New and Noteworthy 5.5

JGit

sshd

• Support the HashKnownHosts configuration (see the SSH config file documentation).
• Support configurable server key verification allowing clients to substitute their own database of known hosts keys instead of the default file-based mechanism.
• Allow setting a null ssh config to permanently switch off handling of the ~/.ssh/config file.

Other Changes

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

Also the fixes from JGit 5.4.2 and JGit 5.4.3 are included

Contributors

The following 18 developers worked on this release:

Alex Spradlin, Anton Khodos, Dave Borowitz, David Ostrovsky, David Pursehouse, David Turner, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Ivan Frade, Jonathan Nieder, Jonathan Tan, Marco Miller, Masaya Suzuki, Matthias Sohn, Michael Keppler, Nail Samatov, Pavel Flaška, René Scheibe, Thomas Wolf