Download: 2.13.2 | 2.13.1 | 2.13
Documentation: 2.13.2 | 2.13.1 | 2.13
This release contains schema changes. To upgrade:
java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path
To use online reindexing for the changes secondary index when upgrading to 2.13.x, the server must first be upgraded to 2.8 (or 2.9) and then through 2.10, 2.11 and 2.12. Skipping a version will prevent the online reindexer from working.
Gerrit 2.13 introduces a new secondary index for accounts, and this must be indexed offline before starting Gerrit:
java -jar gerrit.war reindex --index accounts -d site_path
If reindexing will be done offline, you may ignore these warnings and upgrade directly to 2.13.x using the following command that will reindex both changes and accounts secondary indexes:
java -jar gerrit.war reindex -d site_path
The server side hooks functionality is moved to a core plugin. Sites that make use of server side hooks must install this plugin during site init.
Gerrit provides an extension point that enables development of plugins implementing the LFS protocol.
By setting lfs.plugin the administrator can configure the name of the plugin which handles LFS requests.
To prevent potential security breaches as described in issue 3311, it is now only possible for a project to subscribe to a submodule if the submodule explicitly allows itself to be subscribed.
Please see the submodules user guide for details.
Note that when upgrading from an earlier version of Gerrit, permissions for any existing subscriptions will be automatically added during the database schema migration.
Metrics about Gerrit's internal state can be sent to external monitoring systems.
Plugins can provide implementations of the metrics interface to report metrics to different monitoring systems. The following plugins are available:
Plugins can also provide their own metrics.
See the metrics documentation for further details.
Server side hooks are moved to the hooks plugin. Sites that make use of server side hooks should install this plugin. After installing the plugin, no additional configuration is needed. The plugin uses the same configuration settings in gerrit.config.
The secondary index now supports indexing of accounts.
The reindex program by default reindexes all changes and accounts. A new option allows to explicitly specify whether to reindex changes or accounts.
The suggest.fullTextSearch, suggest.fullTextSearchMaxMatches and suggest.fullTextSearchRefresh configuration options are removed. Full text search is supported by default with the account secondary index.
New ssh command to reindex changes.
gerrit.canLoadInIFrame in the site configuration.Issue 106: Allow to select merge commit's parent for diff base in change screen.
Issue 3035: Allow to remove specific votes from a change, while leaving the reviewer on the change.
Issue 3487: Use ‘Ctrl-Alt-e’ instead of ‘e’ to open edit mode.
Add all syntax highlighting available in CodeMirror.
Improve search experience in diff screen.
Ctrl-F, Ctrl-G and Shift-Ctrl-G now bind to the search dialog box provided by CodeMirror's search add-on. Enter and Shift-Enter navigate among the search results from the CodeMirror search, just like they do in a normal browser search. Esc now clears the search result.
If the user sets Render to Slow in the diff preferences and the file is less than 4000 lines (huge), then Ctrl-F, Ctrl-G and Shift-Ctrl-G fall back to the browser search.
Issue 2968: Allow to go back to change list by keyboard shortcut from diff screens.
Blame annotations.
By enabling change.allowBlame, blame annotations can be shown in the side-by-side diff screen gutter. Clicking the annotation opens the relevant change.
Issue 989: New option to control email notifications.
Users can now choose between ‘Enabled’, ‘Disabled’ and ‘CC Me on Comments I Write’.
New option to control adding ‘Signed-off-by’ footer in commit message of new changes created online.
New option to control auto-indent width in inline editor.
Issue 890: New diff option to control whether to skip unchanged files when navigating to the previous or the next file.
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.
Issue 3766: Allow users with the ‘ModifyAccount’ capability to get the preferences for other users via the Get User Preferences endpoint.
Rename ‘Suggest Account’ to ‘Query Account’ and add support for arbitrary account queries.
The _more_accounts flag is set on the last result when there are more results than the limit. The DETAILS and ALL_EMAILS options may be set to control whether the results should include details (full name, email, username, avatars) and all emails, respectively.
