May 5th updates

Highlights

A new compare page: now in Beta

Making it easier to understand large changes.

We are introducing a new compare page for viewing changes between two revisions.

The new compare page

As more and more code is written and generated, looking at and understanding changes remains a critical part in the software development life cycle. For a long time the diff view experience in Sourcegraph hasn't been improved and, frankly, hasn't been up to the level of quality that we have set for ourselves. It's also been lacking capabilities of other diff viewers that developers are used to.

We are taking the first step towards improving the diff view experience. We've made the following improvements over the existing compare page:

Tree of changed files for overview and quick navigation
Various filter types (file extension, file name, focus on/hide folder)
The ability to mark files as viewed
Full file view of the before/after version with code intelligence support

All this scales well to diffs with thousands of files.

This is just the beginning. We will heavily iterate on this in the near future and try out new features to help you understand large changes. If for some reason the new diff viewer doesn't fit your workflow, you can disable (and re-enable) the new view via a toggle on the page itself. In that case please let us know why it doesn't work for you to better understand your workflow.

Happy diffing!

Details

Improvements

Deep Search Improve share link UI with standard components
Deep Search Improve search context lookup

Search context lookup now matches by visible name, namespace, and full spec format, making it easier to find contexts using partial queries.
Code Search Upgrade zoekt for gitindex perf improvements

Upgraded zoekt dependency to include a 21% performance improvement in git indexing time
Code Intel Make maximum ancestors considered in upload detection configurable

SRC_CODE_INTEL_COMMIT_GRAPH_MAX_ANCESTORS can now be set to alter the default of 100.
Authentication Customize sign-in page "Contact your site admin" message

Admins can now customize the sign-in page message when built-in sign-up and access requests are disabled using the new auth.accessRequest.disabledMessage site config field (supports Markdown).
Executors Move secrets under their domain settings
RBAC Add notification read/write RBAC admin permissions

Added new NOTIFICATIONS#READ and NOTIFICATIONS#WRITE RBAC permissions for controlling access to admin notifications and test email sending
RBAC Add access request management to user management admin permission

Access request management now uses the USER_MANAGEMENT#{READ,WRITE} RBAC permissions instead of the static site-admin check.
RBAC Create access tokens auth admin permission

Access token management and auth provider validation endpoints now use ACCESS_TOKENS#READ and ACCESS_TOKENS#WRITE RBAC permissions instead of requiring site-admin status, allowing delegated access token administration without full site-admin privileges.
Cloud Prevent modification of infrastructure-managed advanced configuration fields

In Sourcegraph Cloud, some site config fields are no longer configurable by customers, such as auth.allowedIpAddress, as they are managed by our infrastructure.
Credits Add credit usage notification, replacing Deep-Search-specific notification

Admin notifications now alert when credit balance is low, with thresholds at 50%, 25%, 10%, 5%, and 0% remaining.
Entitlements Add monthly (30-day) window option

Added monthly (30-day) window option for entitlements

Fixes

Deep Search Revert automatic application of default search context
Deep Search Gate search context selector behind feature flag
Deep Search Revert list_repos search context scoping
Deep Search Bound fork title prompt size

Fixed Deep Search title generation failing with "context length exceeded" on deeply forked conversations.
Code Search Classify canceled searches separately

Canceled searches are now classified separately from application errors, preventing false-positive SLO burn alerts from normal product behavior.
Code Search Fix search page result indicator overflow
Batch Changes Fix null fk constraint

Fixed foreign key constraint violation when re-running batch specs with previously-applied changesets
Batch Changes Wire monaco-yaml worker for batch spec editor
Administration Clean up outbound requests page styling
Authentication Preserve permissions on transient 401 after OAuth refresh

Preserve user permissions when a 401 error occurs immediately after a successful OAuth token refresh, treating it as a transient error rather than a credential revocation. This prevents unnecessary permission wipes caused by GitLab's token rotation eventual consistency and concurrent refresh race conditions.
Code Insights Map RevisionNotFoundError(HEAD) to EmptyRepoErr in GitFirstEverCommit
MCP Guard typed-nil tool telemetry results
Permissions Filter user_external_accounts to AUTH kind perms paths
Repositories Fix stacking order isolation in repository area pages

Fixed z-index stacking order issues in repository area pages that caused UI elements to overlap with the header search input suggestions panel.
External Services Relax external service schema validation
Notifications Prevent message hint from breaking popover layout

Removed

Squirrel Remove squirrel backend