| What's new in this version: GitHub Desktop 3.1.1
Fixed:
- App correctly remembers undo commit prompt setting
GitHub Desktop 3.0.8
Fixed:
- Fix system animations on Windows
- The app window doesn't overlap the taskbar on Windows
- The app window doesn't fit on the screen when using scaled UI on Windows
GitHub Desktop 3.0.7
Fixed:
- Do not show login prompt when repositories are fetched
Improved:
- On Apple silicon devices running unoptimized builds, auto-update on first run to an optimized build
GitHub Desktop 3.0.6
Added:
- Add Warp terminal integration for macOS
- Add context menu to the Current Branch and Current Repository toolbar
Fixed:
- Older versions of Sublime Text and SlickEdit are also recognized as external editors
- Fix commit shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd + Enter)
- Add PyCharm Community Edition support on macOS
- Unified diff line gutter context menu items for discard changes no longer enabled when whitespace is hidden
- 'Show Whitespace Changes' popover appears as expected on unified diff
- On pull or fetch, make sure the default branch is updated to match the repository settings
- Show 'Email' label on the preferences form when user is not signed in
- Fix invalid URL state while the "Clone Repository" modal is open
- Fix commit description with three lines overflowing when it shouldn't
- Fix notifications on Windows 10 builds prior to the Creators Update
- 'Update from default branch` menu item allows quick merge of upstream
Improved:
- Add ability to skip staggered release to ensure the latest version is downloaded
GitHub Desktop 3.0.4
- Upgrade embedded Git to 2.35.4
GitHub Desktop 3.0.3
Added:
- Add Aptana Studio support
Fixed:
- Fix crash when user's locale is unsupported by the spellchecker
- On Windows, remember the app's zoom level on update
- Fix Markdown syntax highlighting
Improved:
- Add context menu option to copy repository paths
- Allow copying paths when multiple files are selected
- Add support for SSH password prompts when accessing repositories
GitHub Desktop 3.0.2
Fixed:
- Fix crash launching the app on macOS High Sierra
- Terminate all GitHub Desktop processes on Windows when the app is closed
GitHub Desktop 3.0.1
Added:
- Add support for PyCharm Community Edition on Windows
- Add support for highlighting .mjs/.cjs/.mts/.cts files as JavaScript/TypeScript
Fixed:
- Prevent crash when encountering a large number of conflicts while checking for ability to merge branch
- Url encode branch names when 'Viewing Branch in Github' is selected
- Fix opening files with Android Studio
- Checks popover summary correctly reflects a successful conclusion when skipped or neutral checks are present
- Long lists of conflicted files to commit or files to discard can be scrolled
- Fix random crashes when external apps probe GitHub Desktop trampoline port
Improved:
- Display a banner when we have a pretext release note to highlight the new feature
- Enable interactions with notifications from previous app sessions
- Improve feedback about user permission to display notifications
- Add ability to have showcasing of features through release notes
- User can see all releases notes between their current version and the latest update
Removed:
- Outdated new drag and drop and split diff new feature callouts removed
GitHub Desktop 3.0.0
New:
- Get notified when your pull requests are reviewed
Fixed:
- Default to merging when pulling without a configured preference between merge or rebase
Improved:
- Add ability to re-run individual and failed GitHub Action checks
GitHub Desktop 2.9.15
Fixed:
- Support trusting repositories on network shares (Windows)
Improved:
- Redesigned dialog for re-running checks
GitHub Desktop 2.9.14
- Improved: Surface Git's warning about unsafe directories and provide a way to trust repositories not owned by the current user
GitHub Desktop 2.9.13
Added:
- Add ability to include or exclude multiple selected files for a commit from the context menu
- Add "View Branch on GitHub" to the branches menu
Fixed:
- Fix CI check status popover not closing when clicking on PR badge
- Fix checks list overflow handling on re-run checks dialog
- Pull requests adhere to temporal laws again
- Fix repository group header overflow when text is too long
- Clone dialog "Choose" button uses an open dialog for directory selection on Windows
Improved:
- Add a link under "Enable notifications" settings to the user's OS system notification settings
GitHub Desktop 2.9.12
Added:
- Add support for Brackets Editor on Windows
- Add support for JetBrains RubyMine on Windows
- Add support for JetBrains GoLand on Windows
- Add support for Android Studio on Windows
Fixed:
- Escape special characters when adding a file to .gitignore
- Show warning when attempting to commit files exceeding 100 MiB
- Allow selecting emojis in commit text
- Merge dialog options dropdown does not cause dialog scrolling
- Usernames displayed in repository list respect username casing
- Coauthor doesn't steal input focus while inputting commit message in squashing dialog
- Repository path validation for adding a repository doesn't erase keystrokes
- Command Line Tool ignores command aliases set by user on macOS
Improved:
- Relative time formatting consistent with dotcom
- Prompt to initialize Git LFS cannot be dismissed by clicking outside of it
- Add link to open fork settings when creating new branch on a forked repository
- Render native elements such as scrollbars and checkboxes as dark when using a dark theme
GitHub Desktop 2.9.10
- New: Initial support for system notifications when checks fail
- Fixed: Unicode emoji on Windows are rendered in the correct position
- Fixed: Fix crash logging under some circumstances
GitHub Desktop 2.9.9
Fixed:
- "Create New Repository" dialog preserves the path set from "Add Local Repository" dialog
- User guides now opens the correct page
- Fixes crash on some Windows machines
GitHub Desktop 2.9.8
Fixed:
- Unicode emoji on Windows no longer render as monochrome outlines
- App no longer hangs when discarding changes in some scenarios
- App no longer crashes intermittently when rebasing and cherry-picking
- Fix crash when attempting to move the app to the /Applications folder on macOS
- App no longer crashes when checking for updates while the closing the window
