CHANGELOG.adoc

Changelog moved to GitHub Releases

See GitHub Releases for all new changelogs (July 1, 2019)

2.8.0 (June 16, 2019)

• Require Java 8

• Require Jenkins 2.121 or later

• Use JGit 4.5.7 (rather than JGit 4.5.5)

3.0.0-beta9 (April 24, 2019)

• Require Java 8

• Require Jenkins 2.60

• Use JGit 5.3.0 instead of JGit 4.5.4 (many bug fixes, more consistent with command line git, includes git protocol 2 support)

• Add optional submodule delete when cleaning (JENKINS-26660)

• Add optional parallel submodule update support (JENKINS-44720)

• Add optional shallow submodule update support (JENKINS-21248)

• Always log the timeout for a CliGit command (JENKINS-52891)

• Add test utility for use by git plugin test automation

• Fix openPackedFromSelfOrAlternate stack overflow in JGit (JENKINS-46344)

• Use distinctive file name prefix for temporary files (JENKINS-48258)

• Fix clean before checkout with specific JGit directory and file name patterns (JENKINS-43198)

• Use ssh username from git URL instead of passed username (OpenSSH 7.7 fix) (JENKINS-50573, JENKINS-52721, JENKINS-50573, JENKINS-52678, JENKINS-50573)

• Avoid 'text file busy' random ssh clone failures (JENKINS-48258)

• Use NTLM as Windows fallback authentication in JGit (JGit fix) (JENKINS-37934)

• Allow shell special characters in passwords (JENKINS-47514)

• Prevent 'Could not initialize class …​ MasterComputer' in withRepository() remote call (JENKINS-49402, JENKINS-50019, JENKINS-53279)

2.7.7 (April 11, 2019)

• Use JGit 4.5.5 (rather than JGit 4.5.4)

• Automated test extension to better support git plugin test automation

2.7.6 (January 10, 2019)

• Part 2 - Adapt to CLI git 2.20 tag update behavior change (JENKINS-55284)

2.7.5 (December 22, 2018)

• Adapt to CLI git 2.20 tag update behavior change (JENKINS-55284)

2.7.4 (November 16, 2018)

• Prevent 'Could not initialize class …​ MasterComputer' in withRepository() remote call (JENKINS-49402, JENKINS-50019, JENKINS-53279)

2.7.3 (July 24, 2018)

• Adapt to OpenSSH 7.7 behavior change for command line arguments, as seen in Windows git 2.17.0, Debian Buster, Alpine Linux 3.8 and OpenBSD 6.3 (JENKINS-50573, JENKINS-52721, JENKINS-52678)

2.7.2 (May 12, 2018)

• Adapt to OpenSSH 7.7 behavior change for command line arguments, as seen in Windows git 2.17.0, Debian Buster, and OpenBSD 6.3 (JENKINS-50573)

2.7.1 (January 25, 2018)

• Adapt to Linux git 2.16 behavior change for non-default ssh ports (JENKINS-49111)

• Fix submodule cloning for submodule names containing spaces (JENKINS-48818 and JENKINS-48997)

2.7.0 (December 18, 2017)

• Add GitClient.getTags() to fix git rev-parse related checkout performance regression (JENKINS-45447 and JENKINS-47169)

• Fix submodule cloning for repository URLs that end with '.url' (JENKINS-46054)

• Make GitClient.getRemoteReferences() return empty map from both implementations when remote references are not found (JENKINS-30589)

• Use JGit 4.5.4 (rather than JGit 4.5.3) (fix some cases of incorrect NFS file locking)

• Improve GitClient.isCommitInRepo() performance with the "--no-walk" argument

2.6.0 (October 27, 2017)

• Fix unit test failures on freshly installed systems (JENKINS-47373)

• Fix ArrayBoundsException when repository includes commit with embedded control character(JENKINS-45894, JENKINS-47196)

• Use env vars to prevent command line credential (CLI git 2.3+) prompts which block the plugin (JENKINS-35959, JENKINS-25878)

• Add API to support LFS credentials separate from repository credentials (JENKINS-47531)

• Report the path to a reference repository if reference repository is configured and used (JENKINS-46737)

• Use JGit 4.5.3 (rather than JGit 4.5.2)

