GitHub Desktop2.5.6

New:

• Newly created repositories use 'main' as the default branch name
• Users can configure the default branch name in Preferences/Options
• Show status of GitHub Action runs for pull requests
• Differentiate between draft and regular Pull Requests

Added:

• Periodic background fetch and status updates can now be disabled in the Advanced section of Preferences/Options
• Syntax highlighting for ASP.Net and unified diff / patch

Improved:

• Allow renaming the default branch
• Show which files are blocking a merge-like operation
• Updated icons and border radiuses to align with GitHub.com
• Show loading indicator when committing a merge
• Show confirmation that branch is already up to date when merging from default branch
• Enter key now initiates action in rebase and merge dialogs
• After failing to move a repository to Trash, show error and keep the repository listed in Desktop
• Email address validation in welcome flow and preferences dialog
• Show helpful error when attempting to clone non-existent or inaccessible GitHub repositories

Fixed:

• Don't update submodules when discarding files
• Full screen notification is removed after a few seconds when starting the app in full screen
• Update rebase progress parser to parse output from the merge rebase backend
• Only show full screen toast notification when making the app window full-screen
• Ensure application window doesn't overlap second monitor
• Use UNIX line endings in WSL GitHub helper script

Removed:

• Remove setting to disable all certificate validation in favor of new best-effort approach