Git, a tool commonly used by programmers, will give up support for Microsoft Windows 7 Unix 8 early next year.

CTOnews.com, August 14 (Xinhua)-- Git, a project version control tool commonly used by programmers, has announced that it will give up support for Microsoft Windows 7Comp8 in early 2023.

Recently, version 2.37.2 (2) of Git for Windows was released, in which the included Bash was upgraded to version 5.1 in the update notes, while giving up support for Microsoft Windows Vista.

In addition, around the beginning of 2023, Git for Windows will abandon support for Windows 7 and Windows 8 and follow the lead of Cygwin and MSYS2.

CTOnews.com learned that Git is a version control tool based on the Linux kernel, created by Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux, and now almost every programmer has heard of it or even used it on a daily basis. The main functions include submitting code, recording changes, merging / creating branches, and so on.

Git for Windows version 2.37.2 (2) has also fixed a number of Bug. Please click here for specific announcements.