| Release notes for Gerrit 2.0.19, 2.0.19.1, 2.0.19.2 |
| =================================================== |
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| Gerrit 2.0.19.2 is now available in the usual location: |
| |
| link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/list[http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/list] |
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| Important Notices |
| ----------------- |
| |
| * Prior User Sessions |
| + |
| The cookie used to identify a signed-in user has been changed. All users |
| will be automatically signed-out during this upgrade, and will need to |
| sign-in again after the upgrade is complete. |
| Users who try to use a web session from before the upgrade may receive the |
| obtuse error message "Invalid xsrfKey in request". Prior web clients are |
| misinterpreting the error from the server. Users need to sign-out and |
| sign-in again to pick up a new session. |
| This change was necessary to close GERRIT-83, see below. |
| |
| * Preserving Sessions Across Restarts |
| + |
| Administrators who wish to preserve user sessions across server restarts must |
| set [http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/config-gerrit.html#cache.directory cache.directory] in gerrit.config. This allows Gerrit to flush the set |
| of active sessions to disk during shutdown, and load them back during startup. |
| |
| Schema Change |
| ------------- |
| |
| *WARNING: This version contains a schema change* (since 2.0.18) |
| |
| Important notes about this schema change: |
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| * Do not run the schema change while the server is running. |
| + |
| This upgrade adds a new required column to the changes table, something |
| which cannot be done while users are creating records. Like .18, I _strongly_ |
| suggest a full shutdown, schema upgrade, then startup approach. |
| Apply the database specific schema script: |
| ---- |
| java -jar gerrit.war --cat sql/upgrade016_017_postgres.sql | psql reviewdb |
| java -jar gerrit.war --cat sql/upgrade016_017_mysql.sql | mysql reviewdb |
| ---- |
| |
| |
| New Features |
| ------------ |
| * New ssh create-project command |
| + |
| Thanks to Ulrik Sjölin we now have `gerrit create-project` |
| available over SSH, to construct a new repository and database |
| record for a project. Documentation has also been updated to |
| reflect that the command is now available. |
| |
| * Be more liberal in accepting Signed-off-by lines |
| + |
| The "Require Signed-off-by line" feature in a project is now |
| more liberal. Gerrit now requires that the commit be signed off |
| by either the author or the committer. This was relaxed because |
| kernel developers often cherry-pick in patches signed off by |
| the author and by Linus Torvalds, but not by the committer who |
| did the backport cherry-pick. |
| |
| * Allow cache.name.diskLimit = 0 to disable on disk cache |
| + |
| Setting cache.name.diskLimit to 0 will disable the disk for |
| that cache, even though cache.directory was set. This allows |
| sites to set cache.diff.diskLimit to 0 to avoid caching the diff |
| records on disk, but still allow caching web_sessions to disk, |
| so that live sessions are maintained across server restarts. |
| This is a change in behavior, the prior meaning of diskLimit = |
| 0 was "unlimited", which is not very sane given how Ehcache |
| manages the on disk cache files. |
| |
| * Allow human-readable units in config.name.maxage |
| + |
| Timeouts for any cache.name.maxAge may now be specified in human |
| readable units, such as "12 days" or "3 hours". The server will |
| automatically convert them to minutes during parsing. If no |
| unit is specified, minutes are assumed, to retain compatibility |
| with prior releases. |
| |
| * Add native LDAP support to Gerrit |
| + |
| Gerrit now has native LDAP support. Setting auth.type to |
| HTTP_LDAP and then configuring the handful of ldap properties |
| in gerrit.config will allow Gerrit to load group membership |
| directly from the organization's LDAP server. This replaces |
| the need for the sync-groups script posted in the wiki. See: |
| link:http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/config-gerrit.html#ldap[http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/config-gerrit.html#ldap] |
| If you use the sync-groups script from the wiki page, you would |
| also need to delete the group members after upgrading, to remove |
