git-for-windows/git v2.55.0.windows.5

Git for Windows v2.55.0.windows.5

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Changes since Git for Windows v2.55.0(4) (August 11th 2026)

Following the MSYS2 project, on which Git for Windows is based, Windows 8.1 support will be dropped after Git for Windows v2.55.

New Features

• The experimental git survey command (which was never upstreamed to the core Git project) was deprecated and converted into a small shim on top of git repo structure. In the future, git repo structure should be used instead, as the git survey command will be retired eventually.
• Git for Windows' installer is now a 64-bit executable (x64 instead of 86).
• Comes with the MSYS2 runtime (Git for Windows flavor) based on Cygwin v3.6.10.
• Comes with OpenSSH v10.5.P1.

Bug Fixes

• The long-standing bug where Git Bash's screen was cleared after git.exe called vim (e.g. to edit a commit message) was fixed.
• The Bash executables in the 64-bit and ARM64 distributions no longer carry an invalid Authenticode signature.