GCM 2.0.435-beta

Changes:

• Add support for the Windows authentication broker - Windows Hello support (default off) (#323)
• Pass parent window handle information to MSAL (#306)
• Fix computation of installation path on Linux/single-file publish (#310)
• Fix Windows user-only installer configuration bug (#335)
• Run postinstall actions as the current user, not root - stop changing ownership of ~/.gitconfig on macOS (#308)
• Avoid using the newer --show-scope Git config option - work with downlevel Git versions (#318)
• Fix winget publishing (#332, #338)
• Reduce warnings from tests (#337)
• Documentation fixes (#333)

Thanks to our contributors ❤️:

• @ldennington
• @WormJim

GCM 2.0.394-beta

Changes:

• Experimental support for not using PATs for Azure Repos - default disabled (#294) (read more here)
• Better warning messages on macOS when there are Keychain issues (#305)

GCM 2.0.374-beta

Changes:

• Move to .NET Framework 4.7.2 on Windows (#283)
• Move to .NET 5.0 on macOS and Linux (#288)
• Auto-detect on-premises/self-hosted providers via HTTP headers (#262)
• Use the user's default web browser for Microsoft authentication on macOS and drop the native helper (#274, #277)
• Trivially fix the macOS native helper crashes by deleting it 😅 (#264)
• Share the MSAL token cache with Microsoft developer tools on macOS as we already do on Windows (#275)
• Support git-credential-cache as a credential backing store on Linux (#287)
• Support for the NO_PROXY option to bypass the proxy for certain addresses (#299, #297)
• Use System.CommandLine to handle our command line parsing and allow host providers to offer custom commands (#273)
• Fix a bug with host provider disposal (#272)
• Fix problems with resolving the executable file path on Linux (#298, #229, #252)
• Documentation fixes and improvements (#278, #265, #263)

Thanks to our contributors ❤️:

• @4brunu
• @AlexanderLanin
• @johnemau
• @NN---

GCM 2.0.318-beta

Changes:

• Add explicit PAT authentication mode for the GitHub Provider (#236, #259)
• Auto-detect GHES instances that have a "github." URL prefix (#241)
• Allow use of older versions of libsecret such as in Ubuntu 18.04 (#244)
• Fix bug in Git config matching due due case sensitivity (#234)
• Ensure the /usr/local/bin directory exists on install (#257)
• Remove use of box drawing characters in warning output (#243)

Thanks to our contributors ❤️:

• @AlexanderLanin

GCM 2.0.289-beta

Security Fixes:

• Patched an issue whereby cloning malicious repository on Windows could result in execution of an unverified executable
  (CVE-2020-26233)

Changes:

• Fix NTLM proxy authentication (#216)
• Fix reading empty Git configuration entry values (#215)
• Allow users to select the type of interactive authentication flow for the Microsoft auth stack (#210)

GCM 2.0.280-beta

Changes:

• Fix a bug where Windows Integrated Authentication would be disabled by default (#194)
• Set the full path to standalone GCM Core installs, enabling overriding of bundled versions (#188, #199)
• Split the Windows installer into user- and system-wide 'flavours' (#197)
• Fix a bug with the GitHub provider on Windows in launching the auth UI with a username (#205)

Thanks to our contributors ❤️:

• @mastercoms

GCM 2.0.252-beta

Changes:

• Fixed a where a deadlock would occur when reading very large Git config files (#183)

GCM 2.0.249-beta

Changes:

• Fixed a bug on Linux were launching a browser would print out text to the terminal and fail authentication (#178)

GCM 2.0.246-beta

Changes:

• Very early support for Linux (#135)
• Remove username/password authentication for GitHub.com (#171)
• Enables support for multiple users for GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos (when using the *.visualstudio.com URLs) (#160)
• Fixes bug where the username was required in the remote URL for basic auth (#142)
• Fixes bug where port numbers in remote URLs were not parsed correctly (#156)

The Linux support has currently only been tested on Ubuntu 18.04 and 20.04 on 64-bit Intel processors. The provided Debian package is not yet signed. Due to the varied nature of Linux distributions, you will need to select and configure a credential storage system manually – see more here: https://aka.ms/gcmcore-linuxcredstores.

Now that OAuth has been fully adopted for GitHub.com and works for all users (personal and organizational alike), the username/password option has been removed. The username/password option will soon be removed from the server-side anyway – see more here: https://github.blog/changelog/2019-08-08-password-based-http-basic-authentication-deprecation-and-removal/.

GCM 2.0.194-beta

Changes:

• Support "SSO" PATs for GitHub (#133, #134)
• Bitbucket Server support (#140, #141)
• OAuth Device Authorization Grant support for GitHub (#147)
• Fix a bug with using Microsoft Accounts with Azure Repos (#143, #148)