• Use apache http client plugin and jsch as bundled with Jenkins

2.5.0 (July 27, 2017)

• Honor credential path exclusion (JENKINS-43022)

• Fix a submodule case of "no revision to build" (JENKINS-45729)

• Add a RECURSIVE_THEIRS merge strategy

• Detect setsid command in /usr/local/bin (MacOS) (JENKINS-20879)

• Allow boolean options to be toggled rather than just set (JENKINS-45771)

2.4.6 (May 24, 2017)

• Fix clone failures when workspace path contains specific special characters (JENKINS-43931, JENKINS-44041, JENKINS-44127, and JENKINS-44420)

2.4.5 (April 29, 2017)

• Fix Windows regression when using passphrase protected private keys with a workspace name containing a space (JENKINS-43931)

2.4.4 (April 27, 2017)

• Better protect temporary files (Security advisory 2017-04-27)

2.4.2 (April 20, 2017)

• Support passphrase protected private keys even when Jenkins is attached to a controlling terminal (docker with "-it" argument, or "mvn hpi:run") (JENKINS-20879, JENKINS-25194)

• Require credentials plugin 2.1.13 for credentials tracking API support

• Use JGit 4.5.2 (bug fix)

• Add Italian language translation

2.4.1 (March 30, 2017)

• Work around JGit clean bug (JENKINS-43198)

2.4.0 (March 24, 2017)

• Add API to determine default remote branch (JENKINS-40834)

• Use JGit 4.5.1 (bug fixes)

2.3.0 (February 28, 2017)

• Support git large file storage (LFS) with command line git versions 1.9 and later (JENKINS-30318, JENKINS-35687, JENKINS-38708, JENKINS-40174)

• Fix ssh passphrase distribution to agents (JENKINS-37899)

• Fix ssh passphrase use on Windows agents (JENKINS-20356)

2.2.1 (January 16, 2017)

• Fix 2.0.0 regression with special characters in Windows https git passwords (JENKINS-40166, JENKINS-38194, JENKINS-38179, JENKINS-38138)

2.2.0 (January 2, 2017)

• Fix 2.0.0 regression with renamed submodules (JENKINS-37495)

• Fix 2.0.0 regression reading wrong file for submodule configuration (JENKINS-37419, JENKINS-38860)

2.1.0 (November 3, 2016)

• Add jgitapache as alternate git implementation - JGit with Apache HTTP

• Use JGit 4.5.0

2.0.0 (September 10, 2016)

• Require Java 7 (Jenkins 1.625 or newer) - try with resources and other code simplifications

• Use JGit 4.4.1

• Use Apache httpclient 4.5.2

1.21.0 (August 20, 2016)

• Prepare for command line git support of multi-branch plugin (JENKINS-37297, JENKINS-36958, JENKINS-33983, JENKINS-35567) (authenticate for branch pruning, create directory if needed in command line git init)

• Fix timeout support in command line checkout (JENKINS-37185, JENKINS-22547)

• Don’t throw an exception on unexpected command line git ls-remote output

1.19.7 (July 15, 2016)

• Fix StringIndexException in parseBranches (JENKINS-34309)

• Support NixOS, don’t hard code path to echo (JENKINS-36255)

2.0.0-beta1 (June 14, 2016)

• Require Java 7 (Jenkins 1.625 or newer) - try with resources and other code simplifications

• Use JGit 4.3.1 (though may be affected by JGit bug 496262)

• Use Apache httpclient 4.5.2

1.20.0-beta3 (March 10, 2016)

• Guard rev-parse calls from surprise blank lines (JENKINS-20991)

• Reduce memory use generating changelog (JENKINS-31326 partial fix, also needs new git plugin)

• Warn if JGit fetch attempted with shallow clone options, don’t throw exception

• Fix one case of passphrase protected ssh clone (JENKINS-32834)

• Improve Windows ssh finding code (JENKINS-30045)

• Read git changelog as UTF-8 (JENKINS-6203, JENKINS-14798, JENKINS-23091)

• Improve performance of calls to git rev-parse (JENKINS-32258)

1.19.6 (March 6, 2016)

• Guard rev-parse calls from surprise blank lines (JENKINS-20991)

