Hudson Connector: Authentication Improvements

The Hudson connector now uses form-based authentication to support servers that have Cross Site Request Forgery prevention enabled. Additionally, the settings page now has a section for configuring certificate authentication.

Gerrit Connector: Repository Creation on Fetch

When fetching a change set from a Git repository that does not exist in the workspace a dialog is shown to automatically clone the repository.

Commons Framework: Restructuring and Deprecation

The Mylyn Commons components were restructured and provisional packages were promoted to API. Consumers are strongly encouraged to consume the new APIs for Mylyn 3.7 based extensions. See porting guide for more details.

Commons Framework: Improved Authentication APIs

The repositories framework now support OpenID, HTTP and certificate authentication: bug 317907.

Commons Framework: HttpCore Based Transport Layer

The org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.repositories.http.core bundle provides an HttpCore 4.1 based HTTP transport layer that replaces org.eclipse.mylyn.commons.net: bug 335254.

WikiText: Support for Creole

WikiText now support the Creole markup dialect. It is available as part of the WikiText extras feature from the WikiText nightly repository.

Task Editor: Filter Obsolete Attachments

The attachments section has a toolbar for filtering obsolete attachments.

Bugzilla Connector: Custom Priority Levels

Custom priority levels are mapped in the Task List.

Bugzilla Connector: Embedded Progress in Search Page

The progress bar for refreshing the repository configuration is embedded in the Bugzilla search page allowing to navigate while a refresh is in progress.

Trac Connector: Streamlined Search and Query Pages

The layout of the Trac query page has been streamlined and is more consistent with the Bugzilla query page.

Tasks: Improved Query Page API

An enhanced query and search page abstraction is available in AbstractRepositoryQueryPage2. Refresh and Clear buttons are provided by the framework for refreshing the repository configuration and clearing fields. Additionally, state is automatically persisted for search pages. See bug 310059.

Gerrit Connector: Compare Patch Sets in Synchronize View

The review editor show a button below each patch set to compare it with other patch sets.

Changes are opened in the Synchronize view making it very easy to navigate through changed files.

Hudson Connector: Hierarchical View of Artifacts

Kevin Sawicki contributed a patch that adds support for showing the folder hierarchy in the artifacts section of the build editor.

Gerrit Connector: Hyperlinking

Kevin Sawicki contributed a change that enables hyperlinking for references to Gerrit change IDs.

Additionally, URLs that reference Gerrit changes are opened in the review editor instead of the browser.

Gerrit Connector: Custom Queries

The query page has a field for specifying custom queries. This enables querying for all starred reviews for instance.

Gerrit Connector: Author Information for Patch Sets

The patch set sections shows author and commit information for each patch set.

Gerrit Connector: Gerrit 2.2

The connector supports Gerrit 2.2.1 in addition to Gerrit 2.1.8. This enables bootstrapping for contributions using the Mylyn Gerrit instance.

Gerrit Connector: OpenID Login

The Gerrit connector supports authentication through OpenID providers.

The password prompt is displayed in a browser window.

Tasks Framework: Task Activation Listener Extension Point

The Tasks framework has an extension point for registering task activation listeners: bug 349924.

Incubator: Query API for Desktop Search

The desktop search integration in the Incubator has API for constructing search queries: bug 354430.

Improved Content Assist

Content assist shows names for known users and matches on first and last name.

Reordered Task Editor Sections

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