v17.1.1

Fixed

• Fixes Commit Graph not visualizing for some git providers (#4305)
• Fixes issue when slicing by branch in Visual History where the selected branch was not used properly

v17.1.0

Added

• Adds AI-powered "Explain" commands for work-in-progress (WIP) changes, commits, stashes, and branches
  • Adds Explain Branch Changes (Preview), Explain Changes (Preview), and Explain Working Changes (Preview) actions to branches, commits and stashes, and WIP, respectively in the Commit Graph
  • Adds Explain Branch Changes (Preview) and Explain Changes (Preview) actions to branches, commits and stashes in the other GitLens views
  • Adds an ✨ Explain button to the editor and status bar blame hovers
  • Adds an ✨ Explain button above the commit message in the Inspect view which replaces the Explain panel
  • Adds Explain Branch Changes (Preview) and Explain Working Changes (Preview) (when applicable) actions to the ... menu on the Home view
  • Adds Explain Branch Changes (Preview), Explain Commit Changes (Preview), Explain Stash Changes (Preview), and Explain Working Changes (Preview) actions to the Command Palette
• Adds updated AI provider and model support for GitLens' AI features
  • Adds Ollama and OpenRouter support (#3311, #3906)
  • Adds Google Gemini 2.5 Flash (Preview) model, and OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, GPT-4.1 nano, o4 mini, and o3 models (#4235)
  • Adds support for Azure AI (OpenAI-compatible) models
  • Adds support for custom OpenAI-compatible providers (#4263)
  • Adds gitlens.ai.enabled setting to disable all AI-powered features
  • Adds a walkthrough for AI features
• Adds an all-new Visual History, a powerful evolution of the Visual File History, providing a dynamic and insightful visualization of your repository's history, offering flexibility to explore changes across files, folders, branches, and your entire project
  • Visualize the history sliced by author (the default) or by branch (when applicable), providing different perspectives on contributions and development lines
    • Slicing by author allows you to see the contributions of each author over time
    • Slicing by branch allows you to see unmerged commits on parallel development lines — only available when viewing the history of all branches of a file or folder
  • Use the zoom/pan functionality to focus on specific timeframes or areas of interest via mouse wheel or zoom buttons
  • Adds a breadcrumb navigation bar, with branch switcher and file/folder picker, allowing you to easily navigate the history of files, folders, branches, or the entire repository
    • Hold Alt or Shift when clicking on the breadcrumbs to open the repository or folder in a new tab
  • Adds the configuration popover to customize the visualization, including the branch or all branches, timeframe, and how to slice the history
  • Adds a scrubber bar to provide an almost time-lapse view for navigating through the changes introduced with each commit in history
  • Adds Visualize Repo History and Visualize Branch History actions to the Home view
  • Adds Show Visual History command to the Command Palette
• Adds the ability to change a branch's merge target in Home view. (#4224)
• Adds enhanced integration with Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, and Bitbucket Data Center to support associated accounts and pull requests on commits (#4192)
• Adds the ability to search for GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Self-Managed pull requests by URL in Launchpad
• Adds enhanced and improved accuracy and performance of the revision navigation (#4200)
  • Adds support for navigating line ranges in addition to individual lines
• Adds "changes" statistics for stashes in the Commit Graph
• Adds Open File at Revision from Remote command to open the specific file revision from a remote file URL
• Adds Copy SHA action to editor hovers
• Adds avatars to the hidden Branch / Tags popover in the Commit Graph

Changed

• Changes the display of autolinks in the Inspect and Commit Graph Inspect views (#4286).
  • Replaces the autolinks panel with a new compact "footer" bar below the commit message
• Optimizes (rewrote) Git execution and parsing for significantly improved performance, especially with large repositories, and reliability
  • Improves contributor fetching performance, especially for large repositories, and adds more advanced data for contributor statistics
  • Improves performance of loading data for the Commit Graph
  • Improves cancellation support in many Git operations for better responsiveness and system resource usage
  • Adds gitlens.advanced.commits.delayLoadingFileDetails setting to delay loading full commit file details until required to improve performance even more for large repositories
• Improves Commit Graph rendering performance, re-rendering avoidance, and selection responsiveness
  • Switches the Commit Graph webview to use Lit and upgraded to React 19 for the graph component
  • Improves commit search performance and reliability, epecially when paging in new results
• Improves branch name autolink matching logic for better accuracy and fewer false positives (#3894)
• Improves commit search accuracy and performance both in the Search & Compare view and the Commit Graph
• Improves commit searches in the Search & Compare view to show only the matching files for file or change-based searches
• Improves commit searches in the Search & Compare view to show matching stashes
• Improves accuracy and performance of the File History and Line History views
• Improves performance of the Contributors view, especially with large repositories
  • Adds a configurable gitlens.views.contributors.maxWait timeout setting for fetching contributors to avoid potentially long waits
• Improves GitHub integration authentication check performance, when the authentication extension is disabled or unavailable (Cursor, Windsurf, etc) (#4065)
• Improves AI model adherence to provided custom instructions (#4267)
• Changes cherry-pick command no longer use/open a terminal (#3531)
• Improves date setting descriptions (#3953)

