RhodeCode Enterprise 4.17.0 Release Notes#
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#
Hooks: 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.