Git for Windows v2.53.0-rc0.windows.1

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

New Features

• Comes with Git v2.53.0-rc0.
• 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 v2.2.6.
• Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin v3.6.6.

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.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.53.0-rc0-64-bit.exe	714b50a253602b2e854ecc283c1755a6498f751fbf80db7ba48861417c5bd229
Git-2.53.0-rc0-arm64.exe	1d065239b58f9ed97a52f0d0d8f80ed76b205974d4eb953a21efe8375695c233
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc0-64-bit.7z.exe	46047a303ada6cb981d67720a8243cfdc3c664d77044d410158c1608e7301b66
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc0-arm64.7z.exe	594e7a5eb5821e7aa2d204893cd9dd2073dda72c6e2aab0746adca93afc6b1b5
MinGit-2.53.0-rc0-64-bit.zip	7e74f4c1a210769a9e44440aa2fdfa836875e92e64774f512a8cf250345bafa4
MinGit-2.53.0-rc0-arm64.zip	ee2508dd6bb3d87112e8288612fcf3eb3e13607fcb03a8db1e22a820265774ed
MinGit-2.53.0-rc0-32-bit.zip	ddff1fb9cb73d41c90bb7d9c8c463d8104eff305c74e17e43419fa2a3873cb41
MinGit-2.53.0-rc0-busybox-64-bit.zip	aceb7c886eb63e6f16aa8ba48bc02828138309908ca8a647883d5945471262c2
MinGit-2.53.0-rc0-busybox-32-bit.zip	5ea2d68a294b7d52266259bc5558a3824e30a31e972fd3a9a2c40d3f55dff39e
Git-2.53.0-rc0-64-bit.tar.bz2	bbdd83073894a08a2089051b496ec7c6845c0a25f9bef3e35bcc63cb3f4709e3
Git-2.53.0-rc0-arm64.tar.bz2	fb74602f5c8023e90e334235d85c5dda175903c9e6d74a43ef89fb6938baeee7

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This discussion was created from the release Git for Windows v2.53.0-rc0.windows.1.

[dscho]

Heads-up: Something is broken in this version, see e.g. here. I cannot reproduce locally, so this will probably take a while to fix.