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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.1.6.txt b/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.1.6.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 83689e70c7..0000000000 --- a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.1.6.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,307 +0,0 @@ -= Release notes for Gerrit 2.1.6 - -Gerrit 2.1.6 is now available: - -link:https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.1.6.war[https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.1.6.war] - -== Schema Change - -*WARNING* This release contains multiple schema changes. To upgrade: ----- - java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path ----- - - -== New Features - -=== Web UI -* issue 312 Abandoned changes can now be restored. -* issue 698 Make date and time fields customizable -* issue 556 Preference to display patch sets in reverse order -* issue 584 Allow deleted and/or uncommented files to be skipped - -* Use HistogramDiff for content differences -+ -HistogramDiff is an adaptation of Bram Cohen's Patience Difference -algorithm, and was recently included in the upstream JGit project. -Patience Difference tends to produce more readable differences for -source code files, and JGit's HistogramDiff implementation tends to -run several times faster than the prior Myers O(ND) algorithm. - -* Automatic merge file content during submit -+ -Project owners can now enable file-level content merge during submit, -allowing Gerrit to automatically resolve many path conflict cases. -This is built upon experimental merge code inherited from JGit, -and is therefore still experimental in Gerrit. - -=== Change Query -* issue 688 Match branch, topic, project, ref by regular expressions -+ -Similar to other features in Gerrit Code Review, starting any of these -expressions with \^ will now treat the argument as a regular -expression instead of an exact string match. - -* Search changes by commit messages with `message:` operator. - -* issue 729 query: Add a \--all-approvals option to queries -+ -The new flag includes approval information for all patch sets in the -resulting query output. - -Notifications -~~~~~~~~~~~~ -* Customize email notification templates -+ -Email notifications are now driven by the Velocity template engine, -and may be modified by the site administrator by editing a template -file under `'$site_path'/etc/mail`. - -* issue 311 Clarify email texts/subject -+ -The default email notification formatting was changed to make the -subject lines and message bodies more consistent, and easier to -understand. - -* issue 204 Add project list popup under Settings > Watched Projects -+ -The project list panel makes it easier for users to browse all -projects they have at least READ +1 access to, and add them to their -watched project set so notifications can be configured. - -* stream-event support for all ref-update events -+ -Whenever a ref is updated via either a direct push to a branch or a -Gerrit change submission, Gerrit will now send a new "ref-updated" -event to the event stream. - -=== User Management -* SSO via client SSL certificates -+ -A new auth.type of CLIENT_SSL_CERT_LDAP supports authenticating users -using client SSL certificates. This feature requires using the -embedded Jetty web server with SSL enabled, and an LDAP directory to -lookup individual account information. - -* issue 503 Inactive accounts may be disabled. -+ -Administrators can manually update the accounts table, setting -inactive = `Y` to mark user accounts inactive. Inactive accounts -cannot sign-in, cannot be added as a reviewer, and cannot be added -to a group. - -* Improve the no-interactive-shell error message over SSH -+ -Instead of giving a short 'no shell available' error, Gerrit Code -Review now prints a banner letting the user know they have -authenticated successfully, interactive shells are disabled, and how -to clone a hosted project: -+ ----- -$ ssh -p 29418 review.example.com - - **** Welcome to Gerrit Code Review **** - - Hi A. U. Thor, you have successfully connected over SSH. - - Unfortunately, interactive shells are disabled. - To clone a hosted Git repository, use: - - git clone ssh://author@review.example.com:29418/REPOSITORY_NAME.git - -Connection to review.example.com closed. ----- - -* Configure SSHD maxAuthTries, loginGraceTime, maxConnectionsPerUser -+ -The internal SSH daemon now supports additional configuration -settings to reduce the risk of abuse. - -=== Administration -* issue 558 Allow Access rights to be edited by clicking on them. - -* New 'Project Owner' system group to define default rights -+ -The new system group 'Project Owners' can be used in access -rights to mean any user that is a member of any group that -has the 'Owner' access category granted within that project. -This system group is primarily useful in higher level projects -such as '\-- All Projects \--' to define standard access rights -for all project owners. - -* issue 557 Allow rejection of changes without Change-Id line. -+ -Project owners can set a flag to require all commits to include -the Gerrit specific 'Change-Id: I...' line during initial upload, -reducing the risk of confusion when amends need to occur to -incorporate reviewer feedback. - -* issue 613 create-project: Add --permissions-only option -+ -The new flag skips creating the associated Git repository, making the -new project suitable for use as a parent to inherit permissions from. - -* create-project: Optionally create empty initial commit -+ -The `repo` tool used by Android doesn't like to clone an empty Git -repository, making it difficult to setup a review for the initial file -contents. create-project can now optionally create an empty initial -commit, permitting repo to sync the empty project. - -* Block off commands on a server for certain user groups. -+ -The upload.allowGroup and receive.allowGroup settings in gerrit.config -can be used to restrict which users can perform git clone/fetch or git -push on this server. This can be useful if clone/fetch should be -limited to only site administrators, while normal users are supposed -to use to less expensive mirror servers. - -* issue 685 Define gerrit.replicateOnStartup to control replication -+ -The automatic