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EGit/New and Noteworthy/5.3
EGit
GPG-signing Commits
EGit 5.3.0 can sign commits with GPG.
The new icon in the upper right will allow you to toggle commit signing on or off. The default is read from the Git configuration. If the config option commit.gpgsign is set to true, the button will be selected by default. The value of user.signingkey will be used to determine the signing key. If the value is unset, the email address of the committer will be used to lookup the key. If no key can be found a commit will fail.
Keys will be looked up from your GPG keyring (either ~/.gnupg/pubring.kbx or ~/.gnupg/secring.gpgx).
See the following GitHub help pages for help on GPG signing keys:
SSH Library
In the last release we had introduced a new SSH client based on the Apache MINA sshd library as an alternative to the JSch-based client. In EGit 5.3.0 the default settings are switched: by default, the Apache MINA implementation is used.
We plan to remove the old JSch SSH implementation completely in a future release of EGit.
Other Changes
The complete list of new features and bug fixes is available in the release notes.
Contributors
The following X developers worked on this release:
<TBD: list of contributors, number>