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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.4.txt b/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.4.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1db4ba34c1..0000000000 --- a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.4.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,241 +0,0 @@ -= Release notes for Gerrit 2.4 - -Gerrit 2.4 is now available: - -link:https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.4.war[https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.4.war] - -== Schema Change -*WARNING:* This release contains schema changes. To upgrade: ----- - java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path ----- - -*WARNING:* Upgrading to 2.4.x requires the server be first upgraded to 2.1.7 (or -a later 2.1.x version), and then to 2.4.x. If you are upgrading from 2.2.x.x or -newer, you may ignore this warning and upgrade directly to 2.4.x. - -== New Features - -=== Security - -* Restrict visibility to arbitrary user dashboards -+ -Administrators have some expectation when using the 'suggest.accounts' -visibility restriction feature that users cannot get the names or -email addresses for arbitrary accounts. In fact, because account IDs -are sequential, it would be easy for an adversary to get personal -information of all users on the server by requesting every user's -dashboard. -+ -This includes changing the meaning of the 'suggest.accounts' config -option to be a boolean indicating whether account suggestion should -happen at all, which is now orthogonal to the account visibility -restriction policy. We still recognize the old values for -'suggest.accounts', with the slight behavior change that -'suggest.accounts=OFF' now means that users cannot access the dashboards -of any other users. Administrators who do not want this behavior can -update their configuration. - -* Indicate that 'not found' may actually be a permission issue - -=== Web - -* Add user preference to mark files reviewed automatically or manually -+ -Add a checkbox to the preferences header on the diff -screen which allows a user to specify whether they -want manual-reviewing enabled or disabled. Previously, -every file was auto marked reviewed when a user first -displayed it. The new manual mode prevents this auto -marking and only marks a file reviewed when the user -explicitly clicks on the reviewed checkbox. - -* Use 'Auto Merge' for merge commit's base comparison -+ -When reviewing a merge commit, the old wording in the version history dropdown -of 'Base' doesn't really match Gerrit's behavior. Updating this to use -'Auto Merge' as suggested by Shawn Pearce on IRC. - -* issue 1035 Add rebase button to the change screen -+ -This change adds a rebase button along with the rest of -the action buttons in the change page. When pressing the -button, the most recent patch set will be rebased onto -the tip of the destination branch or the latest patchset -of the change we depend upon. A new patch set containing -the rebased commit will be produced and added to the -change. -+ -Rebasing of a change in web UI is restricted to change owner, submitter or -those with the (new) 'rebase' permission. - -* Add a new permission 'rebase' to permit rebasing changes in the web UI - -* Make a user's dashboard visible if any of the changes are visible to the -current user. - -* Change 'Loading ...' to say 'Working ...' as, often, there is more going on -than just loading a response. - -=== Performance - -* Asynchronously send email so it does not block the UI -* Optimize queries for open/merged changes by project + branch - -=== Git - -* Implement a multi-sub-task progress monitor for ReceiveCommits - -* Close corresponding change when pushing to 'refs/heads/*' -+ -Gerrit would not close the open changes with matching change-ids, -when the user pushes commits directly to 'refs/heads/*'. -+ -This issue could be triggered for two reasons: - -. It is triggered when Gerrit detects no changes between the -pushed commits and the current patchset on the open changes. This -patch make sure that the matching open change is always closed when -pushing to 'refs/heads/*', even if no visible changes is detected. - -. The same commit exists on another branch than the destination -branch. This could trick gerrit into just "re-closing" the wrong -change. - -* Run ReceiveCommits in a shared thread pool -+ -Since the work to ReceiveCommits may take a long, potentially unbounded -amount of time, we would like to have it run in the background so it -can be monitored for timeouts and cancelled, and have stalls reported -to the user from the main thread. - -=== Search - -* Add the '--dependencies' option to the 'query' command. -+ -This option includes information about patch sets which depend on, or are -needed by, each patch set. - -* Branch Operator: Support full branch names -+ -The search operator for branches required the provided value to be the -short branch name that is shown in the web interface (without the -'refs/heads/' prefix). Change the branch operator so that it also -supports full branch names as value. -+ -It is intuitive that searching with 'branch:master' and searching with -'branch:refs/for/master' deliver the same result. So far -'branch:refs/for/master' was the same as searching with -'refs:refs/heads/refs/heads/master' which is unexpected for most users. - -* Add comment inclusion via '&comments=true' over HTTP -+ -With this change, we can fetch the comments on a patchset by sending a -request to 'https://site/query?comments=true' - -=== Access Rights - -* Added the 'emailReviewers' as a global capability. -+ -This replaces the 'emailOnlyAuthors' flag of account groups. - -=== Dev - -* issue 1272 Add scripts to create release notes from git log -+ -These script generates a list of commits from git log between two given commits -and outputs the asciidoc format containing list of commits subject and body. - -* Update URL for m2eclipse -+ -The project is now under the Eclipse Foundation umbrella. - -* Add missing ignore for m2e prefs in gerrit-ehcache - -* Add '--issues' and '--issue_numbers' options to the 'gitlog2asciidoc.py' - -=== Miscellaneous - -* Remove perl from 'commit-msg' hook -+ -Removing perl from the commit-msg hook reduces the dependencies -gerrit imposes on its users. - -* updating contrib 'trivial_rebase.py' for 2.2.2.1 - -== Upgrades - -* Updated to Guice 3.0. -* Updated to gwtorm 1.4. -* Update JGit to 1.3.0.201202151440-r.75-gff13648 -* Update to gwtjsonrpc 1.3 -+ -The change also shrinks the built WAR from 38M to 23M -by excluding the now unnecessary GWT server code. - -== Bug Fixes - -* issue 904 Users who starred a change should receive all the emails about a change. - -* Fix: 'Diff All Side-by-Side' and 'Diff All Unified' buttons -+ -When pressing the 'Diff All Side-by-Side' or -'Diff All Unified' button on the change screen, the -opened browser windows/tabs shows diffs using "Base" -as old version and the latest one as active patch set, -regardless what has been set using the -"Old Version History:" drop down menu and what is -currently active patch set. -+ -Gerrit doesn't remember the base patch set in the URL, -making it impossible to copy-and-paste the URL to -co-workers to show them the same diff a user is -looking at. -+ -This change fixes this behavior to make sure that -the opened new browser windows shows diffs using the -correct old patch set and active patch set. - -* Fix NPEs looking up groups by UUID in GroupCache - -* Fix default 'receive.timeout' -+ -This should be in milliseconds, not seconds. Set the default to be -2 minutes in milliseconds and update the documentation to reflect -that milliseconds are the default unit of time used here. - -* Fix 'development_become_any_account' redirects -* issue 1299 Allow configuration of optional pattern for gitweb file history link -* Use servlet context path during logout - -* issue 1353 Fix case check for project name so that symlinks work again -* Fix merging of access sections -* Fix inconsistent behavior when replicating refs/meta/config -* Fix duplicated results on status:open project:P branch:B - -== Documentation - -=== Access Rights -* Capabilities introduced -* Kill and priority capabilities -* Administrate server capability -* Create account capability -* Create group and project capability -* Flush caches capability -* Capability replication and view caches -* Capability view conn. & queue -* Example roles introduced -* Developer example role -* CI system example role -* Integrator example role -* Project owner example role -* Administrator example role - -=== Miscellaneous -* User upload documentation: Replace changes -* Add visible-to-all flag in the documentation for cmd-create-group -* Add a contributing guideline for annotations -* Add missing header for suggest.accounts documentation -* Fix anchors for description of gitweb config parameters -* Add missing section name to config-gerrit documentation -* Fix documentation of ls-projects |