Improved

• Edit Commit Message: It is now possible to select the Amend option when editing a commit message. When this option is selected, the author of the commit will not be changed.

• LFS Image Diffing: You can now view the diff for LFS image files. We also included a clickable badge which shows the LFS pointer information.

• Toolbar: Tower now uses the short labels again for the “Toolbar” and “Terminal” buttons, resulting in a more even spacing for toolbar items.

• Rebase Backend: Since version 2.26, Git changed the default rebase backend from apply to merge. We have made sure that Tower handles the new backend correctly.

• Our bundled Git has been updated and is compiled as universal binary supporting Apple Silicon hardware.

Fixed

• The TowerCLI crashed on hardware using Apple Silicon. This has been fixed.

• We fixed an issue where using multiple Bitbucket service accounts with Git HTTPS connections could fail.

• Working Copy: In some cases, navigating the sidebar with the arrow keys caused changed files to disappear in the Working Copy. This has been fixed.

• GPG: We fixed the incorrect label that was displayed when no GPG binary was selected in Tower’s Preferences.

• History View: The tab bar was showing "Counting Commits" whenever the window title was hidden.

• Bookmarks: It is now possible to filter repositories correctly in the bookmarks view.

• Sidebar: Tower again remembers the width of the sidebar after the repository is re-opened.

• Working Copy: Animations are now working correctly again when selecting files to stage & unstage.

• Working Copy: After resolving a merge conflict, the background color of the conflicted file now changes back to normal.

• Toolbar: The toolbar was displayed incorrectly for users on macOS 10.13 and below.

• Submodules: Editing a submodule URL resulted in wrong changes. This is now working as expected.

• Rebase: In certain cases, continuing a rebase step after resolving all conflicts failed. This has been fixed.

• Others

• We have updated the bundled Git version to 2.29.2.

• We have updated Git-LFS to version 2.12.1.

Fixed

• Repository Bookmarks: Icons next to bookmarks and bookmark groups are now displayed correctly. This issue affected users on macOS 10.15 and below.

• Working Copy: The working copy diff view now behaves as expected when using a mouse with a scroll wheel.

• All Tower trials have been reset for version 6.0. Users who tested Tower in the past, can give the new version a try.

New

• Designed for macOS Big Sur: We made lots of large and small improvements to make Tower feel at home on the new macOS Big Sur. Read on to learn more...

• Icons: In the toolbar, the sidebar, and other areas in the app, we’re introducing new, redesigned icons.

• App Icon: Take a look at your Dock and you’ll see that the Tower app icon now fits right in with other app icons on Big Sur.

• Full-Height Sidebar: In macOS 11, sidebars in apps now typically take the full window height. We’ve made this possible in Tower, too.

Improved

• Navigation Bar: With the new style in Big Sur in mind, we decided to remove the “Navigation Bar” (below the toolbar). This results in a much cleaner, much clearer UI.

• Submodule Navigation: When navigating into a submodule you’ll see that a new toolbar icon appears; this allows you to jump back to the parent repository.

• View Subheadlines: Some detail views now show their own subheadlines, giving you a quicker overview of the situation.

• Services & Bookmarks: These icons, previously located in the Navigation Bar, are now also located in the main toolbar.

• Rounded Selections: List views (like the Commit History) and the sidebar now feature the new rounded selection style in Big Sur.

• Apple Silicon Architecture: Tower is now compiled with support for the new Apple Silicon architecture. Additionally, we improved the way background tasks are handled in order to get the best performance and battery life from the new Apple Silicon architecture.

• GitHub Service Accounts: We removed support for Basic Authentication as this is deprecated by GitHub. We also updated OAuth authorization to use our own web flow instead of the one provided by GitHub for native apps, which is deprecated as well.

New

• Rebase Onto: Tower now supports the “--onto” flag of the Rebase operation. In a nutshell, this allows you to “switch the base” for a series of commits, which is especially useful for those of you who work extensively with feature branches.

• Amend Commit: It is now possible to edit a commit without removing the original author’s name using the new Amend Commit option. The resulting commit will still have the original committer as the author and you as the committer.

Improved

• Diff View: The ignore whitespace option will now remain enabled / disabled on file changes.

• Quick Actions: We’ve improved the sorting of results in the Quick Actions dialog: exact matches now appear at the top of the list.

• Cherry-Picking: You can now cherry-pick commits that are behind (only available on the remote branch) when viewing the current HEAD branch.

• Performance: We refactored the initial config loading process, removing potential blocking calls that can result in beachballing.

Fixed

• Azure DevOps Pull Requests: In some cases, the URL for Pull Requests was incorrectly generated.

