Dear Git users,

It is my pleasure to announce that Git for Windows 2.7.0(2) is available from:

	https://git-for-windows.github.io/

I would like to dedicate this release to everyone who helps develop Git
(for Windows), whether it be by contributing code, by reviewing code
contributions, by answering questions here on the mailing lists or on the
bug tracker, by reporting carefully written and complete bug reports that
are a pleasure to read, and to everyone who is supporting us in any other
way. This very much includes helpful or encouraging comments in the
bug tracker. Thank you!  You are awesome. You make it all worth it.

Changes since Git for Windows v2.7.0 (January 5th 2016)

New Features

  • To stave off exploits, Git for Windows now uses Address Space
    Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution Prevention (DEP).
  • Git for Windows' support for git pull --rebase=interactive that was
    dropped when the pull command was rewritten in C, was resurrected.
  • The installers are now dual signed with SHA-2 and SHA-1
    certificates.
  • The uninstaller is signed now, too.

Bug Fixes

  • When installing as administrator, we no longer offer the option to
    install quiicklaunch icons because quicklaunch icons can only be
    installed per-user.
  • If a ~/.bashrc is detected without a ~/.bash_profile, the generated
    file will now also source ~/.profile if that exists.
  • The environment variable HOME can now be used to set the home
    directory even when running with accounts that are part of a
    different domain than the current (non-domain-joined) machine (in
    which case the MSys2 runtime has no way to emulate POSIX-style
    UIDs).
  • Git can now fetch and push via HTTPS even when the http.sslCAInfo
    config variable was unset.
  • Git for Windows is now handling the case gracefully where the
    current user has no permission to list the parent of the current
    directory.
  • More file locking issues ("Unlink of file ... failed. Should I try
    again?") were fixed.

Filename | SHA-256
-------- | -------
Git-2.7.0.2-64-bit.exe | c9f0ba628d79886427e05b6b2833f65630ccfc49ecceaab7cff0c6723d1d6e47
Git-2.7.0.2-32-bit.exe | 8f14d50a1950264a7fd53128a81884f5757ca2b645e092ce81122993433657f8
PortableGit-2.7.0.2-64-bit.7z.exe | aa29dcfffda49bde58c84d34cec8e38f4ea85d97c5bb789a56e00ab86a60de5e
PortableGit-2.7.0.2-32-bit.7z.exe | b5af00c5bcffd67c57beb9ce379a8080e44a2f9fe05650a8d7d460382832cbea
Git-2.7.0.2-64-bit.tar.bz2 | 9ed65a54b2586059a53ce64a57d2faa99386b282dd427a4a7e5474feb00d0851
Git-2.7.0.2-32-bit.tar.bz2 | a9c2daf66ed9864146945e5e2e0970a13cd9140b0fb0327a668e2550a7cc24e8

Ciao,
Johannes