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EGit/New and Noteworthy/5.2
EGit
New Preferences
The main Egit preference page has two new preferences: one for enabling parallel pull and one for selecting the SSH client library to use.
New SSH Library
EGit 5.2.0 newly includes an SSH client based on the Apache MINA sshd library. Until now, EGit used an older library called JSch for its built-in SSH handling.
You can choose which library to use in the main EGit preferences page, and we encourage you to switch to the new Apache MINA sshd. Benefits for now are that more kinds of SSH keys work: ECDSA-384 and ECDSA-521 keys work, and ed25519 keys now also work! It also properly reads private key files generated by modern OpenSSH (or older OpenSSH ssh -o).
- Supported authentication mechanisms: gssapi-with-mic, publickey, password, keyboard-interactive.
- Supported private keys: DSA, RSA, ECDSA (256, 384, and 521 bits), ed25519.
- Supported proxy types: SOCKS5 and HTTP, with anonymous access or GSSAPI or username-password (Basic) authentication.
There is no support yet for ssh-agent or for Pageant with the new SSH library.
The previously existing mechanism for using an external SSH executable by setting the GIT_SSH environment variable is still available.
We plan to remove the old JSch SSH implementation completely in a future release of EGit.
Parallel Pull Operations
On the main EGit preference page, you can define how many parallel pull operations EGit should do when you pull from several repositories. Setting the value to "1" disables parallel pulls, and EGit will pull one repository after another. A larger value will make EGit run pull operations on different repositories in parallel.