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What's new in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.20.0

Sep 17, 2019
  • [Bug Fix] Configure default web proxy for ADAL

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.20.0 Pre-release (Sep 9, 2019)

  • [Bug Fix] Configure default web proxy for ADAL

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.19.0 (Sep 9, 2019)

  • [Bug Fix] Catch Exception leaking from ADAL
  • [Bug Fix] Delete Hangs
  • Mark delete as deprecated. The same functionality can be reached with erase
  • [Bug Fix] Properly decode Proxy Username/Passwords
  • Several Documentation Fixes

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.19 Pre-release (Mar 14, 2019)

  • [Bug Fix] Catch Exception leaking from ADAL
  • [Bug Fix] Delete Hangs
  • Mark delete as deprecated. The same functionality can be reached with erase
  • [Bug Fix] Properly decode Proxy Username/Passwords
  • Several Documentation Fixes

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.5 (Mar 12, 2019)

  • New feature:
  • [Bug Fix] Erase should always remove the saved credential

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.4 (Jan 18, 2019)

  • New Feature:
  • DevOps: Support AAD in MSA
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.18.4.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.17.0 and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.18.4.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.4 Preview (Jan 8, 2019)

  • New Feature:
  • DevOps: Support AAD in MSA

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.3 (Nov 3, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Environment Variables containing duplicate, different case, keys shouldn't cause GCM to fail

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.2 (Oct 13, 2018)

  • Performance:
  • Remove HEAD request when not required

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.1 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes Null Reference exceptions when parameters or contentType are not populated
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.18.1.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.17.0 and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.18.1.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.18.0 (Oct 2, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • Rebranded Visual Studio Team Services as Azure DevOps
  • Make timeout configurable via the environment variable GCM_HTTP_TIMEOUT and config option httpTimeout
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Ensure the Bitbucket login screen correctly grab focus
  • Allow Bitbucket access tokens to be cast as credentials, and properly handle personal access tokens used as authentication in network requests.
  • If path is sent use it to set TargetUri.ActualUri

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.2 (Sep 20, 2018)

  • Fixes a bug related Visual Studio Team Services which users from authenticating with no tenant cache or pre-existing credentials when not using Git

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.1 (Aug 16, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug related to Bitbucket authentication (thanks to @Foda for contributing the fixes).

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.1 Preview 1 (Aug 10, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes a bug related to Bitbucket authentication (thanks to @Foda for contributing the fixes).

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.0 (Aug 1, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • Add the ability to read the command line from the parent git-remote-http(s) process of git-credential-manager.exe. This enables the GCM to know the full and complete URL of the Git remote.
  • Detection of NTLM enabled servers has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Validation of VSTS personal access tokens has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Adjusted the default network timeout to avoid artificial authentication failures due to slow networks or services.
  • Fixed a bug with Bitbucket authentication (thanks @mminns for providing the fix as usual).

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.0 Preview 5 (Jul 26, 2018)

  • Add the ability to read the command line from the parent git-remote-http(s) process of git-credential-manager.exe. This enables the GCM to know the full and complete URL of the Git remote.
  • Detection of NTLM enabled servers has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Validation of VSTS personal access tokens has been improved by using the new URL capture.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.0 Preview 4 (Jul 23, 2018)

  • Add the ability to read the command line from the parent git-remote-http(s) process of git-credential-manager.exe. This enables the GCM to know the full and complete URL of the Git remote.
  • Detection of NTLM enabled servers has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Validation of VSTS personal access tokens has been improved by using the new URL capture.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.0 Preview 3 (Jul 18, 2018)

  • Add the ability to read the command line from the parent git-remote-http(s) process of git-credential-manager.exe. This enables the GCM to know the full and complete URL of the Git remote.
  • Detection of NTLM enabled servers has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Validation of VSTS personal access tokens has been improved by using the new URL capture.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.17.0 Preview 1 (Jul 4, 2018)

  • Add the ability to read the command line from the parent git-remote-http(s) process of git-credential-manager.exe. This enables the GCM to know the full and complete URL of the Git remote.
  • Detection of NTLM enabled servers has been improved by using the new URL capture.
  • Validation of VSTS personal access tokens has been improved by using the new URL capture.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.2 (Jun 8, 2018)

  • Fixed an issue with Bitbucket multifactor authentication caused by incorrect internal state validation

