docs/04_releases.mkd

## Release History

### Current Release
**%VERSION%** ([go](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=%GO%)|[war](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=%WAR%)|[fedclient](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=%FEDCLIENT%)|[manager](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=%MANAGER%)) based on [%JGIT%][jgit]   *released %BUILDDATE%*

- improved: updated ui with Twitter's Bootstrap CSS toolkit  
    **New:** *web.loginMessage = gitblit*
- added: authenticated JSON RPC mechanism   
    **New:** *web.enableRpcServlet = true*  
    **New:** *web.enableRpcAdministration = false*
- added: reusable JSON RPC client class
- added: Gitblit Manager (Java/Swing Application) for remote administration of a Gitblit server.
- fixed: federation protocol timestamps.  dates are now serialized to the [iso8601](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601) standard.  
    **This breaks 0.6.0 federation clients/servers.**
- fixed: Gitblit can now browse the Linux kernel repository (issue 25)
- fixed: Gitblit now runs on Servlet 3.0 webservers (e.g. Tomcat 7, Jetty 8) (issue 23)
- fixed: Set the RSS content type for Firefox 4 (issue 22)
- fixed: Null pointer exception if did not set federation strategy (issue 20)
- fixed: Gitblit GO allows SSL renegotiation if running on Java 1.6.0_22 or later
- added: IUserService.setup(IStoredSettings) for custom user service implementations
- added: setting to control Gitblit GO context path for proxy setups  
    **New:** *server.contextPath = /*
- updated: MarkdownPapers 1.2.4

### Older Releases

**0.6.0** ([go](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.6.0.zip)|[war](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.6.0.war)|[fedclient](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=fedclient-0.6.0.zip)) based on [JGit 1.1.0 (201109151100-r)][jgit]   *released 2011-09-27*

- added: federation feature to allow gitblit instances (or gitblit federation clients) to pull repositories and, optionally, settings and accounts from other gitblit instances.  This is something like [svn-sync](http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.5/svn.ref.svnsync.html) for gitblit.  
    **New:** *federation.name =*  
    **New:** *federation.passphrase =*  
    **New:** *federation.allowProposals = false*  
    **New:** *federation.proposalsFolder = proposals*  
    **New:** *federation.defaultFrequency = 60 mins*  
    **New:** *federation.sets =*  
    **New:** *mail.* settings for sending emails  
    **New:** user role *#notfederated* to prevent a user account from being pulled by a federated Gitblit instance  
- added: google-gson dependency
- added: javamail dependency
- updated: MarkdownPapers 1.1.1
- updated: Wicket 1.4.18
- updated: JGit 1.1.0
- fixed: syndication urls for WAR deployments
- fixed: authentication for zip downloads

**0.5.2** ([go](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.2.zip)|[war](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.2.war)) based on [JGit 1.0.0 (201106090707-r)][jgit]   *released 2011-07-27*

- fixed: active repositories with a HEAD that pointed to an empty branch caused internal errors (issue 14)
- fixed: bare-cloned repositories were listed as (empty) and were not clickable (issue 13)
- fixed: default port for Gitblit GO is now 8443 to be more linux/os x friendly (issue 12)
- fixed: repositories can now be reliably deleted and renamed (issue 10)
- fixed: users can now change their passwords (issue 1)
- fixed: always show root repository group first, i.e. don't sort root group with other groups
- fixed: tone-down repository group header color
- added: optionally display repository on-disk size on repositories page  
    **New:** *web.showRepositorySizes = true*
- added: forward-slashes ('/', %2F) can be encoded using a custom character to workaround some servlet container default security measures for proxy servers  
    **New:** *web.forwardSlashCharacter = /*
- updated: MarkdownPapers 1.1.0
- updated: Jetty 7.4.3

**0.5.1** ([go](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.1.zip)|[war](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.1.war)) based on [JGit 1.0.0 (201106090707-r)][jgit]   *released 2011-06-28*

- clarified SSL certificate generation and configuration for both server-side and client-side
- added some more troubleshooting information to documentation
- replaced JavaService with Apache Commons Daemon

**0.5.0** ([go](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.0.zip)|[war](http://code.google.com/p/gitblit/downloads/detail?name=gitblit-0.5.0.war)) based on [JGit 1.0.0 (201106090707-r)][jgit]   *released 2011-06-26*

- initial release

[jgit]: http://eclipse.org/jgit "Eclipse JGit Site"