= What's new in Gerrit 2.10
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== What's new in Gerrit 2.10

== What's new in Gerrit 2.10

* link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.10.html[
2.10 Release Notes]

* Statistics
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|                 |Gerrit 2.10    |Gerrit 2.9     |Gerrit 2.8 |Gerrit 2.7 |Gerrit 2.6 |Gerrit 2.5 |Gerrit 2.4
|Date             |Jan 2015       |Jul 2014       |Dec 2013   |Sep 2013   |Jun 2013   |Oct 2012   |May 2012
|commits &#x278a; |627            |1259           |1373       |272        |1301       |508        |122
|resolved issues
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.10[30]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.9[43]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.8[72]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.7[9]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.6[85]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.5[51]
|link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/list?can=1&q=FixedIn=2.4[35]
|contributors     |49             |49             |54         |31         |56         |34         |22
|==========================
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&#x278a; not including merge commits

== Old Change Screen

*WARNING:* This is the last Gerrit release that contains the old
change screen.

Configure new Change Screen:
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image:../../img/configure-new-change-screen.png[]

== Customizable 'My' menu

Users can customize the contents of the 'My' menu.

image:../../img/my-menu.png[]

image:../../img/my-menu-configuration.png[]

== New Change Screen

* Avatar for author, committer and change owner
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image:../../img/avatar-for-author-and-committer.png[]
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image:../../img/avatar-for-change-owner.png[]

* Quick button to add yourself as reviewer
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image:../../img/add-me.png[]

* Link project name to dashboard

== New Side-by-Side Diff Screen (1)

* Users can select the syntax highlighter
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image:../../img/select-syntax-highlighter.png[]

* Syntax highlighting of the commit message
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image:../../img/syntax-highlighting-for-commit-message.png[]

== New Side-by-Side Diff Screen (2)

* Allow to toggle empty pane for added and deleted files
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image:../../img/hide-empty-pane.png[]

* `Shift-a` keybinding to show/hide left side

== Change List / Dashboards (1)

* Option to show Change-ID in the change table
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image:../../img/change-numbers-in-change-list.png[]
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image:../../img/show-change-number-option.png[]

== Change List / Dashboards (2)

* More formatting options for labels
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image:../../img/label-formatting-in-change-list.png[]
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image:../../img/label-formatting-options.png[]

* 'age' operator is removed when drilling down from a dashboard to a query
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image:../../img/dashboard-drilldown-removes-age-operator.png[]

== Project List Screen

* Support filtering by regular expression
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image:../../img/project-search-with-regex.png[]

== Search

* Allow to search projects by prefix

* link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/user-search.html#size[
New search operators for number of changed lines]
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image:../../img/size-search-operators.png[]

* Search more fields in the default search query
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If a search is given with only a text, search over a variety of fields
rather than just the project name.

== Misc

* new REST endpoints (see
link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/ReleaseNotes/ReleaseNotes-2.10.html#_rest_api[
Release Notes] for details)

* Configuration

** Projects can
link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/config-project-config.html#mimetype-section[
configure MIME types for files].
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image:../../img/mime-type-selection.png[]

** link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/config-labels.html#label_defaultValue[
A default value for a label can be configured]

== Plugin Highlights

* Support for externally loaded plugins.
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Plugins can be implemented in Scala or Groovy using the
link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/\#/admin/projects/plugins/scripting/groovy-provider[
Groovy provider] and
link:https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/#/admin/projects/plugins/scripting/scala-provider[
Scala provider] plugins.

* New extension points:

** link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/dev-plugins.html#links-to-external-tools[
Project and Patch Set Web Links]
** link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/config-validation.html#pre-upload-validation[
pre-upload validation]
** link:https://gerrit-documentation.storage.googleapis.com/Documentation/2.10/dev-plugins.html#pre-upload-hook[
JGit PreUploadHook]
** Events with usage data

* Support for persistent caches

* New extensions in the Java Plugin API:

** Query changes
** Create/get/list projects
** Get/set review status
** Create change
** Get account
** Star/unstar changes
** Check if revision needs rebase

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