Dear Git users,
I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.46.0-rc1 is available from:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.46.0-rc1.windows.1
Changes since Git for Windows v2.45.2 (June 3rd 2024)
Git for Windows for Windows v2.46 is the last version to support for
Windows 7 and for Windows 8, see MSYS2's corresponding deprecation
announcement (Git for Windows relies on MSYS2 for components such as
Bash and Perl).
Please also note that the 32-bit variant of Git for Windows is
deprecated; Its last official release is planned for 2025.
New Features
* Comes with Git v2.46.0-rc1.
* Comes with OpenSSL v3.2.2.
* Comes with PCRE2 v10.44.
* Comes with OpenSSH v9.8.P1.
* Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.5.1.
* Comes with MinTTY v3.7.4.
* git config respects two user-wide configs: .gitconfig in the home
directory, and .config/git/config. Since the latter isn't a
Windows-native directory, Git for Windows now looks for Git/config
in the AppData directory, unless .config/git/config exists.
* The FSMonitor feature is no longer experimental, and therefore no
longer offered as installer option. Users are encouraged to enable
this on a per-repository basis, via the config setting
core.fsmonitor=true (scalar clone does this automatically).
* The server-side component of OpenSSH, which had been shipped with
Git for Windows for historical reasons only, is now no longer
distributed with it.
Bug Fixes
* Git Bash's ls command can now be used in OneDrive-managed folders
without having to hydrate all the files.
* Git LFS v3.5.x and newer no longer support Windows 7. Instead of a
helpful error message, it now simply crashes on that Windows
version, leaving the user with the error message "panic before
malloc heap initialized". This has been addressed: In addition to
the unhelpful error message, Git is now saying what is going on and
how to get out of the situation.
* As of v2.45.0, the manual pages of git clone and git init were
broken, which has been fixed.
Git-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | f5d15b031edefa1922ea1003a43c7d7544ce97bb708a1456988f7756b31fb670
Git-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.exe | 653b50a1e8adcb36245e544480427afe0040086b43f549aec77b203aee2cf438
PortableGit-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | 1078d579a704ca5a760b3b20b6b534c9facc50788670136973363224e8ea2fa3
PortableGit-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.7z.exe | 97bf609641a47af7ac88cf97f4da2ca1eeb0f8b76a852331f95801f3ef55911f
MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | c5cb8c340977848908c0b19c27b75e0639c6adcc391eac425cbe0cbbf8d7f7a3
MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 1c90b55863a0b62027200a2141d5dc6a41b4b2268194cadf1aa6c2b991096acc
MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | fc51ef382a747231cc9cb64659a13f3a2a7936ef2de79308edf7fc90517db77a
MinGit-2.46.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | b1800f48904446d54d9cfcc432d75635aa0e194d742fe0bc731315797dc91e73
Git-2.46.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 81f59d7c2f0f47f80d2f9c8cd4e4a293f3afcd416f24807df8cf83482d521298
Git-2.46.0-rc1-32-bit.tar.bz2 | b2c6b2eb008914c2cde713a78bcabd9472855b5dd61e814e5aff03235932b44e
Ciao,
Johannes
