*New*: - Added Git LFS support: - Gitfox now bundles a `git-lfs` binary - `Repository > Git LFS` provides `Install`, `Uninstall`, `Fetch`, `Pull`, and `Push HEAD` actions - The file outline context menu provides `Git LFS` actions to track or untrack the selected files - Added commit signing support: - Not available in the Mac App Store version due to sandboxing restrictions! - Identities can now specify OpenPGP or SSH signing keys - The commit flow now exposes signing controls - The log and commit header now show signature status when the commit is signed - SSH public keys are discovered from `~/.ssh`, with manual entry available when needed - Gitfox can manage the allowed signers file used to trust SSH signing keys - Added a `Remove index.lock` recovery action when Git reports a stale `.git/index.lock` file for the active repository - Added a file outline `Display > Show All Untracked Files` option for the active repository *Improved*: - The commit button menu now exposes more commit controls directly: - The primary commit/amend action. - The push variant. - `Sign Commit` options for `Use Git Default`, `Sign`, and `Do Not Sign`. - The identities settings pane is now `Identities & Signing` - Diff colors now meet WCAG AAA contrast requirements in Aqua and Dark Aqua *Fixed*: - The `Git` settings pane avatar view is now restricted to Gravatar avatars only

*New*: - Added a text diff setting to disable line wrapping - Rendered Markdown now supports inline and block TeX equations *Improved*: - Commit avatars now fall back to profile images from service accounts - Branch, tag, and push branch name fields now sanitize input removing invalid symbols and converting whitespace to `-` - Retry requests with transient service network failures - Outline item title truncation can now be controlled via a `Display` context menu - Generated avatar colors are now softer while keeping text readable - The repository outline now expands grouped branch paths to keep the current branch visible - Repository outline search now matches full branch ref names, including grouped branch prefixes - Branch and tag sorting by creator date now falls back to ref name when dates match *Fixed*: - Nested worktrees are no longer mislabeled as submodules - Background fetch no longer shows error sheets for remote lookup failures - Renaming an account no longer refreshes the connected service account - Squash and fixup actions are now disabled for non-contiguous commit selections - Stale diff formatting work is now cancelled when switching away from a large diff - Account error indicators now clear after a later service request succeeds - Fixed a crash when rendering Markdown repeatedly

*Improved*: - Reduced excessive UI refreshes caused by external processes generating frequent filesystem events - Removed main menu icons in preparation for macOS 27 *Fixed*: - Log not updating after a rebase action - Worktree log header not shown for unborn HEAD - Minimap crash when map image gets too large

*New*: - New blame view - The blame commit popover now has a button to open the commit for that line directly *Fixed*: - Crash when double-clicking a selection - Crash with strict ISO8601 git timestamp timezone parsing - Text selection appearing when clicking empty space after the last character on a line - The changes view no longer pops instantly when changes are intermittently empty - SIGPIPE crash - Reduced redundant repository refreshes from bursts of Git metadata filesystem events - The branch outline now keeps its existing refs when a refresh fails instead of clearing them

*New*: - Added a new "Sync HEAD" command that performs a combined fetch, push, and pull. - Added patience and histogram diff algorithms: - Myers: Fastest option; produces compact diffs but can be noisy when code moves. Previously the default. - Patience: Balanced option; usually produces clearer code diffs with moderate overhead. New default. - Histogram: Highest-quality option; often produces the most readable diffs with the most overhead. - Added support for more image formats in image diffs: GIF, TIFF, BMP, WebP, HEIC/HEIF, AVIF, JPEG XL, OpenEXR, HDR, TGA, SGI, PICT, ICO, ICNS, PSD, DDS, KTX, ASTC, DICOM, Netpbm formats, and many camera RAW formats. - Add "Checkout" quick actions for branches - Most main menu items now have appropriate icons. *Improved*: - All colors based on object hashes (Gravatar backgrounds etc.) will now be deterministic and not change when the app relaunches *Fixed*: - Crash in log scroll view

*New*: - Added a `Whitespace-Only Changes` setting for diff whitespace: - Ignore all whitespace changes, including insertions and deletions - Ignore only whitespace changes within modified lines - Added `Highlight Edge Whitespace Changes` to toggle highlighting for leading and trailing whitespace - Renamed `Show Whitespace` to `Draw Whitespace Characters` to avoid confusion with the new whitespace settings - Added a small accessory menu to the diff view header for quickly toggling these settings *Improved*: - Improved Git output parsing performance across the app *Fixed*: - Fixed an OAuth token storage race condition that could result in lost GitLab authorization - Fixed automatic repository refresh getting stuck

