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• Let labelled pull requests keep their superseded CI runs by @goneng in #684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