Release Date

• 2015-07-06

News

• API: Improved error handling in the calls create_repo and update_repo.
• API: Extend the call create_repo.
• API: Extend the call update_repo. It now supports the new parameter fork_of.
• API: Add new call create_pull_request.
• API: Rename call changeset_comment to comment_commit.
• General: Update many external dependencies to recent versions.
• General: Improved connection handling to the VCSServer in thread based scenarios.
• General: Generate replacement avatar images if Gravatar is not used.
• Hooks: Add the hooks pre-push and pre-pull for rcextensions.

Pull Requests

• Update inline comments during the update of a pull request. This can be enabled with a new option in the VCS settings.
• Always show information about the merge status.
• Allow to update the title and description of a pull request.
• Also allow the author to close a pull request.
• Order pull requests based on the numeric value instead of the string value.
• Disable merge if the target repository is locked.
• Fix link to commits of the pull request.
• Show update button in the case of missing commits.

Style

• Update of the page "Commit" to fit better into the current style.
• Update of the page "File" to fit better into the current style.
• Remove background color for closed pull requests.
• Standardise font sizes and spacing across the display of diffs and file sources.
• Use units from the binary system to display size information, e.g. KiB and MiB.
• Do not try to show gravatar images for group entries in select widgets.
• Style: Improve "increase context" and "ignore whitespace" links on the page "Commit".
• Show information in the profile of external users as read only.
• Improve spacing in the permissions overview of users and user groups.

Fixes

• Auth: Fix default user permissions for private repositories inside of a repository group.
• Auth: Do not inherit permissions from disabled user groups.
• Auth: Avoid generation of a new password for external user accounts on login.
• Files: Fix the handling of the file name extension on the page "Add File".
• Files: Fix the "Show all authors" link on the file page.
• General: Fix a filedescriptor leak inside of the WSGI processes around vcs operations.
• General: Fix system info page for Windows.
• General: Show version information in the footer if enabled.
• General: Avoid errors from the issue tracker patterns to bubble up in the system. Logging an error and ignoring the broken pattern instead.
• Gists: Store correct ACL level for anonymous gists.
• License: Ignore default user on user count.
• Repository: Clear user permissions when detaching related objects.
• Repository: Fix issue around tags with special characters for git.

VCS Server

• Fix a filedescriptor leak around calls to git around vcs operations.
• Add solid handling of lookup errors and error during diff generation.
• VCSServer: Skip initialization of the locale subsystem if no valid locale can be found.
• VCSServer: Increased default value for the parameter threadpool_size.

Deprecations

• API: The call changeset_comment is deprecated, use comment_commit instead. The old call will be still supported for a few more releases but eventually it will be removed.