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The brand new Kaleidoscope 4.3 continues to innovate by improving the previously introduced Git Merge Context Shelf and Git File History. Kaleidoscope now also detects file renames and shows branch names. When used with a service such as GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, Kaleidoscope now supports jumping to commits, branches, and tickets referenced in commit messages. And it beautifully renders Markdown content in commit messages, which makes browsing and comparing commits so much nicer.
Here are some of the features we added in Kaleidoscope 4:
- Syntax coloring, with multiple built-in themes.
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- Kaleidoscope Prism, a new helper app in the menu bar to quickly launch comparisons even if Kaleidoscope is not running.
- Debugger integration for Python developers.
- File properties show metadata, including size, file type, dates, and encoding.
- A welcome window that speeds up the processes of creating new comparisons or finding recent ones.
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