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Recrest 0.9.0 — Git actions, GitLab + Bitbucket parity, rebuilt Activity, Material UI

Fourth beta of Recrest, and the biggest release yet. Four planned phases shipped together: a sweep of platform and UI bug fixes, a full migration of the styling layer to Material UI, a real repository-management and Git-actions surface, and a rebuilt Activity / Statistics stack. 0.8.0 was burned internally and never tagged, so this goes straight from 0.7.0 to 0.9.0.

The headline for users: GitLab and Bitbucket are no longer "not yet implemented." Both now back PR diffs, inline comments, CI/pipeline runs, deployment status, and org/group/workspace browsing — the same surface GitHub has had.

Still a beta — treat it as "use it, tell us what's broken" rather than "rely on it in your daily loop."

What's new

Repository management & Git actions

Recrest is no longer read-only over your working tree:

  • Working-copy panel in repo detail — stage / unstage individual files, "stage all" / "unstage all", and a full stash lifecycle (save / list / pop / drop).
  • Commit dialog with a {author}: {date} template button and pre-commit hook detection — when a hook is present the commit runs through git commit so the hook actually fires (with a "hooks active" badge); otherwise it takes the fast libgit2 path.
  • Discard guard — discarding sensitive files (.env, id_*, *.pem, …) asks for confirmation instead of silently deleting them.
  • Git config tab — view and edit user.name / user.email / core.editor, layer-aware (global vs. repo-local), with per-repo overrides.
  • Per-repo SSH key picker — override the credential for a single repo; passphrases stay in memory only.
  • "Open in Terminal" honors the terminal you pick in Settings and resolves the right launch command per OS (macOS Terminal/iTerm/Warp, Linux kitty/foot/wezterm/alacritty/gnome-terminal/konsole, Windows Terminal/PowerShell/cmd).

GitLab & Bitbucket reach parity

The provider layer grew real depth across all three hosts:

  • PR diffs with a line-anchored inline-comment composer.
  • CI / workflows — list GitHub Actions / GitLab Pipelines / Bitbucket Pipelines, browse run history, and trigger a run with a dynamic inputs form.
  • Deployments — GitHub Pages / GitLab Pages status (URL, state, custom domain); Bitbucket shows a best-effort "pipeline-based deploy detected".
  • Orgs / groups / workspaces browsing during import, and GitLab/Bitbucket PRs now show the author's avatar and display name.

Rebuilt Activity & statistics

  • Configurable date range — preset chips (7d / 30d / 90d / 1y / all) plus a date picker, mirrored into the URL.
  • Full-history loading — "all" streams a repo's complete history in chunks, with a truncation banner past 5,000 commits per repo; ranges are cached so re-selecting one doesn't refetch.
  • Insights block — current + longest streak, trend, top authors, most-active weekday, average commits/week, longest gap (timezone-aware).
  • Activity source toggle — provider-connected repos only, or every local repo.
  • Charts re-platformed onto Nivo for smoother, more consistent visuals.

Material UI migration

The whole styling layer moved to Material UI v9 + Emotion. Tailwind, Radix, and the hand-rolled SCSS were removed in favor of one MUI theme. Day-to-day it looks and behaves the same — light/dark mode, accent palettes, and font scaling are all preserved — but the foundation is now consistent and far easier to extend. New: custom font upload (Settings → Appearance), and UI-scale hotkeys (Ctrl/Cmd + + / - / 0).

UI & platform polish

  • Pinned repositories in a dedicated section at the top of the list (persistent).
  • Repo-list view modes (Grouped / Flat / Card) with a sortable Flat header; narrow viewports auto-switch to Card.
  • Branch view with collapsible sections, search, and status filters.
  • Confirmation dialogs for destructive actions, swipe gestures, and scroll-position memory per page.
  • Dev / prod identity split — yarn dev runs under its own identity (…​.recrest.dev) with isolated data, tokens, and locks, so it can't clobber your installed copy.

Install

  • Windows — run the .msi. SmartScreen will warn about an unknown publisher → More info → Run anyway.
  • macOS — open the .dmg, drag Recrest into Applications. On first launch, Gatekeeper may block; right-click the app → Open, or xattr -cr /Applications/Recrest.app.
  • Linux — chmod +x Recrest_*.AppImage && ./Recrest_*.AppImage, or install the .deb / .rpm.

Verify the download

SHA256SUMS.txt is attached to this release:

sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS.txt           # Linux
shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.txt       # macOS
Get-FileHash <file> -Algorithm SHA256 # Windows PowerShell

Upgrading from 0.7.0

If you already run 0.7.0, the in-app updater picks this release up automatically on next launch (or via Settings → Updates → Check for updates). The updater signing key and endpoint are unchanged from 0.7.0, so the prompt verifies and installs without a manual reinstall. Settings and keychain-stored tokens are preserved.

Known limitations

  • Auth is PAT / app-password only; OAuth is scaffolded but not user-facing yet.
  • Installers remain unsigned — macOS Gatekeeper / Windows SmartScreen will warn on first launch. Verify via SHA256SUMS.txt above.
  • A few platform-specific items still need on-device smoke testing: Windows Snap-Layouts flyout on the maximize button, Windows autostart-after-reboot, and Linux notification-icon display across dunst / Plasma / GNOME.

Why unsigned?

Recrest is an open-source project without a paid code-signing cert. Apple Developer ID runs at $99/year, Windows EV certs start around $300/year. Installers are built straight from this tag by GitHub Actions — the build log is public, and the checksums above let you verify what you ran matches what was built. See app/src-tauri/README-signing.md for the full rationale.

Feedback

Bugs → issues. Ideas → discussions. Patches → pull requests.

See the full CHANGELOG for version history.

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