New endpoint: Get Watched Projects.
New endpoint: Set Watched Projects.
New endpoint: Delete Watched Projects.
New endpoint: Get Star Labels from Change.
New endpoint: Update Star Labels on Change.
New endpoint: Get OAuth Access Token.
New endpoint: List Contributor Agreements.
New endpoint: Sign Contributor Agreement.
Issue 3579: Append submitted info to ChangeInfo.
New endpoint: Move Change.
-s as an alias for --suggest on the Suggest Group endpoint.Add async option to the Run GC endpoint to allow garbage collection to run asynchronously.
New endpoint: List Access Rights.
New endpoint: Add, Update and Delete Access Rights.
New endpoint: Create Tag.
New endpoint: Get Mergeable Information.
Secure settings
Plugins may now store secure settings in etc/$PLUGIN.secure.config where they will be decoded by the Secure Store implementation.
Exported dependencies
Gson is now an exported dependency. Plugins no longer need to explicitly add a dependency on it.
New project option to reject implicit merge commits.
The ‘Reject Implicit Merges’ option can be enabled to prevent non-merge commits from implicitly bringing unwanted changes into a branch. This can happen for example when a commit is made based on one branch but is mistakenly pushed to another, for example based on refs/heads/master but pushed to refs/for/stable.
New Add Patch Set capability to control who is allowed to upload a new patch set to an existing change.
Issue 4015: Allow setting a comment message when uploading a change.
Allow to specify who should be notified by email when uploading a change.
Issue 3220: Append approval info to every comment-added stream event and hook.
The administrateServer capability can be assigned to groups by setting capability.administrateServer in the site configuration.
Configuring this option can be a useful fail-safe to recover a server in the event an administrator removed all groups from the administrateServer capability, or to ensure that specific groups always have administration capabilities.
New configuration options to configure JGit repository cache parameters.
core.repositoryCacheCleanupDelay and core.repositoryCacheExpireAfter can be configured.
Accept -b as an alias of --batch in the init program.
Don't add the same SSH key multiple times.
If an already existing SSH key was added, a duplicate entry was added to the list of user's SSH keys.
Respect the ‘Require a valid contributor agreement to upload’ setting when creating changes via the UI.
If a user had not signed a CLA, it was still possible for them to create a new change with the ‘Revert’ or ‘Cherry Pick’ button.
Make Lucene index more stable when being interrupted.
Don't show the start and idle columns in the show-connections output when the ssh backend is NIO2.
The NIO2 backend doesn't provide the start and idle times, and the values being displayed were just dummy values. Now these values are only displayed for the MINA backend.
Issue 4150: Deleting a draft inline comment no longer causes the change's Updated field to be bumped.
Issue 4099: Fix SubmitWholeTopic does not update subscriptions.
Issue 3603: Fix editing a submodule via inline edit.
Issue 4069: Fix highlights in scrollbar overview ruler not moved when extending the displayed area.
Issue 3446: Respect the Skip Deleted diff preference.
Issue 3445: Respect the Skip Uncommented diff preference.
Issue 4051: Fix empty From email header.
Issue 3423: Fix intraline diff for added spaces.
Issue 1867: Remove no changes made error case when the only difference between a new commit and the previous patch set of the change is the committer.
Issue 3831: Prevent creating groups with the same name as a system group.
Issue 3754: Fix View All Accounts permission to allow accounts REST endpoint to access email info.
Make gitweb.type default to disabled when not explicitly set.
Previously the behavior was not documented and it would default to type gitweb. In cases where there was no gitweb config at all, this would result in broken links due to null being used as the URL.
Issue 4488: Improve error message when Change-Id line is missing in commit message.
The error message now includes the sha1 of the commit, so that it is easier to track down which commit failed validation when multiple commits are pushed at the same time.
Don't check mergeability of draft changes.
Draft changes can be deleted but not abandoned so there is no way for an administrator to get rid of the them on behalf of the users. This can become a problem when there many draft changes because the mergeability check can be costly.
The mergeability check is no longer done for draft changes, but will be done when the draft change is published.
Fix internal server error when plugin-provided file history weblink is null.
It is valid for a plugin to provide a null weblink, but doing so resulted in an internal server error.
Add dependency on blame-cache 0.1-9
Add dependency on guava-retrying 2.0.0
Add dependency on jsr305 3.0.1
Add dependency on metrics-core 3.1.2
Upgrade auto-value to 1.3-rc1
Upgrade commons-net to 3.5
Upgrade CodeMirror to 5.17.0
Upgrade Guava to 19.0
Upgrade Gson to 2.7
Upgrade Guice to 4.1.0
Upgrade gwtjsonrpc to 1.9
Upgrade gwtorm to 1.15
Upgrade javassist to 3.20.0-GA
Upgrade Jetty to 9.2.14.v20151106
Upgrade JGit to 4.5.0.201609210915-r
Upgrade joda-convert to 1.8.1
Upgrade joda-time to 2.9.4
Upgrade Lucene to 5.5.0
Upgrade mina to 2.0.10
Upgrade sshd-core to 1.2.0
Issue 4633: Filter out unrelated projects when getting project watches from index.
Issue 4848: Upgrade Postgresql JDBC driver to 9.4.1211.jre7.
Older versions of Postgresql JDBC driver rely on finalize() methods in order to avoid leaking unclosed database objects. Given finalize methods are unpredictable (no guarantee about prompt execution, if at all), in some high load environments this could lead to a memory leak with millions of JDBC objects pending finalization.
Issue 4841: Hooks plugin: Make sure GIT_DIR environment variable is set in ref-update hook.
Hooks plugin: Always return the output from the ref-update hook.
The output of the ref-update hook is now sent back to the client.
Fix migration to schema version 127 on case-sensitive file systems.
Fix internal server error caused by plugin returning null for external included-in.
Fix internal server error in set-members command when a group to be added is not visible to the caller.
Fix reindexing change by ssh command.
When reindexing a change by ssh, the change was loaded from the index rather than from the database.
Export prolog runtime in plugin API.
Allow to delete caches if not empty when initializing site during upgrade.
Caches may be stale during upgrade, so the init program now offers to delete them.
A new --delete-caches option is added to allow force delete of all caches.
Issue 4797: Fix internal server error in OAuth extension point when E-Mail is not set.
Issue 4784: Allow to edit user name for OAuth providers that don't expose user names.
Issue 4627: Fix internal server error in OAuth extension point when user name is not set.
Issue 4466: Fix deadlock during Lucene index shutdown.
Index account on account creation
This prevents creation of new accounts on every logout/login sequence.
Add support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11, and Microsoft Edge.
Issue 4630: Fix server error when navigating up to change while ‘Working’ is displayed.
Issue 4631: Read project watches from database.
Project watches were being read from the git backend by default, but the migration to git is not yet completed.
Issue 4632: Fix server error when deleting multiple SSH keys from the Web UI.
Attempting to delete multiple keys in parallel resulted in a lock failure when removing the keys from the git backend.
Issue 4645: Fix malformed account suggestions.
If the query contained several query terms and one of the query terms was a substring of ‘strong’, the suggestion was malformed.
Hooks plugin: Fix incorrect value passed to --change-url parameter.
The URL was being generated using the change's Change-Id rather than the change number.
Replication plugin: Fix Guava ProvisionException when replicating from slave.
Check for CLA when creating project config changes from the web UI.
If contributor agreements were enabled and required for a project, and the user had not signed a CLA, it was still possible to upload changes for review on refs/meta/config by making changes in the project access editor and pressing ‘Save for Review’.
Fix server errors in ‘Set Access’ and ‘Get Access’ REST enpoints.
Stability improvements in event dispatch mechanism.
Issue 4618: Fix internal server error after online reindexing completed.
Fix internal server error when cloning from slaves and not all refs are visible.
Fix JSON deserialization error causing stream event client to no longer receive events.