New and Noteworthy 4.10

EGit

Features

• Extensible context menu in the rebase interactive view (bug 498012)

Usability

• Sort branches in clone wizard case insensitive (bug 529247)
• History view: adjust mnemonics to avoid conflicts
• Better align repository hyperlink in commit viewer (bug 527454)
• Specialized labels for Push dialog buttons (bug 522118)
• Provide property name for repository tree nodes (bug 527068)
• Use newer trash icon on Eclipse Photon or newer (bug 525600)

Performance Improvements

Bug Fixes

3 Bugs and 10 enhancement requests were closed

• Fix GitHubClient to always use responseContentType (bug 528982)
• Provide property name for repository tree nodes (bug 527068)
• Prevent NPEs in StagingView (bug 528140)
• Re-enable Reset context menu in history view for unresolved merge (bug 528052)
• Remove duplicate entry in UI plugin.properties (bug 495064)
• Commit editor branch handling fixes (bug 526336)
• Minor fix in Gerrit version check
• Cleanup default handler implementations

Build and Release Engineering

• Add header Automatic-Module-Name for Java 9 (bug 529074)
• Update staging target platform to staging/photon
• Updpate oxygen orbit to R20170919201930 and remove old orbit repos
• Update Apache httpclient to 4.5.2 and httpcore to 4.4.6
• Update Jetty to 9.4.8.v20171121
• Require maven 3.5.2
• Update to maven-pmd-plugin 3.8
• Update to maven-assembly-plugin 3.1.0
• Update to build-helper-maven-plugin 3.0.0
• Update to spotbugs-maven-plugin 3.1.0
• Update spotbugs-maven-plugin to 3.1.0-RC7
• Add EGit-4.9.0 API baseline to Oomph setup

Contributors

The following 7 developers worked on this release:

Andrey Loskutov, Fabian Pfaff, Karsten Thoms, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Mickael Istria, Thomas Wolf