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Update 2.1.2 release notes

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Shawn O. Pearce 2010-03-10 10:53:49 -08:00
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@ -41,10 +41,16 @@ UI - Diff Viewer
* issue 169 Highlight line-level (aka word) differences in files
+
Differences within a replaced line are now highlighted with a brighter
red or green background color. The highlighting algorithm is still
crude and could benefit from more fine-tuning, as its largely driven
by a simple Myers O(ND) character difference over the replaced lines.
Differences within a replaced line are now highlighted with a
brighter red or green background color. Some heuristics are
applied to identify and highlight reindented blocks in popular
C/C++/Java/C#-like and Python-like languages. The highlighting
algorithm is still simple and could benefit from more fine-tuning,
as its largely driven by a simple Myers O(ND) character difference
over the replaced lines.
+
The configuration variable cache.diff.intraline can be used to
disable this feature site-wide, if it causes problems.
* Improve side-by-side viewer look-and-feel
+
@ -101,6 +107,8 @@ h. WINDOWS-1252
* issue 405 Add canned per-line comment reply of 'Done'
* issue 380 Use N/P to jump to next/previous comments
* Use RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK for tabs
* Use a tooltip to explain whitespace errors
UI - Other
~~~~~~~~~~
@ -133,11 +141,12 @@ than jumping to the remote Google Code project site.
+
Download commands for patch sets are now offered as a tabbed panel,
allowing the user to select between 'repo download', 'git pull',
or 'git fetch ... && git cherry-pick' styles, as well as to select
the transport protocol used, including anonymous Git or HTTP, or
authenticated SSH or HTTP. The current selections are remembered
for signed-in users, permitting end-users to quickly reuse their
preferred method of grabbing a patch set.
or 'git fetch ... && git cherry-pick' or 'git fetch ... && git
format-patch' styles, as well as to select the transport protocol
used, including anonymous Git or HTTP, or authenticated SSH or HTTP.
The current selections are remembered for signed-in users, permitting
end-users to quickly reuse their preferred method of grabbing a
patch set.
* Theme the web UI with different skin colors
+
@ -195,6 +204,12 @@ Change-Ids can now be searched for by accessing the URL
`http://example.com/r/'Ichangeid'`, similar to how commits
can be searched by `http://example.com/r/'commitsha1'`.
* gerrit-sshd: Allow double quoted strings
+
SSH command arguments may now be quoted with double quotes, in
addition to single quotes. This can make it easier to intermix
quoting styles with the shell that is calling the SSH client .
Server Administration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -298,6 +313,14 @@ Syntax highlighting in the unified patch view isn't useful if it hides
the added and removed lines red/green text color. Disable it entirely
so the add/remove coloring shows up instead.
* Disable 'Syntax Highlighting' and 'Show Full File' on big files
+
If the file is really big (over 9000 lines), 'Show Full File' is
actually disabled on the server side, to prevent the client from
being overrun with data. The UI now reflects this by disabling
the checkbox for the user, and adds a tooltip to indicate why its
greyed out.
* Don't try to syntax highlight plain text
+
Plain text files can't benefit from syntax highlighting, its actually
@ -317,6 +340,14 @@ Vertical tab markers are red, which means they can be hidden against a
whitespace error, or deleted region marker. Tabs are now shown as
black against these cases.
* Handle bare CR in the middle of a line
+
If a CR ("\r") appears in the middle of a line rather than nestled
against an LF as a CRLF pair, its now displayed as a whitespace
error, and the line isn't broken at the CR. This fixes an issue
where a mostly CRLF file with a single malformed line ending caused
the side-by-side display to render incorrectly (or not at all).
* issue 438 Skip gitlink modes as we can't get a content difference
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The special gitlink mode inside of a tree points to a commit in the
@ -339,6 +370,12 @@ of the same change. Fixed.
The reviewed column header wasn't displaying with the same style as
its siblings. Fixed.
* Fix duplicate "Needed By" pointers between changes
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If a change's current patch set was used as the parent for multiple
patch sets of another change, that dependent change showed up more
than once in the "Needed By" list. Fixed.
* Expand group names to be 255 characters
* Update URL for GitHub's SSH key guide
* issue 314 Hide group type choice if LDAP is not enabled
@ -357,6 +394,13 @@ email notification. Fixed.
Names or subjects with non-ASCII characters were not quoted properly
in the email notification headers. Fixed.
* issue 475 Include the name/email in email body if not in envelope
+
When the email address from line is a generic server identity,
there is no way to know who wrote a comment or voted on a change.
An additional from line is now injected at the start of the email
body to indicate the actual user.
Remote Access
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -380,6 +424,25 @@ Sometimes users missed the standard error message that indicated no
shell was available, due to a thread race condition not always
flushing the outgoing buffer. Fixed.
* issue 488 Allow gerrit approve to post comments on closed changes
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The 'gerrit approve' command previously refused to work on a closed
change, but the web UI permitted comments to be added anyway.
Fixed by allowing the command line tool to also post comments to
closed changes.
* issue 466 Reject pushing to invalid reference names
+
Gerrit allowed the invalid `HEAD:/refs/for/master` push refspec
to actaully create the branch `refs/heads/refs/for/master`, which
confused any other client trying to push. Fixed.
* issue 485 Trim the username before requesting authentication
+
LDAP usernames no longer are permitted to start with or end with
whitespace, removing a common source of typos that lead to users
being automatically assigned more than one Gerrit user account.
Server Administration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -389,6 +452,19 @@ If httpd.listenUrl ended with / the configuration got botched during
init and the site didn't work as expected. Fixed by correctly
handling an optional trailing / in this variable.
