Git Credential Manager version history

1. 2026-07-14
   2.9.1GCM 2.9.1

   This is planned to be the last release major release (2.x) that supports Windows 7 and 8.x. We will be moving off of .NET Framework to .NET (Core) on Windows this year with vers…

   Official release ↗
2. 2026-07-14
   2.9.0GCM 2.9.0

   This is planned to be the last release major release (2.x) that supports Windows 7 and 8.x. We will be moving off of .NET Framework to .NET (Core) on Windows this year with vers…

   feature
   Official release ↗
3. 2026-04-28
   2.8.0GCM 2.8.0

   This is planned to be the last release major release that supports Windows 7 and 8.x. We will be moving off of .NET Framework to .NET (Core) on Windows this year.

   featurefix
   Official release ↗
4. 2026-03-10
   2.7.3GCM 2.7.3

   This is planned to be the last release major release that supports Windows 7 and 8.x. We will be moving off of .NET Framework to .NET (Core) on Windows this year.

   securityfeaturefix
   Official release ↗
5. 2026-01-14
   2.7.0GCM 2.7.0

   Thanks to all our contributors who've been waiting for this release. It's been a year since the last release, which as many will note is highly unusual. Ownership issues of the…

   fix
   Official release ↗
6. 2025-01-14
   2.6.1GCM 2.6.1

   Do not treat the lone carriage-return character (CR, `\r`) as a line terminator in the credential helper protocol

   securityfeaturefix
   Official release ↗
7. 2024-09-30
   2.6.0GCM 2.6.0

   Drop no longer needed workflows (#1659)

   fix
   Official release ↗
8. 2024-07-02
   2.5.1GCM 2.5.1

   Update MSAL and Avalonia to latest versions (#1640).

   Official release ↗
9. 2024-04-18
   2.5.0GCM 2.5.0

   The NuGet package/.NET Tool for this release was not generated correctly, and as such is not published to nuget.org. The artifact remains attached to this GitHub release for pro…

   securityremovalfeaturefix
   Official release ↗
10. 2023-11-01
    2.4.1GCM 2.4.1

    Fix macOS ARM64 tarball contents (#1458)

    featurefix
    Official release ↗
11. 2023-08-16
    2.3.2GCM 2.3.2

    Catch unhandled Trace2 exception when writing to a file (#1378)

    Official release ↗
12. 2023-08-14
    2.3.1GCM 2.3.1

    Ensure only unique accounts are returned from credential store (#1368, #1369)

    Official release ↗
13. 2023-08-01
    2.3.0GCM 2.3.0

    The `git-credential-manager-core` symlinks have been removed as of this release. The links, together with warning messages, were originally provided in [GCM 2.0.877](https://git…

    removalknown issuefeaturefix
    Official release ↗
14. 2023-07-12
    2.2.2GCM 2.2.2

    This is a hotfix release that addresses various issues with the 2.2.1 and 2.2.0 releases, including:

    fix
    Official release ↗
15. 2023-07-05
    2.2.1GCM 2.2.1

    Workaround Avalonia crashing issue on macOS (#1314)

    known issuefeature
    Official release ↗

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