- Restore application icon in "Apps & Features" on Windows
Improved:
- Relative dates in branch menu and commit history match
GitHub Desktop 2.9.7
Added:
- Support pushing workflow files for GitHub Actions to GitHub Enterprise Server
- Support CLion as an external editor
Fixed:
Don't show web flow committer on GitHub Enterprise Server
- Cherry-pick success message always correctly reflects target branch
- Fix error managing remotes under some circumstances
- Add "Copy Relative File Path" option to changed files' context menu
- Fix CLI tool on macOS Monterey
- Fix close button in full screen mode on macOS
- Commit message dialog background styles match dialog
- Ensure job steps on pull request check run list are always present
Improved:
-Changes within lines are presented the same way in side-by-side and unified diffs
- Select integration tab automatically when changing default editor
- The check runs list for pull requests with multiple branches displays all actions workflow steps and headers
- Check run group headers and checks stay in view while scrolling the sub checks or job steps
- Take aliases into account when sorting repositories
- Support avatars on GitHub Enterprise Server
- Fetch before trying to follow a URL link to a specific branch
- Add "View on GitHub" context menu option to repository list items
- Signal when a commit summary is getting long
- Remove unnecessary punctuation in appearance settings
GitHub Desktop 2.9.6
Added:
- View and re-run the check runs for the checked out pull request
Fixed:
- Tooltip improvements and polish
- Stashing dialog no longer hangs when initiating cherry-pick in some circumstances
- Rebase no longer hangs after conflicts resolved when initiated through pull conflict error
GitHub Desktop 2.9.5
Added:
- Add custom tooltips for quicker and more helpful information
- Support PyCharm as an external editor
Fixed:
- Prevent inactive selected state from disappearing on lists
- Fix click area to select hunk on both sides of diff
- Replace dialog animations with fade when user prefers reduced motion
Improved:
- Warn users when files contain bidirectional Unicode text
- Change wording for default branch name option
GitHub Desktop 2.9.4
Added:
- Add syntax mapping for HAML
- Add support for WezTerm on macOS
- Add a menu item to view a committed file change on GitHub
Fixed:
- Diffs are scrolled to the top when switching between files
- Fix SSH prompt for unknown hosts in some scenarios
- Apply syntax highlighting when viewing a small change for the first time
- Wrap long email addresses in the misattributed commit warning popover
- Refresh diffs when application receives focus
- Only consider tokens invalid when 401 error comes from GitHub Enterprise
- Show "add repo" dialog when opening repo from CLI
- Continue merge flow after merge conflicts are resolved with external conflict tool
- Prevent crash on successful merge after conflicts resolved
- Use same width for hunk expansion handles as we do for line numbers
- Use the correct icon for diff expansion
Improved:
- Add offending file name to the file exceeds size limit error
- Show a message explaining why line selection is disabled when hiding whitespace
- Upgrade embedded Git to v2.32.0 on macOS, and to v2.32.0.windows.2 on Windows
- Remove gaps in the commit message container revealing a different background
- Add clearer verbiage in the "remove repository" dialog
- Update grammar for "repo deletion" and "couldn't find pull request" error messages
- Show confirmation dialog for SSH host key verification
GitHub Desktop 2.9.3
Fixed:
- Fix Notepad++ and RStudio integration on Windows
- Add minor version support for JetBrains IDEs on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.9.2
Fixed:
- Fix scrolling performance issue for large diffs
GitHub Desktop 2.9.1
Added:
- Add Fluent Terminal shell support
- Add support for IntelliJ CE for macOS
- Show number of lines changed in a commit
Fixed:
- Enable 'Open in External Editor' for bat/cmd/sh/exe files
- Green circle in progress dialog remains round when commits have long descriptions
- History tab shows all commits as the user scrolls down
- Remove border of Repository and Branch foldouts in dark theme
- Render links in commit messages when they are at the beginning of a line
- Show co-authors from undone commits
- Show SSH prompts (key passphrase, adding host, etc.) to users via dialog
Improved:
- Add support for more versions of JetBrains IDEs on Windows
- Change the diff gutter width based on number of lines in diff
- Check invalidated tokens and prompt the user to sign in again
- Double-click an option when switching branches to confirm how changed files are handled
- Improve auth error and prompt to suggest the user use a PAT instead of password
- Increase visibility of misattributed commit warning in dark mode
- Reduce time needed to make a commit
- Use "Recycle Bin" name only on Windows
- Windows users can use the system OpenSSH for their Git repositories
GitHub Desktop 2.9.0
New:
- Reorder commits with drag and drop in your commit history
- Create a branch from any commit in your history
- Amend the most recent commit on your branch
- Squash commits in the history tab with drag and drop and a context menu
- Squash and merge option available when merging branches
Added:
- Add support for Sublime Text 4 on Windows
Improved:
- Show warning before undoing commit if it potentially conflicts with changes in working directory
Fixed:
- Remove extra space in drag & drop tooltips
GitHub Desktop 2.8.3
Fixed:
- Renamed repositories no longer clash with new repositories of the same name
- Expanding files no longer shows duplicated lines
- Long emails are truncated in the Git config
Improved:
- Allow copying branch and repository names to clipboard
- Allow creating a new branch from filtering by just hitting Enter
GitHub Desktop 2.8.2
- Change log not available for this version
GitHub Desktop 2.8.1
- Fixed: Disable partial change selection in split view while whitespace changes are hidden
GitHub Desktop 2.8.0
New:
- Expand diffs to view more context around your changes
- Create aliases for repositories you want to be displayed differently in the repository list
Added:
- Hide whitespace in diffs on Changes tab
Fixed:
