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• Let labelled pull requests keep their superseded CI runs by @goneng in #684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

What's Changed

Breaking Changes 🛠

• Deployment target 13.0 by @hannesa2 in #538

Bug fix

• Fix index.lock contention caused by git update-index on every FSEvents notification by @goneng in #547

Pipeline

• Don't run screenshot compare on a fork by @hannesa2 in #552

Dependencies

• Bump softprops/action-gh-release from 2 to 3 by @dependabot[bot] in #545

Other Changes

• Replace deprecated NSOnState/NSOffState with NSControlStateValue constants by @Copilot in #536
• Add branch to AboutDialog by @hannesa2 in #537
• Fix AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges is deprecated by @hannesa2 in #539
• Fix function declarations without prototypes in gitx.m by @hannesa2 in #541
• Set up Swift/ObjC interop by @hannesa2 in #542
• More Swift conversions by @hannesa2 in #543
• Sparkle updater only in release by @hannesa2 in #540
• Use NSString instead of char placeholder in NSLocalizedString by @ssp in #546
• Bump Sparkle 2.9.3 by @hannesa2 in #548
• remove .tm_properties by @toy in #550
• No screenshots on forks by @hannesa2 in #554
• few small diff view improvements by @toy in #551

New Contributors

• @Copilot made their first contribution in #536
• @goneng made their first contribution in #547

Full Changelog: 1.4...1.5

What's Changed

Bug fix

• [FIX] multiple notification observers caused by awakeFromNib by @SMA-HP in #531

Pipeline

• Screenshot pipeline by @hannesa2 in #534

Other Changes

• Point to releases in about dialog by @hannesa2 in #532

Full Changelog: 1.3...1.4

What's Changed

Bugfix

• Fixes a race condition in index refreshing that could spawn hundreds of external "git" processes by @SMA-HP in #527
• Fix thread prio inversion warning right after start caused by waiting on low prio thread by @SMA-HP in #529

Dependencies

• Bump actions/upload-artifact from 4 to 7 by @dependabot[bot] in #526
• Bump actions/download-artifact from 7 to 8 by @dependabot[bot] in #525

Pipeline 🛠

• Deployment target 10.14 by @hannesa2 in #507
• Apply Objective-git master by @hannesa2 in #511
• Objective-git DeploymentTarget-13 by @hannesa2 in #512
• Use XCode 26.3 by @hannesa2 in #515
• Screenshot tests by @hannesa2 in #508
• Change token name by @hannesa2 in #518
• Compare screenshots by @hannesa2 in #516
• Remove outdated appcast info by @hannesa2 in #505
• Fix LIBSSH2_INCLUDE_DIRS by @hannesa2 in #520
• Fix final git status check in CI by @hannesa2 in #522
• No screenshot compare on merge to master by @hannesa2 in #524

Other Changes

• Bump Sparkle 2.9.0 by @hannesa2 in #504
• Fix deprecation NSStringPboardType by @hannesa2 in #523

New Contributors

• @SMA-HP made their first contribution in #527

Full Changelog: 1.2...1.3