{"type":"post","id":"git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890","slug":"git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890","title":"Git for Windows 2.56.0(4) ships another urgent security fix for Brotli CVE-2026-111497","description":"Git for Windows has released version 2.56.0(4), an urgent security update that bundles Brotli 1.2.1 to address CVE-2026-111497.","retrieval_nugget":"Git for Windows has released version 2.56.0(4), an urgent security update that bundles Brotli 1.2.1 to address CVE-2026-111497. It also fixes corrupt code signatures in the 32-bit MinGit executables. Teams using the Windows distribution should treat the release as a dependency-maintenance event, not a feature update.","published_at":"2026-10-28","updated_at":"2026-10-28","record_date":"2026-10-28","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["security"],"entities":["Git for Windows","Brotli","MinGit","CVE-2026-111497"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_fact","what_changed":"Git for Windows has now shipped v2.56.0.windows.4, adding a Windows Git distribution fix for Brotli CVE-2026-111497 beyond the earlier Brotli and Git for Windows security releases.","prior_refs":["memory:082f617c-888a-8e44-a223-74546ed6b5ad","memory:04f45bc0-79d6-8bf1-a03d-35dff8a20562"],"source_url":"https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.56.0.windows.4","source_urls":["https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.56.0.windows.4"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/git-for-windows-2-56-0-4-ships-b48890.json"},"next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/security/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security/","title":"Security","reason":"Explore the security topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/security.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/source-ledger.json","url":"https://newruntime.com/source-ledger.json","title":"Source Ledger","reason":"Inspect the public source evidence graph.","media_type":"application/json"}]}