Git-1.9.5-preview20150319

PLEASE NOTE: Git for Windows 1.x is deprecated, superseded by Git for Windows 2.x.

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.5 plus Windows-specific patches.
• Make vimdiff usable with git mergetool.

Security Updates

• Mingw-openssl to 0.9.8zf and msys-openssl to 1.0.1m
• Bash to 3.1.23(6)
• Curl to 7.41.0

Bugfixes

• ssh-agent: only ask for password if not already loaded
• Reenable perl debugging ("perl -de 1" possible again)
• Set icon background color for Windows 8 tiles
• poll: honor the timeout on Win32
• For git.exe alone, use the same HOME directory fallback mechanism as /etc/profile

Git-1.9.5-preview20141217

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.5 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

• Safeguards against bogus file names on NTFS (CVE-2014-9390).

Git-1.9.4-preview20140929

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

• Update bash to patchlevel 3.1.20(4) (#254, #253). Fixes CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186 and CVE-2014-7187.
• gitk.cmd now works when paths contain the ampersand (&) symbol (#252)
• Default to automatically close and restart applications in silent mode installation type
• Git svn is now usable again (regression in previous update, #245)

Git-1.9.4-preview20140815

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches
• Add vimtutor (msysgit PR #220)
• Update OpenSSH to 6.6.1p1 and its OpenSSL to 1.0.1i (msysgit PR #221,
  #223, #224, #226, #229, #234, #236)
• Update mingw OpenSSL to 0.9.8zb (msysgit PR #241, #242)

Bugfixes

• Checkout problem with directories exceeding MAX_PATH (PR msysgit/git#212, msysgit #227)
• Backport a webdav fix from junio/maint (d9037e http-push.c: make CURLOPT_IOCTLDATA a usable pointer, PR msysgit/git#230)

Regressions

• git svn is/might be broken (unless you use Vagrant). Fixes welcome.

Git-1.9.4-preview20140611

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.4 plus Windows-specific patches.

Bugfixes

• Upgrade openssl to 0.9.8za (#212)
• Config option to disable side-band-64k for transport (msysgit/git#101)
• Make git-http-backend, git-http-push, git-http-fetch available again (msysgit/git#174)

Git-1.9.2-preview20140411

New Features

• Comes with Git 1.9.2 plus Windows-specific patches.
• Custom installer settings can be saved and loaded, for unsupervised installation on batches of machines (#168).
• Comes with VIM 7.4 (#170).
• Comes with ZLib 1.2.8.
• Comes with xargs 4.4.2.

Bugfixes

• Work around stack limitations when listing an insane number of tags (PR #154).
• Assorted test fixes (PRs msysgit/git#156, msysgit/git#158).
• Compile warning fix in config.c (PR msysgit/git#159).
• Ships with actual dos2unix and unix2dos.
• The installer no longer recommends mixing with Cygwin.
• Fixes a regression in Git-Cheetah which froze the Explorer upon calling Git Bash from the context menu (Git-Cheetah PRs msysgit/Git-Cheetah#14 and msysgit/Git-Cheetah#15).

Git-1.9.0-preview20140217

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.9.0 plus Windows-specific patches.
• Better work-arounds for Windows-specific path length limitations (pull request #122).
• Uses optimized TortoiseGitPLink when detected (msysGit pull request #154).
• Allow Windows users to use Linux Git on their files, using Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com/ (msysGit pull request #159).
• InnoSetup 5.5.4 is now used to generate the installer (msysGit pull request #167).

Bugfixes:

• Fixed regression with interactive password prompt for remotes using the HTTPS protocol (issue #111).
• We now work around Subversion servers printing non-ISO-8601-compliant time stamps (pull request #126).
• The installer no longer sets the HOME environment variable (msysGit pull request #166).
• Perl no longer creates empty sys$command files when no stdin is connected (msysGit pull request #152).

Git-1.8.5.2-preview20131230

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.5.2 plus Windows-specific patches.
• Windows-specific patches are now grouped into pseudo-branches which should make future development robust despite slow uptake of the Windows-specific patches by upstream git.git.
• Works around more path length limitations (pull request #86).
• Has an optional stat() cache toggled via core.fscache (pull request #107).

Bugfixes:

• Lots of installer fixes.
• git-cmd: Handle home directory on a different drive correctly (pull request #146).
• git-cmd: add a helper to work with the ssh agent (pull request #135).
• Git-Cheetah: prevent duplicate menu entries (pull request #7).
• No longer replaces dos2unix with hd2u (a more powerful, but slightly incompatible version of dos2unix).

Git-1.8.4-preview20130916

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.4 plus Windows specific patches.
• Enabled unicode support in bash (#42 and #79).
• Included iconv.exe to assist in writing encoding filters.
• Updated openssl to 0.9.8y.

Bugfixes:

• Avoid emitting non-printing chars to set console title.
• Various encoding fixes for the git test suite.
• Ensure wincred handles empty username/password.

Git-1.8.3-preview20130601

New Features:

• Comes with Git 1.8.3 plus Windows specific patches.
• Updated curl to 7.30.0 with IPv6 support enabled.
• Updated gnupg to 1.4.13.
• Installer improvements for update or reinstall options.

Bugfixes:

• Avoid emitting color coded ls output to pipes.
• ccache binary updated to work on XP.
• Fixed association of .sh files setup by the installer.
• Fixed registry-based explorer menu items for XP (#95).