# git-cola v1.4.3.2

## Usability, bells and whistles

- Faster startup time! git cola now offloads initialization to a background thread so that the GUI appears almost instantly.
- Specialized diff options for p4merge, vimdiff, araxis, emerge, and ecmerge in difftool (backported from git.git).

## Fixes

- Fix launching commands in the background on Windows (e.g. when launching git difftool).

- Fix unicode errors when home or repository directories contain unicode characters.

  https://github.com/git-cola/git-cola/issues/74

  Redhat’s bugzilla #694806

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694806