release/0.12.26

What's Changed

• Improved app performance when manipulating branches
• Fixes a bug where in some cases, moving a file between lanes or commits fails due to UI reactivity issues
• Improved detection of Pull Request templates
• Adds some keyboard short keys (see #4884)
• Fixes a bug with Markdown rendering from Pull Request descriptions
• Fixes an issue where the app was unable to work with repositories on a BTRFS filesystem (Linux)
• Organize project settings with tabs
• Fixes a UI bug witch scrolling while dragging a file or a diff
• Fixes a bug where for some remotes the app fails to create Pull Request with a "head invalid" message
• Fixes a UI issue where files with locked hunks don't indicate exactly which hunk is locked

Full Changelog: release/0.12.25...release/0.12.26

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release/0.12.25

What's Changed

• Adds support for arrow-key navigation and selection of files
• Adds the ability to force push a branch after removing a commit
• Improved file/diff checkboxes behavior during committing
• Improved markdown rendering when previewing PRs
• Fixes an issue preventing some Linux users from opening links from within the app
• Fixes a bug where discarding the deletion of a file did not work
• Fixes a bug where discarding the creation of a new (untracked) file did not work
• Fixes a Windows Subsystem for Linux bug where if the app is closed while maximized, it can't be re-opened
• Fixes a bug where when deleting a branch lane, under some conditions not all changes are correctly cleaned up
• The "Create PR" button is now going to be disabled if there is no integration configured

New Contributors

• @Zamoca42 made their first contribution in #4864

Full Changelog: release/0.12.24...release/0.12.25

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release/0.12.24

What's Changed

• Adds the ability to remove a project from the error page
• Adds support for custom pull request template paths
• Fixes an issue where discarding a file used to discard changes to that file across all lanes
• Fixes an issue where pressing "enter" in the commit title does not move the text down
• Fixes a bug where the error page is not rendered correctly

Full Changelog: release/0.12.23...release/0.12.24

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release/0.12.23

What's Changed

• The managed branch gitbutler/integration the app uses has been renamed to gitbutler/workspace to more accurately reflect it's purpose

Full Changelog: release/0.12.21...release/0.12.22

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release/0.12.22

What's Changed

• Improved app performance (specifically with larger repos)
• Fixes a bug preventing the cloning new repos from an https remote
• Fixes a bug where when a remote branch is applied, the app doesn't recognize that the rebased commits are the same
• Allows discarding of changes to binary files from the app
• Allows for multi-file selection from expanded commits
• Updated tooltips
• Fixes drag-and-drop visual glitches affecting some Linux users
• Fixes a link where the links to branches at the remote did not work in the case of self-hosted GitLab
• Fixes an bug where the info-popup after a conflicting branch is auto-stashed does not contain the branch name

New Contributors

• @fgLouro made their first contribution in #4775

Full Changelog: release/0.12.21...release/0.12.22

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release/0.12.21

What's Changed

• Adds the ability to clone repositories from SSH remotes
• Adds an experimental feature that allows editing of a specific commit (similar to git interactive rebase)
• Adds the ability to manually check for app updates from the menu bar
• Improves the performance of fetching branch details (while scrolling the branches list)
• When creating a PR with the app, if there is a template, it will use it
• Draft PRs badges are now rendered in a visually distinct way
• Adds the zoom in / zoom out functionality to the menu bar under "View"
• Improved app window drag-ability (the window can now be dragged from more places)
• Minor updates to the layout, graphics, styles
• Fixes an issue where it is not possible to back out of / cancel adding of a new project
• Fixes a UI bug where tooltips can be rendered behind context menus instead on top of them
• Fixes an issue where opening of links is broken for some Linux distributions
• Fixes a UI issue with reordering of branch lanes
• Fixes an issue where images in Pull Request descriptions are not rendered
• Fixes an issue where in some cases user avatars are not loaded
• Fixes an issue with the app UI zoom in / out short keys for non-US keyboard layouts
• Fixes an issue where with some Linux distributions, not all dependencies are packaged correctly
• Fixes a bug with git commit hooks where the app does was not using the default shell

New Contributors

• @Comnir made their first contribution in #4671
• @yerke made their first contribution in #4749

Full Changelog: release/0.12.20...release/0.12.21

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release/0.12.20

This release includes an important security fix. If you are on versions 0.12.17 - 0.12.19, please upgrade as soon as possible.

What's Changed

• Fixes an potential vulnerability related to the content being displayed in the UI
• Committing will now fail if git author has never been set (change from previously defaulting to "GitButler" as a committer if author was not set)
• Removes the ability of the app to add unknown Git ssh hosts to the list of known hosts
• Improves the handling of the case when a repository directory is moved (allowing the project to be removed if the directory doesn't exist)
• UI: The avatar icons Group avatars in the branch sidebar when there are many contributors to a branch
• UI: Provide links to git hosts on branch preview pages when unauthenticated to GitHub

Full Changelog: release/0.12.19...release/0.12.20

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release/0.12.19

What's Changed

• Improves the app performance for repositories with many branches (>1000)

Full Changelog: release/0.12.18...release/0.12.19

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release/0.12.18

What's Changed

• Adds the ability to delete unapplied branches
• UI: Fixes an issue where the app does not load the correct font
• UI: Adds a better highlight for the selected item in the sidebar

Full Changelog: release/0.12.17...release/0.12.18

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release/0.12.17

What's Changed

Branches sidebar

• Overhauled the sidebar UI: branches now show author avatars, lines added/removed, number of commits, last change timestamp
• Simplified filtering - branches are now organized with a "segmented control" into "all", "PRs" and "Local" groups
• Fixes an issue where the sidebar used to show duplicated branches
• Improved performance of getting branch related data
• Improved branch searching

Diff rendering

• The diff will now highlight exactly which word / character were modified
• Improved copy-pasting from diffs
• Improved rendering performance
• Sexy diffs: adds an experimental option (enabled in settings) that renders changed parts of the diff with strikethrough
• Makes hunk dragging area more consistent and predictable
• Improved contrast in dark mode

Other

• The gitbutler/integration top commit is now an octopus merge, instead of a squash of virtual branches - this makes the "git blame" info of virtual branches appear correctly in other tools (Thanks @DrJume for this idea)
• It is now possible to clone HTTPS repos within the app
• Makes it once again possible to amend hunks into commits below the top one
• Adds options for GPT 4o mini and Claude 3.5 Sonnet models in the AI settings menu

Bugfixes:

• Fixes an issue where the app update popover can not be closed
• Fixes an issue in repos with submodules where when applying a branch the app may treat submodule files as if they are not part of a submodule
• Fixes an issue where for some remotes, the link for previewing a branch did not work

New Contributors

• @patelka2211 made their first contribution in #4593

Full Changelog: release/0.12.16...release/0.12.17

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