[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.54.0-rc0

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.54.0-rc0 is available from:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.54.0-rc0.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.53.0(2) (March 10th 2026)

Due to persistent maintenance challenges, git svn is no longer included
in Git for Windows. Users who still need this command are highly
encouraged to use a Linux version of git svn via the Windows Subsystem
for Linux instead, or switch to a regular MSYS2 setup: install MSYS2,
then run the following command in the MSYS2 UCRT64 Bash: pacman -Sy
mingw-w64-ucrt-x86_64-git-svn. After that, the git svn command will be
available in that Bash. On Windows/ARM64, you will want to use the
CLANGARM64 variant instead (and install
mingw-w64-clang-aarch64-git-svn).

New Features

* Comes with Git v2.54.0-rc0.
* Comes with Bash v5.3.9.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.7.2.
* Comes with MinTTY v3.8.2.
* The shell aliases in Git Bash that ensured that interpreters such
as Python and Node.JS are executed via winpty are no longer
necessary, and have therefore been dropped.
* Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
Cygwin v3.6.7.
* Comes with cURL v8.19.0.
* Comes with OpenSSH v10.3.P1.

Bug Fixes

* The iconv executable, which was inadvertently dropped from Git for
Windows v2.53.0's installer, is now included again.
* In some circumstances, when typing while a still-running program is
about to terminate, the typed characters could arrive out of order
in Git Bash. This bug was fixed.
* Similar to how git clean already avoids traversing NTFS junctions,
git worktree remove now does the same.

Git-2.54.0-rc0-64-bit.exe | db8edf68657e844cb15650b041f0d28468e8038e462ddaa96165b1d3b345e3bb
Git-2.54.0-rc0-arm64.exe | bf7852a67c8a989bec41211a31896a77a3baa3c91a09ee7a4b5e790250108d8d
PortableGit-2.54.0-rc0-64-bit.7z.exe | 0c7a7d1103df903321d4676024253bf7ee9dfd180c8843d95fc8870c24b12366
PortableGit-2.54.0-rc0-arm64.7z.exe | 9c6ac02567c47bcd6ad619f3b6b5e9d46563f9a9cd83e7813a508c3b98e3752f
MinGit-2.54.0-rc0-64-bit.zip | 4cbc310160af57ee498a9ac667d0a21f27d2676c6bd82231c2ca3e77dcdf173c
MinGit-2.54.0-rc0-arm64.zip | d3adccb272076e76117749b6015f4ab0165b618b223ca013e1900ab342eda462
MinGit-2.54.0-rc0-32-bit.zip | c9d1126454801e7db7aad9a97b8f598252aa5d35cc57689780b9089d99bb33b7
MinGit-2.54.0-rc0-busybox-64-bit.zip | 2deed9be4e5478dbb463461ad8f48260bb70b9ba96422178bf08a40e455e3460
MinGit-2.54.0-rc0-busybox-32-bit.zip | b523bd7cde5e348e2a91bfe4a48737338d4fe5e2f92110d3d5f4b3bdc950e7fb
Git-2.54.0-rc0-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 3aaca6ff93ce34ffc9a59cb967e35196cf1b47127757578213e82b483382230b
Git-2.54.0-rc0-arm64.tar.bz2 | ec7da2001eff841be84811b787c97e5b95ed5646fa0c0ce97e9af8e1f9cdadfa

Ciao,
Johannes