[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc1

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.55.0-rc1 is available from:

https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.55.0-rc1.windows.1

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-rc1.
* 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 cURL v8.20.0.
* 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.

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.

Git-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | 40ccf96f6cb90e1c1e987108d339bf59cf883f4f62fe1d811bf7f453f216a3c2
Git-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.exe | 32ea9f89ebdcb4b5386bb8d91ac09bddca05f97aab2bb97f3a30e4a2ee13dfd7
PortableGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | cea2707ee1a25ef33d9db4235c1b4ae33d22c2fe618dd3d4ec8574b34ec6f3d9
PortableGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe | 70da0c29b0c60d7417d698c0d1850a2c409ab89cf9d5431ab75ff203356f5132
MinGit-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | bb7d17aa2e1cf1b015b7fe2f0312465fa0e035699b0970a5898c07595a61985f
MinGit-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.zip | 49df32406f57d2886c93acf8ce2fcb9640a1b73c1829fdbb36ea069c41d216c7
MinGit-2.55.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 7d8c7828ee2490d406a4a9132a6a2e61f955c26c0a9cdebaf05ccde9bf156ebb
MinGit-2.55.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | 22abdf14fceaa1172a3416df33fb535a790faab7584a8ba903f3f88d4d0c45af
MinGit-2.55.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | 0139489b7baae8c9738cd3ea8dcbaf946c4f758716e9d64a6b2491db0c0cc229
Git-2.55.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 87be9bf3d21a53b6e415e0650b4c4632e4226ae9c148a6d5b090e3521d5cfa6e
Git-2.55.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2 | 9d7786f3dfb29d1715ff2a73a0f08abcd298fe610c70d1117dcffdb0d15e43ce

Ciao,
Johannes