Release Notes Highlights

• Requires: .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime v8.0.8 or later
• Git Extensions is now a native 64bit application and installs under "C:\Program Files\GitExtensions" instead of "C:\Program Files (x86)\GitExtensions".
• Git Extensions extensibility API updated
  • The extensibility API surface updated to use interfaces instead of concrete types (e.g., IGitModule instead of GitModule). Plugins must now reference GitExtensions.Extensibility (instead of GitUI, etc.). See https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions.pluginmanager/pull/73 for reference implementation.
  • Dependency injection: IGitUICommands now implements IServiceProvider and provides service resolution.
• Support git diff colouring
• Support search in repository with git grep
• Multiple improvements for handling user inputs for custom scripts - e.g., multiple inputs, input labelling, default values, scripts invocation for selected files, support arbitrary icons for scripts.
• Performance improvements
• UI and usability improvements
• WSL-related improvements
• Add support of Difftastic as diff viewer

What's Changed

• CI: more meaningful icon instead of displaying a circle by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/10893
• CI: allow click on status cell to open build report by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11487
• Script user input improvement by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11281
• Add Revision Graph option to fan out all children lanes directly at parent by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11327
• Render graph lines with less curves by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/10637
• Form Rebase: Add rebase dependent branches --update-refs rebase option by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11335
• git-grep UI by @gerhardol in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11350
• FileViewer: ShowSyntaxHighlighting hotkey and context menu by @gerhardol in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11530
• Add a default shortcut for "CreateSquashCommit" by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11585
• Form commit: Improve commit templates menu by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11584
• Git diff coloring by @gerhardol in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11590
• FormResolveConflicts: Improve help when merging/rebasing by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11619
• feat(FormCommit): Add Conventional Commit message support by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11665
• Allow user scripts to operate on selected files by @SlugFiller in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11239
• Difftastic as diff viewer by @gerhardol in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11677
• Allow selecting custom icons for user defined scripts by @mdonatas in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11709
• Diff moved lines: Use dimmed-zebra algorithm by @gerhardol in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11721
• Improve recovery of files UX by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11727
• Improve recovery form by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11753
• feat(ScriptOptionsProvider): {SelectedRelativePaths} by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11773
• DeleteRemote: Add an option to delete a local tracking branch by @pmiossec in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11661

Fixes

• DPI-aware scaling improvements by @mdonatas
• Trigger RepoChangedNotifier after script / plugin by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11309
• Fix failure to add repository path as safe directory by @bdukes in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11415
• Ignore fetch/push options in configuration of remote repos by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11429
• Include default system code page in default encodings by @qgppl in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11486
• Fix avatars not loading behind a corporate proxy by @superhoang in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11596
• Open GitHub release page for portable apps instead of downloading msi by @RussKie in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11743
• fix(ShellEx): Support adding multiple files by @mstv in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11770

New Contributors

• @snelltheta made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11410
• @pmgiant made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11432
• @bdukes made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11415
• @superhoang made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11596
• @rstm-sf made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11637
• @redcatH made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11759
• @astos-marcb made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11791
• @emmanuel-ferdman made their first contribution in https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/pull/11793

Full Changelog: https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/compare/v4.2.1...v5.0