New and Noteworthy 6.8

JGit

Features

• Improve parsing of commit message trailers to allow multiline trailers
• RevertCommand: support for inserting a Gerrit change ID

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
• Enable Maven reproducible builds using timestamp of last commit.

Other Changes

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

Contributors

The following 16 developers worked on this release:

Antonio Barone, Dariusz Luksza, David Ostrovsky, Florian Signoret, Han-Wen Nienhuys, Ivan Frade, Jonathan Nieder, Kamil Musin, Luca Milanesio, Matthias Sohn, Minh Thai, Nasser Grainawi, Nitzan Gur-Furman, Patrick Hiesel, Ronald Bhuleskar, Thomas Wolf