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Attribute commits with collaborators easily. Quickly add co-authors to your commit. Great for pairing and excellent for sending a little love/credit to that special someone who helped fix that gnarly bug of yours. See the attribution on the history page, undo an accidental attribution, and see the co-authors on github.com
Checkout branches with pull requests and view CI statuses. See all open pull requests for your repositories and check them out as if they were a local branch, even if they're from upstream branches or forks. See which pull requests pass commit status checks, too!]
Syntax highlighted diffs. The new GitHub Desktop supports syntax highlighting when viewing diffs for a variety of different languages.
Expanded image diff support. Easily compare changed images. See the before and after, swipe or fade between the two, or look at just the changed parts.
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This version of GitHub Desktop is a fork that adds support for Linux.
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3.4.13-linux124 Feb 2025
Fixed
- Mitigates several vulnerabilities related to Git's credential helper protocol - CVE-2025-23040, CVE-2024-50349, CVE-2024-52006, CVE-2024-50338, CVE-2024-53263
3.4.12-linux124 Feb 2025
Fixed
- Merge branch dialog updates whether a branch can be merged when changing selection
3.4.11-linux124 Feb 2025
Fixed
- Prevent crash due to excessively long Git output
3.4.10-linux124 Feb 2025
Added
- Add a banner for communicating when prioritized updates exist
- Add "View Pull Request on GitHub" Option to the Checked-Out Branch Button and Pull Requests List
Fixed
- Accurately calculate number of conflicted files in a merge
- Inform user when a staged renamed file has changes
- The visual label for the remote url in the repository settings is announced by screen readers
- Remove duplicate avatar users
- Fix for indents of clear button in text box
- Screen readers announce the position of the list items in selectable lists such as the history commit list
- Limitthe commit message length we accept
- Prevent repository not found message for large git status operations
- Add aria-labelledby and aria-describedby attributes to "Show whitespace changes?" popover
- Fix logical tab order from co-authors text box
- Allow using Escape to dismiss the commit message warning popover - desktop#19514
Improved
- Improved appearance of the list of files in 'File size limit exceeded' dialog
- Resize events of resizable elements are announced by screen readers
- Update the names of some JetBrains editors on Linux
- Swipe image diffs now handle images with transparency better
- Commit messages now show correct indentation