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Smarter "Fully Merged" Detection
Coming in 17.0
Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service — reliably catching squash and rebase merges that plain Git can never see. Three further checks complete the picture: Git's own merge detection, merge commit analysis, and deleted remote tracking branches.
The redesigned hint view shows exactly which checks matched, with direct links to the merge commit or pull request — so you can verify everything before deleting a branch.
Release Notes
No beta release notes available for this product at this time.
New
Fully Merged Detection: Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service — reliably catching squash and rebase merges that plain Git can never see! PR detection is available as a free Preview and will become part of Tower Pro in an upcoming release.
Fully Merged Detection: Three further checks complete the picture: Git's own merge detection, merge commit analysis (branch name and matching timestamps), and deleted remote tracking branches.
Fully Merged Hint: The redesigned hint shows exactly which checks matched, with direct links to the merge commit or pull request — so you can verify before deleting. Prefer to keep a branch around? Hide the hint for that branch via “Don't Show Again”.
Branch Cleanup: Branch cleanup hints now include an Archive action.
Improved
Submodules: Updating submodules is now significantly faster — Tower gathers each submodule's Git data concurrently instead of one at a time, especially noticeable in repositories with many submodules.
Fixed
Services: Fixed GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps accounts possibly sending API requests to an outdated server address.
Worktrees: Fixed the "Skip Hooks" option being hidden when committing from a linked worktree that had configured hooks.
Diff View: Fixed a freeze when rendering large, interleaved diffs.
History: Fixed the Compare Branch toggle not switching the history list.
Worktrees: Fixed spurious warnings when deleting a locked worktree.
Worktrees: Fixed a worktree unnecessarily re-opening when double-clicking the current HEAD branch.
AI Agents: Tower no longer runs AI agent binary validation while the feature is disabled.
New
Fully Merged Detection: Tower now matches your local branches against merged pull requests from your hosting service — reliably catching squash and rebase merges that plain Git can never see! PR detection is available as a free Preview and will become part of Tower Pro in an upcoming release.
Fully Merged Detection: Three further checks complete the picture: Git's own merge detection, merge commit analysis (branch name and matching timestamps), and deleted remote tracking branches.
Fully Merged Hint: The redesigned hint shows exactly which checks matched, with direct links to the merge commit or pull request — so you can verify before deleting. Prefer to keep a branch around? Hide the hint for that branch via “Don't Show Again”.
Improved
Submodules: Updating submodules is now significantly faster — Tower gathers each submodule's Git data concurrently instead of one at a time, especially noticeable in repositories with many submodules.
Fixed
Services: Fixed GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps accounts possibly sending API requests to an outdated server address.
How to Get Access
Head over to "Preferences > Updates" to join our Beta Channel.
