Download GitKraken 12.6.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.6.0 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.6.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.5.0 --exact

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New ✨ - Live agent status support for GitHub Copilot CLI: - GitKraken Desktop can now track Copilot CLI agent sessions and display their status across worktrees in the Agent Sessions panel. - GitKraken will also display pending permission requests from Copilot CLI in associated worktree cards, with allow and deny actions to directly respond without switching into the worktree. Dismissing a request hands the decision back to Copilot’s own prompt. - You can install or uninstall the Copilot CLI Plugin that enables live status reporting from Preferences > External Tools. - Support for Cursor CLI as your Coding Agent: - Cursor CLI can now be selected as your Coding Agent. If cursor-agent is installed on your machine it appears in Preferences > External Tools > Coding Agent and in the agent picker on the New Agent Session form, and starting a session launches it in the terminal ready for input. Improvements 🙌 - Improved Commit Composer: “Compose commits with AI” and “Recompose commits with AI” actions now run on a faster, more reliable engine. - More reliable grouping — AI output is validated and retried automatically instead of failing outright - Faster on large diffs, and generated files like lockfiles no longer eat into your token budget - Accurate authorship — recomposed commits keep their original authors, adding co-authors when a commit combines work from multiple people (previously all attributed to whoever ran compose) - Real progress updates — the toast now shows the…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.5.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.4.1 --exact

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New ✨ - Worktree tab groups: - Worktrees of the same repository are now automatically grouped together in the tab bar, making it easier to see which tabs belong to the same project. This can be disabled in Preferences > UI Customization. - Live agent status support for Codex: - GitKraken Desktop can now track Codex agent sessions and display their status across worktrees in the Agent Sessions panel, in addition to Claude Code and OpenCode sessions. - GitKraken will also display pending permission requests from Codex in associated worktree cards, with allow and deny actions to directly respond without switching into the worktree. - You can install or uninstall the Codex Plugin that enables live status reporting from Preferences > External Tools. Improvements 🙌 - You can now view GitHub pull request diffs directly from the Left Panel and Commit Graph. Right-click a pull request in the Left Panel, or a branch with an associated pull request in the Commit Graph, and choose “View changes in PR” to automatically select the base and head commits and show the full diff. If either branch’s remote is missing, GitKraken prompts you to add it first. - Left Panel search now finds remote branches when you include the remote name, such as origin/master or origin:master. Every result the search returned before is still returned. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed an issue where GitKraken could hang on startup, never showing its window, when a profile on disk was missing its name; the app now falls back…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.4.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.4.0 --exact

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“Counterspell any agent action.” New ✨ - Start Agent Sessions from an Issue: - You can now start an agent session directly from an issue in Launchpad and from issues in the Left Panel. GitKraken will create a new branch for that issue, open it in a worktree, and launch your selected coding agent with the issue’s context so it can start working right away. - In Launchpad, select “Start an Agent Session” in the ACTION column on any issue without an associated branch yet to have an agent start working on it. You’ll be prompted with a setup modal to confirm the branch name, coding agent, and other settings before launching the agent. - In the Left Panel, right-click on any issue and select “Start an Agent Session”, which opens the same setup modal. The option appears only for issues that don’t already have an associated branch. - Address Claude permission requests without switching worktrees: - The Agent Sessions panel now shows pending permission requests from Claude Code with allow and deny actions so you can keep Claude working without switching into the worktree. - If relevant, you can also preview the command Claude is asking permission to run by clicking the caret inline with the allow/deny actions to reveal the command. Improvements 🙌 - When you sign in with a single profile, GitKraken now automatically connects all the Git providers linked to your gitkraken.dev account, so they’re ready to use right away. - Added a Ctrl+Alt+F (Cmd+Option+F on Mac) shortcut to focus the…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.4.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.3.1 --exact

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“Now keeping an eye on all your agents.” New ✨ - Added a pin icon to the Graph column header when a branch is pinned to the left. Clicking the pin icon jumps to and selects the pinned branch row. - The Agent Sessions view in the Left Panel can now bring an external agent session’s window to the foreground. Hover over an agent’s status and click on the eye icon to focus the external agent session. When focusing an external application isn’t possible, a toast offers to relaunch the session in the GitKraken Desktop terminal. Improvements 🙌 - Updated the bundled Git to 2.54.0. - The Agents toggle in the left panel now shows the highest-priority status across the open repository’s related agent sessions, with a tooltip showing how many sessions are in that state, so you can spot activity that needs attention without leaving the List view. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed an issue where “Create branch here” and “Create tag here” did nothing when the target commit was not shown in the graph (the Branch/Tag column was hidden, or the ref itself was hidden); they now open a prompt to name the new branch or tag. - Fixed an issue where the branch or tag name input disappeared when its target commit scrolled out of view in the graph; it now stays usable, floating at the top or bottom edge of the graph. - Fixed an issue on Windows where removing a worktree could leave its folder behind (for example, when it contained symlinks to node_modules, or an agent session’s files were still in use) while…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.3.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.3.0 --exact

