[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc2

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.53.0-rc2 is available from:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.53.0-rc2.windows.1

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

New Features

* Comes with Git v2.53.0-rc2.
* 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-rc2-64-bit.exe | 8d04f1be821342971d0b0b21e6c5345298849b69f0be018e93c770f027429fa5
Git-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.exe | 8abca21317aa6686e951a7adf18badb7c99d08b92cf3c126fcb96f1765e52482
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.7z.exe | 24668b9ab15bb83becc0b6c2aecb622236473be741b5b6de94aa678008f9189f
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.7z.exe | ef8dd7c8b3583e62786ed491c5daa9294bccc3d03b583d3bccc40c7c2942df65
MinGit-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.zip | b2b148f2489e1cc93ccf8f12ef67266b60e45790b59b0438ca700cd2c54226ea
MinGit-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.zip | b719fac6ec206b029270bdbf6a5ea9a301897adc69093d30fcc0ccfd3dcd76ef
MinGit-2.53.0-rc2-32-bit.zip | 52ca2e283cd20acbdb03628e6067dc5e83c56d884c7ea315fdd7e383532b07c5
MinGit-2.53.0-rc2-busybox-64-bit.zip | 343b9859def91cef588c50d279c18bd7fb8406a87c9ab85890ed2415d512eed9
MinGit-2.53.0-rc2-busybox-32-bit.zip | 4f7bd12a9979eb13d490c6136468be16c6a789fbbaf775bff7420b2f8d3fd5bf
Git-2.53.0-rc2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 6087e25459b821df57294cd905a3a2e5f4403f132c5508b50983a0d3c5f294f9
Git-2.53.0-rc2-arm64.tar.bz2 | e4bb529efa52cb759e1c72b53d9ade65a5774eebba723b52eefd7aec074c1620

Ciao,
Johannes