- Show correct state of remote branch when deleting local branches3
- Display the full branch name in a tooltip when hovering over a branch in the branches
Improved:
- Display full progress description when cloning a repository
- Cherry-pick multiple non-sequential commits
- Create a branch during cherry-picking via drag and drop
- Show an alert when the app fails to move itself to the Applications folder on macOS
- Use a save dialog when choosing where to clone a repo
GitHub Desktop 2.7.2
Added:
- Create branch during cherry-picking via the context menu
- Suggest macOS users move the app to `/Applications` to prevent issues
Fixed:
- Undo cherry-picking onto a remote branch now works as expected
- Dragging commits onto current branch no longer results in a broken state
- Get correct commit summary info in rebase
Improved:
- Cancel drag operation with escape key
- Cherry-pick commits onto a pull request with drag and drop
- Option to change the spellcheck language to English for Windows users whose system language is not English
- Update how privacy and usage stats info is communicated
- Remote Git operations are faster and less prone to errors on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.7.1
New:
- Cherry-picking is available! Copy commits from one branch to another using drag and drop or from a context menu
GitHub Desktop 2.7.0
Added:
- Add support for RStudio Editor
Improved:
- Use system theme as default
GitHub Desktop 2.6.6
Fixed:
- Commit attribution warning is not shown for emails with different capitalization
Improved:
- Upgrade embedded Git to v2.29.3 on macOS, and to v2.29.2.windows.4 on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.6.5
- Fixed: Performing remote Git operations could crash the app
GitHub Desktop 2.6.4
Added:
- Allow users to rename and delete branches via a new context menu on branches in the branches list
Fixed:
- Allow users to modify git config on a per repository basis
- The app is not maximized on macOS every time the user clicks on the app's icon in the dock
- Always respect the default branch name chosen by the user
- Notepad++ does not close when GitHub Desktop closes
Improved:
- Update app icon for Windows
- Suggest emails from GitHub accounts and warn about misattributed commits in the commit message area
- Suggest emails from GitHub accounts and warn about misattributed commits in onboarding and preferences
- Remote Git operations are faster and less prone to errors on Windows
- Automatic branch fast-forwarding is now faster
GitHub Desktop 2.6.3
Improved:
- Upgrade embedded Git to v2.29.2
- Enable spellcheck on commit summary and description
- Update app icon for macOS
Fixed:
- Remote Git operations (like cloning a repo) won't fail on old macOS versions
- Fast-forward all possible branches except the current branch when fetching
GitHub Desktop 2.6.2
Improved:
- Upgrade embedded Git LFS to 2.13.2
Fixed:
- Pull requests no longer fail to update until the user switches repositories
- Fork behavior changes are now reflected in the app immediately
- Checking out a pull request from a fork for the first time now correctly identifies the remote branch to create the branch from
- Don't offer to stash changes when clicking on the currently checked out branch in the branch list
- Forked repository remotes are no longer removed when there are local branches tracking them
- Avoid bright flash for users of the dark theme when launching the app maximized
- VSCodium is now detected as an editor on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.6.1
Improved:
- Clearer menu label for reverting commits
Fixed:
- Refresh branches after creating a new branch
- Correct image diff swipe mode layout
- Very large text diffs could cause the app to crash when viewed in split diff mode
- Let the user know when a checkout fails due to use of assume-unchanged or skip-worktree
- Always show confirmation prompt before overwriting existing stash entry
- The fullscreen keyboard shortcut on macOS now works when using split diff mode
GitHub Desktop 2.6.0
New:
- Split diffs! Toggle between viewing diffs in split or unified mode
Added:
- Use Page down, Page up, Home, and End keys to navigate and select items in lists
- Add `toml` syntax highlight
- Add support for Nova as external editor on macOS
Fixed:
- Restore Windows menu keyboard accessibility
- Actions in context menu of a non-selected file act on the chosen one instead of the previous one
- Correct title bar height on macOS Big Sur
- Fix broken issues links in release notes
- Fix overflow issues with long branch names
- Images fit correctly in the diff view when their sizes have changed
- Repository indicator refresh can no longer be manually triggered when disabled
- Resolving a conflicted file added in both the source and target branch no longer results in merge conflict markers appearing in the merge commit
- Small partial commit of very large text files no longer intermittently fails due to unexpected diff results
- Long commit message are scrollable again
Removed:
- Sign in to GitHub.com with username/password is no longer supported to improve account security
GitHub Desktop 2.5.7
Improved:
- Upgrade embedded Git LFS
GitHub Desktop 2.5.6
New:
- Newly created repositories use 'main' as the default branch name
- Users can configure the default branch name in Preferences/Options
- Show status of GitHub Action runs for pull requests
- Differentiate between draft and regular Pull Requests
Added:
- Periodic background fetch and status updates can now be disabled in the Advanced section of Preferences/Options
- Syntax highlighting for ASP.Net and unified diff / patch
Improved:
- Allow renaming the default branch
- Show which files are blocking a merge-like operation
- Updated icons and border radiuses to align with GitHub.com
- Show loading indicator when committing a merge
- Show confirmation that branch is already up to date when merging from default branch
- Enter key now initiates action in rebase and merge dialogs
- After failing to move a repository to Trash, show error and keep the repository listed in Desktop
- Email address validation in welcome flow and preferences dialog
- Show helpful error when attempting to clone non-existent or inaccessible GitHub repositories
Fixed:
- Don't update submodules when discarding files
