Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 6.9.0

New Features

Introduce core.trustLooseRefStat config that will optionally refresh file attributes of loose refs (at least on some NFS clients)
DfsPackFile: Abstract the bitmap loading to support other backends
jgit-25 Support public key in the SSH configuration's "IdentityFile"
jgit-24 Add SystemReader.Delegate to reduce boiler-plate code needed to subclass
[gpg] Refactor the GpgSignatureVerifier to facilitate implementing an alternate GpgSignatureVerifier
CherryPick: allow to customize cherry-picked commit message via a custom CherryPickCommitMessageProvider
PackBitmapIndex/StoredBitmap: Expose size and counts
PackWriter: store the objects with bitmaps in the statistics

DfsReader#getObjectSize: use size index if possible to avoid IO reading it from the object
580137 Introduce a PriorityQueue sorting RevCommits by commit timestamp which can be enabled by setting system property REVWALK_USE_PRIORITY_QUEUE=true. By default the old implementation DateRevQueue is used.
PackWriterBitmapPreparer: Set limit on excessive branch count
jgit-5 BasePackFetchConnection: Skip object/ref lookups if local repo is empty to speedup cloning
jgit-5 LooseObjects: if `trustFolderStat` flag is enabled use File#exists when possible instead of rethrowing `FileNotFoundException`

jgit-15 Discover bitmap index on disk created after the packfile without requiring a restart
storage.file: Do not throw NSFE when deleting tmp files
FS.detectSymlinkSupport: fix a race
RefDirectory: Do not unlock until after deleting loose ref to fix a potential race
jgit-21 SnapshottingRefDirectory: Invalidate snapshot after locking ref for update to avoid race
jgit-17 Don't use localized String during JVM shutdown
RawParseUtils.nextLfSkippingSplitLines: return the buffer length also if there is no newline after the last header
RawParseUtils: add utility method to get a header value to prevent external GPG chokes on a signature blob with leading blanks
573770 Mark packfile as invalid when NFS stale handle error occurs. This should fix broken fetch operations when the repo is located on NFS and is GC'ed on a separate system (or process)
Fix handling of missing pack index file
jgit-6 RebaseCommand: fix stopping on root commit conflicts
FooterLines: handle extraction from messages without headers
FooterLine: Protect from ill-formed message
FooterLine: First line cannot be a footer
Improve footer parsing to allow multiline footers
jgit-4 Make sure ref to prune is in packed refs
StartGenerator: Fix parent rewrite with non-default RevFilter

Update dependencies

jgit-16 Apache MINA sshd to 2.12.0. This includes the upstream fix for CVE-2023-48795[1] ("strict KEX protocol extension mitigating the "Terrapin attack"[2]) in JGit.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-48795

[2] https://www.terrapin-attack.com/
byte-buddy to 1.14.12
jetty to 10.0.20
jmh to 1.37
jna to 5.14.0
mockito to 5.8.0
org.apache.commons:commons-compress to 1.26.0
org.assertj:assertj-core to 3.25.3
org.mockito:mockito-core to 5.10.0 and add dependency to commons-io:commons-io:2.15.1.

Update maven plugins

Miscellaneous

egit-5 Allow using slf4j 2.x (used by Eclipse platform) by relaxing version constraint so
Add 4.31 target platform and update orbit to 4.31
Configure .gitattributes to manage line endings
Normalize line endings to LF for all text files
Configure Github issue reporting

Release Date

Wednesday, March 13, 2024 - 12:00

Release Type

Minor release

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2024-03