Release notes for Gerrit 2.13
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Gerrit 2.13 is now available:

link:https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.13.war[
https://www.gerritcodereview.com/download/gerrit-2.13.war]


Important Notes
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TODO


Release Highlights
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* Metrics interface.


New Features
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Metrics
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Metrics about Gerrit's internal state can be sent to external
monitoring systems.

The following metrics are supported:

* HTTP responses
+
TODO details here and in the others

* REST API calls

* SSH sessions

* Caches

* SQL connections

* TODO add more


Plugins can provide implementations of the metrics interface to
report metrics to different monitoring systems. The following
plugins are available:

* JMX

* Graphite

* Elasticsearch


Plugins can also provide metrics.  The following metrics are provided
by core plugins:

* Replication

** Replication time

* TODO add more

Changes
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In order to avoid potentially confusing behavior, when submitting changes in a
batch, submit type rules may not be used to mix submit types on a single branch,
and trying to submit such a batch will fail.

Bug Fixes
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TODO


Upgrades
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* Upgrade Lucene to 5.3.1