- Full screen notification is removed after a few seconds when starting the app in full screen
- Update rebase progress parser to parse output from the merge rebase backend
- Only show full screen toast notification when making the app window full-screen
- Ensure application window doesn't overlap second monitor
- Use UNIX line endings in WSL GitHub helper script
Removed:
- Remove setting to disable all certificate validation in favor of new best-effort approach
GitHub Desktop 2.5.5
Fixed:
- Don't update submodules when discarding files
- Clicking on a branch in the compare branch list resets focus to the filter text box
GitHub Desktop 2.5.4
Added:
- Suggest to stash changes when trying to do an operation that requires a clean working directory
- Autocomplete users and issues from upstream repository when working in a fork
- Add Alacritty shell support
Fixed:
- Correct branch name in commit button when on an unborn branch
- Fix "Show in Explorer" in Windows when there are other files with the same name as the project folder
- Open the repository folder when clicking on "Show in Finder" in macOS
- Don't expand paths in the PATH environment variable during installation
- Prevent multiple search inputs from appearing in diffs
- Unable to toggle lines for partial commit of very large text files
- Fix BBEdit integration
- Fix VoiceOver navigation to re-enter application content in macOS
- Repositories with historical commits containing filenames with backslashes can now be cloned on Windows
- Valid gitignore files are now created for new Clojure, Fortran and Kotlin repositories in Windows
Improved:
- Enable discarding submodule working directory changes
- Surface progress estimation when cloning LFS repositories
- Performance and accuracy improvement when autocompleting issues and users
- Show only one error dialog when dragging multiple invalid folders to Desktop
- Pull request list is now keyboard accessible
- On Windows the Home and End keys can now be used to navigate lists
- Show progress spinner while waiting for a removed repository to get moved to trash (Windows)
- Dialogs now clear filter text boxes on Escape and closes on double Escape
- Display the selected changes count in the changes list header tooltip
GitHub Desktop 2.5.3
Added:
- Stash changes without switching branches
- Discard selection of lines from a file
Fixed:
- Display more readable messages for errors when cloning a repository
- Support launching Desktop from WSL on Windows
- Select correct branch to compare when two branches have similar names
- Make Ctrl/Cmd+W shortcut work in all dialogs
- Fix links when text wrapping is required in commit summaries
- Prevent crash when an opened repository doesn't have an owner on GitHub
- Sign in correctly when pressing "Enter" on the username/password authentication form
- Maintain selected files when navigating back to the Changes tab
- Maintain selected files when deleting a stash
Improved:
- Remove redundant progress text from Git error messages
- Remove flicker when switching between files in the changes tab
- Remove space between the number and the percent sign when showing the progress of a clone operation
- Automatically disable username and password authentication when the API no longer supports it
GitHub Desktop 2.5.1
- Fixed: enable setting to more easily work with maintained forks
GitHub Desktop 2.5.0
New:
- Add, push, and view Git tags on commit history in Desktop
Added:
- Offer option to choose file from one branch or the other when resolving merge conflicts
- Add context menu for highlighted text in diff view
Fixed:
- Retain default branch option in "Create Branch" dialog when user focuses away from Desktop
Improved:
- Clean up copy for onboarding sign-in flow
- Emphasize signing in to GitHub via browser due to username/password deprecation
- Improve error message when publishing a private repository fails
- Offer to retry if cloning a repository fails
GitHub Desktop 2.4.3
- Change log not available for this version
GitHub Desktop 2.4.2
Fixed:
- Prevent autocomplete suggestions from overlapping when loading many results
- Update embedded Git to address security vulnerability
Improved:
- Redesign metadata shown in commit history
GitHub Desktop 2.4.1
Added:
- Indicate which commits have not yet been pushed to the remote in "History" tab
- Add support for JetBrains Rider as external editor
- Add support for Notepad++ as external editor on Windows
Fixed:
- Update install location of Typora to fix detection issue
- Restore developer tools accelerator on Windows
- Use upstream repository in commit message links to GitHub
- Reset scroll position to the top of the history tab after switching repositories
- Allow user to cancel rebase flow when warned about force pushing
- Update embedded Git to address security vulnerability
Improved:
- Lighten scrollbars in dark theme for higher contrast
- Display pull requests from upstream repository in pull request list
GitHub Desktop 2.4.0
New:
- Set Git proxy environment variables from system configuration automatically
Added:
- Enable creating a GitHub issue from app menu and keyboard shortcut
- Add editor support for IntelliJ Idea on macOS
- Add editor support for PhpStorm and update WebStorm
- Add shell support for Windows Terminal
- Support keyboard scrolling in diffs
Fixed:
- Ensure branch protection warning works when branch names contain special characters
- Ensure intro page is responsive when resizing the window
- Ensure local branch is also deleted when deleting a branch that no longer exists on the remote
- Restore negative space in "Files selected" graphic for Dark Theme
- Support selecting text in error dialogs
- Prevent bringing changes to another branch from failing silently
- Save the user's position within "History" and "Changes" tabs when switching
Improved:
- Update the remote url when a repository's name changes on GitHub
- Allow "Open in Desktop" button from pull requests on GitHub to open in a local fork in Desktop
- Support automatically switching between Dark and Light Theme on Windows
- Format errors containing raw Git output with fixed-width font
- Modify "View on GitHub" menu item to open upstream for local fork repositories
- Create new branches in forks from the default branch of the upstream repo
