Vscode Gitlens: v17.4.0 Release

Added

• Adds new Commit Composer view experience — the next evolution of the initial Commit Composer preview
  • Transforms the automatic commit process into a comprehensive drafting and review experience
  • Adds ability to preview changes before committing and iterate by regenerating individual messages or entire commit compositions
  • Adds support for switching between different AI models during composition
  • Adds custom instruction support to guide AI output to match team conventions and preferences
  • Adds integrated diff review for each proposed commit, and manual editing capabilities for any commit message or approach
  • Adds manual commit composition support (no AI provider required for basic functionality)
  • Adds Compose Commits (Preview) commands accessible from multiple locations: Home view, Commit Graph WIP row, Inspect/Graph Details views, SCM view, and Command Palette
• Adds updated AI model support for GitLens' AI features
  • Adds GPT-5 family (GPT-5, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5 Nano), and Claude 4.1 Opus models
• Add Azure DevOps Server integration support (#4478)
• Adds expanded and improved branch favoriting (#4497)
  • Adds a new "Favorited Branches" option to the branches visibility dropdown on the Commit Graph
  • Adds Add to Favorites or Remove from Favorites context menu items to branches in the Commit Graph
  • Adds Add to Favorites or Remove from Favorites context menu items to worktrees in the views
• Adds 👍 "Helpful" and 👎 "Unhelpful" feedback buttons to AI-generated Changelog (#4449)
• Adds ability to set or change the upstream branch for branches in the Commit Graph and other GitLens views (#4498)
  • Adds new Set Upstream... and Change Upstream... context menu items to branches in the Commit Graph and other GitLens views
  • Adds a new upstream sub-command to the branch Git Command Palette
• Adds new default topological selection mode to the Commit Graph
  • Updates gitlens.graph.multiselect setting to default to topological; set to true to allow selecting multiple commits without restriction
• Adds ability to switch between open repositories on the Visual History
• Adds Visualize Repository History commands to the SCM menus
• Adds Restore Previous Changes command to files in the views (#4542)

Changed

• Changes branch favoriting to apply to both local and remote branch pairs (#4497)
• Improves experience by opening an explain summary document before summary content is generated (#4328)
• Improves login handling when user copies authentication URL instead of opening it
• Improves Inspect/Details view button overload (#4488)

Fixed

• Fixes Copy Changes (Patch) command not working from the Commit Graph
• Fixes issues with handling token limits when using Copilot models (#4529)
• Fixes continuous refreshing when gitkraken.dev cannot renew an expired session (#4324)
• Fixes some Commit Graph issues because of reference to previous state context (#4513)
• Fixes 'generate-rebase' feedback submissions having undefined "type" (#4502)