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New and Noteworthy 5.4
Bundle org.eclipse.jgit.ssh.apache, introduced in JGit 5.2.0 and
implementing a new SSH session factory based on Apache MINA
sshd, has been updated to Apache
MINA sshd 2.2.0.
Because of incompatible upstream interface changes, it will work only with that precise version of Apache MINA sshd.
Thanks to the update, the SSH support now also works for connections using encrypted new-style OpenSSH private keys, for instance password-protected ed25519 keys.
On Java versions older than 8u161, you may need to download and install the "JCE Unlimited Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files" for this to work. OpenSSH uses the AES encryption with 256bit keys, which is available in older Java only with this extension. On newer Java versions, "unlimited strength" encryption is enabled by default, so you need not do anything.
To use the SSH client based on Apache MINA sshd in the JGit command-line
tools, use the option --ssh apache. By default JGit still uses the
older JSch library for SSH, which has been updated to JSch 0.1.55.
JGit has learnt to handle cookies in HTTP connections. Cookie storage
can be configured via the git config
settings
http.cookieFile and http.saveCookies. These settings can also be
given per
URI
so that different settings can be used for different servers.
The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.
The following 22 developers worked on this release:
Andre Bossert, Andrey Loskutov, Brandon Weeks, Carsten Hammer, Christian Halstrick, David Ostrovsky, David Pursehouse, Gunnar Wagenknecht, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Ivan Frade, Jonathan Nieder, Jonathan Tan, Konrad Windszus, Masaya Suzuki, Matthew DeVore, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Minh Thai, Patrick Hiesel, Sebastian Schuberth, Terry Parker, Thomas Wolf