Can't authenticate to GitHub from Git Extensions?

I'm just setting up Git Extensions in Visual Studio 2010 and can't really get it to work - I can't authenticate.

In Git Extensions, if I choose Plugins->GitHub I can add user, password, API token and choose SSH. Fine. Except that API tokens aren't available anymore as GitHub are moving to API v 3 now.

Anyone got news on this? I've seen a very recent discussion but no clue.

Surely there must be more GitHub users than me using Git Extensions and having authentication issues?

How do I authenticate GitHub account in terminal?

Authenticating with GitHub from Git When you connect to a GitHub repository from Git, you will need to authenticate with GitHub using either HTTPS or SSH. Note: You can authenticate to GitHub using GitHub CLI, for either HTTP or SSH. For more information, see gh auth login .

Just for future reference: this has been fixed since v2.33