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An issue with the installer for the previous version (v2.55.0.windows.5) caused the "Use external OpenSSH" option to be disabled for some users. This caused the bundled version of OpenSSH to be installed and overwrote any previously-saved choice of external OpenSSH. If you rely on an external OpenSSH installation, and you updated to v2.55.0(5), you should consider re-running the latest installer with "Only show new options" unchecked so that you can re-enable the external OpenSSH option. The bundled version of OpenSSH will be uninstalled automatically. If you do not rely on an external OpenSSH installation, or you did not install v2.55.0(5) specifically, you can safely ignore this notice. New Features * Comes with Git v2.56.0-rc1. * Comes with Git LFS v3.8.0. * Comes with cURL v8.22.0. * Comes with OpenSSL v3.5.8. Bug Fixes * The installer is now actually a 64-bit one, which fixes the problem that the external OpenSSH option was broken in Git for Windows v2.55.0(5) (see notice above). * It is now finally possible to commit 4GB objects or larger in Git for Windows. * Fixes a bug where parallel checkouts could abort with "* stack smashing detected *: terminated". * A bug introduced in Git for Windows v2.55.0(5), which caused vim to often open existing files with the first line missing, was fixed. 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