# git-cola v1.4.0

This release focuses on a redesign of the git-cola user interface, a tags interface, and better integration of the cola classic tool. A flexible interface based on configurable docks is used to manage the various cola widgets.

## Usability, bells and whistles

- New GUI is flexible and user-configurable
- Individual widgets can be detached and rearranged arbitrarily
- Add an interface for creating tags
- Provide a fallback SSH_ASKPASS implementation to prompt for SSH passwords on fetch/push/pull
- The commit message editor displays the current row/column and warns when lines get too long
- The cola classic tool displays upstream changes
- git cola –classic launches cola classic in standalone mode
- Provide more information in log messages

## Fixes

- Inherit the window manager’s font settings
- Miscellaneous PyQt4 bug fixes and workarounds

## Developer

- Removed all usage of Qt Designer .ui files
- Simpler model/view architecture
- Selection is now shared across tools
- Centralized notifications are used to keep views in sync
- The cola.git command class was made thread-safe
- Less coupling between model and view actions
- The status view was rewritten to use the MVC architecture
- Added more documentation and tests