• Added "your contributions this year", in the head of the menu.
• Settings is now paged.
• Every panel has its own switch. The links panel, the pull requests column, the news column and the contributions count can each be turned off under Panels, so the menu can be only the columns you want.
• Backup has a page of its own under GitHub, with its own status corner, instead of sharing the token card.

WHAT'S NEW

• News from the repositories you follow. Subscribe to a repository and a
  third column appears beside the menu with what happened in it, told in a
  few sentences: releases, commits and who made them, pull requests merged
  and opened, issues opened and closed. The most newsworthy item comes
  first, and a quiet line when nothing happened.
• Every fact in the news is a chip. Hover it and the details unfold beneath
  the sentence, each line a link: the pull requests behind the count, every
  commit of the day with its message and author, the releases by name. Click
  the chip to open GitHub's own list of exactly that.
• News is a morning paper, not a feed. The edition is made up once a day at
  the hour you choose (08:00 to begin with), covers everything since the
  previous edition, up to a week, and stays put until the next one.
• Subscribe from inside the menu. Press -> on any repository row and choose
  Subscribe to news; the same row unsubscribes. Subscriptions sync with your
  profile, up to thirty repositories.
• A News card in Settings: switch the column on or off, set the edition
  hour, see every subscribed repository with its latest summary, add one by
  name or pasted URL, unsubscribe, or refresh now.
• Public repositories need no token. Private ones are read with a saved
  token that can see them.

WHAT'S CHANGED

• The lists scroll with the mouse again. The links, the pull requests and
  the news all respond to the wheel; the page behind stays still.
• The keyboard is unchanged. Tab, <- and -> move between the links and the
  pull requests exactly as before; the news column is read with the mouse.
• Three columns need about 1280 px of width. Below that the news column
  steps aside first, and below 980 px the menu is as it was.
• Every waiting pull request now carries a single mark instead of filled and
  hollow diamonds.
• The strip under the panel shows the column hints as soon as the menu
  opens, without waiting for the mouse to move.
• In Settings, saved tokens are listed one per row instead of side by side.

New in 2.2.1
Requires Firefox 140 or later — Firefox itself now shows what data the extension uses when you install or update it.

New in 2.2.0

Chop effect settings — Turn the animation off, pick one of eighteen colours, set how epic it gets, and change its speed.
Preview chop — Plays your settings on the settings page itself, so you can tune the effect without going back to GitHub.
Rebuilt animation — The dark now spills out of the cut, its edges glow apart, and the menu rises into the opening.
No more full-screen flash — At higher epicness the light bursts from the cut itself instead.
Fix: Pressing . keeps working even if the extension cannot read its settings.

• manifest.json: "name" is now "gitchop for GitHub"; version 2.1.0. Permissions,
host permissions, content scripts and the gecko data_collection_permissions block
are byte-for-byte unchanged.
• browser_specific_settings.gecko.id is unchanged (gitchop@itk-dev), so this is an
update to the existing listing rather than a new add-on.
• src/background.js and src/options/access.js: a code comment and one user-facing
paragraph reworded to stop naming Firefox specifically. No behaviour change.
• Everything else in the diff is repository furniture — a build script, CI
workflows, README and release documentation — none of which is included in the
package.

Since 1.0.0

Finding repositories
- Private repositories are now findable. GitHub's search will not return them, so gitchop
builds its own list of the repositories your token can reach and matches that locally —
instantly, with no request per keystroke.
- Any number of tokens can be saved, so several organisations are covered.
- Press the right arrow on a repository to go straight to its pull requests or issues.

The menu
- The panel is a fixed size and no longer resizes while you type.
- The list settles briefly after your last keystroke, so a typed word is one visual change
rather than one per letter.
- The cut runs right to left, and faster.
- "Add this page" and "Settings" are rows in the list, reachable by typing, instead of buttons.
- The right-hand column is a single arrow instead of a truncated URL.

Tokens and privacy
- Tokens are stored obfuscated rather than as readable text, and never in synced storage.
- The settings page shows what each token actually grants, and flags one that can write.
- A token is no longer tied to gist backup; either can be used without the other.

Fixes
- The toolbar icon now flags it when Firefox has not granted access to github.com — without
that grant the extension is silently inert.
- Links from the gist are validated before being stored or made clickable