| Release notes for Gerrit 2.8 |
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| Gerrit 2.8 is now available: |
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| link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.8.war[ |
| http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.8.war] |
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| Schema Change |
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| There is no schema change from link:ReleaseNotes-2.7.html[Gerrit 2.7]. |
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| Release Highlights |
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| * Lots of new link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api.html[ |
| REST API endpoints]. |
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| * New build system using link:http://facebook.github.io/buck/[Facebook Buck]. |
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| New Features |
| ------------ |
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| Web UI |
| ~~~~~~ |
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| Global |
| ^^^^^^ |
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| * The change status is shown in a separate column on dashboards and search results. |
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| Change Screens |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * New button to cherry-pick the change to another branch. |
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| * When issuing a rebase via the Web UI, the committer is now the logged in |
| user, rather than "Gerrit Code Review". |
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| If the user has more than one email address, the preferred email address will |
| be used. |
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| REST API |
| ~~~~~~~~ |
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| Several new link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api.html[ |
| REST API endpoints] are added. |
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| Access Rights |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-access.html#list-access[ |
| List access rights for project(s)] |
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| Accounts |
| ^^^^^^^^ |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#create-account[ |
| Create account] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-account-name[ |
| Get account full name] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-account-name[ |
| Set account full name] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-account-name[ |
| Delete account full name] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#list-account-emails[ |
| List account email addresses] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-account-email[ |
| Get account email address] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-preferred-email[ |
| Set account preferred email address] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#create-account-email[ |
| Create account email] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-account-email[ |
| Delete account email] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-active[ |
| Get account state] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-active[ |
| Set account state to active] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-active[ |
| Set account state to inactive] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-http-password[ |
| Get account HTTP password] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-http-password[ |
| Set or generate account HTTP password] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-http-password[ |
| Delete account HTTP password] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#list-ssh-keys[ |
| List account SSH keys] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-ssh-key[ |
| Get account SSH key] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#add-ssh-key[ |
| Add account SSH key] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-ssh-key[ |
| Delete account SSH key] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-username[ |
| Get account username] |
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| Changes |
| ^^^^^^^ |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#rebase-change[ |
| Rebase change] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#cherry-pick[ |
| Cherry-pick revision] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-content[ |
| Get content of a file in a revision] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-patch[ |
| Get revision as a formatted patch] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-diff[ |
| Get diff of a file in a revision] |
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| Config |
| ^^^^^^ |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-config.html#get-capabilities[ |
| Get capabilities] |
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| Projects |
| ^^^^^^^^ |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#list-branches[ |
| List branches] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#get-branch[ |
| Get branch] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#create-branch[ |
| Create branch] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#delete-branch[ |
| Delete branch] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#list-child-projects[ |
| List child projects] |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#get-child-project[ |
| Get child project] |
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| Capabilities |
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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| New global capabilities are added. |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/access_control.html#capability_generateHttpPassword[ |
| Generate Http Password] Allows non-administrator users to generate HTTP |
| passwords for users other than themselves. |
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| This capability would typically be assigned to a non-interactive group |
| to be able to generate HTTP passwords for users from a tool or web service |
| that uses the Gerrit REST API. |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/access_control.html#capability_runAs[ |
| Run As] Allows users to impersonate other users by setting the `X-Gerrit-RunAs` |
| HTTP header on REST API calls. |
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| Site administrators do not inherit this capability; it must be granted |
| explicitly. |
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| Plugins |
| ~~~~~~~ |
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| * The commit message length checker plugin can be configured to reject |
| commits whose subject or body length exceeds the limit. |
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| * Plugins may now contribute buttons to various parts of the UI. |
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| ssh |
| ~~~ |
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| * The `commit-msg` hook installation command is now |
| link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config_gerrit.html#gerrit.installCommitMsgHookCommand[ |
| configurable]. |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/cmd-ls-members.html[ |
| New `ls-members` command]. |
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| * link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/cmd-set-members.html[ |
| New `set-members` command] |
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| New command to manipulate group membership. Members can be added or removed |
| and groups can be included or excluded in one specific group or number of groups. |
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| Daemon |
| ~~~~~~ |
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| * Add `--init` option to Daemon to initialize site on daemon start. |
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| The `--init` option will also upgrade an already existing site and is processed in |
| non-interactive (batch) mode. |
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| Bug Fixes |
| --------- |
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| Web UI |
| ~~~~~~ |
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| Global |
| ^^^^^^ |
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| * link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1574[Issue 1574]: |
| Correctly highlight matches of text in escaped HTML entities in suggestion results. |
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| Change Screens |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * Default review comment visibility is changed to expand all recent. |
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| By default all comments within the last week are expanded, rather than |
| only the most recent. |
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| * link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1814[Issue 1814]: |
| Sort labels alphabetically by name in the approval table. |
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| Project Screens |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * Only enable the delete branch button when branches are selected. |
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| * Disable the delete branch button while branch deletion requests are |
| still being processed. |
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| User Profile Screens |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| * The preferred email address field is shown as empty if the user has no |
| preferred email address. |
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| REST API |
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| * Support raw input also in POST requests. |
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| * Show granted date for labels/all when using `/changes/`. |
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| * Return all revisions when `o=ALL_REVISIONS` is set on `/changes/`. |
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| ssh |
| ~~~ |
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| * The `--force-message` option is removed from the `review` command. |
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| * link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1908[Issue 1908]: |
| Provide more informative error messages when rejecting updates. |
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| Tools |
| ~~~~~ |
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| * git-exproll.sh: return non-zero on errors |
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| Documentation |
| ------------- |
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| * The link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/index.html[ |
| documentation index page] is rewritten in a hierarchical structure. |
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| * Various spelling mistakes are corrected in the documentation and previous |
| release notes. |
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