Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of new version of Scala based Git centric software development platform GitBucket 4.26.0!

Installing plugins from the central registry

Recently, we started the plugin registry. GitBucket 4.26.0 has a new plugin manager which makes possible to install and update plugins from this registry.

See the previous article to know more details about the plugin registry.

Repositories tab in the dashboard

Added “Repositories” tab to the dashboard which lists repositories which are accessible by a logged-in user.

Along with this enhancement, the sidebar of the dashboard has been fixed to the list of recent updated repositories even if logged-in.

Fork dialog enhancement

The “Fork” button has been located to the top of the repository viewer. You can open the fork account choosing dialog by clicking this button.

The dialog has been changed to the list style. It’s easier to find an account than the previous card style dialog because account names aren’t omitted even if they have long names. You can also see all forked repositories by clicking the “Show forks” button at the dialog.

Adjust pull request creation suggestor

To decrease unnecessary “Compare & pull request” alerts, branches which fill all following conditions are displayed as pull request creation proposals:

• A last committer of the branch is the logged-in user
• A last commit of the branch is within one hour
• The branch isn’t behind of the default branch

Keep showing incompleted task list

At the pull request discussion view, comments for old commits are folded. Since this release, they keep showing if they include a task list and the list is imcompleted.

New notification hooks

Following two hooks have been added for plugins:

• assigned
• closedByCommitComment

Upgrade gitbucket-notification-plugin to enable these notification.

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

Enjoy GitBucket!