Improved

• Branch Naming: Tower now considers "main" to be a priority branch, just like "master". This means that it will be sorted at the top in the repository sidebar and any other ref listings.

• Performance: We optimized background operations for certain actions - such as checking out a revision or committing changes - resulting in a performance boost.

• Performance: We were also able to improve the background execution of Git processes. Repository loading times are now significantly faster.

Fixed

• Undo: Undoing applying a stash reverted existing changes on the same file in the Working Copy. This has been fixed.

• Working Copy: For some users, single line staging failed if the "Ignore Whitespace" option was active. This works as expected now.

• Repository Finder: Excluded repositories are now cleaned up after the user changes the excluded file list.

• File History: The commit count is now shown correctly in File History.

• Remotes: The “Skip on Fetch All” option is now working as expected.

• Services: An endless loop affecting API calls for Azure DevOps service accounts has been fixed.

New

• Ignore Whitespace Changes: Multiple whitespace changes in a diff can make it difficult to focus on changes in the code itself. The improved diff view brings you the option to toggle this setting, either showing or ignoring whitespace changes.

• Inline Highlighting of Changes: Viewing changes in a file has just become a lot easier in Tower. Inline changes are now highlighted in diffs, so you can spot changes at first glance.

• Diff Themes: Ever wished you were able to change the font type, size, and color for Tower’s diff view? Now you can! Select one of the pre-installed themes, or create your own by customizing the font, the background color, and even the color used to highlight Added and Deleted lines. Created a theme you really love? Grab it and share it with others! Learn more about the new diff themes in our documentation.

Improved

• Diff View: Tower now shows diffs for untracked files (including images), eliminating the need to stage a file just to see the diff for it.

• Diff View: It is now possible to stage, unstage, and discard contents of untracked files.

• Preferences: Unified the appearance of all list view action bars in the preferences.

Fixed

• Diff View: In some cases, the diff was being generated incorrectly after discarding/unstaging deleted lines.

• History View: The file path for renamed files now correctly shows the old and new file path in the changeset view.

• GPG Keys: Reloading the user's current GPG keys could crash in certain cases.

New

• Repository Finder: It is now possible to specify directories which Tower should exclude when searching for repositories. You can find this in Tower’s Preferences on the “Advanced” tab.

• Branches: We have added the option to delete the tracking branch when deleting a local branch.

Improved

• Merging: The --no-commit option has been added to the merge dialog through the checkbox “Directly Commit Merged Changes”.

• Sorting in Dialogs: Remotes are now being sorted by relevance in dialogs.

• Azure DevOps Pull Requests: We have improved error mapping for errors that can occur when merging Azure DevOps Pull Requests.

• Azure DevOps Server: Added support for authenticating with Personal Access Tokens.

Fixed

• Check Out Pull Request: The Check Out Pull Request button is now validated again if the HEAD branch changes.

• Check Out Pull Request: The Check Out Pull Request button is now disabled if the remote branch is not available.

• Pull Requests: Creating pull requests now works as expected for forks on Bitbucket.

• Pull Requests: In some cases, a newly created Pull Request was displayed in the list if it was created for another repository.

New

• Azure DevOps Pull Requests: Pull Requests for Azure DevOps repositories are now supported in Tower.

Improved

• Azure DevOps Service Accounts: The “Create Repository” button has been removed for Azure DevOps service accounts. The button is now available for organizations only.

Fixed

• Azure DevOps Service Accounts: A crash which affected the creation of Azure DevOps service repositories has been fixed.

• Switching Branches: Some users reported that switching branches and saving a stash with only untracked files in the Working Copy stopped working after our latest update.

New

• Partial Stashing: You can now select individual files for stashing.

• First Parent Filtering: It is now possible to filter out merged commits in the History view.

Improved

• Commit Count Computing: For some users, this operation caused slowness in repositories with lots of commits. This has now been addressed.

• GitHub's "Open in Desktop": GitHub's URL scheme for "Open in Desktop" changed; as a result users were no longer able to open a repository in Tower using this feature. This has been fixed.

Fixed

• Crash when Saving a Stash: In some situations, Tower crashed when trying to save a stash.

• Working Copy: After a commit, the File Detail View is now correctly updated.

• Grouping Commits by Week: The "Group by Week" option in the History View wasn't working as expected.

• Pull Request Changeset View: The changeset view is now being updated correctly when switching between Pull Requests.

• Quick Actions: Remote branches are now correctly sorted by name.

Fixed

• Pull Requests: A regression caused the pull request conversation view not being updated after changes have been made.

