Git for Windows v2.46.0.windows.1

[dscho]

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.
• 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.
• Comes with cURL v8.9.0.

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.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.46.0-64-bit.exe	e6337d172590cea1f673acfeef218733e9352adeb863a3a9e8fa20ee0719a40f
Git-2.46.0-32-bit.exe	8f330c0f33499ee6438d337351c1cc2354fbc067a63713ec4fb83ec1bd001ca3
PortableGit-2.46.0-64-bit.7z.exe	dedae83f4d0851bcbf473c516701e2da6a5d7c574d694d5eceec46d1307132ea
PortableGit-2.46.0-32-bit.7z.exe	5a5b07eabc2737f1fa2e00cdf19559f385859d42b717afbf5d19bad371182d86
MinGit-2.46.0-64-bit.zip	9f3c58e50e265043b1dd7bdaea9db4e2f23b939c189aa0fc820eb8dcfee523be
MinGit-2.46.0-32-bit.zip	479f2de8a230a884f68ae7009b07e5581b07cecf593cc749d6961215af63b6d6
MinGit-2.46.0-busybox-64-bit.zip	7c9296c007398188cd9a831840d6f8952ecd16aea775152fa237ca164ea07392
MinGit-2.46.0-busybox-32-bit.zip	b8a211098a72d5b86e30a86321ac2d037a64d4677dd1ac786338d12273b0dffb
Git-2.46.0-64-bit.tar.bz2	6eb8f52f61e50b3009fc93c57c50d430799423ab8f027ad837b713df2d3efb16
Git-2.46.0-32-bit.tar.bz2	a420c89679838b6167c1d91396a067fe346b456e01c8464647b3f5c783c5c711

---

This discussion was created from the release Git for Windows v2.46.0.windows.1.