New and Noteworthy 4.2

EGit

Features

• Support for symlinks in compare editor
• Improve auto-filling the repository URL from clipboard in clone wizard
• Make "Fetch from gerrit" trim input text
• Harmonize menus
  • Remove the restriction on a single-element selection if selection belongs to one repository
  • Enable more actions also for working sets(Push to Upstream, Fetch from Upstream, Pull, and Reset)
  • Enable Team->Repository->Pull when file or folder is selected
• Git Repositories Dialog should give the repository filter text focus
• Do not wrap commit message footer lines
• Use available space in Rebase Interactive view
• Pre-select local branch if a commit is selected which multiple branches but only one local branch) refer to
• Configurable date format used consistently throughout EGit, new preference page to configure date format
• Make the IgnoreOperation work for non-workspace files.
• Enable diff on double-click from staged area for non-workspace files
• Refresh status if a file outside the workspace was edited in Eclipse
• Allow to open external files in the editor directly from Staging view
• Make diff from staging view also work for files not in the workspace

GitHub Client

• Add the ReleaseEvent and its corresponding Payload
• Enable getting owners of an organization
• Implement starring API

Performance improvements

• Removed TreeIterators using Eclipse resource model, this improves status performance by factor 5-10 on Mac/Linux (observed no effect on Windows)
• Don't explicitly refresh Eclipse project when auto-sharing a project

Release engineering and build

• Use @Nullable annotations to aid detection of NPEs at design time
• Use shared license feature

Bug Fixes

40 Bugs and 4 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 11 developers worked on this release:

Alexander Kurtakov, Andrey Loskutov, Christian Halstrick, Lars Vogel, Laurent Delaigue, Matthias Sohn, Markus Keller, Max Hohenegger, Simon Scholz, Stephan Hackstedt, Thomas Wolf