Release notes for Gerrit 2.2.2

When loading the prolog environment, now checks refs/meta/config branch for a file called rules.pl. If it exists, consult the file. Expects a predicate called submit_rule. If no file is found, uses the default_submit predicate in common_rules.pl.

Projects now inherit the prolog rules defined in their parent project. Submit results from the child project are filtered by the parent project using the filter predicate defined in the parent’s rules.pl. The results of the filtering are then passed up to the parent’s parent and filtered, repeating this process up to the top level All-Projects.

Looks in (site)/cache/rules for a jar file called: rules-(sha1 of rules.pl).jar Loads the precompiled prolog rules and uses them instead of consulting rules.pl. If the jar does not exist, consults rules.pl. If rules.pl does not exist, uses the default submit rules.

Rulec takes rules.pl from the refs/meta/config branch and creates a jar file named rules-(sha1 of rules.pl).jar in (sitepath)/cache/rules. Generates temporary prolog, java src, and class files which are deleted afterwards.

Define a small interactive interpreter that users or site administrators can play around with by downloading the Gerrit WAR file and executing: java -jar gerrit.war prolog-shell

Pressing the delete key while being in a NpIntTextBox (e.g. in the text box for the Tab Width or Columns preference when comparing a file) now works in Firefox.

There is a bug in gwt 2.1.0 that prevents pressing special keys like Enter, Backspace etc. from being properly recognized and so they have no effect.

This way we can batch delete reviewers from a change.

With the set-reviewers SSH command it is now possible to also add groups as reviewer for a change.

If a reviewer attempts to change a review label (approval) after a change is closed using the ssh review command, cause it to fail the command and output a message.

Everything should be nested below All-Projects, since that is actually the root level.

ls-projects now supports --type code|permissions|all. The default is code which now skips permissions only projects, restoring the output to what appears from Gerrit 2.1.7 and earlier.

Change the way memory is reported to show the actual values, and the equation that determines how these are put together to form the current usage. Include some additional data including server version, current time, process uptime, active SSH connections, and tasks in the task queue. The --show-jvm option will report additional data about the JVM, and tell the caller where it is running.

Instead of using a magical group, use a special capability to denote users that should get the batch priority behavior.

This gets rid of the special entries in system_config and gerrit.config related to who the Administrators group is, or which groups are permitted to create new projects on this server.

The Global Capabilities section in All-Projects can now be used to grant subcommands that are available over SSH and were previously restricted to only Administrators.

Allow site administrators to configure the query limit for user to be above the default hard-coded value of 500 by adding a global [capability] block to All-Projects project.config file with group(s) that should have different limits.

Besides already existing ALLOW and DENY actions this change introduces the BLOCK action in order to enable blocking some permission rules globally.

Administrators can now disable replication of permissions-only projects and the per-project refs/meta/config in replication.config by setting the replicatePermissions field to false.

The restore action has been erroneously using the Abandoned.vm template. Create a template and sender for the restorecommand.

This allows aliases which redirect to gerrit’s ssh port (say from port 22) to be setup and advertised to users.

Ignore the antrun and the build-helper-maven-plugin tasks in m2eclipse.

Enable Gerrit to accept email address automatically in "DEVELOPMENT_BECOME_ANY_ACCOUNT" mode without a confirmation email.

The first 5 (by accountId) user names are displayed as clickable links. Clicking a user name logs in as this user, speeding up switching between different users when using the DEVELOPMENT_BECOME_ANY_ACCOUNT authentication type.

Permit adding a reviewer to closed changes to support post-submit discussion threads.

No longer close a change when a commit is pushed to res/for/* and the Change-Id in the commit message footer matches another commit on an existing branch or tag.

No longer violate OpenID 1.1 and 2.0, both of which require OpenIDs to be normalized (http:// added).

Gerrit was insisting on DIGEST authentication when doing git over http. A new boolean configuration parameter auth.trustContainerAuth allows gerrit to be configured to trust the container to do the authentication.

Exposes what types of reviews are possible via json rpc, so that the Eclipse Reviews plugin currently can parse the javascript from a gerrit page load.

Add a new document intended to be a complement for the existing reference documentation to allow potential users to easily get a feel for how Gerrit is used, where it fits and whether it will work for them.

The new document covers quick installation, new project and first upload. It contains lots of quoted output, with a demo style to it.

Add a table to ease conversion from 2.1.x. The table tries to address the old permissions one by one except for the push tag permission which in effect needed two permissions to work properly. This should be familiar to the administrator used to the 2.1.x permission model however.

Updated some text in the Per project-section and edited the verified section to reflect the current label.

Adds general information about global capabilities, how the server ownership is administered.

This change adds the non-interactive user group. It also adds that groups can be members of other groups. The groups are now sorted in alphabetical order.

Access categories are now sorted to match drop down box in UI

The installation instructions presumes much prior knowledge, make some of that knowledge less implicit.

Clarifies that the example host must be replaced with proper hostname.

The command output that is shown in the example and the description how to set the ssh username were outdated.

The old version of asciidoc required certain characters to be escaped with a backslash and when the upgrade to the new version was done all those backslashes that were used for escaping became visible.

Break out the utilities into their own section, and correct some of the item descriptions.

Remove the textual reference to obsolete SQL insert statement to create new projects.

The formatting was pretty wrong after upgrading to a newer version of AsciiDoc, so fix up most of the formatting, correct some order of commands in the index, and make create-project conform to the same format used by create-account and create-group.