• Reduce memory use generating changelog (JENKINS-31326 partial fix, also needs new git plugin)

1.19.5 (February 17, 2016) 824604b

• Warn if JGit fetch attempted with shallow clone options, don’t throw exception

1.19.4 (February 9, 2016)

• Fix one case of passphrase protected ssh clone (JENKINS-32834)

1.19.3 (February 6, 2016)

• Improve Windows ssh finding code (JENKINS-30045)

• Read git changelog as UTF-8 (JENKINS-6203, JENKINS-14798, JENKINS-23091)

1.19.2 (January 9, 2016)

• Improve performance of calls to git rev-parse (JENKINS-32258)

1.20.0-beta1 (November 4, 2015)

• Support submodule authentication (JENKINS-20941) - requires git plugin 2.5.0-beta1

1.19.1 (December 26, 2015)

• Allow symbolic links with JGit (JENKINS-30371)

• Allow push from shallow clones (JENKINS-31108)

• Add merge and rebase API’s (JENKINS-30486, JENKINS-12402, JENKINS-28833, JENKINS-30839)

• Parse log dates per ISO 8601 (JENKINS-27097)

1.19.0 (August 20, 2015)

• Support Windows git 2.5.0 (JENKINS-30045, JENKINS-30032)

• Add API support for shallow clone depth (JENKINS-24728)

• Remove distracting warning about invalid gitTool (JENKINS-29368)

• Use Bourne shell for ASKPASS answer for portability (JENKINS-29813)

• Include username in GIT_SSH calls (JENKINS-29604)

• Allow push from JGit (JENKINS-20393)

1.18.0 (July 18, 2015)

• Update minimum Jenkins version from 1.509 to 1.532.2

• Update JGit to 3.7.1

• Add squash as merge option (JENKINS-28833)

• Allow Linux ssh keys with passphrase (JENKINS-20638, JENKINS-20879, JENKINS-27998)

• Implement prune for JGit repositories (JENKINS-26197)

• Improve checkout failure message (JENKINS-26748)

• Use ISO-8601 date format in changelog (JENKINS-27097)

• Find ssh.exe on Windows even if git is in cmd directory (JENKINS-28943)

• Guard against null pointer exceptions in several API calls

• Update other dependencies (httpclient 4.4.1, ssh-credentials 1.11, etc.)

1.17.1 (May 8, 2015)

• Revert all changes introduced in 1.17.0, will revisit later

• Restore 1.16.1 ISO date implementation to avoid git plugin bugs (JENKINS-28134, JENKINS-28260, and JENKINS-28291)

1.17.0 (April 25, 2015)

• Update minimum Jenkins version from 1.509 to 1.532.2

• Update JGit to 3.7.0

• Implement prune for JGit repositories (JENKINS-26197)

• Use ISO-8601 date format in changelog (JENKINS-27097)

• Improve checkout failure message (JENKINS-26748)

• Guard against null pointer exceptions in several API calls

• Update other dependencies (httpclient 4.4.1, ssh-credentials 1.11, etc.)

1.16.1 (February 6, 2015)

• Allow API access to all merge modes, including fast forward, and no fast forward (JENKINS-12402)

• Allow clone with multiple refspecs (JENKINS-26417)

• Improve javadoc, including fixes for Java 8 javadoc

1.15.0 (January 6, 2015)

• Update from JGit 3.6.0 to JGit 3.6.1

• Guard web pages with "jelly escape"

1.14.1 (December 27, 2014)

• Only use "-c core.askpass=true" if command line git is newer than 1.7.9 (don’t break really old git versions unnecessarily)

1.14.0 (December 25, 2014)

• Update from JGit 3.5.3 to JGit 3.6.0

• Use command line credentials check when using command line git (JENKINS-22675, JENKINS-22909, JENKINS-23050, JENKINS-20533)

1.13.0 (December 18, 2014)

• Update from JGit 3.5.2 to JGit 3.5.3 (CVE-2014-9390)

• Remove .git/index.lock on command line git crash (JENKINS-25353)

• Update a few dependencies, resolve a few findbugs warnings

1.12.0 (November 25, 2014)

• Update from JGit 3.5.1 to JGit 3.5.2

• Revision object now provides equals() and hashCode() (JENKINS-25639)