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New ✨ - Unified GitKraken login and integration management: - Sign in and sign up now happen through your browser at gitkraken.dev, replacing the in-app email/password form. - New integration connections will now be connected through your GitKraken account and synced across all your devices. You can manage integrations for your GitKraken account at gitkraken.dev as well as from Preferences > Integrations. - Note: Integrations and login for On-premise clients (both Self-Hosted and Serverless) have not been modified and will continue to be managed locally. - Multiple WIP nodes in the Commit Graph: - A WIP node now appears in the Commit Graph for every worktree with uncommitted changes or an active agent session. Each WIP row shows the summary of changes, and — for any worktree other than the one you’re currently in — an agent’s status when a session is active there. Toggle visibility in Preferences > Agents. - Selecting the WIP row for another worktree will expose an inline “Open Worktree” action so you can easily switch to that worktree. - Review PRs with GitKraken Code Review: - The in-app pull request review mode has been replaced with links to a more full-featured review experience on gitkraken.dev. GitKraken Code Review hosts a powerful diff viewer that visualizes moved code, AI-powered overviews and suggestions, and a chat interface to ask questions. Access it from the Launchpad, Pull Requests in the Left Panel, or the Graph. Improvements 🙌 - When checking out a branch…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.3.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.2.1 --exact

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Improvements 🙌 - The embedded terminal now dims slightly when focus is elsewhere in the app, making it clearer where keystrokes will land. - Merged PR pills now also appear for GitLab merge requests in the Toolbar, Commit Details panel, and worktree cards, so you know when a branch’s work has shipped. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed an issue where multi-selecting the WIP and a commit in the graph showed the wrong diff for a specific modified file. - Fixed an issue on Windows where comparing the WIP with a commit could show an entire file as changed because of line-ending differences. - Fixed an issue where multi-selecting the WIP and a commit in the graph prevented the navigation of files with the keyboard from working correctly. - Fixed an issue where GitKraken could spawn background processes uncontrollably while a terminal was open on macOS. - Fixed an issue where committing inside a submodule outside of GitKraken Desktop did not refresh the parent repository’s WIP view. - Fixed an issue where the Diff View of a selected WIP file kept showing stale content after the file changed externally, showing outdated commit information for submodules.

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.2.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.2.0 --exact

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Improvements 🙌 - Agent Sessions view: - Added live status support for OpenCode agent sessions. - Navigate to Preferences > External Tools to install or uninstall the OpenCode plugin for reporting live agent status. - The New Agent Session button now starts a session immediately with generated defaults, while customization options remain available from the split button menu. - Added a “Rebase onto this commit” option when right-clicking a commit that has no branches. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed an issue where switching between Inline, Split, and Hunk views in the File History panel had no effect when File History was opened from a file’s context menu.

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.2.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.1.2 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.1.2

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.1.1 --exact

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.1.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.1.0 --exact

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Improvements 🙌 - Worktrees: - New worktrees and agent sessions now inherit view settings (hidden refs, hidden remotes, soloed refs/remotes, and collapsed folders/remotes) from the source repository, so you no longer need to re-hide branches and remotes after creating a worktree. - Added a “Remove worktree and delete branch” action to the worktree context menu for one-step cleanup of worktrees and their associated branches. - Agent Sessions view: - Added a three-dot action menu to worktree cards in the Agents Left Panel view. - You can now start an agent session directly from an existing worktree’s context menu. - Refined the New Agent Session form so options are always visible and the branch, coding agent, and Start Session controls are easier to use. - The base branch selector in the New Agent Session form is now searchable. - A new “Running” status appears when an agent session starts (Claude Code may show a different status if hooks are enabled). - Added visual feedback on worktrees in the Agents view to show a worktree deletion is in progress. - Command Line: - You can now open a repository by passing its path directly as an argument (e.g. gitkraken . or gitkraken /path/to/repo) without needing the --path flag. - Review GitHub Pull Requests on GitKraken.dev: - Added a “Review on GitKraken.dev” button in the GitHub Pull Request view to open a PR with GitKraken Code Review. Review PRs faster with cleaner diffs, AI-generated suggestions, and integrated chat — approve and…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.1.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.0.1 --exact

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Improvements 🙌 - You can now uninstall and reinstall Claude Code hooks used to display live agent status in the Agents Session View from Preferences > External Tools. Bug Fixes 🐛 - GitKraken will no longer attempt to automatically install Claude Code hooks after they are removed. - Fixed an issue in 12.0.0 where GitKraken On-Premise and Standalone clients were attempting to send telemetry via the GitKraken CLI.

