# HG changeset patch
# User Marcin Kuzminski <marcin@rhodecode.com>
# Date 2019-07-02 15:12:11
# Node ID bcbe512f11e7459f25cd60e80bbe67d0b39dce1a
# Parent  cc55d3ca7af3f8b2eed54d29d15a8f6dfd3b0e03

docs: added release notes for 4.17

diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.17.0.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes-4.17.0.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+|RCE| 4.17.0 |RNS|
+------------------
+
+Release Date
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- 2019-07-04
+
+
+New Features
+^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- New artifacts feature.
+  Ability to store binary artifacts for repository with ACL
+- UI/UX refresh for most of the pages. This includes multiple fixes and improvements.
+- Diffs: store wide-diff mode in user sessions to store user preference for diff display.
+- Mercurial: added support for Mercurial 4.9
+- API: Added search API methods
+- Files: adding/editing allows previews for generated content.
+- Files: allowed multi file upload using UI.
+- Repository Groups: last change is now smartly calculated based on latest change
+  from all it's children repositories.
+- Archives: it's now currently possible to download partial directories from files view.
+- SVN: allowed executing pre-commit code with rcextensions, also added example to
+  validate SVN file size and paths on pre-commit level.
+
+
+General
+^^^^^^^
+- Exception store: add filter for display and deletion.
+- Files: loading history doesn't display hidden and obsolete commits anymore.
+- Repositories: bring back missing watch action in summary view.
+- Admin: user groups is now using pure DB filtering to speed up display
+  for large number of groups.
+- Mercurial: enabled full evolve+topic extensions when evolve is enabled.
+- Dependencies: bumped evolve to 8.5.1
+- Dependencies: bumped pyramid to 1.10.4
+- Dependencies: bumped psutil to 5.5.1
+- Dependencies: bumped pygments to 2.4.2
+- Dependencies: bumped pyramid to 1.10.4
+- Dependencies: bumped psycopg2 to 2.8.3
+- Dependencies [security]: updated colander to 1.7.0
+
+
+Security
+^^^^^^^^
+
+- SSH: replaced pycrypto with cryptography to generate SSH keys as pycrypto isn't
+  considered safe anymore.
+
+
+Performance
+^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- Config: updated header limits on gunicorn to prevent errors on large Mercurial repositories.
+- User sessions: added option to cleanup redis based sessions in user session interface.
+- Authentication: reduced usage of raw auth calls inside templates to speed up rendering.
+- Sessions: don't touch session for API calls. Before each API call created new session
+  object which wasn't required.
+
+
+Fixes
+^^^^^
+
+- hHooks: fixed more unicode problems with new pull-request link generator.
+- Mercurial: fix ssh-server support for mercurial custom options.
+- Pull requests: updated metadata information for failed merges with multiple heads.
+- Pull requests: calculate ancestor in the same way as creation mode.
+  Fixed problem with updates generating wrong diffs in case of merges.
+- Pull requests: fixed a bug in removal of multiple reviewers at once.
+- Summary: fix timeout issues loading summary page without styling.
+- SSH: fix invocation of custom hgrc.
+- SSH: call custom hooks via SSH backend
+- Markup: fix styling for check-lists.
+- Archives: allows downloading refs that have slashes and special refs. e.g f/feat1 branch names.
+- Files: ensure we generate archives with consistent hashing (except for .tar.gz which uses temp files names in header)
+- Files: fixed rendering of readme files under non-ascii paths.
+
+
+Upgrade notes
+^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+- In this release we introduced new UI across the application.
+  In case of problems with the display on your systems please send us info to support@rhodecode.com.
+
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes.rst b/docs/release-notes/release-notes.rst
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes.rst
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Release Notes
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 1
 
+   release-notes-4.17.0.rst
    release-notes-4.16.2.rst
    release-notes-4.16.1.rst
    release-notes-4.16.0.rst