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.1 (May 26, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • The networking code has been refactored. During this process a dozen proxy handling errors were discovered and corrected; so... better HTTP proxy handling 😃
  • Updated the UX of the Azure Authentication flow for Visual Studio Team Services to utilize the new "identity picker" when possible (thanks to @onovotny for the contribution).
  • Updated branding from Atlassian for the Bitbucket authentication UX.
  • Applications which have a GUI can now pass their windows handle to the GCM. This means the users won't have to go looking for the GCM window when they have a multiple screen setup (thanks to @chuckries for the contribution).
  • The Microsoft.Alm.Authentication.nupkg is now signed, includes symbols, and source.
  • Bug Fixes
  • Emails as usernames will no longer cause the GCM to corrupt the URL string and prevent authentication.
  • Installer will now correctly upgrade existing installations of the GCM.
  • Installer will now correctly discover 64-bit version of Git for Windows (thanks to @kgybels for the contribution).
  • Installer will now correctly install Git for Windows if an installation isn't detected.
  • Fixed a dozen or so HTTP proxy handling issues.
  • Fixed an issue with GitHub multifactor authentication caused by malformed headers being sent to the server (thanks to @shiftkey for discovering the cause and suggesting the fix).
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.16.1.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.17.0) and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.16.1.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.0 (May 21, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • The networking code has been refactored. During this process a dozen proxy handling errors were discovered and corrected; so... better HTTP proxy handling ??
  • Updated the UX of the Azure Authentication flow for Visual Studio Team Services to utilize the new "identity picker" when possible (thanks to @onovotny for the contribution).
  • Updated branding from Atlassian for the Bitbucket authentication UX.
  • Applications which have a GUI can now pass their windows handle to the GCM. This means the users won't have to go looking for the GCM window when they have a multiple screen setup (thanks to @chuckries for the contribution).
  • The Microsoft.Alm.Authentication.nupkg is now signed, includes symbols, and source.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Emails as usernames will no longer cause the GCM to corrupt the URL string and prevent authentication.
  • Installer will now correctly upgrade existing installations of the GCM.
  • Installer will now correctly discover 64-bit version of Git for Windows (thanks to @kgybels for the contribution).
  • Installer will now correctly install Git for Windows if an installation isn't detected.
  • Fixed a dozen or so HTTP proxy handling issues.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.0 Preview 3 (May 15, 2018)

  • Constrained the "https://{userinfo}@azure.com" => "https://azure.com/{userinfo}" to azure.com requests only.
  • Fixes "tenant" look up for Azure Active Directory accounts hosted on VSTS.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.0 Preview 2 (May 14, 2018)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Constrained the "https://{userinfo}@azure.com" => "https://azure.com/{userinfo}" to azure.com requests only.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.16.0 (May 10, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • The networking code has been refactored. During this process a dozen proxy handling errors were discovered and corrected; so... better HTTP proxy handling 😃
  • Updated branding from Atlassian for the Bitbucket authentication UX.
  • Applications which have a GUI can now pass their windows handle to the GCM. This means the users won't have to go looking for the GCM window when they have a multiple screen setup.
  • The Microsoft.Alm.Authentication.nupkg is now signed, includes symbols, and source.
  • Bug Fixes
  • Emails as usernames will no longer cause the GCM to corrupt the URL string and prevent authentication.
  • Installer will now correctly upgrade existing installations of the GCM.
  • Installer will now correctly install Git for Windows if an installation isn't detected.
  • Fixed a dozen or so HTTP proxy handling issues.
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.16.0-preview.1.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.17.0) and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.16.0-preview.1.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.15.2 (Mar 31, 2018)

  • Fixed another issue with email address as usernames in URLs which caused the GCM to crash when parsing them.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.15.1 (Mar 25, 2018)

  • Fixed an issue with email address as usernames in URLs which caused the GCM to crash when parsing them. Thanks to @simonech for discovering and fixing the issue.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.15.0 (Mar 9, 2018)

