v17.9.0

Added

• Adds a welcome page webview for first-time installs to highlight Pro benefits for users in IDEs that do not support the standard VS Code walkthrough (#4769

Changed

• Improves the Interactive Rebase Editor to fully support --rebase-merges on linear history while preventing unsafe reordering when merge commits are present (#1238)
• Improves cherry-pick apply order to use topological sort for correct commit sequence (#4863)
• Changes AI features to require GitLens Pro instead of GitLens Advanced — all AI features now consistently lead to Pro plan checkout (#4843)
• Updates the Welcome walkthrough to streamline onboarding and highlight core GitLens features (#4842)

Fixed

• Fixes issue where the button text on feature gates would blend into the background (#4833)
• Fixes issue where codicon would render as text in comparison picker title (#4866)
• Fixes issue where Interactive Rebase elements overlap when using keyboard and mouse navigation simultaneously (#4816)
• Fixes issue where Home view could crash when state fails to load (#4766)
• Fixes #4776 Azure DevOps Work Item autolinks pointing to wrong project when the Work Item belongs to a different project in the same organization — thanks to PR #4777 by Daniel Asher (@danielasher115)
• Fixes issue where Load more in the Commits view would not correctly load if the last item was a stash (#4865)