v0.54.0

Again we don't have any major new features this time (unless you count the support for alt-backspace for deleting words in the commit message editor, which is one of my favorite additions), but lots of smaller quality-of-life improvements and bug fixes. The most notable one is probably the fix for the stale index.lock problem, which was a very long-standing bug that seemed to affect some users much more than others for some reason.

What's Changed

Enhancements 🔥

• Add confirmation for hard reset by @stefanhaller in #4704
• Provide user config defaults for UI-changeable settings by @stefanhaller in #4717
• Improve mouse handling of suggestions panel by @stefanhaller in #4726
• Add new command "Checkout previous branch" by @kyu08 in #4728
• Add confirmation for nuking the working tree by @DawidPietrykowski in #4727
• Support Alt+Backspace for word deletion in text areas by @rtzll in #4741
• Don't use hunk mode for added or deleted files even when useHunkModeInStagingView config is on by @stefanhaller in #4758
• Show [0] keybinding in main view title by @stefanhaller in #4754
• Draw divergence from base branch right-aligned in branches view by @stefanhaller in #4785
• Enable hunk staging mode by default by @stefanhaller in #4780

Fixes 🔧

• Fix scrolling hunk into view when selecting next hunk by @stefanhaller in #4709
• Fix stale main view content when entering/exiting filtering view by @stefanhaller in #4719
• Detect double-clicks properly by @stefanhaller in #4725
• Fix commit searching during rebase or in divergence from upstream view by @stefanhaller in #4730
• Fix amending commits whose commit message is empty by @aidancz in #4732
• Several small fixes to filtering mode (by path or author) by @stefanhaller in #4749
• Show diff for renamed file when filtering by path by @stefanhaller in #4750
• Allow rewording or dropping commits in filtering mode by @stefanhaller in #4756
• Fix index out of bounds panic when repository has massive tags by @chojs23 in #4776
• When pressing a to stage all files, don't include untracked files when showing only tracked files by @stefanhaller in #4779
• Fix commit hash colors when filtering by path or aythor by @stefanhaller in #4789
• Improve temp dir handling by @stefanhaller in #4784
• Terminate git processes more gracefully to avoid the stale index.lock problem by @stefanhaller in #4782

Maintenance ⚙️

• Raise sponsors PRs as a draft by @jesseduffield in #4694
• Update the peter-evans/create-pull-request action to v7 by @stefanhaller in #4695
• Update release workflow by @stefanhaller in #4703
• Clean up the .gitignore file by @stefanhaller in #4706
• Remove unused code and texts by @stefanhaller in #4715
• Remove deprecated edit configs by @stefanhaller in #4716
• Bump minimum required git version to 2.32 by @stefanhaller in #4718
• Use a better way of pinning the version of golangci-lint by @stefanhaller in #4733
• Make the minimum required git version a placeholder in the error text by @stefanhaller in #4778
• refactor: use slices.Equal to simplify code by @jishudashu in #4764

Docs 📖

• Fix broken markdown in auto-generated keybindings documentation by @KEY60228 in #4690
• Remove the homebrew tap from the readme by @stefanhaller in #4705

I18n 🌎

• Update translations from Crowdin by @stefanhaller in #4791

Performance Improvements 📊

• Fix performance regression on startup in repos with many tags by @stefanhaller in #4777

New Contributors

• @KEY60228 made their first contribution in #4690
• @DawidPietrykowski made their first contribution in #4727
• @rtzll made their first contribution in #4741
• @chojs23 made their first contribution in #4776
• @jishudashu made their first contribution in #4764

Full Changelog: v0.53.0...v0.54.0