Git for Windows v2.52.0

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.2 (October 28th 2025)

As announced in several recent release notes, git svn is no longer
supported by the Git for Windows project.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.52.0.
  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.47.
  * Comes with cURL v8.17.0.
  * The Git for Windows installer is now built with version 6.6.0 of
    InnoSetup, giving it a more modern look.

Bug Fixes

  * The command git help git-bash was broken by a change in upstream
    Git v2.49.0, which has been fixed.

Git for Windows v2.52.0-rc2

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.2 (October 28th 2025)

As announced in several recent release notes, git svn is no longer
supported by the Git for Windows project.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.52.0-rc2.
  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.47.
  * Comes with cURL v8.17.0.
  * The Git for Windows installer is now built with version 6.6.0 of
    InnoSetup, giving it a more modern look.

Git for Windows v2.52.0-rc1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.2 (October 28th 2025)

As announced in several recent release notes, git svn is no longer
supported by the Git for Windows project.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.52.0-rc1.
  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.47.
  * Comes with cURL v8.17.0.

Git for Windows v2.52.0-rc0

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.2 (October 28th 2025)

As announced in several recent release notes, git svn is no longer
supported by the Git for Windows project.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.52.0-rc0.
  *
      + Comes with PCRE2 v10.47.

Git for Windows v2.51.2

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.1 (October 17th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.2.

Bug Fixes

  * The default credential helper in the portable variant of Git for
    Windows (credential-helper-selector) is now high DPI aware.

Git for Windows v2.51.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.0(2) (September 29th 2025)

This is a security release! Git LFS (which is enabled by default in Git
for Windows) fixes CVE-2025-26625 (Severity rated High, 8.6 / 10) in
v3.7.1. Please only clone or pull from repositories you trust until you
upgraded.

Due to persistent maintenance challenges and the community's limited
engagement and usage, git svn support in Git for Windows will be
dropped from the next major Git for Windows release.

Note that git flow is no longer shipped with Git for Windows, after a
version had been distributed that had been languishing for years. Even
the original, years-stale Git Flow project has been archived.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.1.
  * Comes with Git LFS v3.7.1, addressing CVE-2025-26625.
  * Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.4.
  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
    Cygwin v3.6.5.
  * Comes with OpenSSH v10.2.P1.
  * Drops git flow.

Bug Fixes

  * A potential memory corruption in the optional wincred credential
    helper was fixed.

Git for Windows v2.51.0(2)

Changes since Git for Windows v2.51.0 (August 19th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with PCRE2 v10.46.
  * Comes with cURL v8.16.0. This addresses a bug where fetches/pushes
    could fail with failed to read data from server:
    SEC_E_CONTEXT_EXPIRED (0x80090317) under certain circumstances.
    Also included: a back-port of a fix for a bug where connection
    failures were mistakenly reported as time-outs.
  * Comes with Tig v2.6.0.
  * Comes with MinTTY v3.8.1.
  * Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.3.

Bug Fixes

  * The auto-updater now shows Git for Windows icon in the notification
    also on Windows/ARM64.
  * git clone/git fetch now deals more gracefully with directory / file
    conflicts when the files backend is used for ref storage, by
    failing only the ones that are involved in the conflict while
    allowing others. This is a regression in Git v2.51.0 that was
    reported in Git for Windows and independently also to the Git
    mailing list. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch kn/
    refs-files-case-insensitive.
  * Support for pathspecs in diff --no-index was somewhat buggy, which
    has been fixed.
  * git sparse-checkout subcommand learned a new clean action to prune
    otherwise unused working-tree files that are outside the areas of
    interest. An earlier version of this had been integrated into
    Microsoft Git already. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch
    ds/sparse-checkout-clean.
  * git rebase -i failed to clean-up the commit log message when the
    command commits the final one in a chain of "fixup" commands, which
    has been corrected. Backported from Git's topic branch pw/
    rebase-i-cleanup-fix.
  * git subtree did not work correctly when splitting squashed
    subtrees, which has been improved. Backported from Git's topic
    branch cs/subtree-squash-split-fix.
  * Some among git add -p and friends ignored color.diff and/or
    color.ui configuration variables, which is an old regression, which
    has been corrected. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch jk
    /add-i-color.
  * A corner-case bug in git log -L... has been corrected. This was
    fixed by merging Git's topic branch sg/line-log-boundary-fixes.
  * A broken or malicious git fetch can say that it has the same object
    for many many times, and the upload-pack serving it can exhaust
    memory storing them redundantly, which has been corrected. This was
    fixed by merging Git's topic branch ps/upload-pack-oom-protection.
  * Fixes multiple crashes around midx write-out codepaths. This was
    fixed by merging Git's topic branch ds/midx-write-fixes.
  * git repack --path-walk lost objects in some corner cases, which has
    been corrected. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch ds/
    path-walk-repack-fix.
  * Under a race against another process that is repacking the
    repository, especially a partially cloned one, git fetch may
    mistakenly think some objects we do have are missing, which has
    been corrected. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch jk/
    fetch-check-graph-objects-fix.
  * Various options to git diff that makes comparison ignore certain
    aspects of the differences (like "space changes are ignored",
    "differences in lines that match these regular expressions are
    ignored") did not work well with --name-only and friends. This was
    fixed by merging Git's topic branch ly/
    diff-name-only-with-diff-from-content.
  * git diff --no-index run inside a subdirectory under control of a
    Git repository operated at the top of the working tree and stripped
    the prefix from the output, and oddballs like "-" (stdin) did not
    work correctly because of it. Correct the set-up by undoing what
    the set-up sequence did to the current working directory and
    prefix. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch jc/
    diff-no-index-in-subdir.
  * Various bugs about rename handling in "ort" merge strategy have
    been fixed. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch en/
    ort-rename-fixes.
  * git push had a code path that led to BUG() but it should have
    reported a regular failure, as it is a response to a usual but
    invalid end-user action to attempt pushing an object that does not
    exist. This was fixed by merging Git's topic branch dl/
    push-missing-object-error.
  * git refs migrate to migrate the reflog entries from a refs backend
    to another had a handful of bugs squashed. This was fixed by
    merging Git's topic branch ps/reflog-migrate-fixes.
  * During interactive rebase, using drop on a merge commit lead to an
    error, which was incorrect. This was fixed by merging Git's topic
    branch js/rebase-i-allow-drop-on-a-merge.

Git for Windows v2.51.0

Changes since Git for Windows v2.50.1 (July 8th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.0.
  * The Portable Git installers (which are self-extracting 7-Zip
    archives) are now based off of 7-Zip 25.01
  * Comes with cURL v8.15.0.
  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
    Cygwin v3.6.4.
  * Comes with MinTTY v3.7.9.

Git for Windows v2.51.0-rc2

Changes since Git for Windows v2.50.1 (July 8th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.0-rc2.
  * The Portable Git installers (which are self-extracting 7-Zip
    archives) are now based off of 7-Zip 25.01
  * Comes with cURL v8.15.0.
  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
    Cygwin v3.6.4.
  * Comes with MinTTY v3.7.9.

Git for Windows v2.51.0-rc1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.50.1 (July 8th 2025)

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.51.0-rc1.
  * The Portable Git installers (which are self-extracting 7-Zip
    archives) are now based off of 7-Zip 25.00
  * Comes with cURL v8.15.0.
  * Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on
    Cygwin v3.6.4.