• Update commons-codec to 1.10

1.11.1 (November 7, 2014)

• Allow reference repositories with JGit - faster clone/fetch when commits are already in the reference repo (JENKINS-25387)

• Add getBranchesContaining() to GitClient API - report branches containing a specific SHA1

• Add getRemoteReferences() to GitClient API - list remote references without a repository

• Allow PushCommand to push tags

• Fix JGit fetch() to match CliGit behavior - delete local changes (JENKINS-25444)

• Various test additions and improvements

1.11.0 (October 18, 2014)

• Update from JGit 3.4.1 to JGit 3.5.1

• Bundle jgit http server in git-client-plugin for easier version maintenance (JENKINS-21756)

• Various test additions and improvements

1.10.2 (September 12, 2014)

• Support authenticating proxies (JENKINS-24112)

• Add API entry point for getRemoteTagNames

• Warn Windows users if TEMP or TMP contains embedded space (JENKINS-22706)

• Fix tag comparison (when refs/tags/tag_name is the branch to build) so tag based builds don’t build at every poll (JENKINS-23299)

1.10.1 (July 30, 2014)

• Timeout on checkout can be adjusted (JENKINS-22400)

• Add API entry point to list first parent of revision list

1.10.0 (July 22, 2014)

• Allow "Branches to build" to use refs/heads/ to specify branch precisely (JENKINS-23884, JENKINS-23266)

• Add API entry points to manage refs through GitClient

1.9.2 (July 16, 2014)

• Upgrade JGit to 3.4.1, httpclient 4.3.4, ssh-credentials 1.7.1

• Simplify the pom

• Improve ssh.exe location guessing on Windows (JENKINS-21806)

• Reset tracked file local modifications on JGit checkout (JENKINS-23424)

1.9.1 (May 21, 2014)

• Simplify the pom

• Support polling behind an http proxy (JENKINS-22999)

• Remove temp directory after authenticated fast remote poll (JENKINS-23017)

1.9.0 (May 8, 2014)

• Allow timeout setting for submodule updates (JENKINS-22400)

• Upgrade JGit to 3.4.0

• Several test related improvements (Windows "busy file" test failures silenced on JDK 8, etc.)

• Correctly display first revision when using JGit (JENKINS-22343)

1.8.1 (May 3, 2014)

• Allow switch branch of a submodule before update (for later use in git plugin)

• Upgrade JGit to 3.3.2

• Several test related improvements (JaCoCo 0.7.0, Windows "busy file" test failures silenced, etc.)

• Log executed git commands for easier diagnosis

• Only use progress argument on git versions which support it

• Warn if git version is too old for credentials support (JENKINS-21887)

• Use a new temporary directory for remote polling of authenticated repositories (JENKINS-22039)

1.8.0 (April 3, 2014)

• Upgrade JGit from 3.3.0 to 3.3.1

• Update remote tracking branch support for submodules if using command line git version 1.8.2 or newer

1.7.0 (March 27, 2014)

• Fix symlink behavior in CliGit checkout (JENKINS-22376, JENKINS-21168, and JENKINS-22391)

• Add remote tracking branch support for submodules if using command line git version 1.8.2 or newer

1.6.6 (March 25, 2014)

• Switch CheckoutCommand from abstract class to interface (sparse checkout support)

1.6.5 (March 22, 2014)

• Add sparse checkout support (requires git-plugin 2.0.5, requires git 1.8.2)

• Upgrade JGit from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0

• Enable push from JGit

• QA improvements (more tests)

1.6.4 (March 6, 2014)

• Add NTLM authentication (for Team Foundation Server git implementation)

• Support branch change detection in branches using namespaces (e.g. develop1/master)

• Replace obsolete Apache HttpClient with Apache HttpComponents

• Require at least Jenkins 1.509 so that authentication can be tested

• QA improvements (more tests, findbugs warnings fixes, etc.)

