What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Show real diffs for a staged addition instead of the whole file (issue #370) by @pcambra in #758
• [Worktree] Offer to repair worktree links after the main repository moves by @goneng in #763
• Use latest objective-git pointer by @hannesa2 in #770
• Ability to use git refs migrate --ref-format=reftable by @hannesa2 in #769

Bug fix

• Fix the sidebar losing the selected branch after a rebase by @goneng in #760
• Fix repository folder drops on the Dock icon by @johndouthat in #765
• Fix gitx --version reporting a stale version by @goneng in #771
• Fix commands sometimes returning empty output when many run at once by @goneng in #774
• Fix notarization failing at random when the Apple service is slow by @goneng in #772
• Fix the git path fallback freezing launch when validation fails by @goneng in #766
• Fix the diffstat line count hover in the commit details by @goneng in #773

Pipeline

• Use Homebrew's autobump for the cask-bump by @goneng in #747
• Fix the arm64 CI build failing to link openssl by @goneng in #764

Tests

• Address review feedback on PR #765 tests by @hannesa2 in #767

Other Changes

• fix deprecated libgit2 API usage in gitdir discovery by @hannesa2 in #761

New Contributors

• @pcambra made their first contribution in #758
• @johndouthat made their first contribution in #765

Full Changelog: 1.7.1...1.8

What's Changed

Bug fix

• [UI] Fix a Read-Only 'Warnings' tabs and also fix Tab-order and behaviour by @goneng in #756
• Fix Open in Terminal running commands found in the repository path by @goneng in #759

Pipeline

• Remove zip from uploaded artifacts by @hannesa2 in #757
• Keep the Homebrew cask intact when its layout changes by @goneng in #752

Full Changelog: 1.7...1.7.1

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Support choosing the date-format for the history pane's commit date by @goneng in #693
• Show every worktree in the sidebar as the branch it holds by @goneng in #709
• Copy a ref's name to the clipboard from its menu by @goneng in #711
• Offer opening iTerm2 as a tab instead of a new window (issue #712) by @goneng in #713
• Support choosing light, dark, or the system appearance (issue #714) by @goneng in #715
• Add make-targets that format the lines a branch changed by @goneng in #728
• Show enabled/disabled state on Enable Terminal Usage menu item by @hannesa2 in #724
• [Worktree] Prune worktrees, and lock or unlock them (part 3) by @goneng in #723
• [Worktree] Add and remove worktrees (part 4) by @goneng in #727
• [Worktree] Find a worktree again after its folder was moved (part 5) by @goneng in #731
• Offer a force push with lease when a push is rejected by @goneng in #749
• List the suppressible confirmation dialogs in Preferences by @goneng in #750

Bug fix

• Report when a build runs against stale framework headers by @goneng in #694
• Fix the screenshot tests all photographing the same view by @goneng in #695
• Cosmetic: Fix the checked-out branch badge being dim and never updating by @goneng in #697
• Fix keyboard navigation in the Open Recent dialog by @goneng in #725
• Fix a spurious invalid git path alert at login by @goneng in #748
• [UI] Fix images and branch labels showing wrong colors in dark mode by @goneng in #730
• [UI] Fix the Source / Blame / History bar being unreadable in dark mode by @goneng in #751
• Fix the dialog warnings test failing on master by @goneng in #755

Pipeline

• Detect new screenshots by @hannesa2 in #696
• Bump objective-git to stop building the libgit2 test suite by @goneng in #708
• Update Xcode version 27 and OS in BuildPR workflow by @hannesa2 in #701
• Only upload unit test results when the tests failed by @hannesa2 in #737
• Bump screenshot script by @hannesa2 in #733
• No noisy screenshot compare by @hannesa2 in #740
• Apply objective-git master with some CI improvements by @hannesa2 in #741
• Apply fuzz before the early identical-image check in screenshot compare by @hannesa2 in #743

Dependencies

• MGScopeBar add Swift package support by @hannesa2 in #707
• Objective C latest master by @hannesa2 in #717
• ObjectiveC bump Xcconfig 1.1 by @hannesa2 in #718
• Migrate GTFilter off the deprecated apply callback by @hannesa2 in #736

