Dear Git users,
I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.49.0-rc1 is available from:
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.49.0-rc1.windows.1
Changes since Git for Windows v2.48.1 (February 13th 2025)
Due to persistent maintenance challenges and the community's limited
engagement and usage, git svn support in Git for Windows will be phased
out over the next few months.
Git for Windows v2.48.1 was the last version to ship with the i686
("32-bit") variant of the installer, portable Git and archive. Only
32-bit MinGit will be built for future versions, until April 2029.
New Features
* Comes with Git v2.49.0-rc1.
* Comes with OpenSSH v9.9.P2.
* Comes with PCRE2 v10.45.
* The previously-experimental --full-name-hash option has been
accepted into upstream Git as --name-hash-version=2 and is no
longer experimental.
* The git backfill command has been accepted into upstream Git; Its
--batch-size=<n> option has been renamed to --min-batch-size=<n>,
though.
Bug Fixes
* A change in upstream Git v2.48.0 broke renaming symlinks, which was
fixed.
* On a recent Insider Windows version, users experienced the message:
"Cygwin WARNING: Couldn't compute FAST_CWD pointer", which has been
fixed.
* A bug has been fixed that, when calling git add -p from VS Code's
internal terminal, after using the edit command, caused the
internal terminal got stuck and no further command was accepted.
Git-2.49.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | 81bf3f20c85c0ca82de760da8ac28eec53523edfb24a7c71f925e1c1e11bbe40
Git-2.49.0-rc1-arm64.exe | 1b527f8e80c10a09d561908fd8cbe8acefb47bd1f61da5048188808deed64183
PortableGit-2.49.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | b387c7ae0ce0eb751e5ca812fd47dddc8b53f0cc1148b4ba67b66071e5933f1d
PortableGit-2.49.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe | 80a7a186150ff22b695e54b20e55684f6c1a6abeaf2f32c9c256263a8901465d
MinGit-2.49.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | bc0d31dcb8a04eb5b0645ef92f132c3e3b184817b3d840806c06accb51e47ef7
MinGit-2.49.0-rc1-arm64.zip | c0244edc063ccb23aa425c88a591d2e90e6967725e168070ca64aea55e78ebb1
MinGit-2.49.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | b7edc701e8b874bca635896e0e9653bf1be5f6098d7046120c9a1a9af2f7844f
MinGit-2.49.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | dbeef21bf998c8094a936180251b51731040fccd0fa414c68a37b475b2ecebea
MinGit-2.49.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | aa516fe9904c406c29d9f030e80bf17de08aae009124fffad0249afd669da756
Git-2.49.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 65c1104bda7fa199829967a3f941c482721b983ffdb1132e76d2282a0e3f8c01
Git-2.49.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2 | 528e9c6759f30367e2cac04231c141d7973240ed7212d521bd2495d25878736a
Ciao,
Johannes
