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 Release notes for Gerrit 2.1.8
 ==============================

 Gerrit 2.1.8 is now available:

 link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.1.8.war[http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.1.8.war]

 New Features
 ------------
 * Add cache for tag advertisements
 +
 When READ level access controls are used on references/branches, this
 cache provides a massive performance boost. On some repositories,
 no-op Git client requests can go from 7.910s to 0.550s.  Since all
 of the time reduction is server CPU, this is a major performance
 improvement for busy servers.

 * Substantially speed up pushing changes for review
 +
 Pushing changes to big projects was very slow, for similar issues
 as the READ level access controls. Push checks have been improved,
 reducing the amount of server CPU required to validate a push for
 review is connected to the branch its intended for.

 * Avoid costly findMergedInto during push to refs/for/*
 +
 Checking to see if a new commit uploaded for review has already been
 merged into a branch turns out to be expensive, and not very useful.
 Since the commit is brand new to the server, it cannot possibly ever
 have been merged. Skip the merge check to get a major performance
 improvement on upload to big projects.

 * Allow serving static files in subdirectories
 +
 The /static/ subdirectory can now serve static files contained within
 subdirectories. This change also patches the code to perform better
 checks to ensure the requested URL is actually in the subdirectory.
 These additional checks are only relevant on Windows servers, where
 MS-DOS compatibility may have permitted access to special device
 files in any directory, rather than just the "\\.\" device namespace.

 Bug Fixes
 ---------
 * issue 518 Fix MySQL counter resets
 +
 MySQL databases lost their change_id, account_id counters after
 server restarts, causing duplicate key insertion errors. Fixed.

 * issue 1019 Normalize OpenID URLs with http:// prefix
 +
 OpenID standards require sites to add "http://" to an OpenID
 identifier if the user did not enter it themselves.

 * Ignore PartialResultException from LDAP.
 +
 Instead of crashing with an exception, partial results are ignored
 when configured to be ignored.
	Release notes for Gerrit 2.1.8
	==============================

	Gerrit 2.1.8 is now available:

	link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.1.8.war[http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.1.8.war]

	New Features
	------------
	* Add cache for tag advertisements
	+
	When READ level access controls are used on references/branches, this
	cache provides a massive performance boost. On some repositories,
	no-op Git client requests can go from 7.910s to 0.550s. Since all
	of the time reduction is server CPU, this is a major performance
	improvement for busy servers.

	* Substantially speed up pushing changes for review
	+
	Pushing changes to big projects was very slow, for similar issues
	as the READ level access controls. Push checks have been improved,
	reducing the amount of server CPU required to validate a push for
	review is connected to the branch its intended for.

	* Avoid costly findMergedInto during push to refs/for/*
	+
	Checking to see if a new commit uploaded for review has already been
	merged into a branch turns out to be expensive, and not very useful.
	Since the commit is brand new to the server, it cannot possibly ever
	have been merged. Skip the merge check to get a major performance
	improvement on upload to big projects.

	* Allow serving static files in subdirectories
	+
	The /static/ subdirectory can now serve static files contained within
	subdirectories. This change also patches the code to perform better
	checks to ensure the requested URL is actually in the subdirectory.
	These additional checks are only relevant on Windows servers, where
	MS-DOS compatibility may have permitted access to special device
	files in any directory, rather than just the "\\.\" device namespace.

	Bug Fixes
	---------
	* issue 518 Fix MySQL counter resets
	+
	MySQL databases lost their change_id, account_id counters after
	server restarts, causing duplicate key insertion errors. Fixed.

	* issue 1019 Normalize OpenID URLs with http:// prefix
	+
	OpenID standards require sites to add "http://" to an OpenID
	identifier if the user did not enter it themselves.

	* Ignore PartialResultException from LDAP.
	+
	Instead of crashing with an exception, partial results are ignored
	when configured to be ignored.