  • In this release:
  • Add support for multiple users per host by using the https://{username}@{host} repository URL format. ?Note: the GitHub Authentication class does not support this feature.
  • Add support for user configured privilege scopes when requesting new VSTS personal access tokens.
  • Add automatic VSTS tenant cache eviction when credentials are invalid. ?Due to an abnormally large number of problems related to invalid tenant cache entries, entries will now be evicted when their related credentials become invalid.
  • Add verification step to VSTS credential deletion. ?When Git requests that VSTS credentials be deleted from the cache, the VSTS Authentication class will attempt to verify the credentials before deleting them. Only credentials which are verified to be invalid will be deleted.
  • ?This is designed to avoid unnecessary credential removal caused by flaky networks and other interruptions which might cause Git to report the credentials are invalid.
  • Improved support for handling HTTP proxies (thank you @MagooChris for your contributions).
  • Improved the general, Bitbucket usage, and VSTS integration documentation.
  • Add new config verb for dumping state affecting the GCM.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue which caused the GCM to fail when standard input was invalid (thanks to @ebugusey).
  • Fixed an issue where the GCM's internal logging mechanism could fail causing the GCM to fail.
  • Fixed an issue where the HTTP_PROXY environment variable was incorrectly being ignored.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.15.0 Preview 1 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • Add support for multiple users per host by using the https://{username}@{host} repository URL format. â—¦Note: the GitHub Authentication class does not support this feature.
  • Add support for user configured privilege scopes when requesting new VSTS personal access tokens.
  • Add automatic VSTS tenant cache eviction when credentials are invalid. â—¦Due to an abnormally large number of problems related to invalid tenant cache entries, entries will now be evicted when their related credentials become invalid.
  • Add verification step to VSTS credential deletion. â—¦When Git requests that VSTS credentials be deleted from the cache, the VSTS Authentication class will attempt to verify the credentials before deleting them. Only credentials which are verified to be invalid will be deleted.
  • This is designed to avoid unnecessary credential removal caused by flaky networks and other interruptions which might cause Git to report the credentials are invalid.
  • Improved support for handling HTTP proxies (thank you @MagooChris for your contributions).
  • Improved the general, Bitbucket usage, and VSTS integration documentation.
  • Add new config verb for dumping state affecting the GCM.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue which caused the GCM to fail when standard input was invalid (thanks to @ebugusey).
  • Fixed an issue where the GCM's internal logging mechanism could fail causing the GCM to fail.
  • Fixed an issue where the HTTP_PROXY environment variable was incorrectly being ignored.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.14.0 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • In this release:
  • Added support for GitHub Gists.
  • Added support for personal access tokens as passwords with GitHub.
  • Updated co-installed version of Git for Windows to v2.15.0
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Cleaned and hardened the interaction with the Windows Credential Manager.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.12.0 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • Visual Studio Team Services Personal Access Token limited duration set via configuration.
  • Bitbucket authentication can now be configured as an authority explicitly.
  • Updated co-installed version of Git for Windows to v2.13.3
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes an issue with Bitbucket Authentication where the client could refuse to authenticate with the service.
  • Fixes an issue with Bitbucket Authentication where the client could cause a stack overflow exception.
  • Fixes an issue with reading yes/no values from Git's system configuration.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.12.0 Preview 1 (Aug 2, 2017)

  • In this release:
  • Visual Studio Team Services Personal Access Token limited duration set via configuration.
  • Bitbucket authentication can now be configured as an authority explicitly.
  • Updated co-installed version of Git for Windows to v2.13.3
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes an issue with Bitbucket Authentication where the client could refuse to authenticate with the service.
  • Fixes an issue with Bitbucket Authentication where the client could cause a stack overflow exception.
  • Fixes an issue with reading yes/no values from Git's system configuration.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.10.1 (Jun 17, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixes an issue with Bitbucket Authentication where the client could refuse to authenticate with the service.
  • Fixes an issue with reading Git's system configuration.
  • Fixes an issue where errors were accidentally being silenced and failures being reported as unknown reason.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.10.0 (May 11, 2017)

  • Atlassian Bitbucket multi-factor authentication via OAuth support added
  • GitHub Enterprise multi-factor authentication supported added
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with auto detection failing to detect NTLM support and falling back to Basic Authentication.
  • Fixed an issue with auto detection of NTLM failing when the parallel query responses arrived simultaneously.
  • Fixed an issue with git-askpass.exe where credential lookup would fail when Git provided a username as part of the Url.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.10.0 Preview 2 (May 7, 2017)

