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Fixed

• Commit list view: Resolved an issue where Ref badges were missing in certain scenarios.

• Commit list view: Adjusted the order of ref badges to align with Tower on macOS.

• Keyboard shortcuts - Quick Open: Added Shift+Enter to open a repository in a new window.

• Keyboard shortcuts: Introduced Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to discard all local changes.

• Keyboard shortcuts: Assigned Shift+Ctrl+A to stage all local changes.

• Keyboard shortcuts: Improved reliability of keyboard navigation using Ctrl+0..5.

Improved

• Error logging has been upgraded for more detailed and effective diagnostics.

Fixed

• Services: Previously, GitLab repositories were incorrectly displayed in some groups, but this issue has now been resolved.

• Sidebar: Opening the submodule context menu could cause the application to crash, but this issue has been fixed.

• A potential crash that occurred when displaying a toast notification has also been fixed.

Improved

• Stacked Branches: Renamed the default workflow from "Stacked PR Branches" to "Stacked Branches".

• Stacked Branches: Improved the wording on the restack dialog for Stacked Branches.

• Stacked Branches: Added the option "Stack Branches under parent branch" to the Stacked Branches Workflow dialog.

• Stacked Branches: Now a suggested base branch is selected by default when enabling the Stacked Branches Workflow.

• Sidebar: Replaced the "Needs restack" icon in the sidebar.

• Sidebar: Removed the "Missing parent" state for branches without a parent being set.

• Compare branches: Improved the readability of the branch selector in the Compare branches feature to accommodate longer branch names.

• Compare branches: If a parent branch is defined it will be set as a default branch to compare against.

• Updated the provided Portable Git to version 2.45.2.

Fixed

• Commit View: The issue where commit history would disappear from the list while scrolling in certain scenarios has been fixed.

• Stacked Branches: Branch dependencies are now correctly recreated after the Restack action.

• Sidebar: Double-clicking to check out the parent branch now works as expected.

• Fixed a crash that occurred when opening a repository that does not contain any branches.

• When adding a repository via "File -> Open," the repository will now be added to bookmarks and opened.

New

• Branch Dependencies: We added the ability to create branch dependencies in Tower, which will serve as a foundation for many new features and improvements in the future. It allows Tower to keep track of the original branch from which another branch was created, a capability not natively supported by Git. Newly created branches in Tower automatically inherit their starting branch, and users can manually set or change the parent branch via the context menu.

• Stacked Branches: As the first feature to leverage our new Branch Dependencies, Tower enables you to create "stacks" of branches—branches that depend on other branches—and effortlessly restack them with a single action. This greatly simplifies workflows that rely on stacked branches, eliminating the cumbersome and error-prone process of manually restacking multiple branches. You can activate this feature through the "Workflows" toolbar button.

Fixed

• Detecting unsafe directories accessed via mapped network drives and adding them to “safe.directories” in gitconfig now works as expected.