Fixed

• Fixes an error that can occur when retrieving the active repository, such as when the current file is not part of a repository.
• Fixes cache collision between issues and PRs in autolinks (#4193)
• Fixes incorrect PR Link Across Azure DevOps Projects (#4207)
• Fixes detail view incorrectly parses GitHub account in commit message (#3246)
• Fixes timed out waiting for authentication provider to register in GitLens after update to version 16.3 (#4065)
• Fixes cloud integration sessions not refreshing when they expire mid-session (#4240)
• Fixes "Delete Worktree" doing nothing when the default worktree is already open in another window (#4232)
• Fixes some cases in which Azure DevOps queries fail or return unexpected results (#4271)
• Fixes element with id is already registered for commit searches in the Search & Compare view
• Fixes hierarchical compaction in file trees (e.g., a parent folder disappearing if a subfolder with a similar name exists)
• Fixes cherry-pick commit ordering by falling back to author date if committer date matches
• Fixes issues when using older versions of Git (>= Git 2.7.2)
• Fixes cases where rename detection was not working properly

Removed

• Deprecates the gk-target-base Git configuration key

Engineering

• Bumps eslint-plugin-import-x to v4.10.5 — thanks to PR #4236 by JounQin (@JounQin)

v17.0.3

Changed

• Improves AI-related error messages (#4227)
• Shows the default worktree with a branch icon in the Home view

Fixed

• Fixes undefined sometimes showing for search results in the Search Commits command and Search & Compare view
• Fixes missing account menu buttons for synchronizing account status and managing account

v17.0.2

Changed

• Updates discount messaging (#4202)

Fixed

• Fixes branches not found for older git version (#4201)
• Fixes worktree commands not registered (#4203)
• GL won't publish/push initial commit to remote from Home (#4010)

v17.0.1

Added

• Adds new large prompt warning for GitLens' AI features (#4183)
  • Adds a new gitlens.ai.largePromptWarningThreshold setting to specify the threshold (in tokens) for when to show a warning about the prompt being too large
• Adds Generate Commit Message with GitLens and Stash All Changes... buttons to the Source Control toolbar by default — can be configured via the gitlens.menus setting

Fixed

• Fixes Create PR with AI isn't including commit messages properly (#4198)
• Fixes some cases where "Switch" and "Open in Worktree" actions in Launchpad fail to fully open the repo (#4196)

v17.0.0

Added

• Adds support for GitKraken AI (Preview), powered by Google Gemini, included with all GitLens Pro subscriptions
• Adds expanded support for GitHub Copilot-provided AI models
• Adds an AI-powered "Create with AI" button to assist with creating pull requests for GitHub and GitLab
• Adds AI-powered changelog generation between two references (#4189)
  • Adds a Generate Changelog (Preview)... command to the Command Palette
  • Adds a Generate Changelog (Preview)... context menu item to branches and tags in the Commit Graph and in GitLens views
  • Adds a Generate Changelog (Preview) context menu item to Behind/Ahead comparison results in Gitlens views
• Adds AI model status and model switcher to the Home view (#4064)
• Adds Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet model for GitLens' AI features (#4101)
• Adds Google Gemini 2.5 Pro (Experimental) and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite model for GitLens' AI features (#4104)
• Adds new Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center integration (#3916)
  • Adds enriched links to PRs and issues (#4045)
  • Adds Bitbucket Cloud and Data Center PRs in Launchpad (#4046)
  • Adds support for Bitbucket issues in Start Work and allows associating issues with branches (#4047, #4107)
• Adds support for multi-select in GitLens views, enabled by default
  • Adds Cherry Pick Commits..., Copy Remote Commit URLs , and Open Commits on Remote actions to multi-selected commits in the Commit Graph and GitLens views
  • Adds Add as Co-authors action to multi-selected contributors in GitLens views
  • Adds Delete Branches..., Open Branches on Remote, Add to Favorites, and Remove from Favorites actions to multi-selected branches in GitLens views
  • Adds Delete Tags... action to multi-selected tags in GitLens views
  • Adds Drop Stashes... action to multi-selected stashes in GitLens views
  • Adds Delete Worktrees... and Open Worktrees in New Window actions to multi-selected worktrees in GitLens views
• Adds ability to control how worktrees are displayed in the views
  • Adds a gitlens.views.worktrees.worktrees.viewAs setting to specify whether to show worktrees by name, path, or relative path
  • Adds a gitlens.views.worktrees.branches.layout setting to specify whether to show branch worktrees as a list or tree, similar to branches
• Improves detection in the merge target hover on Home for other cases where a branch was merged and adds other actions for the branch and its merge target (#4124)
• Adds expanded support for creating pull requests to all supported providers (#4142)
• Adds a Merge Changes (Manually)... action to files in GitLens view to merge changes in those files into the working tree
• Adds an Open Changes with Common Base action to comparison results files

