Git for Windows v2.53.0-rc1.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-rc1.
• 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 v2.2.7.
• 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-rc1-64-bit.exe	f096761d49f49a28ecde93931ff9ad6a224f6723e01cce280fceafe448395643
Git-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.exe	902cf8b5ac724f560c97d562a20b5408fe7ed10e090892758cb65068206c6396
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe	ee0a577cb05c7d4724d1e46c37a343db1a20b8d0296961ebd26e2354146f8493
PortableGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.7z.exe	f0d9da4591cfe3c4ea9776486a4efb5b172b3505f0da46195cd842bf656c8e49
MinGit-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.zip	a5b6e44e6a26fbd331735834d42e78415e2656f54dba3ed693d55697c609bfcf
MinGit-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.zip	024dcd91ca2d25956136db047a07b3da0b11814ca2553bc049f3ca714f2ea3be
MinGit-2.53.0-rc1-32-bit.zip	826ae0958f038d196dd285ed1545c246cfab7f34f8f8d3ea8d94e837ca2bd92c
MinGit-2.53.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip	fc4447e513c77288b2c654b77dd6918484541b9df2c4d550e2a5b18dca9e3617
MinGit-2.53.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip	1ac1a46b656ac55bc982b5c8be2ae0a5c1e13c82ea138d2d7c0582700f51c2e7
Git-2.53.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2	59c23033cc5e14dd25c6ab9ac205db395d5f68949a1a37353c755cc336e089e0
Git-2.53.0-rc1-arm64.tar.bz2	8f96cb5dbc7418157c36935f304e6d99c37af5b3b2c8455a643850afebcd44f1

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This discussion was created from the release Git for Windows v2.53.0-rc1.windows.1.