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.0.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 12.0.0 --exact

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“A special agent with a license to commit.” New ✨ - Agent Sessions View – Manage, create, and monitor parallel AI agent sessions from a single panel: - The new Agent Sessions View in the Left Panel gives you a unified dashboard for your worktrees and active agent sessions. Each worktree is represented as a card showing its branch, uncommited changes, ahead/behind state, and associated PRs so you can monitor multiple agents at a glance. - If using Claude Code, the associated agent’s status will show in the card so you know when it’s working, waiting for input, or errors. - The “New Agent Session” action creates a worktree, runs your configured setup commands, and launches your coding agent in one step — making it easy to start a parallel task in a new, isolated environment. - Add setup commands in Preferences > Agents to configure per-worktree setup commands (dependency installs, build steps, env file copies) so new agent environments are ready to go automatically. - Configure your preferred coding agent in the inline options menu when creating a new agent session, or go to Preferences > External Tools to set your agent and pass custom CLI arguments when starting agent sessions. This setting currently supports Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Copilot CLI, and Gemini CLI (auto-detected based on installation). - Added a setting in Preferences > UI Customization to hide the Agent view toggle in the Left Panel. - Terminal – An upgraded terminal that keeps your entire workflow…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/12.0.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.10.0 --exact

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Snap snap snap that branch where you want it. New ✨ - Pin branch to left: - Added support for pinning a branch to the left side of the Commit Graph. Right-click a pinned branch to unpin. - Smart Branch Filtering: - Added smart branch filtering mode to focus the graph on the current branch and its related target/upstream refs. - Restore files from any commit: - Right-click on files in a commit to restore them to your working directory. Works with single or multiple file selections. - Sparse Checkout Support: - GitKraken Desktop can now work with sparse checkouts! You can also perform sparse checkouts when cloning a repo, and set sparse checkout rules for the open repo from the settings. - GitKraken AI: - Added support for Google Gemini 3 Flash. Improvements 🙌 - GitKraken AI: - Updated default AI model to Google Gemini 2.5 Flash and removed deprecated Gemini 1.5 and 2.0 models. - Experimental Feature – Git Executable: - Bumped Bundled Git to v2.53.0. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed a bug that prevented multi-selection options from appearing in the stash context menu in the left panel. - Fixed an issue where the ‘Copy file path’ context menu option would not work for files in a worktree or a submodule. - Fixed an issue where external changes made in worktrees (such as commits from the terminal) were not being detected. - Fixed an issue where pulling with fast-forward failed with “Could not apply stash” when there were uncommitted changes. Deprecation Notice 🧟 - GitHub Actions has been…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.10.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.9.0 --exact

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“This update’s easy to wrap your head around.” New ✨ - Shallow Clone Settings: - You can now set shallow clone options directly in the Clone Repository dialog from Repository Management or the Launchpad tab. - Experimental Feature – Git Executable: - Added a new “Squash” setting under Commit preferences to squash commits when merging branches. - Word Wrap Toggle - Added button to enable word wrapping in diff view, file view, file history, and merge conflict resolution panels. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Trello integrations will now work again. - Fixed internal file links in markdown preview showing an external link icon and not opening when clicked. - Fixed an issue where GitKraken Desktop would fail to start on x86_64 linux distributions older than GLIBC 2.33 (Ubuntu <= 20.04, Debian <= 11, etc.).

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.9.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.8.0 --exact

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“GitKraken Desktop is ARM’d with new performance improvements!” New ✨ - ARM for Linux & Windows - Linux and Windows users on ARM should visit (https://gitkraken.com/download) to ensure the correct build for their chip architecture. - Shallow Clones - Shallow Clones can now be created directly from GitKraken Desktop as part of the clone workflow instead of requiring manual creation outside the app. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed inconsistent code block styling in issue and pull request views. - AI context menu items (such as “Explain working changes” and “Explain branch changes”) will no longer appear when AI is disabled in settings or when the organization does not allow AI. - Users who provide their own OpenAI API key will no longer get an error when resolving conflicts with GPT-5 models. - Switching providers in the AI preferences will no longer confuse GitKraken Desktop about which provider’s AI models to show in the dropdowns. - Fixed excessive whitespace in Jira automation comments and improved visual distinction of status badges. Modernization Notice 🎨 - Custom Themes: Custom themes have been disabled in 11.8.0 as we modernize the UI for better performance and maintainability. Our new architecture requires rebuilding theme support from the ground up. Light, dark, and high-contrast themes will remain available during the transition. - We plan to restore custom theme support once the modernization is complete.