  • In this release:
  • Atlassian Bitbucket multi-factor authentication via OAuth support added
  • GitHub Enterprise multi-factor authentication supported added
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with auto detection failing to detect NTLM support and falling back to Basic Authentication.
  • Fixed an issue with auto detection of NTLM failing when the parallel query responses arrived simultaneously.
  • Fixed an issue with git-askpass.exe where credential lookup would fail when Git provided a username as part of the Url.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.10.0 Preview 1 (May 2, 2017)

  • In this release:
  • Atlassian Bitbucket multi-factor authentication via OAuth support added (thanks @mminns).
  • GitHub Enterprise multi-factor authentication supported added (thanks @NickCraver).
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with auto detection failing to detect NTLM support and falling back to Basic Authentication.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.9.1 (Apr 6, 2017)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue with basic credentials where the username and password fields of the modal dialog could not be correctly read, resulting in empty strings for credentials; and ultimately failing all basic authentication attempts.
  • Fixed as issue with default values for Boolean configuration values. The default was accidentally set to 'true' when 'false' should be the default.
  • Fixed an issue where local and system configuration files could be incorrectly ignored.
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.9.1.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.12.0 and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.9.1.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.9.0 (Mar 14, 2017)

  • Redesigned Askpass to look more like Visual Studio 2017.
  • Added support for adding new SSH hosts via Askpass.
  • Added environment variable support for all configuration options.
  • Added support for include.path directives within Git configuration files.
  • Added caching for VSTS tenant identities to improve performance when authenticating with visualstudio.com.
  • Added support for Git's XDG configuration file.
  • Improved the non-interactive logon for VSTS accounts.
  • Separated the VSTS specific code from the more general authentication code, and placed into a new Microsoft.Vsts.Authentication.dll.
  • Updated the Microsoft.IdentityModel (aka ADAL) packages.
  • Upgraded InnoSetup minimum version required to take advantages of security issues resolved in the latest version.
  • BUG FIXES:
  • Fixed an issue where authority=basic was ignored when the host could support NTLM.
  • Fixed an issue where Askpass would get confused when the URL contained a username.
  • Fixed issues related to users having a %HOME% value different from %UserProfile%.
  • To install the Git Credential Manager, download and double-click the GCMW-1.9.0.exe installer. It is that easy, it will even install Git for Windows 2.12.0 and the Microsoft .Net Framework for you if necessary.
  • For non-installation or custom installation needs, download the gcmw-v1.9.0.zip archive and expand its contents. Use the included install.cmd or options provided via git-credential-manager install to complete setup.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.9.0 Pre 1 (Mar 11, 2017)

  • In this release:
  • Redesigned Askpass to look more like Visual Studio 2017.
  • Added support for adding new SSH hosts via Askpass.
  • Added environment variable support for all configuration options.
  • Added support for include.path directives within Git configuration files.
  • Added caching for VSTS tenant identities to improve performance when authenticating with visualstudio.com.
  • Added support for Git's XDG configuration file.
  • Improved the non-interactive logon for VSTS accounts.
  • Separated the VSTS specific code from the more general authentication code, and placed into a new Microsoft.Vsts.Authentication.dll .
  • Updated the Microsoft.IdentityModel (aka ADAL) packages.
  • Upgraded InnoSetup minimum version required to take advantages of security issues resolved in the latest version.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where authority=basic was ignored when the host could support NTLM.
  • Fixed an issue where Askpass would get confused when the URL contained a username.
  • Fixed issues related to users having a %HOME% value different from %UserProfile%

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.8.0 (Oct 27, 2016)

  • In this release:
  • Adds support for detecting host which support NTLM, removing the requirement that users add credential..authority integrated.
  • Adds support for overriding the user-agent with HTTP requests via environment variables.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where parsing configuration values with no value set could cause a segfault.
  • Fixed issues with git-askpass would fail to properly deliver username and/or passwords (as opposed to passphrases).
  • Fixed an issue where the store command (which is designed for interaction with Git and not users) could segfault when users invoked it.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.7.0 (Oct 18, 2016)