New

• Pull Requests: Tower's search now also supports filtering Pull Requests by number.

Improved

• Dialogs: In many dialogs, we have an "Options" area. Now, you can also click on the text label (not only the disclosure triangle) to reveal.

Fixed

• Interactive Rebase: The auto-stash dialog now appears for all interactive rebase actions if required.

• Pull Requests: If editing a pull request failed, the "Edit Pull Request" dialog is now shown again (instead of the dialog for editing the pull request body).

• Pull Requests: The pull request commits and changeset views used to flicker when expanding a commit or changeset item. This has been fixed now.

• Committing: A commit can now be created again if the HEAD is detached.

• Remotes: In some rare situations, Tower crashed when a push was initiated.

• Window Tabs: On older macOS versions, Tower crashed in some cases when opening a new tab.

New

• Undo with CMD+Z: This new version makes it incredibly easy to undo many mistakes, simply by typing CMD+Z! Read more about this awesome new feature on our blog.

Improved

• Reflog View: We've improved the refreshing of items in the Reflog view.

• Excluding "Go" Module Caches: Tower's "Quick Open" dialog allows you to open any repository on your machine. However, users with "Go module caches" reported a slowdown in this dialog; that's why Tower now excludes these special repositories for the "Quick Open" search.

• Bitbucket Server: Tower now supports personal access tokens for Bitbucket Server accounts.

• Azure DevOps Server: With this update, accounts can now be created for multiple collections.

Fixed

• History Badges: Clicking directly on a badge (representing a tag or branch) on a commit in one of Tower's history views sometimes failed to select the commit item.

• Selecting Lines in Diffs: On macOS 10.15, some users reported a crash when trying to select individual lines for staging in a working copy diff.

• Checkout Pull Request Menu Item: The menu item for our new "Checkout Pull Request" feature didn't work in all cases.

• Saving Stashes: In some situations, Tower could crash when trying to save a stash.

• Pull Request Comments: These are now sorted by creation date instead of updated date.

• Renaming Remote Branches: If no local tracking branch existed, Tower didn't allow to rename a remote branch. This is fixed now.

• History: When restoring user selections the application could become unresponsive in some cases

• Avatar Image: In some cases, the font size calculated for drawing the user's initials was not a valid font size, leading to a crash

• Diffs: Loading image data for diffs in the working copy could sometimes result in a crash

• Window Titles: In some cases, Tower didn't display the correct titles from tabs.

• A regression caused opening a new tab for a window without existing tabs opening in a new window instead. Tabs now open a new tab for the current window in all cases now.

• Various crashes: We fixed a number of smaller / less common crashes in different situations.

New

• Check Out Pull Requests: This update makes it very easy and convenient to check out a Pull Request as a local branch.

Improved

• Quick Actions Navigation: Opening and closing the "more actions" interface for a Quick Action item is now more fluent and intelligent.

• GPG Email Settings: Tower now displays a warning message in cases where the committer email and GPG key email do not match.

• Commit Area UI: When the "commit compose area" is expanded (showing both the "Subject" and the "Description" textfields), it is now possible to click-select a changed file from the list before the UI changes.

Fixed

• Commit Changeset Drag and Drop: Dragging an item from a commit's changeset to Finder.app failed in some situations.

• Diff Tool Shortcut: The keyboard shortcut to open the diff tool didn't work reliably in the Pull Requests view.

• Toolbar Buttons Glitch: On some installations, toolbar buttons were misplaced by 1 pixel between groups.

• Empty View for Pull Requests: When deselecting a Pull Request item, the appropriate "empty view" is now displayed.

• Crash in Pull Requests: When Tower tried to update a Pull Request item with an invalid/empty username, the app could crash.

• File Selection: In certain scenarios, when a file in the Working Copy view was selected, Tower could hang when that file was included in a commit.

• Loading Commit Diffs: Fixed a potential crash when loading commits diffs.

• Mouse Wheel in Services List: When using a mouse wheel to scroll, some users reported problems in the list of repositories in the "Services" view.

• Keyboard Shortcuts: Some keyboard shortcuts and menu actions failed to be available in some scenarios.

• Drag and Drop in History: Dragging a commit in the history table views sometimes did not work as smoothly as expected.

• Support for "log.showSignature": Users that had the Git config setting "log.showSignature" set to true experienced problems when loading commits in Tower. This has been fixed.

Improved

• Branches: We improved the workflow for deleting branches with unmerged changes without the “Force deletion” option being selected. Tower now asks for confirmation to delete any branches with unmerged changes and then deletes them in one go.

