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+Release notes for Gerrit 2.8
+============================
+
+
+Gerrit 2.8 is now available:
+
+link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.8.war[
+http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/detail?name=gerrit-2.8.war]
+
+
+Schema Change
+-------------
+
+
+There is no schema change from link:ReleaseNotes-2.7.html[Gerrit 2.7].
+
+
+Release Highlights
+------------------
+
+
+* Lots of new link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api.html[
+REST API endpoints].
+
+* New build system using link:http://facebook.github.io/buck/[Facebook Buck].
+
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+
+Web UI
+~~~~~~
+
+
+Global
+^^^^^^
+
+* The change status is shown in a separate column on dashboards and search results.
+
+
+Change Screens
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+
+* New button to cherry-pick the change to another branch.
+
+* When issuing a rebase via the Web UI, the committer is now the logged in
+  user, rather than "Gerrit Code Review".
++
+If the user has more than one email address, the preferred email address will
+be used.
+
+
+REST API
+~~~~~~~~
+
+
+Several new link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api.html[
+REST API endpoints] are added.
+
+Accounts
+^^^^^^^^
+
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#create-account[
+Create account]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-account-name[
+Get account full name]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-account-name[
+Set account full name]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-account-name[
+Delete account full name]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#list-account-emails[
+List account email addresses]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-account-email[
+Get account email address]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-preferred-email[
+Set account preferred email address]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#create-account-email[
+Create account email]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-account-email[
+Delete account email]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-active[
+Get account state]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-active[
+Set account state to active]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-active[
+Set account state to inactive]
+
+Changes
+^^^^^^^
+
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#rebase-change[
+Rebase change]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#cherry-pick[
+Cherry-pick revision]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-content[
+Get content of a file in a revision]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-patch[
+Get revision as a formatted patch]
+
+Groups
+^^^^^^
+
+
+* TODO
+
+Projects
+^^^^^^^^
+
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#list-branches[
+List branches]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#get-branch[
+Get branch]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#create-branch[
+Create branch]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#list-child-projects[
+List child projects]
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-projects.html#get-child-project[
+Get child project]
+
+
+Plugins
+~~~~~~~
+
+
+* The commit message length checker plugin can be configured to reject
+commits whose subject or body length exceeds the limit.
+
+* Plugins may now contribute buttons to various parts of the UI.
+
+
+ssh
+~~~
+
+
+* The `commit-msg` hook installation command is now
+link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config_gerrit.html#gerrit.installCommitMsgHookCommand[
+configurable].
+
+* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/cmd-ls-members.html[
+New `ls-members` command].
+
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------
+
+
+Web UI
+~~~~~~
+
+
+* Default review comment visibility is changed to expand all recent.
++
+By default all comments within the last week are expanded, rather than
+only the most recent.
+
+* The preferred email address field is shown as empty if the user has no
+preferred email address.
+
+* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1574[Issue 1574]:
+Correctly highlight matches of text in escaped HTML entities in suggestion results.
+
+
+REST API
+~~~~~~~~
+
+
+* Show granted date for labels/all when using `/changes/`.
+
+* Return all revisions when `o=ALL_REVISIONS` is set on `/changes/`.
+
+ssh
+~~~
+
+
+* The `--force-message` option is removed from the `review` command.
+
+* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1908[Issue 1908]:
+Provide more informative error messages when rejecting updates.
+
+Tools
+~~~~~
+
+
+* git-exproll.sh: return non-zero on errors
+
+Upgrades
+--------
+
+
+* TODO
+
+Documentation
+-------------
+
+
+* The link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/index.html[
+documentation index page] is rewritten in a hierarchical structure.
+