Release Highlights
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Inline editing support in PolyGerrit UI.
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Redesigned UI for PolyGerrit based on material.
Important Notes
Schema Changes
This release contains schema changes. To upgrade:
java -jar gerrit.war init -d site_path
Reindex for new projects index
Gerrit 2.16 introduces a new secondary index for projects. The initial version of this index must be created by running the offline reindex before starting Gerrit:
java -jar gerrit.war reindex --index projects -d site_path
Note that it is not necessary to reindex the changes, accounts and groups indexes offline. These will automatically be reindexed by the online reindexer after starting Gerrit.
Support for Velocity templates removed
In version 2.14 support for Soy templates was added. For backwards compatibility, support for Velocity templates (VTL) was kept.
In version 2.16 support for VTL is completely removed. Site administrators must
replace any Velocity templates (.vm files in $site/etc/mail/) with the equivalent
Soy templates before upgrading to this version.