exe | 8eb369bd00582699da1b9afff4e99dc92e8ce984200b424e8b058d79152eb61d
PortableGit-2.53.0-64-bit.7z.exe | 08713a710ec91ac90de1c09f861289a3b103175f098676e5e664c04dd6c6bf23
PortableGit-2.53.0-arm64.7z.exe | dc59b7383104d57110e370638854cc1b1fd50de0fa6d293dc941f35094594298
MinGit-2.53.0-64-bit.zip | 82b562c918ec87b2ef5316ed79bb199e3a25719bb871a0f10294acf21ebd08cd
MinGit-2.53.0-arm64.zip | dd03826524767f228c9131bc4b2f4d29bc6f550a39fef9bec240f3e312210a1d
MinGit-2.53.0-32-bit.zip | ecdac7d32670aad730222eccf389a7e07803b7716728d9473d3afc24dc098113
MinGit-2.53.0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 5b0acffe1d1aab3c5d99884aba5858a89300076f2d1cba906ea1350a3873aad8
MinGit-2.53.0-busybox-32-bit.zip | 9e4c6523c684558973169071e4a6a3ec5acf0f94a353a5e3f00914672ff72b2e
Git-2.53.0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | d0a44fba2cc47e053ed987584d8392675c12a1465690ad1a36f09743a2ffe15e
Git-2.53.0-arm64.tar.bz2 | 30e958eeb59c7f481a56551bcd3633a643b9ff1ef024aac3254c478b0e6d4182

Ciao,
Johannes