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David Pursehouse 2e3383f177 Update the 2.8 release notes with recent changes 
Add recent changes.  Restructure the plugins section under "New
Features" to list the changes on each plugin separately.

Also fix a couple of minor formatting issues.

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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
------------
Configuration
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Project owners can define `receive.maxObjectSizeLimit` in the
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-gerrit.html#receive.maxObjectSizeLimit[
project configuration] to further reduce the global setting.
* Site administrators can define a
link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/config-mail.html#_footer_vm[
footer template] that will be appended to the end of all outgoing emails after
the 'ChangeFooter' and 'CommentFooter'.
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.
Access Rights
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-access.html#list-access[
List access rights for project(s)]
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]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-http-password[
Get account HTTP password]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#set-http-password[
Set or generate account HTTP password]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-http-password[
Delete account HTTP password]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#list-ssh-keys[
List account SSH keys]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-ssh-key[
Get account SSH key]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#add-ssh-key[
Add account SSH key]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#delete-ssh-key[
Delete account SSH key]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-accounts.html#get-username[
Get account username]
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]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-changes.html#get-diff[
Get diff of a file in a revision]
Config
^^^^^^
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-config.html#get-capabilities[
Get capabilities]
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/rest-api-config.html#get-version[
Get version] (of the Gerrit server)
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#delete-branch[
Delete 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]
Capabilities
~~~~~~~~~~~~
New global capabilities are added.
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/access_control.html#capability_generateHttpPassword[
Generate Http Password] allows non-administrator users to generate HTTP
passwords for users other than themselves.
+
This capability would typically be assigned to a non-interactive group
to be able to generate HTTP passwords for users from a tool or web service
that uses the Gerrit REST API.
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/access_control.html#capability_runAs[
Run As] allows users to impersonate other users by setting the `X-Gerrit-RunAs`
HTTP header on REST API calls.
+
Site administrators do not inherit this capability; it must be granted
explicitly.
Plugins
~~~~~~~
Global
^^^^^^
* Plugins may now contribute buttons to various parts of the UI.
Commit Message Length Checker
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Commits whose subject or body length exceeds the limit can be rejected.
Replication
^^^^^^^^^^^
* The `{$name}` placeholder is optional when replicating a single project,
allowing a single project to be replicated under a different name.
* Projects can be matched with wildcard or regex patterns in replication.config.
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].
* link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/cmd-set-members.html[
New `set-members` command].
+
New command to manipulate group membership. Members can be added or removed
and groups can be included or excluded in one specific group or number of groups.
Daemon
~~~~~~
* Add `--init` option to Daemon to initialize site on daemon start.
+
The `--init` option will also upgrade an already existing site and is processed in
non-interactive (batch) mode.
Bug Fixes
---------
Web UI
~~~~~~
Global
^^^^^^
* 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.
* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1996[Issue 1996]:
The "Keyboard Shortcuts" help popup can be closed by pressing the Escape key.
Change Screens
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* 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.
* link:https://code.google.com/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=1814[Issue 1814]:
Sort labels alphabetically by name in the approval table.
Project Screens
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* Only enable the delete branch button when branches are selected.
* Disable the delete branch button while branch deletion requests are
still being processed.
User Profile Screens
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
* The preferred email address field is shown as empty if the user has no
preferred email address.
REST API
~~~~~~~~
* Support raw input also in POST requests.
* 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.
* Remove the limit in the query of patch sets by revision.
* Add `isDraft` in the `patchSet` attribute of stream-events data.
+
This allows consumers of the event stream to determine whether or not
the event is related to a draft patch set.
Tools
~~~~~
* git-exproll.sh: return non-zero on errors
Documentation
-------------
* The link:http://gerrit-documentation.googlecode.com/svn/Documentation/2.8/index.html[
documentation index page] is rewritten in a hierarchical structure.
* Various spelling mistakes are corrected in the documentation and previous
release notes.
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