| unnecessary records in your database: |
| {{{ |
| DELETE FROM account_group_members |
| WHERE group_id IN ( |
| SELECT group_id FROM account_groups |
| WHERE automatic_membership = 'Y'); |
| }}} |
| |
| * Don't allow users to edit their name if it comes from LDAP |
| + |
| User information loaded from LDAP, such as full name or SSH |
| username, cannot be modified by the end-user. This allows the |
| Gerrit site administrator to require that users conform to the |
| standard information published by the organization's directory |
| service. Updates in LDAP are automatically reflected in Gerrit |
| the next time the user signs-in. |
| |
| * Remembers anchor during HTTP logins |
| + |
| When using an HTTP SSO product, clicking on a Gerrit link received |
| out-of-band (e.g. by email or IM) often required clicking the |
| link twice. On the first click Gerrit redirect you to the |
| organization's single-sign-on authentication system, which upon |
| success redirected to your dashboard. The actual target of the |
| link was often lost, so a second click was required. |
| With .19 and later, if the administrator changes the frontend web |
| server to perform authentication only for the /login/ subdirectory |
| of Gerrit, this can be avoided. For example with Apache: |
| ---- |
| <Location "/login/"> |
| AuthType Basic |
| AuthName "Gerrit Code Review" |
| Require valid-user |
| ... |
| </Location> |
| ---- |
| During a request for an arbitrary URL, such as '/#change,42', |
| Gerrit realizes the user is not logged in. Instead of sending an |
| immediate redirect for authentication, Gerrit sends JavaScript |
| to save the target token (the part after the '#' in the URL) |
| by redirecting the user to '/login/change,42'. This enters |
| the secured area, and performs the authentication. When the |
| authenticated user returns to '/login/change,42' Gerrit sends |
| a redirect back to the original URL, '/#change,42'. |
| |
| |
| * Create check_schema_version during schema creation |
| + |
| Schema upgrades for PostgreSQL now validate that the current |
| schema version matches the expected schema version at the start |
| of the upgrade script. If the schema does not match, the script |
| aborts, although it will spew many errors. |
| |
| * Reject disconnected ancestries when creating changes |
| + |
| Uploading commits to a project now requires that the new commits |
| share a common ancestry with the existing commits of that project. |
| This catches and prevents problems caused by a user making a typo |
| in the project name, and inadvertently selecting the wrong project. |
| |
| * Change-Id tags in commit messages to associate commits |
| + |
| Gerrit now looks for 'Change-Id: I....' in the footer area of a |
| commit message and uses this to identify a change record within |
| the project. |
| If the listed Change-Id has not been seen before, a new change |
| record is created. If the Change-Id is already known, Gerrit |
| updates the change with the new commit. This simplifies updating |
| multiple changes at once, such as might happen when rebasing an |
| entire series of commits that are still being reviewed. |
| A commit-msg hook can be installed to automatically generate |
| these Change-Id lines during initial commit: |
| {{{ |
| scp -P 29418 review.example.com:hooks/commit-msg .git/hooks/ |
| }}} |
| Using this hook ensures that the Change-Id is predicatable once |
| the commit is uploaded for review. |
| For more details, please see the docs: |
| link:http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-changeid.html[http://gerrit.googlecode.com/svn/documentation/2.0/user-changeid.html] |
| |
| Bug Fixes |
| --------- |
| * Fix yet another ArrayIndexOutOfBounds during side-by-s... |
| + |
| We found yet another bug with the side-by-side view failing |
| under certain conditions. I think this is the last bug. |
| |
| * Apply URL decoding to parameter of /cat/ |
| * Fix old image when shown inline in unified diff |
| + |
| Images weren't displaying correctly, even though |
| mimetype.image/png.safe was true in gerrit.config. |
| Turned out to be a problem with the parameter decoding of the |
| /cat/ servlet, as well as the link being generated wrong. |
| |
| * Fix high memory usage seen in `gerrit show-caches` |
| + |
| In Gerrit 2.0.18 JGit had a bug where the repository wasn't being |
| reused in memory. This meant that we were constantly reloading |
