This includes Git for Windows 2.30.0(2), which includes Git LFS v2.13.2.

Pull Requests

• #306: gvfs-helper: remove odb check
• #303: Appease the new PR workflow "check-whitespace"
• #301: Update 'git maintenance' to match upstream
• #300: ci: fix the vs-build job so that CI builds pass again
• #298: difftool: support user-defined Beyond Compare setups correctly again

The only change from v2.29.0.vfs.0.1 is that the uninstall.sh script works properly on macOS during brew upgrade --cask microsoft-git.

This includes the latest Git Credential Manager Core security release.

This includes Git for Windows 2.29.0.

This update to v2.28.0.vfs.0.0 includes the git maintenance builtin, including background maintenance capabilities for macOS and Linux.

Pull Requests

• #286: Merge jk/strvec into vfs-2.28.0
• #290: Backport os/vcbuild to fix CI failures
• #291: Prepare for v2.29.0
• #292: Bring in dependencies of ds/maintenance-part-3
• #293: Merge in current ds/maintenance-part-3

Comes with Git for Windows 2.28.0.

This release also comes with a new GitHub Actions workflow to automatically push a new version to our Homebrew cask. On macOS you can install the latest version of microsoft/git using the following:

brew tap microsoft/git
brew cask install microsoft-git

Pull Requests

• #284: homebrew: add GitHub workflow to release Cask

This is a security release on top of v2.27.0.vfs.0.0. The security issues are only for the Windows platform.

Issue #278 made us realize that we were packaging an old version of the git-for-windows/build-extra dependencies. Notably, this includes the following package upgrades:

• libcurl 7.64.1-1 to 7.70.0-1
• msys2-runtime 2.11.2-1 to 3.1.5-1
• openssh 8.0p1-1 to 8.3p1-1
• openssl 1.1.1.b-1 to 1.1.1.g-2
• perl 5.26.2-1 to 5.30.2-2

Includes Git for Windows v2.27.0.

Pull Requests

These pull requests include new work only in this fork:

• #271: Update to Git v2.27.0
• #270: deserialize-status: silently fallback if we cannot read cache file.

These pull requests took upstream changes early, but are already incorporated into Git v2.27.0:

• #268: ci: avoid poinding on the poor ci-artifacts container.
• #267: sparse-checkout: take en/sparse-checkout early.

This is a bugfix release. Installing this version along side Scalar resolves microsoft/scalar#347.

Pull Requests

• #265: gvfs-helper: fix support for NTLM
• #266: macOS/brew: let the build find gettext headers/libraries/msgfmt