Release Notes
New features, improvements, and fixes. Here are the recent updates for Tower.
Version 3
If you're often working with big repositories (i.e. thousands of remote branches, tags, etc.), then this update might be for you: opening such a repository, displaying the working copy, loading changesets, and many other actions are now up to 5x faster than before!
Along with Apple's introduction of a "Dark Mode" in macOS 10.14, we implemented a dark theme in Tower, too.
Tower now supports image diffs for a variety of formats (PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, JPEG2000, HEIC), in both the Working Copy and various history / changeset views. In future updates, we will further extend and improve this feature.
Create, merge, close, comment and inspect Pull Requests right from within Tower! Integrated into our clear, responsive, and powerful desktop interface, Pull Requests become so much more useful.
Interactive Rebase is an incredibly powerful tool - but also quite awkward to use on the command line. But now, in Tower, it has become as easy as drag and drop!
The brand new Quick Actions dialog gives you superpowers: Give it a branch name and it will offer a checkout. Give it a file name and it will present the file's history. Give it a commit hash and it will show it in the commit history. Fast as lightning, easy as pie.
We've added so many new levels of detail in the new Tower. And at the same time, navigating Tower is now as simple as browsing the web: with the new "back" and "forth" buttons and the improved "Navigation Bar".
We've reworked countless areas in the new Tower. Let's take the brand new "Commit Details" view as an example: with the changeset on the left and lots of space for the diff on the right, you can inspect and review a commit in a more focused manner.
A little-known feature, but one with enormous power: Reflog can restore lost commits or branches, move back to a rolled back state, undo a cherry-pick or commit... and is now available in Tower!
We have redesigned both the "File History" and "Blame" views from scratch. They have become much more useful and informative.
Search functionality in the new Tower has become much more powerful. You can now search for files almost anywhere: in the Working Copy, in a historic file tree, or even inside the changeset of a commit!
Improved
- Performance: We were able to speed up opening and navigating repositories once more, for all types of repositories.
- Performance: Loading commit changesets is significantly faster now.
- Performance: The "edit commit message" dialog during an interactive rebase operation is now loading faster.
Fixed
- Working Copy: The staging checkboxes could become disabled when the progress view was shown. This has been fixed.
- Working Copy: The background color of the subject and descriptions fields is now white again (when having Tower in "Light Mode").
- Image Diff: Images with a width smaller than 20px don't lead to UI layout issues anymore.
- Image Diff: Fixed loading image data for deleted and staged working tree entries.
- History: When branch tracking information changes while viewing the branch's history, the commit list is now correctly updated.
- Navigation: Navigating back/forward between refs (branches, tags) does not lead to the back/forward buttons becoming inactive anymore.
- Services: A crash when unexpected data was received from a service API has been fixed.
- Services: Fixed sorting of organization and collaborator service repositories.
- Services: Fixed an issue with the “Edit Account” button not working in some cases.
- Repository Window: Fixed updating represented URL of main window.
- Touch Bar: The "Quick Open" item can now be removed permanently.
- Window Restoration: Tower correctly restores the last window now if it was quit while being minimized or hidden.
- Activity Window: Clicking the "clear" button does not remove running repository or service activities anymore.
New
- Quick Actions: You can now use the "Quick Actions" dialog to merge and rebase remote branches.
Fixed
- Fixed an issue with invoking “Open in Terminal” scripts.
- Fixed a crash when opening the Activity window.
- Fixed visual glitches in the “Merge” view.
- Fixed an issue with refreshing images in the Image Diff view when changing files in some cases.
New
- Dark Mode: Users on macOS 10.14 can now enjoy Tower in our new "Dark Mode"!
- Updates for Mojave: Many code updates to improve compatibility with the new macOS 10.14.
Fixed
- Image Diffing: Images with different aspect ratios are displayed correctly now.
- Services: Service accounts that are members and collaborators of an organization at the same time do not cause Tower to crash anymore.
Fixed
- CLI Tool: The CLI tool can now be updated from within the Tower preferences.
Fixed
- Image Diffing: A crash if no image data can be loaded has been fixed.
- Pull Requests: Remote URLs are not required to have a .git suffix anymore.
- Services: A crash when clicking on an organization that invited the user as a collaborator has been fixed.
- Services: A crash when clicking on a VSTS project has been fixed.
- Services: A crash when listing repositories on older GitLab instances has been fixed.