| the repository data in from disk, so the server was always maxed |
| out at core.packedGitLimit and core.packedGitOpenFiles, as no |
| data was being reused from the cache. Fixed in this release. |
| |
| * Fix display of timeouts in `gerrit show-caches` |
| + |
| Timeouts were not always shown correctly, sometimes 12 hours |
| was showing up as 2.5 days, which is completely wrong. Fixed. |
| |
| * GERRIT-261 Fix reply button when comment is on the last line |
| + |
| The "Reply" button didn't work if the comment was on the last |
| line of the file, the browser caught an array index out of |
| bounds exception as we walked off the end of the table looking |
| for where to insert the new editor box. |
| |
| * GERRIT-83 Make sign-out really invalidate the user's session |
| + |
| The sign-out link now does more than delete the cookie from the |
| user's browser, it also removes the token from the server side. |
| By removing it from the server, we prevent replay attacks where |
| an attacker has observed the user's cookie and then later tries |
| to issue their own requests with the user's cookie. Note that |
| this sort of attack is difficult if SSL is used, as the attacker |
| would have a much more difficult time of sniffing the user's |
| cookie while it was still live. |
| |
| * Evict account record after changing SSH username |
| + |
| Changing the SSH username on the web immediately affected the |
| SSH daemon, but the web still showed the old username. This |
| was due to the change operation not flushing the cache that |
| the web code was displaying from. Fixed. |
| |
| * Really don't allow commits to replace in wrong project |
| + |
| It was possible for users to upload replacement commits to the |
| wrong project, e.g. uploading a replacement commit to project |
| B while picking a change number from project A. Fixed. |
| |
| =Fixes in 2.0.19.1= |
| ------------------- |
| |
| * Fix NPE during direct push to branch closing a change |
| + |
| Closing changes by pushing their commits directly into the branch didn't |
| always work as expected, due to some data not being initialized correctly. |
| |
| * Ignore harmless "Pipe closed" in scp command |
| + |
| scp command on the server side threw exceptions when a client aborted the |
| data transfer. We typically don't care to log such cases. |
| |
| * Refactor user lookup during permission checking |
| * GERRIT-264 Fix membership in Registered Users group |
| + |
| Users were not a member of "Registered Users", this was a rather serious |
| bug in the code as it meant many users lost their access rights. |
| |
| * GERRIT-265 Correctly catch "Invalid xsrfKey in request" error as ... |
| + |
| Above I mentioned we should handle this error as "Not Signed In", only |
| the pattern match wasn't quite right. Fixed. |
| |
| * GERRIT-263 Fix --re=bob to match bob@example.com when using HTTP_LDAP |
| + |
| HTTP_LDAP broke using local usernames to match an account. Fixed. |
| |
| =Fixes in 2.0.19.2= |
| ------------------- |
| * Don't line wrap project or group names in admin panels |
| + |
| Line wrapping group names like "All Users" when the description column |
| has a very long name in it is ugly. |
| |
| * GERRIT-267 Don't add users to a change review if they cannot access |
| + |
| If a user cannot access a change, let the owner know when they try to |
| add the user as a reviewer, or CC them on it. |
| |
| * commit-msg: Do not insert Change-Id if the message is ... |
| + |
| The commit-msg hook didn't allow users to abort accidental git commit |
| invocations, as it still modified the file, making git commit think |
| that the end-user wanted to make a commit. Anyone who has a copy of |
| the hook should upgrade to the new hook, if possible. |
| |
| * Support recursive queries against LDAP directories |
| * Fix parsing of LDAP search scope properties |
| + |
| As reported on repo-discuss, recursive search is sometimes necessary, |
| and is now the default. |
| |
| Removed Features |
| ---------------- |
| |
| * Remove support for /user/email style URLs |
| + |
| I decided to remove this URL, its a pain to support and not |
| discoverable. Its unlikely anyone is really using it, but if |
| they are, they could try using "#q,owner:email,n,z" instead. |
| |
| Other Changes |
| ------------- |
| |
| * Start 2.0.19 development |
| * Document the Failure and UnloggedFailure classes in Ba... |
| * Merge change 11109 |
| * Document gerrit receive-pack is alias for git receive-... |