replicate every project action that occurs during server -startup can now be disabled by setting replicateOnStartup = false. -This is primarily useful for sites with extremely large numbers of -projects and replication targets, but runs the risk of having a target -be out of date relative to the master server. - -* New non-blocking function category "NoBlock" -+ -Site defined approval categories may now use the function "NoBlock" -to permit scoring without blocking submission. This is mostly -useful for automated tools to provide optional feedback on a change. - -* Ability to reject commits from entering repository -+ -The Git-note style branch `refs/meta/reject-commits` can be created -by the project owner or site administrator to define a list of -commits that must not be pushed into the repository. This can be -useful after performing a project-wide filter-branch operation to -prevent the older (pre-filter-branch) history from being reintroduced -into the repository. - -== Bug Fixes - -=== Web UI -* issue 498 Enable Keyboard navigation after change submit -* issue 691 Make ']' on last file go up to change -* issue 741 Make ENTER work for 'Create Group' -* issue 622 Denote a symbolic link in side-by-side viewer -* issue 612 Display empty branch list when project has no repository -* issue 672 Fix deleting exclusive branch level rights -* issue 645 Display 'No difference' between unchanged patchsets -* Display groups as links to group information -* Remove ctrl-d keybinding to discard comment, honor browser default -* Do not auto enable save buttons, wait for changes to be made -* Disable 'Create Group' button if group name not entered -* Show commit message in PatchScreen if old patch sets are compared -* Fixed a number of focus and shortcut bugs in Firefox, Chrome - -* issue 487 Work around buggy MyersDiff by killing threads -+ -MyersDiff sometimes locked up in an infinite loop when computing -the intraline difference information for a file. These threads -are now killed after an administrator specified timeout -(cache.diff_intraline.timeout, default is 5 seconds). If the -timeout is reached the file content is displayed without intraline -differences. This offers reduced functionality to the end-user, but -prevents the "path of death" which usually took down a Gerrit server. - -* Hide access rights not visible to user -+ -Users were able to view access rights for branches they didn't -actually have READ +1 permission on. This may have leaked -information about branches and/or groups to users that shouldn't -know about code names contained within either string. Users that -are not project owners may now only view access rights for branches -they have at least READ +1 permission on. - -=== Change Query -* issue 689 Fix age:4days to parse correctly -* Make branch: operator slightly less ambiguous - -=== Push Support -* issue 695 Permit changing only the author of a commit -+ -Correcting only the author of a change failed to upload the new patch -set onto the existing change, as neither the message nor the files -were modified. Fixed. - -* issue 576 Allow Push Branch +3 to force replace a tag -+ -Previously it was not possible to replace a tag object, even if -`git push \--force` was used. Fixed. - -* issue 690 Refuse to run receive-pack if refs/for/branch exists -+ -If a server repository was corrupted by an administrator manually -creating a reference within the magical refs/for/ namespace, Gerrit -became confused when changes were uploaded for review. If this case -occurs push now aborts very early, with a clear error message -indicating the problem. To recover an administrator must clear the -refs/for/ namespace manually. - -* Allow receive-pack without Read +2 but with Push Head +1 -+ -Users who had direct branch push permission but lacked the ability to -create changes for review were unable to push to a project. Fixed. -This (finally) makes Gerrit a replacement for Gitosis or Gitolite. - -=== Replication -* issue 683 Don't assume authGroup = "Registered Users" in replication -+ -Previously a misconfigured authGroup in replication.config may have -caused the server to assume "Registered Users" instead of the group(s) -admin actually wanted. This may have caused the replication to see -(or not see) the correct set of projects. - -* issue 482 Upon replication fail, automatically retry later -+ -If replication fails (for example due to temporary network -connectivity problems), other pending replication events to the -same server are deferred and retried later until successful. - -* Replicate all refs received from push -+ -Replication now replicates all references, not just those that -appear under `refs/heads`, `refs/tags`, or `refs/changes`. This -fix may be relevant if the server supports user-private sandboxes -such as `refs/dev/'$\{username\}'/*`. - -* issue 658 Allow refspec shortcuts (push = master) for replication - -=== User Management -* Ensure proper escaping of LDAP group names -+ -Some special characters may appear in LDAP group names, these must be -escape when looking up the group information from JNDI, otherwise the -lookup fails. Fixed by applying the necessary escape sequences. - -* Let login fail if user name cannot be set -+ -If the user name for a new account is supposed to import from LDAP -but cannot because it is already in use by another user on this -server, the new account won't be created. - -=== Administration -* gerrit.sh: actually verify running processes -+ -Previously `gerrit.sh check` claimed a server was running if the -pid file was present, even if the process itself was dead. It now -checks `ps` for the process before claiming it is running. - -* Don't allow exclusive branch rights to block Owner inheritance -+ -Exclusive branch level rights prevented the a higher level branch -owner from managing the branch rights, unless they had an additional -access right for the exclusive rights. Now Owner inheritance cannot -be blocked, ensuring that the higher level owner can manage their -entire namespace. - -* Allow overriding permissions from parent project -+ -Permissions in the parent project could not be overridden in the -child project. Permissions can now be overidden if the category, -group name and reference name all match. - -== Version -ef16a1816f293d00c33de9f90470021e2468a709 |