*Improved*: - Use CMD+Return for the rebase editor matching the commit editor - Repository state is now updated based on filesystem events rather than naive refreshes - Smoother scrolling through large commit histories - Faster formatting of large diffs without blocking the interface - Switching to a new file no longer waits for the previous diff to finish loading - Cleaner Add Submodule dialog with a relative path field and an explicit Force option - When adding a repository with the CLI: - existing paths are no longer duplicated - invoking it from within a repository adds the repository root *Fixed*: - Stale repository manager row titles - Regression from 4.1.6 that prevented opening a new window when clicking on the app icon - Links not updating in the repository outline when editing them in Link Manager - Accounts were not refreshed when a new window opened - Commit log scrolling could get stuck while older commits were still loading - Conflict counts briefly showed old values right after switching branches - Undo did not work after the editor reset its text on its own - Submodule paths with spaces or path separators were not handled correctly - Submodule authentication account picker not selecting the configured account - Repository outline icons could briefly freeze the interface - Task list and window title could flicker during running tasks - Errors when opening a document are now shown consistently - `Stage All` and `Unstage All` actions could be re-enabled before the repository status finished updating - Loading toolbar icons causing interface hitches - Smaller stability and reliability improvements

*New*: - Hardened security of the Bitbucket sign-in flow - Faster account loading at app startup - Lower memory usage when loading avatars *Fixed*: - Regression that prevented the squash/fixup rebase editor from showing (sorry) - Crash that could occur during background updates - Crash when a custom commit message link pattern was missing parts of the match - Repository windows occasionally not restoring correctly on launch - Race condition when reading saved account credentials - Window events sometimes triggering in unrelated windows - Quick actions sometimes targeting items that no longer exist - Bisect view appearing busy after an error - Search occasionally behaving unpredictably while typing - Avatar images sometimes loading invalid data - Additional memory leaks - Stability issues in the file outline and task list

*New*: - Added Quick Look functionality for files (CMD+Y) *Fixed*: - Automatic fetch being paused despite no active log query - Bug causing thread pool exhaustion - Memory leak Version 4.1.4 (11140) - Apr 29 2026 *New:* - The entire repository info title row can now be clicked to open the repository in the repository manager - Previously you could only click the small arrow button - The "Trash" action was moved to a pop-up menu *Fixed:* - Truncate head of external worktree paths instead of tail so the end remains readable - Log not reloading all items after commit when there are less than 50 elements in the log

- Assume `--force-with-lease` when performing `Amend and Push` - Attach diagnostics to user feedback - The `Un/stage All` button has been moved to the left so it is visible in smaller column widths - Show progress indicator when finding merge base on interactive rebase - When creating a new branch, it is now automatically selected - The `Rename` repository manager context menu item has been brought back - It wasn't obvious to some users that items could be renamed with the ENTER key (similar to Finder) - Raise deployment target to macOS 26.0 *Fixed:* - Error when opening repository folders that contained leading or trailing spaces - "Use Directory Diff" option not being respected in the "Automatic" setting - Deprecated Bitbucket API call resulting in a connection error - Folders disappearing when dragged onto themselves or their children - Coloring of trailing comments in editor views - The last opened settings pane is now preserved when reopening the app settings - Show the update dialog when changing the update channel and updates are available - Small layout issues

*New:* - Collapsed items in the button strip are now accessible via a menu button (just like in the toolbar) - The modification and conflict colors are now configurable for both sides (A/B) - Repository manager is saving the expansion state - Option in settings to always/never show the diff column - Explicit "Amend" and "Un/stage All" button in the changes view - Diff behavior settings were moved from the "General" to the "Diff" settings pane *Fixed:* - The default modifications and conflict colors are now more distinct - The "Commit" button is now disabled when no files are staged - Editor producing error on rebase when the Gitfox app bundle path had spaces in it - Memory leak when closing a repository - General fixes and performance improvements

New: - New account system and service providers - The new account system will require you to reauthorize your accounts - Added authentication methods and providers: - Bitbucket (API Token) - Gitlab (Personal Access Token) - Gitlab Self-Managed (Personal Access Token) - Gitea (Personal Access Token) - "Accounts" settings have been renamed to "Accounts & Credentials" - Private key passphrase credentials are now also shown - New "General" setting for "Diff Visibility Breakpoint" - This lets you change the minimum window width at which the 4th diff column appears - The default was reduced from the previously fixed "2000pt" to "1500pt" - Update "git" to "v2.52.0" Fixed: - Race condition that could cause GitLab OAuth accounts to lose authentication - Commit stats progress indicator spinning indefinitely on empty repos - Branch labels not properly rounded when merge check is enabled - Use same background colors for repository manager detail and content columns - Remove history and checkout commands from file context menu in changes view