- Graduate Dark Theme out of beta
GitHub Desktop 2.3.1
Fixed:
- Don't display erroneous Git error when creating a fork
- Remove stray characters from Git progress indicators on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.3.0
New:
- Prompt users to create a fork if they fail to push to a GitHub repository due to permissions
- Show link to upstream pull requests in pull request list of a fork
- Show a warning if the user doesn't have write access to push to the repository and offer to make a fork
- Provide configuration in Preferences to always bring or leave changes when switching branches
- Prompt users to re-authorize if required by any of their GitHub organizations
Fixed:
- Show proper dialog when push fails due to missing workflow scope
- Take users to the correct page on GitHub.com when opening a pull request in browser from a fork
- Don't suggest creating a pull request if the current branch has an open pull request targeting an upstream repo
- Remove false branch protection warning when switching branches
- Show branch protection warning after checking out protected branches outside Desktop
Improved:
- Only show branch protection warning when changed files are present
- Show an error when editing a Git configuration file fails due to existing lock file
- Update design and layout for GitHub Desktop preferences
GitHub Desktop 2.2.4
- New: Warn when committing to a protected branch
- New: Warn when committing to a repository you don't have write access to
- Added: Adding integration for Xcode as external editor
- Fixed: Update embedded Git to address security vulnerabilities
- Fixed:Changed wording to match git autocrlf behavior
- Fixed: Don't dismiss dialogs when dragging from the dialog to the backdrop
- Fixed: Fix arrow key navigation of Changes and History lists
- Fixed: Handle multibyte characters in names
- Fixed: Keep PR badge on top of progress bar
- Fixed: Prevent application crash when background process spawn fails
- Fixed: Show autocomplete suggestions on top of CodeMirror author input
- Fixed: Standardize dialogs' button orders
- Improved: Make no newline indicator in file diffs readable by screenreaders
GitHub Desktop 2.2.3
- Fixed: Prevent text overflow in crash dialog
- Fixed: Address warnings on macOS Catalina preventing app from opening after install
- Improved: Update to most recent gitignore templates
GitHub Desktop 2.2.2
Added:
- Onboarding tutorial animations help guide users to the next action
- Prompt users to re-authenticate if they are unable to push changes to a workflow file
Improved:
- Starting the tutorial is more prominent when getting started with GitHub Desktop
- Use a different editor if previously selected editor cannot be found
GitHub Desktop 2.2.1
Fixed:
- Improperly formatted url pre-filled in "Clone Repository" dialog
- VSCodium integration on macOS
- Partially hidden icon in "Open Pull Request" button
GitHub Desktop 2.2.0
New:
- Interactive tutorial for new users to become productive using Git and GitHub more quickly
Added:
Support pushing workflow files for GitHub Actions to GitHub.com
Enforce web flow authentication for users who are part of orgs using single sign-on
Support CodeRunner as an external editor
Support VSCodium as an external editor
Fixed:
- Commit description shadow visibility updates when typing
- Commit summaries with comma delimited issues are not parsed
- File path truncation in merge conflicts dialog
- Git configuration fields in onboarding were not pre-filled from user's profile
- Keep conflicting untracked files when bringing changes to another branch
- Make app's version selectable in "About" dialog
Improved:
- Application menu bar is visible when no repositories have been added to the app
- Support stashing lots of untracked files on Windows
- Surface errors from branch creation to user
GitHub Desktop 2.1.3
Fixed:
- Changes from remote branch erroneously displayed on corresponding branch on Desktop
- Sign-in flow for Windows users not possible via OAuth
GitHub Desktop 2.1.2
Added:
- Syntax highlighting support for 20 more programming languages
- Kitty shell support for macOS
- Atom editor support on Windows for beta and nightly channels
Fixed:
- File checkboxes and line selection in diffs are not disabled when committing
- Small images are scaled down too much in two-up image rendering
- Manual conflict resolution for binary files always chooses same version
- Branch pruner errors on "orphaned" branches
- Prevent CodeMirror search plugin from stealing registered global keyboard shortcuts
- Update embedded Git on Windows to remove erroneous errors
- Menu state not updated for macOS after performing some actions
- Error message could appear outside the boundary of its container
Improved:
- Improved error handling when trying to rebase a ref that doesn't exist
- Expand hover area on repository list items
- Always fast forward recent branches after fetch
- Ensure recent branches are updated during remote interactions
GitHub Desktop 2.1.1
- Fixed: Update embedded Git on Windows to address security vulnerability
GitHub Desktop 2.1.0
New:
- Branches that have been merged and deleted on GitHub.com will now be pruned after two weeks
Added:
- Search text within diffs using shortcut
- Keyboard shortcut for "Discard All Changes" menu item
Fixed:
- Repository name moves cursor to end in "Create Repository" dialog
- Keyboard navigation inside "Compare Branch" list
- New repository does not write description into README
- Disable "Discard" and "Restore" buttons while restoring stash
- "Unable to restore" warning message appears momentarily when restoring stash
- Unresponsive app on macOS if user switches away from file dialog
- Launching app on Windows after being maximized does not restore correct window state
Improved:
- Update mentions of "Enterprise" to "Enterprise Server" in app
- Update license and .gitignore templates for initializing a new repository
- "Authentication failed" dialog provides more help to diagnose issue
GitHub Desktop 2.0.4
Fixed:
- Refresh for Enterprise repositories did not handle API error querying branches
- Missing "Discard all changes" context menu in Changes header
- "Select all" keyboard shortcut not firing on Windows
GitHub Desktop 2.0.3
- Fixed: Crash when loading repositories after signing in through the welcome flow