New
- Image Diffing: Tower now supports image diffs for a variety of formats (PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, JPEG2000, HEIC), in both the Working Copy and various history / changeset views. In future updates, we will further extend and improve this feature.
Improved
- Reflog: The Reflog list loads faster now.
Fixed
- Services: GitLab CE/EE integration now works as intended for servers with a directory install.
- Services: Bitbucket Server integration now works as intended if account names contain uppercase characters.
- Services: Tower crashed in some cases when clicking on an organization account or subgroup. This has been fixed.
- Services: Service repositories of configured accounts were not displayed correctly in some cases.
Improved
- GitLab Subgroups: Subgroups are integrated in the service view.
- Pull Requests: Your GitLab subgroup repositories work with the new Pull Requests view.
Fixed
- Pull Requests: Pull Requests work with older GitLab instances using API v3.
Fixed
- Activation now works indepedent of the configured system locale
- Tower 3 is here!
Version 2
Tower now supports image diffs for a variety of formats, in both the Working Copy and various history / changeset views. In future updates, we will further extend and improve this feature.
A little-known feature, but one with enormous power: Reflog can restore lost commits or branches, move back to a rolled back state, undo a cherry-pick or commit... and is now available in Tower!
Create, merge, close, comment and inspect Pull Requests right from within Tower! Integrated into our clear, responsive, and powerful desktop interface, Pull Requests become so much more useful.
Interactive Rebase is an incredibly powerful tool - but also quite awkward to use on the command line. But now, in Tower, it has become as easy as drag and drop!
New
- Image Diffing: Tower now supports image diffs for a variety of formats, in both the Working Copy and various history / changeset views. In future updates, we will further extend and improve this feature.
Fixed
- Reflog Keyboard Shortcut: You can now reach the "Reflog" via CTRL+5.
- Adding Remotes: The list of remote branches is now instantly refreshed after a new remote repository was connected.
- Drag & Drop Merging: When using drag & drop to merge branches, the dialog now directly proposes the corresponding branches.
- Getting Started Wizard: When trying to connect to a Service account with invalid credentials, Tower could crash.
- Labels in Dialogs: Some typos found their way into a couple of dialogs. Cleanup up, now!
- Compare Tool Config: We updated the config for using AraxisMerge as your diff tool.
- Activity Window: Scrolling in the Activity window was not working properly in all cases.
- Branches in Dialogs: We improved the ordering of branches in some dialogs.
- Refresh Service Repositories: Using the "Refresh" button while looking at a list of repositories in a Service account will now update the list properly.
- Create Repository on Service: After creating a new remote repository in a Service account via Tower, the new repository is now directly displayed in the list.
- Update Help Links: We updated URLs to updated content in our help documentation.
- Grouped Tower Windows: In some situations, grouping Tower application windows could not be maximized.
Improved
- Reflog: The Reflog is now available in Tower for Windows.
- Dialogs: Improved layout in dialogs.
- Menus: The File menu contains dedicated items for both your License and your Tower account.
Fixed
- Remote operations: The whole error message shows in the error dialog, previously only the first line was displayed.
- Submodule settings: Links to submodules work now.
- Working Copy: We've made sure the hash for submodule entries is displayed correctly.
Improved
- Tracking Badge: Reveals more information when hovered over in the sidebar.
Fixed
- Sidebar: We've made sure the header hover area is the same size on all devices.
- Removing a Project: In some cases, this could freeze the UI.
- Gravatars: Use the proxy settings too.
- History: Copying commit info now always returns newest to oldest.
- Proxies: Under rare circumstances, a proxy configuration could lead to a crash on startup.
- Apply Patch: We've made sure you can apply any patch.
- Compare Tools: Errors in the configuration file can't crash Tower anymore.
- Working Copy: It's possible to discard all contained local changes by interacting with a folder now.
- Working Copy: The hamburger menu stays in place, even for very long branch names.
- Help Menu: Updated link to release notes webpage.
- Getting Started: Updated link to the "Getting Started with Tower" video.
- Submodules: Path and URL are now editable for the shared configuration.
- Submodules: Improved state validation for empty and not-existing folders.
- Submodules Authentication: Using a different authentication than the parent repository is possible through Tower.
- Self-hosted servers: In rare cases, adding these or using these could lead to a crash.
- Custom Servers: You're required to have a username for http authentication now.
Improved
- We've made sure all Pro features are available during Trial
- Tower 2 is here!
Version 2
No further updates, last release in 05/2018
Version 1
No further updates, last release in 06/2014
Version 1
No further updates, last release in 05/2018