| * Define a simple query language for Gerrit |
| * Create new projects on remote systems with mkdir -p |
| * Set the GIT_DIR/description file during gerrit create-... |
| * Remove unnecessary toLowerCase calls in AdminCreatePro... |
| * Remove unnecessary exception from AdminCreateProject |
| * Remove unused import from AccountExternalId |
| * Abstract out account creation and simplify sign-on for... |
| * Implement server side sign-out handling |
| * Cleanup private keys in system_config table |
| * Remove dead max_session_age field from system_config |
| * Report 'Invalid xsrfKey' as 'Not Signed In' |
| * Update gerrit flush-caches documentation about web_ses... |
| * Update documentation on cache "web_sessions" configura... |
| * Add getSchemeRest to AccountExternalId |
| * Cleanup ContactStore and WebModule injection |
| * Catch Bouncy Castle Crypto not installed when loading ... |
| * Declare caches in Guice rather than hardcoded in Cache... |
| * Remove old commented out cache configuration code |
| * Don't NPE in SSH keys panel when SSHD is bound to loca... |
| * Don't send users to #register,register,mine |
| * Document the new LDAP support |
| * Cleanup section anchors to be more useful |
| * Put anchors on every configuration variable section |
| * Add missing AOSP copyright header to WebSession |
| * Fix short header lines in gerrit-config.txt |
| * Update documentation about system_config private key f... |
| * Fetch groups from LDAP during user authentication |
| * Actually honor cache.ldap_groups.maxage |
| * Add enum parsing support to ConfigUtil |
| * Rename LoginType to AuthType |
| * Support loading the sshUserName from LDAP |
| * Change ldap.accountDisplayName to ldap.accountFullName |
| * Fix parsing set-to-nothing options in ldap section |
| * Report more friendly errors from gwtjsonrpc |
| * Ensure dialog box displays correctly on network failure |
| * Document how setting LDAP properties disables web UI |
| * Ensure the commit body is parsed before getting the co... |
| * Cleanup more section anchors |
| * Make documentation table of contents anchors human rea... |
| * Remove notes about HTML 5 offline support |
| * Fix typo in LegacyGerritServlet javadoc |
| * Use subList in server side change query code |
| * Remove unsupported /all_unclaimed |
| * Rewrite UrlRewriteFilter in terms of Guice bindings |
| * Create a commit-msg hook to generate Change-Id tags |
| * Add change_key to changes table in database |
| * Allow searching for changes by Change-Id strings |
| * Display the change key, aka Change-ID in the informati... |
| * Display abbreviated change ids in change lists |
| * Change javax.security AccountNotFoundException to NoSu... |
| * Automatically update existing changes during refs/for/... |
| * Automatically close changes when pushing into a branch... |
| * Document the new commit-msg hook supplied by Gerrit |
| * Correct title of "Command Line Tools" documentation pa... |
| * Correct URL example used in Google Analytics Integrati... |
| * Correct comment about customizing categories and caches |
| * Fix formatting of remote.name.timeout section in docum... |
| * Add anchors for remote settings in replication.config ... |
| * Widen the search panel now that Change-Ids are 41 char... |
| * Revert "Ensure dialog box displays correctly on networ... |
| * Allow searches for Change-Ids starting with lowercase ... |
| * Fix line wrapped formatting in ChangeListServiceImpl |
| * Move Change.Key abbreviation to Change.Key class |
| * Format change ids in listing tables with a fixed with ... |
| * Cleanup documentation of the commit-msg hook |
| * Cleanup the command line tool index page |
| * Correct stale documentation section about SSH authenti... |
| * Correct access control documentation about project own... |
| * Quote the current directory when running asciidoc |
| * Move the Default Workflow link into the top of the Use... |
| * Correct formatting of usage in gerrit-cherry-pick docu... |
| * Document how Gerrit uses Change-Id lines |
| * Add Change-Id lines during cherry-pick if not already ... |
| * Fix "no common ancestry" bug |
| * Fix commit-msg hook to handle first lines like "foo: f... |
| * Add a link to Gerrit's project to the top of gerrit-ch... |
| * Add full ASLv2 copyright notice to commit-msg hook |
| * Embed Gerrit's version number into shell scripts copie... |
| * Don't drop max_session_age column in transaction durin... |
| * gerrit 2.0.19 |
