v5.2.1$$$Release Notes Highlights$$$Required: .NET 8.0 Desktop Runtime v8.0.12 or later$$$Recommended: Git 2.46.0 or later$$$Bugfixes for process dialog; blame loading and output history$$$Whats Changed$$$fix(ShowProcessDialogPasswordInput): Default to false by @mstv in #12171$$$fix(AheadBehindDataProvider): Restrict debug output by @mstv in #12143$$$fix(bare repo): Skip git status and git stash list by @mstv in #12165$$$fix(Blame): Do not cancel loading if nothing changed by @mstv in #12158

fix(Diff View): Avoid exception on open by @mstv in #12028

Whats Changed$$$CI: more meaningful icon instead of displaying a circle by @pmiossec in #10893$$$CI: allow click on status cell to open build report by @pmiossec in #11487$$$Script user input improvement by @pmiossec in #11281$$$Add Revision Graph option to fan out all children lanes directly at parent by @mstv in #11327$$$Render graph lines with less curves by @mstv in #10637$$$Form Rebase: Add rebase dependent branches --update-refs rebase option by @pmiossec in #11335$$$git-grep UI by @gerhardol in #11350$$$FileViewer: ShowSyntaxHighlighting hotkey and context menu by @gerhardol in #11530$$$Add a default shortcut for CreateSquashCommit by @pmiossec in #11585$$$Form commit: Improve commit templates menu by @pmiossec in #11584$$$Git diff coloring by @gerhardol in #11590$$$FormResolveConflicts: Improve help when merging/rebasing by @pmiossec in #11619$$$feat(FormCommit): Add Conventional Commit message support by @pmiossec in #11665$$$Allow user scripts to operate on selected files by @SlugFiller in #11239$$$Difftastic as diff viewer by @gerhardol in #11677$$$Allow selecting custom icons for user defined scripts by @mdonatas in #11709$$$Diff moved lines: Use dimmed-zebra algorithm by @gerhardol in #11721$$$Improve recovery of files UX by @pmiossec in #11727$$$Improve recovery form by @pmiossec in #11753$$$feat(ScriptOptionsProvider): {SelectedRelativePaths} by @mstv in #11773$$$DeleteRemote: Add an option to delete a local tracking branch by @pmiossec in #11661$$$Fixes$$$DPI-aware scaling improvements by @mdonatas$$$Trigger RepoChangedNotifier after script / plugin by @mstv in #11309$$$Fix failure to add repository path as safe directory by @bdukes in #11415$$$Ignore fetch/push options in configuration of remote repos by @mstv in #11429$$$Include default system code page in default encodings by @qgppl in #11486$$$Fix avatars not loading behind a corporate proxy by @superhoang in #11596$$$Open GitHub release page for portable apps instead of downloading msi by @RussKie in #11743$$$fix(ShellEx): Support adding multiple files by @mstv in #11770

Release Notes Highlights$$$Requires: .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime v6.0.25 or later$$$$$$Changes:$$$#11393 Avoid popup resetting new file to index$$$#11389 GPG: dont crash on artificial commits$$$#11384 Do not migrate empty settings$$$#11381 GitExtSshAskPass: Ensure chars are outputed as UTF8 chars$$$#11376 Delete unused branch plugin: Makes GetBranchNames() support worktrees$$$#11369 Let git deny the commit if committer is not specified

Git 2.40.1 is recommended$$$Improvements in WSL2 handling; e.g.; automatically convert \\wsl.localhost\ to \\wsl$\ paths$$$Dashboard perf improvements$$$Avatar perf improvements$$$Blame perf improvements$$$Reflog is decoupled from branch filtering and turned into an additive filter$$$Ctrl+Enter creates commit when released and not pressed$$$Windows Explorer integration can now be registered and unregistered from Settings

Maintenance v4 release$$$Downloads$$$$$$https://github.com/gitextensions/gitextensions/blob/release/4.0/GitUI/Resources/ChangeLog.md#version-402-15-jan-2023$$$$$$Requires: .NET 6.0 Desktop Runtime v6.0.13 or later

Release Notes Highlights$$$The app now requires .NET 6. The .NET runtime; if missing; will be installed when the application is executed.$$$Improved repository load time considerably (#9243; #9735; #9864; etc) as well as other performance tweaks.$$$Improved left panel with the added multi-selection functionality (#9723) and the ability to view git stashes (#10258).$$$Improved filtering functionality including the ability to exclude git refs (#10240).$$$Use native WSL Git executables for \\wsl$ shares to speedup handling (#9702)$$$Use the standard FormBrowse for file history and blame (#9445)$$$BASE diff: Icons for unique changes (#9720)

Changes:$$$9589 Show toolbar grips$$$9566 Fix leaking brushes$$$9551 fix: Show current branch resets when switch repos$$$9550 Restore splitter persistence$$$9521 Fix Clone URL Population$$$9505 CommitDiff: Do not Join() in Dispose()