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Update the 2.8 release notes with recent changes

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David Pursehouse 2013-09-24 09:55:23 +09:00
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@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ Release Highlights
------------------
* New change screen with completely redesigned UI and fully using the REST API.
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-gerrit.html#index[
Secondary indexing with Lucene and Solr].
@ -80,7 +82,7 @@ link:[http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/pgm-init.
site initialization command].
* New `auth.httpDisplaynameHeader` and `auth.httpEmailHeader` in the
link:[http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config_gerrit.html#_a_id_auth_a_section_auth[
link:[http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-gerrit.html#_a_id_auth_a_section_auth[
authentication configuration].
+
When using HTTP-based authentication, the SSO can be delegated to check not only
@ -106,6 +108,9 @@ Oracle database].
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-auto-site-initialization.html[
auto-initialized on server startup].
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config_gerrit.html#httpd.filterClass[
Configurable filtering of HTTP traffic through Gerrit's HTTP protocol].
Web UI
~~~~~~
@ -119,6 +124,15 @@ Change Screens
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* New change screen with completely redesigned UI and using the REST API.
+
Site administrators can
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-gerrit.html#gerrit.changeScreen[
configure which change screen is shown by default].
+
Users can choose which one to use in their personal preferences, either using
the site default or explicitly choosing the old one or new one.
* 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
@ -142,6 +156,9 @@ If a user has already seen and reviewed a file, the 'reviewed' flag is forwarded
on to the next patch set when the content of the file in the next patch set is
identical to the reviewed file.
* "Uploaded Patch Set 1" change message is added on changes when they
are uploaded.
REST API
~~~~~~~~
@ -252,6 +269,9 @@ Publish draft change]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#delete-draft-change[
Delete draft change]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#suggest-reviewers[
Suggest reviewers]
Config
^^^^^^
@ -505,6 +525,9 @@ Global
^^^^^^
* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1072[Issue 1072]:
Fix "Push Merge Commit" permission on refs/heads/*
* 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.
@ -580,6 +603,11 @@ The link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/cmd-re
* Improve the error message when rejecting upload for review to a read-only project.
Plugins
~~~~~~~
* Better error message when a Javascript plugin cannot be loaded.
Emails
~~~~~~