docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.9.1.rst

|RCE| 4.9.1 |RNS|
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Release Date
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- 2017-10-26


New Features
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General
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Security
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- security(critical): repo-forks: fix issue when forging fork_repo_id parameter
  could allow reading other people forks.
- security(high): auth: don't expose full set of permissions into channelstream
  payload. Forged requests could return list of private repositories in the system.
- security(medium): general-security: limit the maximum password input length
  to 72 characters.
- security(medium): select2: always escape .text attributes to prevent XSS
  via branches or tags names.



Performance
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- git: improve performance and reduce memory usage on large clones.



Fixes
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- user-groups: fix potential problem with ldap group sync in external auth plugins.



Upgrade notes
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- This release changes the maximum allowed input password to 72 characters. This
  prevent resource consumption attack. If you need longer password than 72
  characters please contact our team.