* issue 478 Catch daemon startup failures in error_log
+
Startup errors often went to /dev/null, leaving the admin wondering
why the server didn't launch as expected. Fixed.
* issue 483 Ensure uncaught exceptions are logged
+
Some exceptions were reaching the top of the stack frame without
being caught and logged, causing the JRE to print the exception to
stderr and then terminate the thread. Since stderr was redirected
to /dev/null by gerrit.sh, we usually lost these messages. Exception
handlers are now installed to trap and log any uncaught errors.
* issue 451 gerrit.sh: Wait until the daemon is serving requests
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The gerrit.sh script now waits until the deamon is actually running
@ -401,6 +477,11 @@ dependent tasks that need the server to be ready before they can run.
/bin/sh on Debian/Ubuntu systems is dash, not bash. The dash
shell does not support the let command.
* gerrit.sh: Correct JAVA_HOME behavior
+
JAVA_HOME now can be overridden by container.javaHome, as the
documentation states.
* init: Only suggest downloading BouncyCastle on new installs
+
Upgrades of an existing installation which has not installed the
@ -444,6 +525,13 @@ anonymous bind during server startup failed. Instead the server
type is detected during the first user authentication, where we
have a valid directory context to query over.
* issue 486 Reload UI if code split fails to download
+
If the server gets upgraded and the user hasn't reloaded their
browser tab since the upgrade, opening a new section of the UI
sometimes failed. Fixed by executing an implicit reload in these
cases, reducing the number of times a user sees a failure.
Development
~~~~~~~~~~~
@ -455,6 +543,24 @@ returning back a bogus record for an invalid domain name. The test
was adjusted to use a name that is less likely to be resolved by a
broken upstream resolver.
* Fix /become?user_name=... under GWT debugger
+
The /become URL now accepts ?user_name=who to authenticate, making
it easier to setup a launch configuration to debug a particular
user account in development.
* Show localhost based SSH URLs
+
SSH URLs using localhost as the hostname are now visible in the
web UI, making it easier to copy and paste SSH URLs when debugging
fetching of changes.
* issue 490 Try Titlecase class name first when launching programs
+
Launching daemon or init from the classes directory on a case
insensitive filesystem like Mac OS X HFS+ or Windows NTFS failed.
Fixed.
* Misc. license issues
+
The CDDL javax.servlet package was replaced by an Apache License 2.0
@ -509,32 +615,24 @@ Other Changes
* Advertise the smart HTTP URLs to references
* Refactor the SSH session state
* Fixing Eclipse settings file
* Merge "Fixing Eclipse settings file"
* Add --commit to comment-added as there was previously no way to kno...
* Fix imports inside of PatchScreen.java
* Fix crash while loading project Access tab
* Replace our own @Nullable with javax.annotation.Nullable.
* Merge "Replace our own @Nullable with javax.annotation.Nullable."
* Correctly hide delete button on inherited permissions
* Allow per-branch OWN +1 to delegate branch ownership
* Block inheritance by default on per-branch permissions.
* Merge "Block inheritance by default on per-branch permissions."
* Simplify FunctionState as discussed previously
* Restore delete right checkboxes in wild card project
* issue 393 Require branch deletion permission for pushes over HTTP
* issue 399 Update JGit to 0.5.1.140-g660fd39
* Merge "Add MaxNoBlock category for advisory review levels"
* Add standard eclipse generated files to .gitignore
* Merge "Add standard eclipse generated files to .gitignore"
* Don't reformat the source if the files are identical
* Fix schema 27 upgrade for H2
* Update JGit to 0.5.1.141-g3eee606
* Merge "Update JGit to 0.5.1.141-g3eee606"
* Manage database connections directly in PatchScriptFactory
* issue 425 Update user documentation to explain branch access control
* Merge "Update user documentation to explain branch access control"
* Update to gwtjsonrpc 1.2.2-SNAPSHOT
* Merge "Update to gwtjsonrpc 1.2.2-SNAPSHOT"
* Allow refs/* pattern on new reference rights
* Trim reference name from user when adding access right
* Execute Git commands with AccessPath.GIT
@ -594,8 +692,35 @@ Other Changes
* Tweak the intraline difference heuristics
* Refactor and add to streaming events schema
* Documentation schema for stream-events command
* Merge "Documentation schema for stream-events command"
* Fix source code formatting errors in MergeOp
* Cleanup display of branches panel when gitweb isn't configured
* Fix "Show Tabs" checkbox
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* Update 2.1.2 release notes
* Reorganize 2.1.2 release notes into categories
* Hide syntax highlighting checkbox in unified view
* Change default tab width to 8
* Ensure drafts redisplay when refreshing the page
* Fix tab marker RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK
* issue 473 Don't aggressively coalesce across lines
* Fix intraline difference off-by-one when LF is added
* Mark add or delete regions with darker colors
* Invalidate the diff cache
* Fix build breakage due to missing constants
* Fix editable username when authType is LDAP or HTTP_LDAP
* issue 481 Fix enter with completion in add reviewer box
* Make intraline differences easier to debug
* Avoid "es" replaced by "es = Address"
* Cleanup line insertions joined against indentation change
* Change become to use user_name field
* Stop leaking patch controls CSS to other widgets
* Fix coloring of tab markers in syntax highlighting
* Fix toggling syntax highlighting on partial file
* Permit use of syntax highlighting in unified view
* Use hunk background colors on unified views with syntax highlighting
* Fix source code formatting in ApproveCommand.java
* issue 483 Log the type of a non-task after it executes
* Update to GWT 2.0.3
* issue 489 Drop host name resolution failure test
* issue 483 Remove reliance on afterExecute from WorkQueue
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