The results of last year's Community Survey have been published.
Gerrit Code Review is now being used for some projects of the Linux Kernel on linux-review.googlesource.com.
Matthias Sohn (SAP) created a new documentation page with detailed instructions of how to backup a Gerrit site. This was included in the releases 2.16.14, 3.0.5, and 3.1.1.
Effective January 15, 2020, the Central Repository no longer supports insecure communication over plain HTTP and requires that all requests to the repository are encrypted over HTTPS.
As a result of this, older releases of Gerrit (2.15.x and older) are no longer buildable from source on a clean development environment because the rules_closure dependency includes a download over HTTP. This was fixed in change 250502 which is included in stable-2.14. To build Gerrit 2.14.x and 2.15.x it is now necessary to build from the tip of the stable-2.14 and stable-2.15 branches, or in an environment where the rules_closure dependency has already been downloaded before January 15.