• Window Restoration: Window restoration now works smoothly even when an update requires the migration of application data. The internal repository identifiers remain identical after migration and therefore no longer affect window restoration.

• Repository Sidebar: We improved the user experience for selecting items in the sidebar and the change of first responder.

• Stashes: Selecting and deleting one or more stashes now resets the selection to the first stash.

• Push HEAD: The “Push HEAD” dialogue now includes the current HEAD branch in the description.

• AppleScript: We replaced an AppleScript with a native API implementation, stopping an access control dialogue to appear.

• Diff and Merge Tools: Tower now reloads the diff and merge tools each time the preferences pane is opened.

• Action Dialogues: Using various actions such as “Push to…”, “Merge…”, “Rebase…” etc. now correctly preselects the action dialogues independent of the first responder status.

• Working Copy: We significantly improved the loading time of the “Open With” submenu entries in the working tree entry context menu.

• Performance: We optimized the background execution of Git processes to improve repository loading times.

Fixed

• Working Copy: During a merge, the action buttons to continue or abort a merge are now properly re-enabled in all cases.

• Working Copy: A directory entry replaced with a file entry of the same name, or vice versa, could cause a crash in tree view mode.

• Working Copy: When switching branches using auto-stashing, the working copy sometimes did not correctly refresh its file list.

• Repository Sidebar: Toggling ref grouping for the repository sidebar no longer leads to erroneous branch information.

• Pull Requests: In some cases, the “Merge” button in the pull request detail view was incorrectly disabled.

• Window Restoration: The current repository view is now stored for window restoration in all cases.

• git-flow: Tower now validates Ref names entered by the user.

• Navigation Bar: After switching or renaming branches, the path component is now immediately updated.

• Stashes: Saving stashes now works again for older Git versions (<2.13.2).

• User Preferences: We’ve made sure that opening the integration preferences pane no longer causes high CPU usage.

New

• GPG Support: You can now sign commits and tags, see which commits have been signed and by who, and connect GPG keys with your User Profiles - all right from within Tower. Read more in our help: https://www.git-tower.com/help/mac/integration/gpg

New

• App Notarization: Tower builds are now signed using the "Apple notary service", providing an additional layer of security.

Improved

• Better License Information: Opening the "License..." dialog from the main menu now provides more information about your license.

Fixed

• Default Avatar for User Profile: In our new "User Profiles", we now also show a "default" avatar image if none is connected with the entered email address.

• Group Repositories in Services View: For users with multiple GitLab accounts, it could happen that a repository was listed under the wrong account / group.

• Commit Message Editing: When editing a commit message and starting it with a "#" character, Tower wasn't always able to correctly save the message.

• Reflog Crash: On older macOS versions, opening an item from the "Reflog" could result in a crash.

New

• Check Out Remote Branch: You can now double-click a remote branch in the sidebar to perform a checkout.

• Check Out Tags: Also, you can now double-click on a tag in the sidebar to check out a corresponding branch.

• Gender Neutral Avatars: If no avatar image can be loaded, Tower now uses the user's initials instead of a placeholder image.

• Refresh Expiring OAuth Tokens: On some code hosting platforms (e.g. bitbucket.org), OAuth tokens expire very quickly. Tower now refreshes expiring OAuth tokens periodically in the background for you. This makes Git remote operations over HTTPS work much more smoothly.

Improved

• Azure DevOps Rebranding: Microsoft's VSTS and VSTFS products were rebranded to "Azure DevOps", which is now reflected in Tower, too.

• Bitbucket API: The service API calls for bitbucket.org are now updated to work with their upcoming API changes.

• Submodule Improvements: We improved and fine-tuned many details in Tower's Submodule handling (e.g. when changing shared Submodule URLs).

Fixed

• Commit Composing View: When the "Sign-Off" option was checked while composing a commit message, the view could become wider as desired.

• Cherry-Pick Dialog: You can now combine the "--no-commit" option and the "--ff" option when performing a cherry-pick.

• Git Submodule Status: In this update, we're working around several regressions in recent Git versions that incorrectly regard Submodules as “clean”.

• Toolbar Refresh: A couple of users reported that the toolbar wasn't always up to date (in terms of enabled / disabled buttons), which should now be improved.

New

• User Profiles: In Tower's preferences, you can now add "user profiles". These can be used to quickly switch between different Git committer identities (e.g. one for work and others for private coding).

• Copy Ref Names: You can now copy ref names from local branches, remote branches and tags to the clipboard via contextual menu or Quick Actions.

Fixed

• History: Ctrl + Click now correctly opens the contextual menu when performed over the graph or ref badges.

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!