GitHub Desktop 1.6.6
Fixed:
- Clicking "Undo" doesn't repopulate summary in commit form
- Handle error when unable to create log file for app
- Crash when selecting text while the underlying diff changes
GitHub Desktop 1.6.5
- Change log not available for this version
GitHub Desktop 1.6.4
Fixed:
- Embedded Git not working for core.longpath usage in some environments
- "Recover missing repository" can get stuck in a loop
GitHub Desktop 1.6.3
New:
- Display "pull with rebase" if a user has set this option in their Git config
Fixed:
- Context menu does not open when right clicking on the edges of files in Changes list
- Display question mark in image when no commit selected in dark theme
- No left padding for :emoji:/@user/#issue autocomplete forms
- Reinstate missing image and update illustration in dark theme when no local changes exist
- Resizing the diff area preserves text selection range
- Text selection in wrapped diff lines now allows selection of individual lines
Improved:
- Add option to fetch when a user needs to pull changes from the remote before pushing
- Enable Git protocol v2 for fetch/push/pull operations
- Moving mouse pointer outside visible diff while selecting a range of lines in a partial commit now automatically scrolls the diff
- Sign in form validates both username and password
- Update GitHub logo in "About" dialog
GitHub Desktop 1.6.2
Added:
- Allow users to also resolve manual conflicts when resolving merge conflicts
- Automatic switching between Dark and Light modes on macOS
- Crystal and Julia syntax highlighting
- Lua and Fortran syntax highlighting
Fixed:
- Abbreviated commits are not long enough for large repositories
- App menu bar visible on hover on Windows when in "Let’s get started" mode
- Fix pointy corners on commit message text area
- Inconsistent "Reveal in …" labels for context menus
- Merge conflict conflict did not ask user to resolve some binary files
- Prevent concurrent fetches between user and status indicator checks
- Remember scroll positions in History and Changes lists
Improved:
- Guided merge conflict resolution only commits changes relevant to the merge
- Use higher contrast color for links in "Merge Conflicts" dialog
- Add link to all release notes in Release Notes dialog
- Arrow for renamed/copied changes when viewing commit
- Updated verbiage for ignoring the files
GitHub Desktop 1.6.1
- Fixed: Don't show "No local changes" view when switching between changed files
GitHub Desktop 1.5.1
Added:
- Provide keyboard shortcut for getting to commit summary field
- Add hover states on list items and tabs
- Add Dockerfile syntax highlighting
- Support Visual SlickEdit as an external editor
Fixed:
- Allow repositories to be cloned to empty folders
- Prevent creating branch with detached HEAD from reverting to default branch
- Fix "Open In External Editor" for Atom/VS Code on Windows when paths contain spaces
- Persist Branch List and Pull Request List filter text
- Retain renamed branches position in recent branches list
- Prevent avatar duplication when user is co-author and committer
- Provide keyboard selection for the "Clone a Repository" dialog
- Close License & Open Source Notices dialog upon pressing "Enter" in dialog
- Dismiss "Merge into Branch" dialog with escape key
- Focus branch selector when comparing to branch from menu
- Reverse fold/unfold icons for expand/collapse commit summary
Improved:
- Allow toggling between diff modes
- Show focus around full input field
- Make lists scroll to bring selected items into view
- Consistently order the options for adding a repository
- Clear merge conflicts banner after there are no more conflicted files
GitHub Desktop 1.5.0
New:
- Clone, create, or add repositories right from the repository dropdown
- Drag-and-drop to add local repositories from macOS tray icon
Added:
- Resolve merge conflicts through a guided flow
- Allow merging branches directly from branch dropdown
- Commit file list now has "Copy File Path" context menu action
- Keyboard shortcut for "Rename Branch" menu item
- Notify users when a merge is successfully completed
Fixed:
- "Compare on GitHub" menu item enabled when no repository is selected
- Diff viewer blocks keyboard navigation using reverse tab order
- Launching Desktop from browser always asks to clone repository
- Publish dialog displayed on push when repository is already published
Improved:
- "Publish Repository" dialog handles emoji characters
- Avoid repository checks when no path is specified in "Create Repository" dialog
- Clarify the direction of merging branches
- Default commit summary more explanatory and consistent with GitHub.com
- Display a more informative message on merge dialog when branch is up to date
- Getting a repository's status only blocks other operations when absolutely necessary
- Display current branch in header of merge dialog
- Sanitize repository name before publishing to GitHub
- Show the branch name in "Update From Default Branch" menu item
- Update license and .gitignore templates for initializing a new repository
GitHub Desktop 1.4.2
New:
- Show resolved conflicts as resolved in Changes pane
Added:
- Add Terminator, MATE Terminal, and Terminology shells
Fixed:
- Update embedded Git to version 2.19.1 for security vulnerability fix
- Always show commit history list when History tab is clicked
- Stop overriding the protocol of a detected GitHub repository
- Update sign in error message
- Correct overflowing T&C and License Notices dialogs
Improved:
- Add default commit message for single-file commits
- Refresh commit list faster after reverting commit via UI
- Add repository path to Remove repository dialog
- Display whether user entered incorrect username or email address
- Update Discard Changes dialog text when discarding all changes
GitHub Desktop 1.4.1
Added:
- Support for opening repository in Cygwin terminal
Fixed:
- 'Compare to Branch' menu item not disabled when modal is open
- Co-author form does not show/hide for newly-added repository
- Desktop command line always suffixes `.git` to URL when starting a clone
- Dialog styling issue for dark theme users on Windows
- No message shown when filter returns no results in Clone Repository view
Improved:
- Branch names cannot start with a '+' character
