Apart from being based on Git 2.5.1, this Git for Windows release brings the following bug fixes:

• Backspace works now with
  ConHost-based (cmd.exe) terminal.
• When there is a ~/.bashrc but no ~/.bash_profile, the latter will be created automatically.
• When calling a non-login shell, the prompt now works.
• The text in the installer describing the terminal emulator options is no longer cut off.
• The connect.exe tool to allow SSH connections via HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxies is included in Git for Windows again, as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.
• The LANG variable is no longer left unset (which caused troubles with vim).
• call start-ssh-agent no longer spits out bogus lines.
• It is now possible even behind NTLM-authenticated proxies to install Git for Windows' SDK.
• We can handle the situation now when the first $PATH elements point outside of Git for Windows' bin/ directories and contain .dll files that interfere with our own (e.g. PostgreSQL's libintl-8.dll).
• The patch tool is now included again as it was in Git for Windows 1.x.

This is the first official version of Git for Windows (i.e. the first release without the -preview suffix).

It would not have been possible without substantial support of GitHub, in particular Michael Haggerty, Jeff King and Brendan Forster, the help of Karsten Blees, Nalla, Sebastian Schuberth, and other contributors including Microsoft.

Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.4.6, this version brings the following fixes:

• Git for Windows handles symlinks now, even if core.symlinks does not tell Git to generate symlinks itself.
• git svn learned not to reuse incompatible on-disk caches left over from previous Git for Windows versions.

Apart from synchronizing with Git 2.4.5, this release candidate fixes a critical bug that prevented GitHub for Windows from using Git for Windows 2.x for its command-line tools.

New Features

• Comes with Git 2.4.4
• The POSIX-to-Windows path mangling can now be turned off by setting the MSYS_NO_PATHCONV environment variable. This even works for individual command lines: MSYS_NO_PATHCONV=1 cmd /c dir /x will list the files in the current directory along with their 8.3 versions.

Bug fixes

• git-bash.exe no longer changes the working directory to the user's home directory.
• Git can now clone into a drive root, e.g. C:\.
• For backwards-compatibility, redirectors are installed into /bin/bash.exe and /bin/git.exe, e.g. to support SourceTree and TortoiseGit better.
• When using core.symlinks = true while cloning repositories with symbolic links pointing to directories, git status no longer shows bogus modifications.

This is the second release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x, based on Git 2.4.3.

Please see the release notes for details.

This is the first release candidate of Git for Windows 2.x.

It is available in four different versions: 32-bit & 64-bit, regular and portable application. If in doubt, try the regular 64-bit version.

Please give this release candidate a thorough workout and report bugs at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues.