Gerrit 2.14 (In development)

Release Highlights

  • Changes can be assigned to specific users
  • HTML emails and new templating framework
  • Secondary index with Elastic Search

Important Notes

Schema Changes

This release contains schema changes. To upgrade:

  java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path

Email Templates

This release deprecates the use of Velocity mail templates. It will soon be necessary to upgrade custom mail templates to Soy files.

New Features

Change Assignee

Emails

Gerrit email messages are made easier to read by sending HTML content parts in addition to the existing text email content.

Mail templates can now be written using Closure Templates (Soy). Mail templates written in Velocity (VTL) are deprecated but still supported. Support for VTL will be dropped in the next release.

Secondary Index with Elastic Search

Bugfixes

Dependency Updates