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.enabledsetting 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
AltorShiftwhen clicking on the breadcrumbs to open the repository or folder in a new tab
- Hold
- 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
- Visualize the history sliced by author (the default) or by branch (when applicable), providing different perspectives on contributions and development lines
- 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 SHAaction 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.delayLoadingFileDetailssetting 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.maxWaittimeout setting for fetching contributors to avoid potentially long waits
- Adds a configurable
- 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-baseGit configuration key