Get Early Access to the New Tower

Improved

• AI Commits: Authentication error detection for Claude Code is now more reliable.

• AI Commits: A help button has been added in AI settings that links to the documentation

• AI Commits: The first AI agent is now automatically selected when no prior selection exists

• Performance: Avoid redundant full reloads when switching back to the app window, especially noticeable on large repositories

• Performance: Speed up branch tracking updates on repositories with many branches and remotes

• Performance: Skip unnecessary reloads after fetching when nothing changed on the remote

• History: Show a localized, pluralized confirmation message when rebasing a selection of commits onto another branch.

Fixed

• AI Commits: The AI prompt editor now correctly responds to mouse clicks

• History: Rebase onto now correctly uses the selected commits from the history

• Working Copy: Fix interactive rebase with autosquash failing when squash! commits are present

• Improved

• AI Commit Messages: The AI setup button in the commit view can now be hidden. Use its dropdown menu or toggle it in Preferences → AI.

• AI Commit Messages: The AI generate button menu now opens below the button, consistent with standard macOS behavior.

Fixed

• Interactive rebase: Fixed a stale commit message being shown when resolving sequential conflicts during an interactive rebase with squash or fixup.

• Working copy: Removed the "Generate Commit Message" item from the Working Copy menu where it was unavailable and non-functional.

• Working copy: The commit templates button in the action bar now correctly respects the "Show commit templates button" preference and reacts to changes immediately without requiring a restart.

• New

• AI Commit Messages: Generate commit messages using AI directly from the Working Copy. Choose from different AI agents and prompts, manage them in Preferences, and assign them per repository or globally.

• Commit Action Bar: A new action bar in the commit message area provides quick access to commit templates, a hard line wrap toggle, AI message generation, and a resize handle — all in a redesigned layout with rounded text views and refined styling.

• Commit Body: You can now pin the commit message body to keep it permanently expanded.

• Partial Stash: You can now drag individual files from the Working Copy onto Stashes to create a partial stash, including untracked files.

Improved

• Graphite: Performance with large numbers of branches has been significantly improved.

• Diff/Merge Tools: Tower now validates the tool configuration before launching and provides better error feedback on failure.

• License View: URLs in the license window are now clickable.

• Working Copy: Show File and Blame actions are now correctly disabled for untracked files.

• Workflows: The Git Flow tab in repository settings is now hidden when a non-Git-Flow workflow is active.

• Workflows: Updated icon for branch workflows.

Fixed

• Fixed a crash related to the sidebar in tabbed windows on macOS 26.

• Fixed a crash that could occur when reloading history.

• Fixed a crash during app initialization that could prevent users from registering or using Tower.

• The fully merged badge and history banner now update correctly after fetch.

• Fixed an issue where worktree repositories could lose their connection to the main repository.

• Fixed unnecessary UI updates in repositories with Graphite or worktrees that could cause sluggish performance.

• macOS 26: Fixed an incorrect separator being drawn at the second split view divider in the toolbar. A proper tracking separator has been added for that divider.

• macOS 26: Disabled full size content scrolling for list and detail views to work around a system bug.