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Join our Beta Channel to preview the latest Tower improvements for Mac and Windows.
You'll automatically receive new builds before they become available to the general public.
Automatic Branch Management
Coming in 15.0
This update introduces Automatic Branch Management, making it easy to archive or clean up fully merged or stale branches, ensuring that your repository remains tidy and uncluttered.
We've also added a new "Fork Point" feature, allowing you to easily see which commits were introduced by a branch relative to its parent branch.
And yes, Tower 15 for Mac is fully compatible with macOS 26 Tahoe!
Release Notes
New
Graphite: Tower now seamlessly integrates with the Graphite workflow!
Improved
Submodules: Navigation through nested submodules has been refined.
Portable Git: Updated to version 2.51.2 for improved compatibility and performance.
Fixed
System Menu: The
Alt+Spaceshortcut now works as expected.
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.
How to Get Access
Head over to "Preferences > Updates" to join our Beta Channel.
