[ANNOUNCE] Git for Windows 2.40.0-rc1

[Johannes Schindelin]

Dear Git users,

I hereby announce that Git for Windows 2.40.0-rc1 is available from:

    https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.40.0-rc1.windows.1

Changes since Git for Windows v2.39.2 (February 14th 2023)

As announced previously, Git for Windows will drop support for Windows
7 and for Windows 8 in one of the next versions, following Cygwin's and
MSYS2's lead (Git for Windows relies on MSYS2 for components such as
Bash and Perl).

Also following the footsteps of the MSYS2 and Cygwin projects on which
Git for Windows depends, the 32-bit variant of Git for Windows is
nearing its end of support.

New Features

  * Comes with Git v2.40.0-rc1.
  * In the olden Git days, there were "dashed" Git commands (e.g.
    git-commit instead of git commit). These haven't been supported for
    interactive use in a really, really long time. But they still
    worked in Git aliases and hooks ("scripts"). Since Git v1.5.4
    (released on February 2nd, 2008), it was discouraged/deprecated to
    use dashed Git commands even in scripts. As of this version, Git
    for Windows no longer supports these dashed commands.
  * Comes with tig v2.5.8.
  * Comes with Bash v5.2 patchlevel 15.
  * Comes with OpenSSL v1.1.1t.
  * Comes with GNU TLS v3.8.0.
  * Comes with cURL v7.88.1.
  * Comes with libfido2 v1.13.0.
  * Comes with Git Credential Manager v2.0.935.

Bug Fixes

  * Some commands mishandled absolute paths near the drive root (e.g.
    scalar unregister C:/foo), which has been fixed.
  * When trying to call Cygwin (or for that matter, MSYS2) programs
    from Git Bash, users would frequently be greeted with cryptic error
    messages about a "cygheap" or even just an even more puzzling exit
    code 127. Many of these calls now succeed, allowing basic
    interactions. While it is still not possible for, say, Cygwin's
    vim.exe to interact with the Git Bash's terminal window, it is now
    possible for Cygwin's zstd.exe in conjuction with Git for Windows'
    tar.exe to handle .tar.zst archives.

Git-2.40.0-rc1-64-bit.exe | 69dfa0bfbec9e5836561968421adb60133ce3aaba6acc01ddb45e2e042a59d5f
Git-2.40.0-rc1-32-bit.exe | 6cd10560bdf090d920e4a15c23070b469a5a9e35b277a0a6e6fd69e8e7be9efe
PortableGit-2.40.0-rc1-64-bit.7z.exe | 37233d2e767c43b0d3b65bb3fb2151dd600fdf5d61db83db048bd5f6d1d6aade
PortableGit-2.40.0-rc1-32-bit.7z.exe | fb40cfff8e435843b0fff724c03a89cac973cf5f1844b322a75718ee23d01a65
MinGit-2.40.0-rc1-64-bit.zip | 96977c7cca2278878f155c7f50ba1b3e46102442606beab8a15d5aa813dbe762
MinGit-2.40.0-rc1-32-bit.zip | 3ab0bee7839a1e2228c09b31229ea1da74971e76207973c1ee6151037d723207
MinGit-2.40.0-rc1-busybox-64-bit.zip | 0f2c7622658ceda02012e0c038a762fd46135a60cef4f823b7b0ae2fc66cb58c
MinGit-2.40.0-rc1-busybox-32-bit.zip | f98139fff494e405a125702dd6c4a3127246ecafce4db7dc85325dc0a668d8f8
Git-2.40.0-rc1-64-bit.tar.bz2 | d22ab790bf89228e25fbd661076cd40a1ac59109f9ab7d2eb9d25eaf883a3ab5
Git-2.40.0-rc1-32-bit.tar.bz2 | 6117a414bc1e24f3b0b995c695cbb795eb431ed40648474eef77dc83ba374eeb

Ciao,
Johannes