| Release notes for Gerrit 2.9 |
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| Gerrit 2.9 is now available: |
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| link:https://gerrit-releases.storage.googleapis.com/gerrit-2.9.war[ |
| https://gerrit-releases.storage.googleapis.com/gerrit-2.9.war] |
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| *WARNING:* Support for Java 1.6 has been discontinued. |
| As of Gerrit 2.9, Java 1.7 is required. |
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| Gerrit 2.9 includes the bug fixes done with |
| link:ReleaseNotes-2.8.1.html[Gerrit 2.8.1], |
| link:ReleaseNotes-2.8.2.html[Gerrit 2.8.2], |
| link:ReleaseNotes-2.8.3.html[Gerrit 2.8.3], and |
| link:ReleaseNotes-2.8.4.html[Gerrit 2.8.4]. |
| These bug fixes are *not* listed in these release notes. |
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| Schema Change |
| ------------- |
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| *WARNING:* This release contains schema changes. To upgrade: |
| ---- |
| java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path |
| java -jar gerrit.war reindex --recheck-mergeable -d site_path |
| ---- |
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| *WARNING:* Upgrading to 2.9.x requires the server be first upgraded to 2.1.7 (or |
| a later 2.1.x version), and then to 2.9.x. If you are upgrading from 2.2.x.x or |
| later, you may ignore this warning and upgrade directly to 2.9.x. |
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| Release Highlights |
| ------------------ |
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| * 'Gerrit Inspector' for interactive inspection and troubleshooting of a running |
| Gerrit instance. |
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| New Features |
| ------------ |
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| Secondary Index |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| * New `--recheck-mergeable` option on the |
| link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.9/pgm-reindex.html[ |
| `reindex` program]. |
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| ssh |
| ~~~ |
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| * New `--all-reviewers` option on the `query` command allowing query results |
| to include information about all reviewers added on the change. |
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| * New link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.9/cmd-apropos.html[ |
| `apropos` command] to search the Gerrit documentation. |
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| * Deprecated `@CommandMetaData(descr)` has been discontinued. As of Gerrit 2.9 |
| `@CommandMetaData(description)` annotation must be used. |
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| REST API |
| ~~~~~~~~ |
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| Documentation |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.9/rest-api-documentation#search-documentation.html[ |
| Search documentation]. |
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| Daemon |
| ~~~~~~ |
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| * link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.9/dev-inspector.html[ |
| Gerrit Inspector]: interactive Jython shell. |
| + |
| New `-s` option is added to the Daemon to start an interactive Jython shell for inspection and |
| troubleshooting of live data of the Gerrit instance. |
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| Plugins |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| Issue Tracker System plugins |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| *WARNING:* There are new plugins for the integration with Bugzilla, |
| Jira and IBM Rational Team Concert: |
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| * link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/its-bugzilla[plugins/its-bugzilla] |
| * link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/its-jira[plugins/its-jira] |
| * link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/its-rtc[plugins/its-rtc] |
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| The old plugins (`plugins/hooks-bugzilla`, `plugins/hooks-jira` and |
| `plugins/hooks-rtc`) are deprecated with Gerrit 2.9. |
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| The new issue tracker system plugins have a common base which is |
| link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/its-base[plugins/its-base]. |
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| The configuration of the new plugins is slightly different than the |
| configuration of the old plugins because they use different section |
| names in the Gerrit configuration. For easy migration the new plugins |
| have an init step that allows to take over the configuration from the |
| old plugins during the Gerrit initialization phase. |
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| New Features: |
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| * The issue tracker integration can be enabled/disabled per project. |
| * Parent projects can enforce the issue tracker integration for their |
| child projects. |
| * It can be configured for which branches of a project the issue |
| tracker integration is enabled. |
| * Whether the issue tracker integration is enabled/disabled for a |
| project can be changed from the ProjectInfoScreen in the Gerrit |
| WebUI. |
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| Bug Fixes |
| --------- |
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| Configuration |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| * The number of accounts shown on the 'Become Any Account' login |
| screen is increased from 5 to 100. |
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| Upgrades |
| -------- |
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| * Update gwtjsonrpc to 1.4 |
| * Update gwtorm to 1.8 |
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| Plugins |
| ------- |
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| Replication |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| * The default push refSpec for the replication plugin has changed from `forced` |
| to `non-forced` push (was `+refs/*:refs/*` and now is `refs/*:refs/*`). This change |
| should not impact typical replication topologies where the slaves are read-only |
| and can be pushed by their masters only. If you wanted explicitly to overwrite |
| all changes on the slaves, you need to add a `push=+refs/*:refs/*` configuration |
| entry for each replication target. |
