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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.

Screenshot of the Egit preference page with the two new preferences highlighted

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.

Gitflow Configuration

We've started implementing support for the git config settings used by command-line gitflow tools. This work has just begun; EGit 5.2.0 supports only one config entry:

  • gitflow.feature.start.fetch — if true, fetch from upstream before starting a new feature branch.

Other Changes

There were lots of minor (or at least less noticeable) improvements in the UI, such as icons for menu items, using verbs instead of "OK" for dialog buttons, and so on, plus a number of bug fixes. See the following list.

<TBD: add list of fixed issues with milestone 5.2.0>

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