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Improved

• Branches: The update branch action is now available in the context menu and quick actions.

• Workflows: The "Finish Topic Branch" dialog now automatically selects the current HEAD branch if it is a topic branch and the action was performed without a branch selection.

Fixed

• Branches: Branches with uppercase characters do not unpin or unarchive immediately anymore.

• Workflows: The "Starting Point" menu now displays all available refs in the "Start Topic Branch" dialog.

• Workflows: The text fields in "Start Topic Branch" dialog will now confirm the dialog if possible when pressing "Return".

• History: Active searches are now applied when bringing Tower to the foreground again.

• History: A layout issue has been resolved that occurred when displaying multiple search filters.

New

• App Icon: Added new app icon for macOS 26

Improved

• Sidebar: The auto-archive option has been added to the sidebar view settings

• Sidebar: The archive button in the sidebar footer is now hidden when auto-archive is active

• Sidebar: Sidebar footer buttons no longer overlap with the filter text field

• Sidebar: Repository sidebar filter text field no longer automatically becomes active on hover

• Sidebar: Fully merged and stale badges are no longer displayed for detached branches

• Branches: Auto-archive option no longer archives immediately when selected in dialog

• Branches: Improved branch unarchiving to always set "Skips Auto-Archive" flag

• Graphite: Optimized Graphite state update performance

Fixed

• Tower could crash when updating repository information, this has been fixed.

• Fixed crash when clicking workflow toolbar button before branches are loaded

• Fixed crash when creating branches

• Fixed crash when the Quick Start window would display deleted repositories

• Fixed crash when pinning or restoring branches in worktrees

• Fixed branch tooltip showing incorrect stale date in sidebar

• Fixed commit graph being drawn into section header

• Fixed update-branch dialog mergeability states not showing correctly

• Fixed "No parent branch set" shown instead of loading state in update dialog

• Fixed update button not being enabled when it should be in update branch dialog

Improved

• Branches: Branches newly created in Tower are not marked as fully merged anymore.

Fixed

• Performance: Tower could slow down in repositories with many branches. This has been fixed.

Improved

• Branches: The update branch dialog now remembers the last decision for the update strategy if none is defined by a workflow

Fixed

• Sidebar: The performance of reloading branches has been improved

• Repository: A crash when updating the statistics of the repository has been fixed

• History: A layout problem has been solved in drawing the commit graph if there only is a single commit

• New

• macOS 26 Tahoe: Tower now fully supports the new operating system

• Automatic Branch Management: You can now archive fully merged and stale branches either manually or let Tower do the job for you.

• History: The history now clearly shows which commits are introduced by a branch relative to its parent (fork point).

• History: A hint view is displayed for fully merged and stale branches, allowing quick deletion of these branches.

• Sidebar: Branches in the sidebar are now marked as fully merged or stale

• Sidebar: View settings are now easily accessible via the footer

Improved

• Pinned Branches: Pinned branches now are stored in the Git config and should not unpin anymore

• Pinned Branches: You can now pin and unpin multiple branches at once

• Pinned Branches: The "Pinned Branches" section in the sidebar is now automatically expanded

• Pinned Branches: Undoing a branch delete now restores the pinned flag correctly

• Sorting: Text is now sorted in many views via a localized standard compare to match system behavior.

• Commit Signing: Tower now handles SSH keys without a comment correctly.

Fixed

• Merge/Rebase: Tower could crash when using Quick Merge or Rebase. This has been fixed

• History: A crash could occur when searching for whitespaces. This is fixed now.

• Worktrees: In some cases Tower could crash when accessing worktrees. It's working now.

• Reset Revision: The text field did not allow entering arbitrary revisions anymore. It does allow them again now.

• Merge Conflict: The merge conflict wizard now allows resolving a "both deleted" conflict again.