*Fixed:* - Git-Flow toolbar menu not showing the first item ("Start Feature") - Outline not expanding beyond level 1 after a search

*New:* - Tweaked default diff modification and deletion colors to be more distinct *Fixed:* - Crash in diff when displaying RTL languages - Diff not recognizing legacy EOL encodings - Wrong repository manager outline width when sidebar gets too large

*New:* - Show reference labels also in compact commit header - Allow file "Open" context menu actions as long as the file exists on disk *Fixed:* - Authentication failed dialog not popping up on connection error - Outline not updating when changing links - Git service symbols being slightly too big - Settings panel being resizable

*New:* - Updated repository line and commit count status views - Counted line type is now configurable (code, comments or all) - The links toolbar button was removed in favor of showing links directly in the repository outline - Improved diff times for purely added or deleted files *Fixed:* - Discard not batching file actions properly - Several macOS 26 user interface issues - Repositories in folders not showing up in "Open" quick actions - Sheets opened in changes view reappearing when view is popped - Regression that prevented staging of submodules

*New:* - New Settings: - App appearance under "General" > "Appearance" - Diff text and color preferences in new "Diff" settings pane - Git default branch under "Git" > "Default Branch" - The diff now defaults to unified view if either side is empty - Submodule status entries now also show the submodule state (C/M/U) - Automatically dismiss tips after they have been displayed 3 times - Full support for Liquid Glass on macOS 26 Tahoe - Raised minimum deployment target to macOS 15.6 *Fixed:* - Smudge and clean filters not correctly applying to diff content - Selected branch not correctly preselected in rebase view - Empty file list for commits containing submodule changes - "Un/Stage All" not correctly working with dirty submodules - Minimap color brightness for dark mode - Sidebar toggle showing up in "Settings" toolbar - "Abort" repository state button not working when view has no selection - Bisect view sometimes not appearing until a refresh - Commit button menu checkmarks not reflecting state properly - Outline selection position not preserved after element was removed - UI sometimes not fully updating on refresh - File outline performance

*Fixed:* - Quick actions now correctly match on the repository display name as well - Open update submodule dialog instead of opening uninitialized submodules - Stutter when dragging image diff splitter - No default focus in action panels - Wrong scroll bar position when scrolling in non primary diff column - Don't show diff gutter buttons for certain diff types - UI layout issues in macOS 26 Tahoe - Exception when opening the diff font panel

*New:* - Completely new diff view featuring: - Change undo - Fluid layout - Conflict resolution - Change navigation using shortcuts (e.g. previous/next, stage/unstage) - Find in diff text - Write-on-save option for diffs just like any regular difftool - Responsive diff view - The diff view will now appear in a 4th column if there is enough screen space - Inproved submodules handling - Open submodule when double-clicking on status item - New "Open Submodule" context menu to status items - Show open submodule button instead of diff view - All diff related actions where moved to the new "Diff" main menu item - Tips are now displayed throughout the UI - Updated settings view - Updated quick action panel - Update scc to v3.5.0 - Update git to v2.51.0 - Raised deployment target to macOS 15.0 *Fixed:* - Issue where text field in panels did not get focus - Regression that prevented the context menu to pop up in outlines on CTRL-click - Hangs in repositories with a large amount of branches

- New: JuxtaCode difftool integration

- Only highlight git comments if the "#" sign is at the line start - Fixed commit editor not correctly handing diacritic characters - For example, conversion of "~ + a" to "ã" - Fixed branches not being shown if "creatordate" used the Zulu date format

- Fixed crash when popping repository view

- General UI performance improvements - Fixed long branch names causing overly wide push dialog - Fixed memory leak

- General UI performance improvements - Fixed hang when showing a huge amount of files - The alert before showing the files was removed, as it is no longer necessary - Fixed file path display when toggling the view mode from grouped to list - Fixed hang when showing modal open panel - Fixed hang when installing or deinstalling the CLI tool

- New crash report dialog - Mergetools now open with the "mergetool.writeToTemp" flag as to not pollute the repository with backup files - Updated "cmark-gfm" markdown renderer to "0.29.0.gfm.13" - Fixed mergetool creating backup files for "DELETED" files - Mergetools cannot open for "DELETED" files, so the difftool is opened instead if possible - Fixed mergetool not properly opening for all status entries - Fixed space appearing between toolbar and repository manager on first launch - Fixed initial repository manager pane widths on first launch