- Clone dialog re-runs filesystem check when re-focusing on Desktop
- Commit disabled when commit summary is only spaces
- Commit summary expander sometimes shown when not needed
- Error handling when looking for merge base of a missing ref
- Warning if branch exists on remote when creating branch
GitHub Desktop 1.4.0
New:
- When an update is available for GitHub Desktop, release notes can be viewed in Desktop
- Detect merge conflicts when comparing branches
Fixed:
- Avoid double checkout warning when opening a pull request in Desktop
- Error when publishing repository is now associated with the right tab
- Disable affected menu items when on detached HEAD
- Show border when commit description is expanded
- GitLab URL which corresponds to GitHub repository of same name cloned GitHub repository
- Caret in co-author selector is hidden when dark theme enabled
- Authenticating to GitHub Enterprise fails when user has no emails defined
Improved:
- Avoid multiple lookups of default remote
GitHub Desktop 1.3.5
Fixed:
- Disable delete button while deleting a branch
- History now avoids calling log.showSignature if set in config
- Start blocking the ability to add local bare repositories
- Revert workaround for tooltip issue on Windows
Improved:
- Error message when publishing to missing organisation
- Don't hide commit details when commit description is expanded
GitHub Desktop 1.3.4
Improved:
- Cloning message uses remote repo name not file destination
- Support VSCode user scope installation
GitHub Desktop 1.3.3
Fixed:
- Maximize and restore app on Windows does not fill available space
- 'Clone repository' menu item label is obscured on Windows
- User can toggle files when commit is in progress
Improved:
- Repository indicator background work
GitHub Desktop 1.3.2
Fixed:
- Bug fix for background checks not being aware of missing repositories
- Check the local state of a repository before performing Git operations
- Switch to history view for default branch when deleting current branch during a compare
- Handle missing .git directory inside a tracked repository
GitHub Desktop 1.3.1
- Fixed: Background Git operations on missing repositories are not handled as expected
GitHub Desktop 1.2.6
- Fixed: Visual indicator for upcoming feature should not be shown
GitHub Desktop 1.2.5
- Fixed: Feature flag for upcoming feature not applied correctly
GitHub Desktop 1.2.4
New:
- Dark Theme preview
Added:
- Syntax highlighting for Cake files
- WebStorm support for macOS
Fixed:
- Compare tab appends older commits when scrolling to bottom of list
- Remove temporary directory after Git LFS operation completes
- Unable to compare when two branches exist
- Unhandled errors when refreshing pull requests fails
Improved:
- Remove context menu needs to hint if a dialog will be shown
- Upgrade embedded Git LFS
- Update banner message clarifies that only Desktop needs to be restarted
- Discard Changes context menu entry should contain ellipses when user needs to confirm
- Initializing syntax highlighting components
- Only show overflow shadow when description overflows
- Changes tab displays number of changed files instead of dot
GitHub Desktop 1.2.3
Fixed:
- No autocomplete when searching for co-authors
- Error when checking out a PR from a fork
GitHub Desktop 1.2.2
Fixed:
- Make cURL/schannel default to using the Windows certificate store
- Restore text selection highlighting in diffs
GitHub Desktop 1.2.1
Added:
- Brackets support for macOS
- Pull request number and author are included in fuzzy-find filtering
Fixed:
- Decreased the max line length limit
- Updated embedded Git to 2.17.1 to address upstream security issue
Improved:
- Display the difference in file size of an image in the diff view
GitHub Desktop 1.2.0
New:
- History now has ability to compare to another branch and merge outstanding commits
- Support for selecting more than one file in the changes list
- Render bitmap images in diffs
Added:
- Add PowerShell Core support for Windows and macOS
- Add MacVim support for macOS
- Syntax highlighting for JavaServer Pages (JSP)
- Syntax highlighting for Haxe files
- Syntax highlighting for R files
Fixed:
- 'Open in Shell' on Linux ensures Git is on PATH
- Pressing 'Enter' on filtered Pull Request does not checkout
- Alert icon shrinks in rename dialog when branch name is long
- 'Open in Desktop' performs fetch to ensure branch exists before checkout
- 'Open in Default Program' on Windows changes the window title
- Skip fast-forwarding when there are many eligible local branches
- Image diffs not working for files with upper-case file extension
- Syntax highlighting not working for files with upper-case file extension
- Error when creating Git LFS progress causes clone to fail
- 'Open File in External Editor' always opens a new instance
- 'Select All' shortcut now works for changes list
Improved:
- Automatically add valid repository when using command line interface
- Always fast-forward the default branch
- Warn when trying to rename a published branch
- Added context menu for files in commit history
- Discarding all changes always prompts for confirmation
- Getting list of changed files is now more efficient when dealing with thousands of files
- Checking out a Pull Request may skip unnecessary fetch
- Commit summary now has a hint to indicate why committing is disabled
- Pull request status text now matches format on GitHub
- Add escape hatch to disable hardware acceleration when launching
GitHub Desktop 1.1.1
New:
- Render WebP images in diffs
Fixed:
- Edit context menus in commit form input elements
- Escape behavior for Pull Request list does not match Branch List
- Keep caret position after inserting completion for emoji/mention
- Handle error events when watching files used to get Git LFS output
- Potential race condition when opening a fork pull request
- Show placeholder image when no pull requests found
- Disable commit summary and description inputs while commit in progress
- Ensure pull request cache is cleared after last pull request merged
- Focus two-factor authentication dialog on input
- Branches button no longer disabled while on an unborn branch
- Delete gitignore file when all entries cleared in Repository Settings
- Add visual indicator that a folder can be dropped on Desktopsilaos!
