Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Scala based Git platform GitBucket 4.3!

Emoji support

gitbucket-emoji-plugin has been released with GitBucket 4.3. This plugin provides following features:

• Convert Emoji directives in Markdown or other places as images
• Suggest Emoji directives in the textarea

User name suggestion

In the textarea in issues and pull requests, user name suggestion has been available. When you type @, user name proposals are popped up as below:

Add new web APIs

GitBucket is providing GitHub compatible Web API. A lot of new APIs have been added in this version.

• Root Endpoint
  • List endpoints
• Repositories
  • List Branches
  • Get contents
  • Get a Reference
  • List Collaborators
• Users
  • List user repositories
• Groups
  • Get a group
  • List group repositories

Also basic authentication is available for API access.

Add new extension points

New extension points are available for plugins:

• assetsMapping : Supplies resources in plugin classpath as web assets
• suggestionProvider : Provides suggestion in the Markdown editing textarea
• textDecorator : Decorate text nodes in HTML which is converted from Markdown

See the Plugin class of gitbucket-emoji-plugin to know usage of these extension points.

In addition, this release contains some improvements and bug fix. See all closed issues in this release to know details.

Enjoy GitBucket!