Changelog from 2.9.0 to 2.6.0

Release notes from 2.9.0 back to 2.6.0

October 3, 2022

Initial GitHub support.
Support is limited to public repositories on GitHub.com. Private repositories and GitHub Enterprise support to follow.

Fixed a bug when diffing changes in the working copy of submodules.
Fixed some bugs related to tracking branches, especially when their branch name doesn't exactly match the remote branch name (e.g. main-upstream).

We have bumped the underlying Java Runtime to Java 17, which means that Windows Vista and 7 are no longer officially supported. No changes in Mac or Linux compatibility.

March 31, 2022

Support for git submodules.
Detached HEAD mode is no longer converted automatically to detachedHead-deleteme.

Calling the dp command line utility without an already-running DiffPlug is now more reliable.

January 28, 2022

Toggling the split direction while in the undocked state no longer causes an error.
Previously, a diff filter such as subviewS/* would fail to apply on an empty subviewS node - it falsely assumed there would be a subviewS/someProperty=foo. This is now fixed, which reduces noise in diff reports, especially related to embedded MATLAB scripts.

Keyboard shortcuts for tab navigation.
- Ctrl+W to close the current tab.
- Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen a recently closed tab.
- Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl+Shift+Tab to navigate through tabs (or Ctrl+PgUp/PgDown).
Instead of "Accept commits", you now get "Accept 4 commits" (as appropriate).

log4j has been entirely removed from DiffPlug.
- We used version 1.x which was not vulnerable to log4shell (see also this eclipse writeup as we share many dependencies).
Dragging and dropping changed files in the commit diff viewer is fixed.
When uploading a new branch to a remote, the --set-upstream tracking information wasn't being saved to disk. Now fixed.
On MacOS only, DiffPlug startup could hang on proxy configuration when no network connections were available. Now fixed.
Viewing and diffing folders which filenames containing [...] has been fixed.

October 25, 2021

When you mouseover the head branch, you now get a context-sensitive popup for downloading and uploading against that branch.
It is now possible to force-push a remote branch backwards (usually not a good idea to do that, DiffPlug will ask for confirmation first).
git push now includes --set-upstream.

Confirm dialogs which are triggered by the sync pane now automatically have keyboard focus.
Faster feedback when removing a branch or tag from git tips.
"Show help whenever I open a new git history window" was not respected, now it is.
Cloning a git repository could sometimes fail starting in 2.6.0, now fixed.
Deleting remote branches and downloading branches which have been removed from the remote are now fixed.
Attempting to git push and getting rejected because the remote has new commits now proactively prompts to download latest.
Retry attempts which needed a --force were broken, now fixed.

Whenever you see a red X like below, you can right-click it to open a stacktrace dialog. In previous releases of DiffPlug, this was double-click, but now it is right-click. This change was needed to allow us to use the red X as a regular button in some important places, namely the git operation tracker.

October 19, 2021

The git client has been redesigned to improve usability and prepare for new features coming soon.

redesigned git client

Folder diff via the dp ext mechanism has been fixed, after it was broken by a performance optimization introduced in DiffPlug 2.5.1.

Added support for R2021b.
- Note: we do not yet support the new Stateflow Entry and Exit mechanisms which were introduced in R2021b. They will be added in the next release.