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.8.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.7.0 --exact

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“Re-rebase (verb): To undo a rebase, only to redo it again.” New ✨ - Markdown File Preview: - You can now preview markdown files directly in the file viewer! Toggle between Code and Preview modes using the new buttons in the file header. - Undo/Redo for Rebase Operations: - Added support for undoing and redoing rebase operations, including Interactive Rebase, Multi-Commit Cherry Pick, dropping and rewording commits, and AI Commit Composer (Recompose with AI). - GitKraken AI: - Explain Branch Changes: Right-click any branch to get a clear summary of what changed and why. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed AI Commit Composer failing when composing commits that include empty new files, binary files, deleted or renamed files, or files with identical hunk headers. - F11 now toggles fullscreen on Windows and Linux, matching platform conventions. - “Revert Hunk” will no longer appear on working directory changes (“WIP”). “Discard Hunks” is still available for WIP changes. - Fixed blank UI when selecting too many options in Launchpad filters for Jira issues. - Fixed an issue where commit hook changes did not appear in the unstaged area. - Fixed an issue where Git commit options (“skip hooks” and “push after commit”) were not being honored when using the commit keyboard shortcut: Shift/Cmd + Enter. Modernization Notice 🎨 - Custom Themes: Custom themes will be sunset in 11.8.0 as we modernize the UI for better performance and maintainability. Our new architecture requires rebuilding theme support…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.7.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.6.0 --exact

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“Shallow repos. It’s not that deep.” New ✨ - Experimental Feature – Git Executable: - Shallow repo support is now in preview! If you have a shallowly-cloned repository, you can now open it inside of GitKraken Desktop, and most features will work as normal. If you run into any problems, please let us know! - GitKraken AI: - Explain Working Changes: Select your unstaged edits and get a clear summary of what changed and why. Improvements 🙌 - Merge Conflict Improvements - AI conflict resolution is now synced to the exact code line so you can review and apply changes faster. - GitKraken AI: - Added support for custom OpenAI, Anthropic & Gemini endpoint URLs. - Added the ability to cancel the Commit Composer while the AI is still composing. - Added preset instruction choices to custom instructions in preferences. - Experimental Feature – Git Executable: - Bumped Bundled Git to v2.51.1. - Upgraded Electron to v38. - GitHub pull request templates now support organization-level templates. - Added a left-panel context menu option to checkout a tag’s commit directly. - Added HTML syntax highlighting for .vue files. - When the graph is focused, using the Select First keybind (Ctrl+Home/⌘+↑) will now select the WIP/conflict when present, instead of the most recent commit/stash. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Commit/Stash message generation no longer errors with Cannot read properties of undefined (reading ‘requestIdleCallback'). - Skip Hooks now appears when committing from Git worktrees. - GitHub…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.6.0

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.5.1 --exact

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“Hey I finished fixing those bugs… Wait, we released already?” Read the full release notes and see how it all works! Improvements 🙌 - Upgraded Electron to v36 to address performance issues on MacOS Tahoe. Bug Fixes 🐛 - Fixed an issue where submodules that contain dots in their path could not be loaded. - Fixed an issue where we could fail to write log entries or Git Hooks executions. - Fixed an issue where some repositories with unexpected branches or tags would fail to load.

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.5.1

Pin this version: winget install --id Axosoft.GitKraken --version 11.5.0 --exact

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“It was bothering us too.” Performance ⚡️ In 11.5, GitKraken Desktop got faster across the board: large repo load times, stash refreshes, branch and tag updates, and even memory usage have all improved. More perf improvements to come in future releases! - Faster commits and checkouts! We saw >100% speed-up on both in the VS Code repository! - This is thanks to faster branch and tag refreshes (up to 98% faster!), massively speeding up graph updates on repos with thousands of branches/tags. - Up to 480% faster opening of large repositories! We now perform git maintenance in the background on your open repository. After this completes, future opens will be dramatically faster. - Up to 100x faster loading of stashes, further improving repo open speeds on repositories with many local stashes. - Up to 20% less RAM use New ✨ - GitKraken AI: - Users can now choose their preferred model from any provided by GitKraken AI, including our newly-added OpenAI GPT-5 models. - GPT-5 is now available for those bringing their own OpenAI API key. - Added a usage gauge in the profile menu for easy reference of your GitKraken AI token usage. - Added organization suggestions in Preferences > Members to help users discover and join relevant teams. Improvements 🙌 - When creating a pull request, if only one PR template is available, it will be automatically selected. - Hovering an annotated tag in the left panel now shows its annotation. - Experimental Feature – Git Executable: - Users who have…

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Manifest: manifests/a/Axosoft/GitKraken/11.5.0

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