Release Date

• 2020-01-28

New Features

General

• Permissions: add better help text about default permissions, and correlation with anonymous access enabled.
• Mentions: markdown renderer now wraps username in hovercard logic allowing checking the mentioned user.
• Documentation: added note about hard restart due to celery update.
• Maintenance: run rebuildfncache for Mercurial in maintenance command.

Security

Performance

• Authentication: cache plugins for auth and their settings in the auth_registry for single request. This heavily influences SVN performance on multiple-file commits.

Fixes

• Descriptions: fixed rendering problem with certain meta-tags in repo description.
• Emails: fixed fonts rendering problems in Outlook.
• Emails: fixed bug in test email sending.
• Summary: fixed styling of readme indicator.
• Flash: fixed display problem with flash messages on error pages.

Upgrade notes

• Scheduled release addressing problems in 4.18.X releases.