New and Noteworthy 4.6

JGit

Features

• Implement auto gc
• CheckoutCommand: Add method to add multiple paths
• Add "concurrencyLevel" option to DfsBlockCache
• Add ReceivedPackStatistics for PackParser

JGit Command Line

• Checkout: Add the ability to checkout all paths.

LFS Support

• Add built-in LFS smudge filter for local case
• Add built-in LFS clean filter
• Add configuration parameter to enable built-in hooks/filters
• Add support for built-in smudge filters
• Add support for built-in clean filters

JGit Ketch

• Define MonotonicClock interface for advanced timestamps

Build and Release Engineering

• Update JGit minimum execution environment to JavaSE-1.8
• Update JavaEWAH to 1.1.6
• Add Oxygen target platform and remove target platforms older than Mars
• Buck build: upgrade buck to latest version
• Configure Maven to run tests concurrently by default
• Enable error-prone for the Maven build
• Use consistent feature and category names

Bug Fixes

2 enhancement requests and 3 bugs were closed

Contributors

The following 19 developers worked on this release of JGit :

Christian Halstrick Dave Borowitz David Pursehouse David Turner Grace Wang Hugo Arès Jacek Centkowski Jonathan Nieder Kevin Corcoran Marc Strapetz Masaya Suzuki Matthias Sohn Ned Twigg Philipp Marx Rüdiger Herrmann Shawn Pearce Thomas Meyer Thomas Wolf Zhen Chen