Draft 2.1.4 release notes
Change-Id: I3f4f579ac5f1a9b745c19f01bd5e03a6316f8585 Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
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Release notes for Gerrit 2.1.4
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==============================
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Gerrit 2.1.4 is now available in the usual location:
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link:http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/list[http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/downloads/list]
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Schema Change
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-------------
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*WARNING* This release contains multiple schema changes. To upgrade:
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----
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java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path
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----
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New Features
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------------
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Change Management
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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* issue 504 Implement full query operators
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The search box now implments a wide range of operators and boolean
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expressions, permitting complex queries such as `is:open CodeReview>=1
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(has:draft OR is:starred)` to locate open changes that have been code
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reviewed, but still have unpublished drafts or were starred by the
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current user. The full range of supported operators is documented
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in the user guide.
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* Change lists now use query operators
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All current change lists have been reimplemented using query
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operators, so selecting 'All open changes' actually performs the query
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'is:open'. This is to help end-users learn the different operators
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that are supported, and simplifies the internal implementation
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considerably by removing redundant code.
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* issue 51 Tag changes with topic branches
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Changes can be tagged with a topic name during upload. To add the tag
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'query' when pushing to branch 'master', use `git push URL
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HEAD:refs/for/master/query`. To add a topic name with `repo upload`
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use the `-t` command line flag. Topic names are displayed next to the
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branch name in the web UI, and can be searched for with the `topic:`
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query operator.
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* Filter the list of open changes by watched projects
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The query operator `is:watched` matches changes matching the user's
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watched project list, and a new menu item was added under the My menu
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to select open changes matching these watched projects.
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Web UI
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~~~~~~
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* issue 579 Remember diff formatting preferences
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Formatting options at the top of a side-by-side or unified diff page
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are now remembered by saving the current preferences into the user's
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account whenever 'Update' is clicked.
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* issue 680 Show commit message on the per-file review pages
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* issue 498 Improved keyboard navigation
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More keyboard bindings have been added, reducing the need to switch to
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the mouse while navigating through a change and performing a review.
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* issue 395 Open new window/new tab for all files in a change
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New buttons permit opening all modified files of a change into
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new windows or tabs.
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* issue 440 Add copy to clipboard button for change-id
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The Change-Id field in the upper left side of a change now support to
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copy "Change-Id: I...." onto the clipboard, making it easier to paste
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into a commit message.
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* issue 559 Allow copying user public ssh key to clipboard
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Email Notifications
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* issue 311 No longer CC a user by default
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The user who causes a notification to be sent is no longer CC'd on the
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email when it is sent. This reduces the number of messages sent to a
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user, but can be re-enabled through a checkbox in the Settings >
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Preferences panel.
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* issue 535 Enable watching of all projects
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Adding the magic `\-- All Projects \--` to the watched project list
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permits the user to be notified of any change occurring in any
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project. Project specific entries override the notification settings
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for all projects.
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* issue 492 Allow watching specific branches or any other search query
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In addition to watching a project, users can register a query string
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to match specific changes, reducing notifications to be a smaller
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subset of the changes that occur in a project.
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* issue 70 Allow file:^regex to match affected files
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The file:^path operator can be used in a watch filter to receive
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notifications only when files matching the regular expression are
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modified by the change.
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* issue 623 Include Gerrit-Owner, Gerrit-Reviewer in email footers
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New fields in the email footer provide additional detail, enabling
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better filtering and classification of messages.
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Access Control
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* Support regular expressions for ref access rules
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References in an access rule can now be specified by regular
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expression by prefixing the reference name with ^.
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* issue 577 Support $\{username\} in access rules
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Adding `$\{username\}` into a reference causes the current username to
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be inserted at that position. When combined with the Push Branch
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permission this creates a per-user branch namespace feature, giving
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each user their own "sandbox" to push changes to.
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Authentication
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* Remove password authentication over SSH
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Adding password authentication over SSH turned out to be a major
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mistake. Users primarily use SSH public keys, and the password
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prompt just got in the way or confused them. Password support has
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been removed from the SSH server.
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* Username cannot be changed once assigned
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Once a username has been selected for a user account, it
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cannot be modified by the user.
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* issue 555 Make LDAP sessions persistent for the session age
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Web sessions are now persistent for the cache.web_sessions.maxAge
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setting, rather than expiring when the browser closes. (Previously
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sessions expired when the browser exited.)
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Misc.
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* Add topic, lastUpdated, sortKey to ChangeAttribute
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Additional change fields are now exported as part of the
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stream-events output.
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* issue 504 gerrit query SSH command
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Queries to lookup change information can be executed over SSH through
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the `gerrit query` command, with results output in either human
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readable text or machine readable JSON. Change queries can also be
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run over HTTP with the `/query?q=<query>&format=JSON` URL. Both
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interfaces are intended for automated tools.
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* Remove git diff-tree dependency
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Gerrit no longer requires `git` in the PATH; differences are now
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constructed in pure Java code. Remote repository initialization over
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SSH still requires `git` on the remote host's PATH.
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* Internal dependencies updated
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Updated JGit to 0.8.4.87-g395d236, log4j to 1.2.16, GWT to 2.0.4,
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sfl4j to 1.6.1, easymock to 3.0, JUnit to 4.8.1.
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Bug Fixes
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Web UI
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* issue 352 Confirm branch deletion in web UI
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Deleting a branch now presents a confirmation dialog to give the user
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a second chance to abort the destructive operation.
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* Fix some JavaScript errors under Chrome
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The GWT compiler started to define symbols in the same namespace as
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the prettify syntax highlighting library. We moved the prettify
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library into its own iframe so it has a different JavaScript namespace
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in the browser.
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Misc.
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* issue 614 Fix 503 error when Jetty cancels a request
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A bug was introduced in 2.1.3 that caused a server 503 error
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when a fetch/pull/clone or push request timed out. Fixed.
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