Eclipse JGit: Java implementation of Git 5.11.0

Features

553083 Client-side protocol V2 support for fetching
563145 Enable git wire protocol version 2 on server side per default
541327 TransportHttp: support preemptive Basic authentication
TransportHttp: make the connection factory configurable
Migrate to Apache MINA sshd 2.6.0. Re-enable DSA, DSA_CERT, and RSA_CERT public key authentication.
[pgm] Use Apache sshd by default

564794 init: allow specifying the initial branch name for the new repository
564794 init: add config option to set default for the initial branch name
Restore preserved packs during missing object seeks in conjunction with --preserve-old-packs GC option
Create a PackFile class for Pack filenames
Rename PackFile to Pack
571143 IgnoreNode: include path to file for invalid .gitignore patterns
571143 FastIgnoreRule: include bad pattern in log message
Allow to define additional Hook classes outside JGit
Allow dir/file conflicts in virtual base commit on recursive merge.
570744 LFS: make pointer parsing more robust
[pgm] add option --timeout to clone command
Add the "compression-level" option to all ArchiveCommand formats

Improved method getting all refs except specific refs with seek on Reftable. Improvement of a factor of 15-20x for large Gerrit repositories!

571574 HTTP: cookie file stores expiration in seconds
570758 LFS: handle invalid pointers better
546580 Fail clone if initial branch doesn't exist in remote repository
570501 GPG: fix reading unprotected old-format secret keys
565874 dfs: handle short copies
553428 Post commit hook failure should not cause commit failure
GitHook: use default charset for output and error streams
Fix DateRevQueue tie breaks with more than 2 elements
Fix FileRepository#convertToReftable which failed if no reflog existed
IO: fix IO.readFully(InputStream, byte[], int) with non-zero offset
reftable: add random suffix to table names
TemporaryBuffer: fix toByteArray(limit)
535850 TransportHttp: shared SSLContext during fetch or push by introducing GitSession
Tag message must not include the signature
Protocol V2: don't log spurious ACKs in UploadPack
553083 Protocol V2: respect MAX_HAVES only once we got at least one ACK
[spotbugs]: Fix potential NPE in FileSnapshot constructor
FileSnapshot: don't try to read file attributes twice
569962 Fix NPE in DirCacheCheckout
547789 GPG user ID matching: use case-insensitive matching
TagCommand: make -f work with lightweight tags for NO_CHANGE
Added check for null on DirCacheEntry in checkoutEntry method

Add target platform for eclipse 4.19 staging
Bump bazel version to 4.0.0
Require latest Maven version 3.6.3
Update jetty to 9.4.36.v20210114
Update com.google.gson to 2.8.6
Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 4.2.0
Update eclipse-jarsigner-plugin to 1.1.7
Update build-helper-maven-plugin to 3.2.0
Update maven-enforcer-plugin to 3.0.0-M3
Update maven-shade-plugin to 3.2.4
Update spring-boot-maven-plugin to 2.4.1
Update maven-surefire plugins to 3.0.0-M5
Update japicmp-maven-plugin to 0.14.4
Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 4.1.4
Upgrade ecj to 3.24.0
Upgrade wagon-ssh to 3.4.2
Update maven-site-plugin to 3.9.1
Fix stamping to produce stable file timestamps
Fix errorprone configuration for maven-compiler-plugin with javac
570451 Correct the minimum required version of Apache httpclient
pgm: add missing dependency to org.apache.commons.logging
Remove reftree and ketch. This was experimental code and never used in production.
Split out loose object handling from ObjectDirectory
Split out packfile handling from ObjectDirectory
TagCommand: propagate NO_CHANGE information
Move reachability checker generation into the ObjectReader object
Fix SeparateClassloaderTestRunner on Java 9 or higher

Release Date

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - 12:00

Release Type

Minor release

New & Noteworthy URL

This release is part of Eclipse IDE 2021-03