Tests

• Fix CI-Tests - solve false-negative caused by poor setup (issue #703) by @goneng in #702
• Stop the screenshot tests spending a minute changing view by @goneng in #700
• Fix the history list still claiming to update after it was cleaned up by @goneng in #686
• Stop CI running the unit tests twice on every pull request by @goneng in #706
• Stop the flaky date-column test failing on the hour it runs at by @goneng in #722
• Fix the staging screenshot flaking on the commit message caret by @goneng in #716
• Test settings by @hannesa2 in #519
• Fix Settings screenshots reporting changes behind the panel by @goneng in #726
• Fail fast when -waitForWorktrees times out, and give it more headroom by @hannesa2 in #734
• Capture the Warnings tab in the Settings screenshots by @goneng in #754

Other Changes

• Cosmetic: Better align the ref labels - reading low in their capsules by @goneng in #690
• Remove a flood of maybe irrelevant warnings by @hannesa2 in #685
• Include objective-c make-the-test-target-compile by @hannesa2 in #738
• [UI] Fix the selected history view being hard to tell apart in dark mode by @goneng in #742
• [README] Offer Homebrew as the way to install GitX by @goneng in #746
• [README] Guide a fresh clone through its first build by @goneng in #745
• Fix the false "Multiple commits are selected" message by @goneng in #753

Full Changelog: 1.6...1.7

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Add basic support for worktree branches (issue #629) by @goneng in #633

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Stop the worktree lookup stalling the history while it draws by @goneng in #656
• Let the terminal application be chosen in the preferences by @goneng in #667
• Report when a build runs against drifted submodules by @goneng in #668

Bug fix

• Fix the stage view leaving a gap above its bar in dark mode by @goneng in #642
• Fix Open in Terminal doing nothing in released builds by @goneng in #638
• Fix crash on appearance change by @tagliala in #646
• Version without -HEAD on a tag by @hannesa2 in #651
• Fix GitX quitting when its history cannot be loaded by @goneng in #654
• Fix GitX quitting when a commit is clicked in a missing repository by @goneng in #653

Pipeline

• Fix the released zip opening as a damaged app by @goneng in #649
• Ship the release dmg and zip with their notarization stapled by @goneng in #655
• Print time elapsed in make build by @hannesa2 in #677
• Fix screenshot compare by @hannesa2 in #658
• Key the CI run-keeping on the label the pipeline PRs already carry by @goneng in #687

Dependencies

• Bump libgit2 from v0.28.5 to v1.9.4 by @hannesa2 in #641
• Bump libgit2 to 1.0.0 by @hannesa2 in #513
• Prepare for XCode 27 by @hannesa2 in #671
• Bump libgit2 1.9.4 to 1.9.7 by @hannesa2 in #678

Tests

• Stop the wiring tests racing the revision list by @goneng in #644
• Underflow guard added, boundary test fixed by @hannesa2 in #639

Other Changes

• Remove deprecated API shims by @hannesa2 in #657
• Cleanup from unused objective-c scripts by @hannesa2 in #660
• Optimize asset PNGs losslessly by @tagliala in #663
• Optimize app icon PNGs losslessly by @tagliala in #664
• Restore the typed reset mode and the history controller's own import by @goneng in #659
• Fix the preference panes each using their own layout and sizes by @goneng in #673
• Cosmetic: Move the content of the preference panes a bit to the left (where their title starts) by @goneng in #674
• Let labelled pull requests keep their superseded CI runs by @goneng in #684
• Stop NSData+Git depending on the deprecated buffer API by @hannesa2 in #688
• Line up the elements of a history row by @goneng in #683
• Cleanup from screenshots leftover by @hannesa2 in #691

New Contributors

• @tagliala made their first contribution in #646

Full Changelog: 1.5.8...1.6

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Copy the right-clicked commit, not the selection (issue #406) by @anandghegde in #621
• Add commit message to menu by @hannesa2 in #625
• Fix the Edit menu offering Copy SHA with nothing selected by @goneng in #626

Bug fix

• Fix Ignore doing nothing once a .gitignore is already there by @goneng in #604
• Fix the first lines of a file hiding behind its tab bar by @goneng in #605
• Keep the unit tests from depending on the machine they run on by @goneng in #620
• Fix the recents list failing silently, and find Homebrew's git on Apple Silicon by @goneng in #616
• Fix checkout errors blaming the working directory (issue #629) by @goneng in #630

Performance

• Fix external git diff-files being called repeatedly for the same file (Issue #530) by @goneng in #599
• Fix the file view asking git again for a file it already shows by @goneng in #601
• Fix the index being read twice over for a write GitX made itself by @goneng in #602