1.6.3 (February 20, 2014)

• Set remote URL during clone (implemented as init + fetch) to mimic an actual clone

• CLI impl getRemoteUrl support empty git directory (align to JGit impl)

• QA improvements

1.6.2 (February 04, 2014)

• Fix credentials support on Windows (JENKINS-21016)

• Fix use of credentials in Git publisher (JENKINS-21116)

• Fix reference resolution (JENKINS-21434)

• Fix JGit rebuilds on each poll if wildcard in branch name (JENKINS-20286)

• Alternate way to find ssh.exe on windows (JENKINS-21030)

• Expose git timeout for clone and fetch commands(JENKINS-20445, JENKINS-20387, JENKINS-20750)

• Upgrade to JGit 3.2.0 and other dependencies

• QA improvements - more tests, findbugs and jacoco coverage

1.6.1 (January 10, 2014)

• Warn when credentials.helper can be removed form config but don’t fail the command

• Fix git-credentials-store syntax(JENKINS-21016)

• Fix a file leak when JGit is used(JENKINS-19994)

• Test coverage improvement (thanks to Mark Waite)

• Throw GitLockFailedException on lock failure (to allow retry)

• Printing error message on SSLException to help diagnose ssl problems

1.6 (December 18, 2013)

• Method to push to URL (not implemented yet by JGit)

• Method to add URL for remote (i.e. git config --add remote.foo.url bar)

1.5 (December 14, 2013)

• Use git-credentials-store for http credentials(issue #20318)

• Use ls-remote to retrieve all remote references (issue #10131)

• Support non-proxy hosts (issue #20252)

• Better support for .netrc (issue #20684)

1.4.6 (October 30, 2013)

• Fix ssh private key support (using GIT_SSH) (issue #20223)

• Append .git extension to repository URL on 404 (issue #20189)

• Fix http proxy support (issue #20326)

• Set a time-out running git commands (org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.timeOut, defaults to 10 minutes) (issue #11286)

1.4.5 (October 24, 2013)

• Fix remoting bug (issue #20218)

• Support for self-signed certificate (issue #20200)

1.4.4 (October 22, 2013)

• Make JGit checkout compliant with CliGit

• Support for http proxy (issue #20218)

1.4.3 (October 17, 2013)

• Fix changelog generation on windows (JENKINS-18995)

• Add support for .netrc as credential source for http(s) transport (backward compatibility)

1.4.2 (October 13, 2013)

• Fix username/password support (JENKINS-19974, JENKINS-19995)

• username/password can also be set in repository URL (backward compatibility issue)

1.4.0 (October 10, 2013)

• JGit upgrade

• Add support for username/password credentials

1.3.0 (September 21, 2013)

• Add support for --shared option

• JGit upgrade

• Align JGit behavior for checkout to git-cli one (JENKINS-18988)

• Bug in JGit implemenation (JENKINS-19108)

1.2.0 (September 16, 2013)

• Support for SSH Credentials within Git CLI implementation using ssh-agent plugin

1.1.2 (August 07, 2013)

• Integration with updates to Credentials and SSH Credentials plugins

• Bug in JGit implementation of git-describe

1.1.1 (July 25, 2013)

• Misnamed resource

1.1 (July 24th, 2013)

• JGit implementation is feature complete

• GitClient interface is now remotable (can be used safely as an argument/return value to remote call)

1.0.7 (June 6th, 2013)

• Fixed exception when trying to use Git plugin immediately after installing without restart.

1.0.6 (May 11, 2013)

• Resurrect the checkoutBranch method

• Support multi-line commit messages for tags

1.0.5 (March 21, 2013)

• Reverted default implementation to use git-cli, after many regressions reported by users. org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.useCLI=false can be used to test JGit support.

1.0.4 (March 12, 2013)

• Consider first installation as "Default" if not explicitly set (JENKINS-17013).

• Implement clean, revParse, deleteTag, getTagMessage, hasGitRepo, isCommitInRepo, addSubmodule in pure JGit

• Introduce new method to commit with committer/author

• Use JGit implementation in GitAPI for all supported methods, until org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.Git.useCLI is set

1.0.3 (February 28, 2013)

• Delete workspace content, not workspace directory, before cloning (JENKINS-16873)

• Warn and ignore parameter, but don’t break if reference is invalid (JENKINS-16911)

• Clarify API usage with more explicit parameter name (JENKINS-16914)

• Lock on repository files (JENKINS-12188)

• Implement push in pure JGit

1.0.2 (February 19, 2013)

• initial design, with GitClient factory