Unverified Commit 6e17bfda by Edward Thomson Committed by GitHub

Merge pull request #4932 from libgit2/ethomson/changelog

changelog: document changes since 0.27
parents abe23675 6a0e9457
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### Changes or improvements
* Reference log creation now honors `core.logallrefupdates=always`.
* Fix some issues with the error-reporting in the OpenSSL backend.
* HTTP proxy support is now builtin; libcurl is no longer used to support
proxies and is removed as a dependency.
* Certificate and credential callbacks can now return `GIT_PASSTHROUGH`
to decline to act; libgit2 will behave as if there was no callback set
in the first place.
* The line-ending filtering logic - when checking out files - has been
updated to match newer git (>= git 2.9) for proper interoperability.
* Symbolic links are now supported on Windows when `core.symlinks` is set
to `true`.
* Submodules with names which attempt to perform path traversal now have their
configuration ignored. Such names were blindly appended to the
`$GIT_DIR/modules` and a malicious name could lead to an attacker writing to
an arbitrary location. This matches git's handling of CVE-2018-11235.
* Object validation is now performed during tree creation in the
`git_index_write_tree_to` API.
* Configuration variable may now be specified on the same line as a section
header; previously this was erroneously a parser error.
* When an HTTP server supports both NTLM and Negotiate authentication
mechanisms, we would previously fail to authenticate with any mechanism.
* The `GIT_OPT_SET_PACK_MAX_OBJECTS` option can now set the maximum
number of objects allowed in a packfile being downloaded; this can help
limit the maximum memory used when fetching from an untrusted remote.
* Line numbers in diffs loaded from patch files were not being populated;
they are now included in the results.
* The repository's index is reloaded from disk at the beginning of
`git_merge` operations to ensure that it is up-to-date.
* Mailmap handling APIs have been introduced, and the new commit APIs
`git_commit_committer_with_mailmap` and `git_commit_author_with_mailmap`
will use the mailmap to resolve the committer and author information.
In addition, blame will use the mailmap given when the
`GIT_BLAME_USE_MAILMAP` option.
* Ignore handling for files in ignored folders would be ignored.
* Worktrees can now be backed by bare repositories.
* Trailing spaces are supported in `.gitignore` files, these spaces were
previously (and erroneously) treated as part of the pattern.
* The library can now be built with mbedTLS support for HTTPS.
* The diff status character 'T' will now be presented by the
`git_diff_status_char` API for diff entries that change type.
* Revision walks previously would sometimes include commits that should
have been ignored; this is corrected.
* Revision walks are now more efficient when the output is unsorted;
we now avoid walking all the way to the beginning of history unnecessarily.
### API additions
* The index may now be iterated atomically using `git_index_iterator`.
* Remote objects can now be created with extended options using the
`git_remote_create_with_opts` API.
* Diff objects can now be applied as changes to the working directory,
index or both, emulating the `git apply` command. Additionally,
`git_apply_to_tree` can apply those changes to a tree object as a
fully in-memory operation.
* You can now swap out memory allocators via the
`GIT_OPT_SET_ALLOCATOR` option with `git_libgit2_opts()`.
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examine your code to ensure that you are not relying on the current
behavior that implicitly removes staged changes.
* Reference specifications can be parsed from an arbitrary string with
the `git_refspec_parse` API.
* You can now get the name and path of worktrees using the
`git_worktree_name` and `git_worktree_path` APIs, respectively.
* The `ref` field has been added to `git_worktree_add_options` to enable
the creation of a worktree from a pre-existing branch.
* It's now possible to analyze merge relationships between any two
references, not just against `HEAD`, using `git_merge_analysis_for_ref`.
### API removals
### Breaking API changes
* The `git_buf_free` API is deprecated; it has been renamed to
`git_buf_dispose` for consistency. The `git_buf_free` API will be
removed in a future release.
* The `git_otype` enumeration and its members are deprecated and have
been renamed for consistency. The `GIT_OBJ_` enumeration values are
now prefixed with `GIT_OBJECT_`. The `git_otype` enumeration will
be removed in a future release.
* Several index-related APIs have been renamed for consistency. The
`GIT_IDXENTRY_` enumeration values and macros have been renamed to
be prefixed with `GIT_INDEX_ENTRY_`. The `GIT_INDEXCAP` enumeration
values are now prefixed with `GIT_INDEX_CAPABILITY_`. The old
enumerations and macros will be removed in a future release.
* The default checkout strategy changed from `DRY_RUN` to `SAFE` (#4531).
* Adding a symlink as .gitmodules into the index from the workdir or checking
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