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The new update requires you to login to an Atlassian account and you will be locked out from using Sourcetree if you refuse to login.

Avoid if you don't have an Atlassian account, don't want to create one or don't want to be logged in.

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When you first install Sourcetree (and every year thereafter) you have to register it with an email address. Is this just that or is it different? (ie. have they started requiring an always-on connection to Atlassian or something?)

No, you have to register a full Atlassian account with all of your personal details. A single email address is not enough anymore.

You always needed an Atlassian account to retrieve the license but now you can do that by just logging in to the app instead.

Yuck, thanks for the heads up.

You already had to register with an email address after 30 days to continue to use SourceTree. Now we are asking you to register upfront after you download the latest release of SourceTree.

Also, the login window on Windows is a web browser view which uses Internet Explorer and keeps throwing up modal script error windows.

Edit: Admittedly, I have IE8 installed on my work laptop. Not sure if IE11 has the same behaviour.

Please try it with 1.8.2.2 and let us know if you are still having the same issues

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