Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Scala based Git centric software development platform GitBucket 4.23.0!

Allow tail slash in URL

Tail slash in url has been allowed in all paths. For example, GitBucket makes same behavior for both /owner/repos and /owner/repos/. In particular, this fix improves integration with other products such as Jenkins.

Note for plugin developers: If you plugin has a actions which end with slash, you have to remove them because tail slash is no longer necessary

Display commit message of tags at the releases page

Commit messages of each tag have been displayed at the releases page. Also they are used as the default value of the release description when you are going to create a new release.

Add labels property to issues and pull requests API response

Added labels property to the response of issues and pull requests API.

[
  {
    "number": 1,
    "state": "open",
    ...
    "labels": [
      {
        "name": "enhancement",
        "color": "84b6eb",
        "url": "http://localhost:8080/api/v3/repos/root/gitbucket/labels/enhancement"
      }
    ],
    ...
  }
]

Plugin list API

A new API which returns the list of installed plugins has been added as /api/v3/gitbucket/plugins to make the plugin build farm in the future. This API has following response:

[
  {
    "id": "maven-repository",
    "name": "Maven Repository Plugin",
    "version": "1.3.0",
    "description": "Host Maven repository on GitBucket.",
    "jarFileName": "gitbucket-maven-repository-plugin-assembly-1.3.0.jar"
  },
  {
    "id": "ci",
    "name": "CI Plugin",
    "version": "1.4.0",
    "description": "This plugin adds simple CI functionality to GitBucket.",
    "jarFileName": "gitbucket-ci-plugin-assembly-1.4.0.jar"
  }
]

As you can see, versino is typo of version, this is going to be fixed in the next release.

Git authentication with personal access token

Personal access token can be used for Git authentication as an alternative to password of GitBucket account. It’s recommended way more than use of password in the automated Git repository access for security reasons.

CI plugin settings

An unofficial gitbucket-ci-plugin now allows to configure number of max parallel builds and max stored build history.

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

In particular, since RELEASE table has been renamed to RELEASE_TAG and also renamed an its model class, binary compatibility is broken in a lot of plugins. If you are a plugin author, please check whether your plugin works with GitBucket 4.23.0 and update if needed. If you are a plugin user and you found a binary compatibility issue, report the issue on the GitHub project of the plugin top let a plugin author know that.

Enjoy GitBucket!