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diff --git a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.txt b/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 0870cbfda2..0000000000 --- a/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.7.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,313 +0,0 @@ -= Release notes for Gerrit 2.7 - - -Gerrit 2.7 is now available: - -link:https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.7.war[ -https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.7.war] - -Gerrit 2.7 includes the bug fixes done with link:ReleaseNotes-2.6.1.html[Gerrit 2.6.1]. -These bug fixes are *not* listed in these release notes. - -== Schema Change - - -*WARNING:* This release contains schema changes. To upgrade: ----- - java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path ----- - -*WARNING:* Upgrading to 2.7.x requires the server be first upgraded to 2.1.7 (or -a later 2.1.x version), and then to 2.7.x. If you are upgrading from 2.2.x.x or -newer, you may ignore this warning and upgrade directly to 2.7.x. - - - -== Gerrit Trigger Plugin in Jenkins - - -*WARNING:* Upgrading to 2.7 may cause the Gerrit Trigger Plugin in Jenkins to -stop working. Please see the "New 'Stream Events' global capability" section -below. - - -== Release Highlights - - -* New `copyMaxScore` setting for labels. -* Comment links configurable per project. -* Themes configurable per project. -* Better support for binary files and images in diff screens. -* User avatars in more places. -* Several new REST APIs. - - -== New Features - - -=== General - -* New `copyMaxScore` setting for labels. -+ -Labels can be link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-labels.html#label_copyMaxScore[ -configured] to copy approvals forward to the next patch set. - -* Comment links can be link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-gerrit.html#commentlink[ -defined per project in the project configuration]. - -* Gerrit administrators can define project-specific themes. -+ -Themes can be link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-themes.html[ -configured site-wide or per project]. - -* New '/a/tools' URL. -+ -This allows users to download the `commit-msg` hook via the command line if the -Gerrit server requires authentication globally. - -* New 'Stream Events' global capability. -+ -The link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/access-control.html#capability_streamEvents[ -Stream Events capability] controls access to the `stream-events` ssh command. -+ -Only administrators and users having this capability are allowed to use `stream-events`. -+ -If you are using the Gerrit Trigger Plugin in Jenkins, you must make sure that the -'Non-Interactive Users' group, or whichever group the Jenkins user belongs to, is -given the 'Stream Events' capability. - -* Allow opening new changes on existing commits. -+ -The `%base` argument can be used with `refs/for/` to identify a specific revision the server should -start to look for new commits at. Any commits in the range `$base..$tip` will be opened as a new -change, even if the commit already has another change on a different branch. - -* New setting `gitweb.linkDrafts` to control if gitweb links are shown on drafts. -+ -By default, Gerrit will show links to gitweb on all patch sets. If the -link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-gerrit.html#gitweb.linkDrafts[ -gitweb.linkDrafts setting] is set to 'false', links will not be shown on -draft patch sets. - -* Allow changes to be automatically submitted on push. -+ -Teams that want to use Gerrit's submit strategies to handle contention on busy -branches can use `%submit` to create a change and have it -link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/user-upload.html#auto_merge[ -immediately submitted], if the caller has Submit permission on `refs/for/<ref>`. - -* Allow administrators to see all groups. - - -=== Web UI - - -==== Global - -* User avatars are displayed in more places in the Web UI. - -* 'Diffy' is used as avatar for the Gerrit server itself. - -* A popup with user profile information is shown when hovering the -mouse over avatar images. - - -==== Change Screens - - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=667[Issue 667]: -Highlight patch sets that have drafts. -+ -Patch sets having unpublished draft comments are highlighted with an icon. - -* Option to show relative times in change tables. -+ -A new preference setting allows the user to decide if absolute or relative dates -should be shown in change tables. - -* Option to set default visibility of change comments. -+ -A new preference setting allows the user to set the default visibility of -change comments. - - -==== Diff Screens - -* Show images in side-by-side and unified diffs. - -* Show diffed images above/below each other in unified diffs. - -* Harmonize unified diff's styling of images with that of text. - - -=== REST API - - -Several new link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api.html[ -REST API endpoints] are added. - -==== Accounts - - -* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-accounts.html#get-diff-preferences[ -Get account diff preferences] - -* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-accounts.html#set-diff-preferences[ -Set account diff preferences] - - -==== Changes - - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1820[Issue 1820]: -link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-changes.html#list-comments[ -List comments] - -* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-changes.html#get-comment[ -Get comment] - - - -==== Projects - - -* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-projects.html#get-config[ -Get project configuration] - - -=== ssh - - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1088[Issue 1088]: -Support link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-gerrit.html#sshd.kerberosKeytab[ -Kerberos authentication for ssh interaction]. - - -== Bug Fixes - -=== General - -* Postpone check for first account until adding an account. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1848[Issue 1848]: -Mark `ALREADY_MERGED` changes as merged in the database. -+ -If a change was marked `ALREADY_MERGED`, likely due to a bug in -merge code, it does not end up in the list of changes to be submitted -and never gets marked as merged despite the branch head already -having advanced. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=600[Issue 600]: -Fix change stuck in SUBMITTED state but actually merged. -+ -When submitting a commit that has a tag, it could not be merged. - -* Fix null-pointer exception when dashboard title is not specified. -+ -If the title is not specified, the path of the dashboard config file -is used as title. - -* Allow label values to be configured with no text. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1966[Issue 1966]: -Fix Gerrit plugins under Tomcat by avoiding Guice static filter. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2054[Issue 2054]: -Expand capabilities of `ldap.groupMemberPattern`. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2098[Issue 2098]: -Fix re-enabling of disabled plugins. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2128[Issue 2128]: -Fix null-pointer exception when deleting draft patch set when previous -draft was already deleted. - - -=== Web UI - - -* Properly handle double-click on external group in GroupTable. -+ -Double-clicking on an external group opens the group's URL (if it -is provided). - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1848[Issue 1848]: -Don't discard inline comments when escape key is pressed. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1863[Issue 1863]: -Drop Arial Unicode MS font and request only sans-serif. -+ -Arial Unicode MS does not have a bold version. Selecting this font prevents -correct display of bold text on Mac OS X. Simplify the selector to sans-serif -and allow the browser to use the user's preferred font in this family. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1872[Issue 1872]: -Fix tab expansion in diff screens when syntax coloring is on. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1904[Issue 1904]: -Fix diff screens for files with CRLF line endings. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2056[Issue 2056]: -Display custom NoOp label score for open changes. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2093[Issue 2093]: -Fix incorrect title of "repo download" link on change screen. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2127[Issue 2127]: -Remove hard-coded documentation links from the admin page. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2010[Issue 2010]: -Fix null-pointer exception when searching for changes with the query -`owner:self`. - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2039[Issue 2039]: -Fix browser null-pointer exception when ChangeCache is incomplete. - - -=== REST API - - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1819[Issue 1819]: -Include change-level messages to the payload returned from -the link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/rest-api-changes#get-change-detail[ -Get Change Detail REST API endpoint]. - -* Correct URL encoding in 'GroupInfo'. - - -=== Email - -* Log failure to access reviewer list for notification emails. - -* Log when appropriate if email delivery is skipped. - - -=== ssh - - -* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=2016[Issue 2016]: -Flush caches after adding or deleting ssh keys via the `set-account` ssh command. - -=== Tools - - -* The release build now builds for all browser configurations. - - -== Upgrades - -* `gwtexpui` is now built in the gerrit tree rather than linking a separate module. - - - -== Documentation - - -* Update the access control documentation to clarify how to set -link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/access-control.html#global_capabilities[ -global capabilities]. - -* Clarify the -link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.7/config-gerrit.html#cache_names[ -change cache configuration]. - |