# Smarter Fully Merged Detection

Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service, such as GitHub or GitLab.

This means Tower can reliably identify branches that were integrated via squash or rebase merges — the ones plain Git can never see.

![Squash-merged branch receiving its "Fully Merged" badge](tom17-fully-merged-pr-detection.png 'Squash-merged branch receiving its "Fully Merged" badge')

## Learn More

To learn all about this release, check out our blog post with a full overview of everything new in Tower 17 for Mac.

Happy committing!

[Learn More](https://www.git-tower.com/blog/tower-mac-17)
