New and Noteworthy 4.4

EGit

Features

• Use SmartImport API from Platform UI to provide smart project import in EGit
• "Push to Gerrit" wizard: add a way to define a topic when pushing to Gerrit
• Add "Open in Commit Viewer" in context menu of stashed commit
• Allow deletion of branch hierarchy nodes in Repositories View
• Handle linked resources in the same repository if link target is not in a project
• Add accelerators for "Compare With" and "Replace With" commands
• Remove duplicate rename branch dialog

Gitflow

• New convenience commands to compare/replace with Gitflow develop branch
• Checkout feature dialog: mark current feature-branch and prevent attempted re-checkout
• Added "commitId" and "last commit message" columns to Gitflow feature branch selection widget

Github

• Add missing attributes to CommitComment
• Fix auto-filled issue task URL

Performance

• Make sure we only allow one GitHistoryPageSource instance

Releng

• Mark branding plugin and gitflow plugin as singletons
• Include missing extension point schemas in EGit binaries
• Update to findbugs 3.0.3 for Java 8 support

Bug Fixes

32 Bugs and 3 enhancement requests were closed

Contributors

The following 11 developers worked on this release:

Alena Laskavaia, Andrey Loskutov, Jon Ander Peñalba, Lars Vogel, Matthias Sohn, Max Hohenegger, Michael Keppler, Mickael Istria, Patrick-Jeffrey Pollo Guilbert, Stephane Bouchet, Thomas Wolf