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  6. 6.2.0 Release Review

Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse 6.2.0 Release Review

Type: 
Release
State: 
Successful
End Date of the Review Period: 

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Wednesday, June 15, 2022
Project: 
Eclipse EGit: Git Integration for Eclipse
Release: 

6.2.0

Description: 

New Features

  • 552838 Add support for external diff and merge tools in EGit
    - Allow use of external diff/merge tools defined in git attributes
    - Add EGit preferences for external diff tools per file extension
    - Fixed reading config for diff or merge tool, externalized strings
  • 411219 [staging] Push options for "Commit & Push"
  • 579292 Use core.commentChar when editing commit messages

Usability Improvements

  • 579477 [team menu] Same separator as in the Git Repositories view
  • 579477 [team menu] Same item order as in the Git Repositories view
  • 579477 [fetch pr] Relax remote URI pattern
  • [repo view] Improve tag node decoration in special cases

Performance Improvements

  • 579284 [staging] Avoid unnecessary work when commit message text changes
  • 579053 Speed up showing fetch results

Bug fixes

  • Fix capitalization of GitHub and GitLab
  • org.eclipse.egit.ui.test: add missing dependency to org.slf4j
  • 579964 Decoration Calculation may interrupt UI thread
  • 579550 Initialize the GpgSigner early on
  • 579575 Fix NumberFormatException during "EGit Hidden Resources Clean-up"
  • 579356 [blame] Avoid NPE when updating the blame when HEAD changes
  • 579520 [staging] Fix layout for commit message warning label
  • 579353 [repo view] Handle active part change in "Open in editor"
  • 579487 [ssh] Avoid NPE in SSH agent preferences
  • [squash] Ensure message is cleaned even if dialog is canceled
  • [commit viewer] Use read-only text areas for the commit messages
  • 579287 [push] PushResultTable: use a read-only text area
  • 552686 Fix blocking during branch rename
  • Fix "Push to Upstream" for push.default=matching

Build and Release Engineering

  • Update orbit to R20220531185310
  • Update net.i2p.crypto.eddsa to 0.3.0.v20220506-1020
  • Update org.bouncycastle.bcpg to 1.70.0.v20220507-1208
  • Update org.bouncycastle.bcprov to 1.70.0.v20220507-1208
  • Update com.jcraft.jzlib to 1.1.3.v20220502-1820
  • Update javax.activation to jakarta.activation 1.2.2.v20201119-1642
  • Update javax.xml.bind to jakarta.xml.bind 2.3.3.v20201118-1818
  • Update org.apache.log4j to 1.2.19.v20220208-1728
  • Update Tycho to 2.7.3
  • Add target platform for eclipse 4.23 (2022-03)
  • Refer to target platform as file
  • Introduce RepositoryCommitOpener to reduce duplicate code
     
API Certification: 

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Conforms To UI/UX Guidelines: 
Not verified
End of Life: 

The EGit Mylyn connector is discontinued since Mylyn is no longer maintained.
6.1.0.202203080745-r was its last release.

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2022-06.
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