Pipeline

• Remove CI warnings by @hannesa2 in #618
• Add performance section in changelog by @hannesa2 in #617
• Keep unit test artifacts in CI by @hannesa2 in #619
• Expire pull request artifacts sooner and cancel superseded runs by @goneng in #623
• Fix the signing goals failing where no Dev.xcconfig exists by @goneng in #634

Dependencies

• Bump Sparkle 2.10.0 by @hannesa2 in #640

Tests

• Stop the window wiring tests needing the keyboard focus by @goneng in #622
• Fix flaky test by @hannesa2 in #632

Other Changes

• Copy the right-clicked commit, not the selection (copy) by @hannesa2 in #624
• Fix clang-format refusing to read the repo's config by @goneng in #627

New Contributors

• @anandghegde made their first contribution in #621

Full Changelog: 1.5.7...1.5.8

What's Changed

Bug fix

• Fix a branch checkout leaving its tip off screen by @hannesa2 in #614

Pipeline

• Convert the 'map' target in the Makefile to a native in-line, dropping the external script by @goneng in #600
• Remove CI messages by @hannesa2 in #613

Other Changes

• Remove empty lines in dialog by @hannesa2 in #611

Full Changelog: 1.5.6...1.5.7

What's Changed

Bug fix

• Fix the history list selection fighting the sidebar branch by @goneng in #579
• Fix the git dir lookup reading past the discovered path by @goneng in #582
• Fix the gitx stdin check leaking the stream it opens by @goneng in #593

Pipeline

• Give the Makefile a target for every build step CI runs by @goneng in #590
• Run the CI build steps through the Makefile targets by @goneng in #591

Other Changes

• Add tests for the index refresh and staging wiring by @goneng in #576
• Run the unit tests on every build by @goneng in #577
• Simplify building GitX outside of Xcode by @goneng in #581
• Clear the mechanical AppKit deprecation warnings by @goneng in #580
• Clear the deprecation warnings that change no behavior by @goneng in #583
• Fix the context menu doing nothing for staged files by @goneng in #586
• Clear the NSWorkspace and open panel deprecation warnings by @goneng in #585
• Clear the keyed-archiver deprecation warnings by @goneng in #584
• Fix copying a patch crashing when a commit has none by @goneng in #587
• Clear the remaining nullability analyzer findings by @goneng in #588
• Clear the file name pasteboard deprecation warnings by @goneng in #589
• Fix the gitx tool being unable to load the app frameworks by @goneng in #595
• Clear the localizability warning in the autocrlf pop up by @goneng in #594
• Fix dragging a file to the Finder taking it out of the repository by @goneng in #592
• Fix the tests under a Dev.xcconfig, and add smoke-test and map by @goneng in #596

Full Changelog: 1.5.5...1.5.6

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Mark AI disclosure checkbox as checked in auto-created Homebrew PR by @hannesa2 with @Copilot in #574

Bug fix

• Fix phantom-files stuck in the staging-area by @goneng in #571
• ci: replace tac with awk to fix macOS runner compatibility by @hannesa2 with @Copilot in #575

Full Changelog: 1.5.3...1.5.5

What's Changed

Exciting New Features 🎉

• Add Git Preferences window for editing git config by @goneng in #567
• Add Fetch and Prune menu items by @goneng in #572

Bug fix

• Fix phantom "detached HEAD" entry stuck in the sidebar by @goneng in #569
• Fix keyboard navigation in toolbar-paned preference windows by @goneng in #568
• Fix remote-branch delete doing nothing, and expose prune-on-fetch by @goneng in #570
• Adding pull request template to the workflow file by @hannesa2 with @Copilot in #573

Other Changes

• Dispatch preferencesChanged WebKit calls to the main thread by @goneng in #565
• Stand up GitXTests unit-test target with a race-condition regression test by @goneng in #566

Full Changelog: 1.5.1...1.5.3

What's Changed

Bug fix

• Fix gitx CLI crash when GitX is not running (Sparkle Updater.app steals the bundle identifier) by @voidbranch in #560
• Fix duplicate commits from overlapping history refreshes (#563) by @goneng in #564
• Fix sidebar-refresh to respond to manual refreshes and external branch changes by @goneng in #562

Dependencies

• Bump actions/checkout from 6 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #557

Other Changes

• Fix sparkle updater bundle by @hannesa2 in #561

New Contributors

• @voidbranch made their first contribution in #560

Full Changelog: 1.5...1.5.1