Git for Windows v2.55.0.windows.5 #6371

2026-08-20T16:21:31Z

gitforwindowshelper[bot]
Bot Aug 20, 2026

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.

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.

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.

Filename	SHA-256
Git-2.55.0.5-64-bit.exe	d065a4e23c3d9a6b5073d609b5be0830227ec3ca053c083ba385061ddfaf94c6
Git-2.55.0.5-arm64.exe	c955de342b1465bc637f0e71fddf4e28e8d0b829668ec1866ab32a839303e8e3
PortableGit-2.55.0.5-64-bit.7z.exe	5aa8a20f6e9abb2c755f0e73c91c687701a46b309ad84a0ca6509380fa4ae290
PortableGit-2.55.0.5-arm64.7z.exe	49d1dd3158017fa9805d07268433dbab7021b2ec1c1cc3fbabaf8b8255764dd0
MinGit-2.55.0.5-64-bit.zip	56d7b226b7693196cfc71fef26568f536c4a021ab6c37ff2db4287bed908e96e
MinGit-2.55.0.5-arm64.zip	05843f9d6e60306c3ab886799e2c67200caab921571f10512df3493049179ddb
MinGit-2.55.0.5-32-bit.zip	2c5c030d18fc6a6437c6d3f85895302e67995507db740afb415648306c6b450d
MinGit-2.55.0.5-busybox-64-bit.zip	a0287b54d3ead0c5abd0d15094f5b4c909867aae6bf8b9f2aee7109d24fa0081
MinGit-2.55.0.5-busybox-arm64.zip	5adf5203ba3b4706c21687ea1bcd871c727917d913773a41b0af69b86c997d6f
MinGit-2.55.0.5-busybox-32-bit.zip	da123203a73a05038790645a436d078f69c5670e7e2104335df267006d203439
Git-2.55.0.5-64-bit.tar.bz2	58fdf5679db11901697d2257cd076c8cdc49d64fe641b3e64ad158f1c5bf9b8d
Git-2.55.0.5-arm64.tar.bz2	5bf4618b6391069282d60437d3c4b26623d77dc7384b161c82f402517cde71b7

This discussion was created from the release Git for Windows v2.55.0.windows.5.