| Version | Change log |
| Portable Git 2.51.2 Oct 28, 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. |
| Portable Git 2.51.1 Oct 17, 2025 |
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. |
| Portable Git 2.51.0.2 Oct 2, 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-fix |
| Portable Git 2.50.0 Jun 18, 2025 |
New Features: Comes with Git v2.50.0. Comes with MinTTY v3.7.8. Comes with OpenSSH v10.0.P1. Comes with cURL v8.14.1. Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin v3.6.3. Bug Fixes: On Windows Server 2022, Git v2.48.1 introduced a regression where it failed to write files on ReFS drives, which was fixed. Git for Windows 2.48.1 introduced a regression when fetching long branches under core.longPaths = true, which was fixed. Git for Windows' installer used a non-writable file for testing custom editors, which was fixed. |
| Portable Git 2.49.0 Mar 17, 2025 |
New Features: Comes with Git v2.49.0. 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. The syntax highlighting of the nano editor was recently disabled in Git for Windows by mistake, which was fixed. |
| Portable Git 2.48.1 Feb 13, 2025 |
New Features: Comes with Git v2.48.1. Comes with MinTTY v3.7.7. New Git for Windows installation now default to the Windows-native HTTPS transport backend. Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin v3.5.7 (Git for Windows skipped v3.5.5 because it failed to pass Git's test suite, and Cygwin v3.5.6 was superseded too quickly). Comes with Tig v2.5.12. Comes with cURL v8.12.1. Comes with OpenSSL v3.2.4. Bug Fixes: The installer now correctly blocks the installation on Windows 7 and Windows 8 as these versions of Windows are no longer supported since Git for Windows v2.47.0 When using the cache credential helper, it could error out with "fatal: unable to connect to cache daemon: Unknown error" under certain circumstances; This was fixed. Git for Windows used to issue a misleading warning when .gitignore was a directory, which has been fixed. |
| Portable Git 2.47.1.2 Jan 14, 2025 |
New Features: Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.6.1, addressing CVE-2024-50338. Comes with Git LFS v3.6.1, addressing CVE-2024-53263. Bug Fixes: Git Credential Manager can be tricked to exfiltrate credentials for a trusted site to an untrusted site. Since the URLs needed for such an attack look suspicious, this usually requires a recursive clone or fetch. In conjunction with CVE-2024-52006, Git LFS can be tricked to exfiltrate credentials for a trusted site to an untrusted site. When prompting the user for a password in the terminal, Git does not neutralize control characters. The sideband channel does not neutralize control characters. Similar to CVE-2020-5260, affecting credential helpers that interpret Carriage Returns as newlines. |
| Portable Git 6.0.0 Dec 28, 2024 |
Breaking Changes: Remove untranslated translations (#447) Use main as default branch (#187) Enhancements: Add Title to verify-Boxes (#765) Include Git workflow (#757) Add SSH-Auth to What next (#758) Implement Dark mode (#660) Include PAT Info (#382) Fixed: Remove Github Desktop Remote Hint (#767) Fix pull request typos (#766) Update collaborators flow (#759) Fix dqm insertion (#742) Fix shortcuts (#739) Restore language env for verification (#626) Catch path not found (#384) Merged: Fix security issues (#770) Temporary Sandbox fix (#719) Improve Folder-Description a bit (#763) Improve debug helper (#764) Move sass imports to use (#756) Fix/small changes (#755) Small changes (#741) Increase Border Radius (#740) Identify Images by IDs, not classes (#738) Evolve CSS Build (#671) Try fixing dependabot automerge (#499) Small code cleanup (#377) |
| Portable Git 2.47.1.1 Nov 25, 2024 |
New Features: Comes with Git v2.47.1. Comes with cURL v8.11.0. Comes with Git LFS v3.6.0. Bug Fixes: Due to a bug introduced in the v2.47 cycle, the installer showed an empty "experimental options" page, which was fixed. A potential crash in Git Bash on Insider versions of Windows/ARM64 was fixed. On Windows/ARM64, running the 64-bit version of Git for Windows could infrequently cause deadlocked threads (see e.g. this report or this one), which was addressed. |
| Portable Git 2.47.0.2 Oct 22, 2024 |
Bug Fixes: A regression in v2.47.0 where git maintenance start crashed immediately was fixed. A regression where clones, fetches and pushes via SSH would dead-lock was fixed. As of Git for Windows v2.47.0, Scalar was supposed to enable an optimized push algorithm, but for a typo didn't, which was fixed. A few documentation and other, minor bug fixes from upstream Git were integrated into Git for Windows early. |
