Behold the evolution of GitKraken Desktop! Find out what’s new, what’s fixed, or just take a trip down memory lane with a nostalgic swagger, remembering those bugs of yesterday.
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Version 11.0.0
“Turn it up to 11! 🎸”
Read the full release notes and see how it all works!
Monday, March 31st, 2025
New ✨
- GitKraken AI: A seamless extension of your development workflow, GitKraken AI automates tedious tasks to improve your efficiency and focus.
- Commit Message Generation
- You’ll now be able to generate clear, meaningful commit messages based on your code changes in just a click.
- With a WIP selected, click on the sparkle icon in the commit message form to have GitKraken AI generate a commit message for you based on your staged changes.
- Explain Commits
- You can now get detailed summaries of changes made in your repository without spending time diving through files and diffs.
- With one or multiple commits selected in the Commit Graph, click on the
Explainbutton in the top right of the Commit Panel to generate an explanation of changes made in the selected commits.
- Configure GitKraken AI from Preferences > GitKraken AI
- Use the
Custom Instructionssetting to provide additional details so GitKraken AI can better tailor commit messages and explanations for you. - With GitKraken AI enabled, you can also select to use your own API key to make requests directly to OpenAI or Anthropic. When one of those providers is selected, you can choose what model you’d like to use for each AI feature.
- Note: The AI Commit Message Generation section has been removed from Preferences > Experimental.
- Use the
- Commit Message Generation
Improvements 🙌
- We updated our plans to better align with how developers and teams use GitKraken, and your new plan is now reflected in the status bar.
- Upgraded React to v17.
- Updated Git to 2.49.0.
Bug Fixes 🐛
- Launchpad now works with GitHub users set as Enterprise Managed Users.
