• Enhanced branch protection which supports the following settings:
  • Prevent pushes from non-allowed users
  • Whether to apply restrictions to administrator users as well
• Improve logging for initialization errors

• Upgrade H2 database from 1.x to 2.x

Note that upgrading from h2 1.x to 2.x requires data file migration: https://www.h2database.com/html/migration-to-v2.html

It can't be done automatically using GitBucket's auto migration mechanism because it relies on database itself. So, users who use h2 will have to dump and recreate their database manually with the following steps:

# Export database using the current version of H2
$ curl -O https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/h2database/h2/1.4.199/h2-1.4.199.jar
$ java -cp h2-1.4.199.jar org.h2.tools.Script -url "jdbc:h2:~/.gitbucket/data" -user sa -password sa -script dump.sql

# Recreate database using the new version of H2
$ curl -O https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/h2database/h2/2.3.232/h2-2.3.232.jar
$ java -cp h2-2.3.232.jar org.h2.tools.RunScript -url "jdbc:h2:~/.gitbucket/data" -user sa -password sa -script dump.sql

In addition, if ~/.gitbucket/database.conf has the following configuration, remove ;MVCC=true from url.

db {
  url = "jdbc:h2:${DatabaseHome};MVCC=true" // => "jdbc:h2:${DatabaseHome}"
  ...
}

• Fix LDAP issue with SSL

• Increase max branch name length 100 -> 255
• Fix some GitHub incompatible Web APIs
• Apply user-defined CSS after all plugins
• Improve performance of listing commit logs
• Drop Java 11 support. Java 17 is now required

• Simplify pull request UI
• Keyword search for issues and pull requests
• New settings for max files and lines limit in showing diff
• Adjust the default branch automatically when cloning external repository
• Fix layout of branch selector
• Performance improvement for listing branches
• Upgrade internal libraries

• Configurable default branch name
• Support custom fields of issues and pull requests in search condition
• Create pull request from default branch of forked repositories
• News feed shows activities of all visible repositories
• Drop Java 8 support
• Improve git push performance

• Support enum type in custom fields of Issues and Pull requests
• Hide large diffs by default
• Add new options to make it possible to run GitBucket using multiple machines
• Fix many API issues