Changed

• Improves performance by avoiding eager loading of full commit details for inline blame (#4115)
• Improves performance by removing --full-history flag usage in git commands
• Updates the Switch AI Model command and flow
  • Renames the Switch AI Model command to Switch AI Provider/Model
  • Allows the provider to be selected before displaying a list of models
  • Adds inline actions to reset or configure a provider at the provider step
• Curated the list of AI models available for GitLens' AI features
• Improves behavior when opening multiple file changes simultaneously
• Improves accuracy of file lists and stats for uncommitted changes
• Changes AI features (stash description, changelog generation) to honor organization settings

Fixed

• Fixes Bitbucket Server remote - "scm/" path prefix not removed (regression) (#3218)
• Fixes large commit messages work poorly on Commit Graph (#4100)
• Fixes Show * View commands fail intermittently (#4127)
• Fixes Load more action not working on incoming changes in Commits/Repositories views (#4154)
• Fixes incorrect settings.json entry for Google Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking causes linter warning (#4168)
• Fixes multiple autolinks in commit message are broken when enriched (#4069)
• Fixes gitlens.hovers.autolinks.enhanced setting is not respected (#4174)
• Fixes sign out action on Account popover is actually sign in (#4182)
• Fixes Launchpad view causing an "add remote" prompt on load (#4039)
• Fixes Launchpad indicator not updating when an item is snoozed (#4103)
• Fixes autolinks sometimes not shown in the Inspect view when integrations were disconnected
• Fixes an issue with overlapping popover UI elements

v16.3.3

Fixed

• Fixes GitLens gets stuck after rebase (#4078)

v16.3.2

Bumps to v16.3.2

v16.3.1

Fixed

• Fixes Generate Commit Message Error - Anthropic (#4071)
• Fixes Settings editor breaking when dragging it to a new tab group (#4061)
• Fixes regression where hovering over the Graph WIP row doesn't show up anymore (#4062)
• Fixes Inspect & Graph Details: autolinks rendering when enabled setting is false (#3841)
• Fixes comparison with Merge Target on Home fails to open a valid comparison (#4060)
• Fixes closing the walkthrough on Home from opening the walkthrough (#4050)
• Fixes horizontal scrollbar from showing up on the old Home view (#4051)
• Fixes a failure when copying changes to a worktree (#4049)

v16.3.0

Added

• Adds rich support for Azure DevOps — closes #3902
  • Adds integration status and connection flows to the Home view; closes #3976
  • Adds autolinks, issues and pull requests in the Commit Graph and Home view; closes #3977
  • Adds pull request support in Launchpad — closes #3978
  • Adds issue support to Start Work; closes #3979
• Adds new AI-powered ability to generate a stash message from the changes in the Stash commands
• Adds and expands AI model support for GitLens' AI features
  • Adds DeepSeek V3 and R1 models — closes #3943
  • Adds o3-mini and o1 OpenAI models
  • Adds Gemini 2.0 Flash, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, Gemini 2.0 Pro, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking models
  • Adds dynamic model loading for GitHub Models and HuggingFace models
  • Adds a gitlens.ai.modelOptions.temperature setting to specify the temperature (randomness) for AI models that support it
  • Adds a Switch Model button to the AI confirmation prompts
• Adds Windsurf support — closes #3969
• Adds "pro" indicators for applicable integrations — closes #3972

Changed

• Improves performance of updates to active and recent branches on the Home view

Fixed

• Fixes #3952 - Interactive rebase doesn't work in GL without VS Code added to path
• Fixes #3938 - GitLens automatically initiating an external sign-in after install on vscode.dev
• Fixes #3946 - Home View doesn't update repo state changes made when hidden
• Fixes #3940 - Commit Details: issue autolinks can disappear after enrichment
• Fixes #4035 - Repo is lost when "Generate commit" is requested