New and Noteworthy 6.8

EGit

Features

• 451508 DeleteBranchOperation: bulk delete branches for deleting multiple branches
• 342790 Include the Gerrit change ID footer if a revert is done in a repository for which including such a footer is configured
• 582380 CommitHelper: retrieve MERGE_MSG for resolved merge conflict when reverting a commit raises conflicts

Build and Release Engineering

• Git repositories were migrated to GerritHub including all review data. See the blog 14 Years of JGit/EGit Code Reviews migrated to GerritHub.
• Generate SBOMs using cyclonedx maven plugin

Other Changes

The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.

Contributors

The following 5 developers worked on this release: Andrey Loskutov, Jörg Kubitz, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Thomas Wolf

See Also

See also the new features in JGit for additional information.