- Attempt to focus the application window on macOS after signing in via the browser
- Refresh issues when user manually fetches
Improved:
- Add `Discard All Changes...` to context menu on changed file list
- Improve contrast for button labels in app toolbar
- Speed up check for submodules when discarding
- Make the keychain known issue more clear within Desktop
- Continue past the 'diff too large' message and view the diff
- Repository association might not have expected prefix
- Add message to gitignore dialog when not on default branch
- Hide Desktop-specific forks in Branch List
- Disregard accidental whitespace when cloning a repository by URL
- Show alert icon in repository list when repository not found on disk
- Repository list now closes after removing last repository
- Move forget password link after the password dialog to match expected tab order
- More descriptive text in repository toolbar button when no repositories are tracked
- Context menu in Changes tab now supports opening file in your preferred editor
GitHub Desktop 1.1.0
New:
- Check out pull requests from collaborators or forks from within Desktop
- View the commit status of the branch when it has an open pull request
Added:
- Add RubyMine support for macOS
- Add TextMate support for macOS
- Syntax highlighting for Elixir files
Fixed:
- Update layout of branch blankslate image
- Expanded avatar stack in commit summary gets cut off
- Clear repository filter when switching tabs
- Avoid crash when unable to launch shell
- Ensure renames are detected when viewing commit diffs
- Fetch default remote if it differs from the current
- Handle Git errors when .gitmodules are malformed
- Handle error when "where" is not on PATH
- Ignore action assumes CRLF when core.autocrlf is unset
- Prevent duplicate entries in co-author autocomplete list
- Renames not detected when viewing commit diffs
- Support legacy usernames as co-authors
Improved:
- Update branch button text from "New" to "New Branch"
- Add fuzzy search in the repository, branch, PR, and clone FilterLists
- Tidy up commit summary and description layout in commit list
- Use smaller default size when rendering Gravatar avatars
- Show fetch progress when initializing remote for fork
- Remove references to Hubot from the user setup page
- Error handling around ENOENT
- Clear repository filter text when switching tabs
- Allow window to accept single click on focus
- Disable drag-and-drop interaction when a popup is in the foreground
GitHub Desktop 1.0.13
New:
- Commit together with co-authors
- PhpStorm is now a supported external editor on macOS
Improved:
- Update embedded Git to 2.16.1
- Blank slate view is now more responsive when zoomed
- Documentation fix for Open in Shell resource
- Improved error handling for Linux
- Allow links in unexpanded summary to be clickable
Fixed:
- Update Electron to 1.7.11 to address security issue
- Allow double dashes in branch name
- Sort the organization list
- Check out PRs from a fork
- Confirm deleting branch when it has an open PR
- Defer user/email validation in Preferences
- Checkout progress did not include branch name
- Don't block branch switching when in detached HEAD
- Handle discarding submodule changes properly
- Show tooltip with additional info about the build status
- Update placeholders to support Linux distributions
- Refresh local commit list when switching tabs
GitHub Desktop 1.0.12
New:
- Syntax highlighting for Rust files
- Syntax highlighting for Clojure cljc, cljs, and edn files
Improved:
- Prevent creating a branch in the middle of a merge
- Truncate long repo names in panes and modals to fit into a single line
- Keyboard navigation support in pull request list
Fixed:
- Inconsistent caret behavior in text boxes when using certain keyboard layouts
- Only render the organizations list when it has orgs
- Checkout now handles situations where a ref exists on multiple remotes
- Retain accounts on desktop when losing connectivity
- Missing argument in FullScreenInfo that could prevent app from launching
GitHub Desktop 1.0.11
New:
- Highlight substring matches in the "Branches" and "Repositories" list when filtering
- Add preview for ico files
- Fallback to Gravatar for loading avatars
- Provide syntax highlighting for Visual Studio project files
- Provide syntax highlighting for F# fsx and fsi files
- Provide syntax highlighting for Kotlin files
- Provide syntax highlighting for Clojure
Improved:
- Toggle the "Repository List" from the menu
- Prevent saving of disallowed character strings for your name and email
- Error messages now appear at the top of the "Create a New Repository" dialog
- "Repository List" header is now "Github.com" for consistency
- Rename the "Install Update" button to "Quit and Install Update"
Fixed:
- Fix ordering of commit history when your branch and tracking branch have both changed
- Prevent creating a branch that starts with a period
- Branch names are properly encoded when creating a pull request
- Re-enable all the menu items after closing a popup
- Removes option to delete remote branch after it's been deleted
GitHub Desktop 1.0.10
New:
- ColdFusion Builder is now a supported external editor
- VSCode Insiders build is now a supported external editor
- BBEdit is now a supported external editor
- Hyper is now a supported shell on Windows too
- Swift is now syntax highlighted
- Vue.js is now syntax highlighted
- CoffeeScript is now syntax highlighted
- Cypher is now syntax highlighted
- .hpp is now syntax highlighted as C++
- ML-like languages are now syntax highlighted
- Objective-C is now syntax highlighted
- SQL is now syntax highlighted
Improved:
- Better message on the 'Publish Branch' button when HEAD is unborn
- Better error message when trying to push to an archived repository
- Avoid excessive background fetching when switching repositories
- Ignore menu events sent when a modal is shown
Fixed:
- Parse changed files whose paths |