  • NEW:
  • Added support for environment variables to be use to control configuration and behavior.
  • Added the ability to ignore system and/or local configuration settings via an environmental variable.
  • Added the ability to enable tracing to console or a file via environmental variable.
  • This means tracing can now being before configuration is read giving a more useful information when diagnosing issues.
  • Tracing now matches Git's format and can be safely and meaningfully interleaved with GIT_TRACE into a file or onto the console.
  • New documentation model has been adopted. Instead of putting all content into README.md, the content is now spread out between the README file and the Docs/ folder.
  • New help documents for GCM and Askpass are shipped as HTML with the installer. This means the GCM's help can now be reached via git help credential-manager and git credential-manager --help.
  • Includes a new build-docs.cmd build script which safely depends on Pandoc.
  • Removed dependency on the deprecated VSTS static Identity Service and now, correctly, route through VSTS Location Service to acquire the correct URI for the Identity Service.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed an issue where SourceTree would insert duplicate environmental variables and the GCM would fail to handle the duplication gracefully.
  • Fixed an issue where %HOME% was an unexpected directory causing the GCM to not find Git's global configuration file.
  • Fixed an issue where Git's system and portable configuration files could not be read correctly.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.6.1 (Aug 24, 2016)

  • Fixes issues caused by incorrectly handling URL formats which contain port values.
  • Fixes issues caused by incorrectly formatting secret storage keys.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.6.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Upgraded the version of Azure Directory Authentication Library used for Visual Studio Team Services authentication.
  • Added support for Environmental Variable setting of options.
  • Added support for GIT_ASKPASS, specifically for Git's use of askpass to retrieve SSH key phrases.
  • Added support for clearing stored credentials from the command line.
  • Added support for custom credential storage namespaces, users are no longer forced to use the "git:" namespace.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.5.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Fixed a potential security issue with the storage of ADA tokens. They are no longer cached and the the GCM actively attempts to remove any existing cached tokens.
  • Fixed issues related to the recent proxy support which resulted in some users being unable to use the feature.
  • Added support for bare Git repositories.
  • Added Cygwin detection at installation time to better support Cygwin users.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.4.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Updated and significantly more friendly user experience for authentication with GitHub.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.3.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Fixed a potential security issue with the storage of ADA tokens. They are no longer cached and the the GCM actively attempts to remove any existing cached tokens.
  • Fixed issues related to the recent proxy support which resulted in some users being unable to use the feature.
  • Added support for bare Git repositories.
  • Added Cygwin detection at installation time to better support Cygwin users.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.2.2 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Fixes a critical issue, found in version 1.2.0, which causes authenticate and logon to Visual Studio Team Services to fail.
  • Fixes an issue, found in version 1.2.0, with storage of credentials with useHttpPath set.
  • Fixes an issue, found in version 1.2.0 and 1.2.1, with storage of basic credentials captured with the modal dialog.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.2.1 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Fixes a critical issue, found in version 1.2.0, which causes authenticate and logon to Visual Studio Team Services to fail.
  • Fixes an issue, found in version 1.2.0, with storage of credentials with useHttpPath set.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.2.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • New in this release:
  • Support for modal GUI prompts when authenticating with GitHub.
  • Support for HTTP proxy setups.
  • Support for git-config useHttpPath settings.
  • Credential preservation supported added.
  • Installer fixes and improvements.
  • Improvements when interacting with private TFS installations.
  • Notice: this release was found to contain a critical bug, it has been removed to prevent inconveniencing users
  • Features:
  • Secure password storage in the Windows Credential Store.
  • Multi-factor authentication support for Visual Studio Team Services and GitHub.
  • Personal Access Token generation and usage support for Visual Studio Team Services and GitHub.
  • Non-interactive mode support for Visual Studio Team Services backed by Azure Directory.
  • Highly configurable to support diverse users and automation.

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.1.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Secure password storage in the Windows Credential Store
  • Multi-factor authentication support for Visual Studio Online.
  • Two-factor authentication support for GitHub with modal dialog support
  • Personal Access Token generation and usage support for Visual Studio Online and GitHub
  • Non-interactive mode support for Visual Studio Online backed by Azure Directory
  • Optional settings for build agent optimization

New in Microsoft Git Credential Manager for Windows 1.0.0 (Aug 23, 2016)

  • Secure password storage in the Windows Credential Store
  • Multi-factor authentication support for Visual Studio Online.
  • Two-factor authentication support for GitHub
  • Personal Access Token generation and usage support for Visual Studio Online and GitHub
  • Non-interactive mode support for Visual Studio Online backed by Azure Directory
  • Optional settings for build agent optimization