Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.

v 8.8.0 (unreleased)

  - Project#open_branches has been cleaned up and no longer loads entire records into memory.

  - Make build status canceled if any of the jobs was canceled and none failed

  - Remove future dates from contribution calendar graph.

  - Use ActionDispatch Remote IP for Akismet checking

  - Fix error when visiting commit builds page before build was updated

  - Add 'l' shortcut to open Label dropdown on issuables and 'i' to create new issue on a project

  - Updated search UI

  - Display informative message when new milestone is created

  - Replace Devise Async with Devise ActiveJob integration. !3902 (Connor Shea)

  - Allow "NEWS" and "CHANGES" as alternative names for CHANGELOG. !3768 (Connor Shea)

  - Added button to toggle whitespaces changes on diff view

  - Backport GitLab Enterprise support from EE

  - Files over 5MB can only be viewed in their raw form, files over 1MB without highlighting !3718

  - Add support for supressing text diffs using .gitattributes on the default branch (Matt Oakes)

  - Added multiple colors for labels in dropdowns when dups happen.

v 8.7.2
  - The "New Branch" button is now loaded asynchronously

v 8.7.1

  - Throttle the update of `project.last_activity_at` to 1 minute. !3848

  - Fix .gitlab-ci.yml parsing issue when hidde job is a template without script definition. !3849
  - Fix license detection to detect all license files, not only known licenses. !3878
  - Use the `can?` helper instead of `current_user.can?`. !3882

  - Prevent users from deleting Webhooks via API they do not own

  - Fix Error 500 due to stale cache when projects are renamed or transferred

  - Update width of search box to fix Safari bug. !3900 (Jedidiah)

  - Use the `can?` helper instead of `current_user.can?`

v 8.7.0

  - Gitlab::GitAccess and Gitlab::GitAccessWiki are now instrumented

  - Fix vulnerability that made it possible to gain access to private labels and milestones

  - The number of InfluxDB points stored per UDP packet can now be configured

  - Fix error when cross-project label reference used with non-existent project

  - Transactions for /internal/allowed now have an "action" tag set

  - Method instrumentation now uses Module#prepend instead of aliasing methods

  - Repository.clean_old_archives is now instrumented

  - Add support for environment variables on a job level in CI configuration file

  - SQL query counts are now tracked per transaction

  - The Projects::HousekeepingService class has extra instrumentation
  - All service classes (those residing in app/services) are now instrumented
  - Developers can now add custom tags to transactions
  - Loading of an issue's referenced merge requests and related branches is now done asynchronously

  - Enable gzip for assets, makes the page size significantly smaller. !3544 / !3632 (Connor Shea)

  - Add support to cherry-pick any commit into any branch in the web interface (Minqi Pan)

  - Project switcher uses new dropdown styling

  - Load award emoji images separately unless opening the full picker. Saves several hundred KBs of data for most pages. (Connor Shea)

  - Do not include award_emojis in issue and merge_request comment_count !3610 (Lucas Charles)

  - Restrict user profiles when public visibility level is restricted.

  - Add ability set due date to issues, sort and filter issues by due date (Mehmet Beydogan)

  - All images in discussions and wikis now link to their source files !3464 (Connor Shea).

  - Return status code 303 after a branch DELETE operation to avoid project deletion (Stan Hu)

  - Add setting for customizing the list of trusted proxies !3524

  - Allow projects to be transfered to a lower visibility level group

  - Fix `signed_in_ip` being set to 127.0.0.1 when using a reverse proxy !3524

  - Improved Markdown rendering performance !3389

  - Make shared runners text in box configurable

  - Don't attempt to look up an avatar in repo if repo directory does not exist (Stan Hu)

  - API: Ability to subscribe and unsubscribe from issues and merge requests (Robert Schilling)

  - Expose project badges in project settings

  - Make /profile/keys/new redirect to /profile/keys for back-compat. !3717

  - Preserve time notes/comments have been updated at when moving issue

  - Make HTTP(s) label consistent on clone bar (Stan Hu)

  - Add support for `after_script`, requires Runner 1.2 (Kamil Trzciński)

  - Expose label description in API (Mariusz Jachimowicz)

  - API: Ability to update a group (Robert Schilling)

  - API: Ability to move issues (Robert Schilling)

  - Fix Error 500 after renaming a project path (Stan Hu)

  - Fix a bug whith trailing slash in teamcity_url (Charles May)

  - Allow back dating on issues when created or updated through the API

  - Allow back dating on issue notes when created through the API

  - Propose license template when creating a new LICENSE file
  - API: Expose /licenses and /licenses/:key

  - Fix avatar stretching by providing a cropping feature

  - API: Expose `subscribed` for issues and merge requests (Robert Schilling)

  - Allow SAML to handle external users based on user's information !3530

  - Allow Omniauth providers to be marked as `external` !3657

  - Add endpoints to archive or unarchive a project !3372

  - Fix a bug whith trailing slash in bamboo_url

  - Add links to CI setup documentation from project settings and builds pages

  - Display project members page to all members

  - Handle nil descriptions in Slack issue messages (Stan Hu)

  - Add automated repository integrity checks (OFF by default)

  - API: Expose open_issues_count, closed_issues_count, open_merge_requests_count for labels (Robert Schilling)

  - API: Ability to star and unstar a project (Robert Schilling)

  - Add default scope to projects to exclude projects pending deletion

  - Allow to close merge requests which source projects(forks) are deleted.

  - Ensure empty recipients are rejected in BuildsEmailService

  - Use rugged to change HEAD in Project#change_head (P.S.V.R)

  - API: Ability to filter milestones by state `active` and `closed` (Robert Schilling)

  - API: Fix milestone filtering by `iid` (Robert Schilling)

  - Make before_script and after_script overridable on per-job (Kamil Trzciński)

  - API: Delete notes of issues, snippets, and merge requests (Robert Schilling)

  - Implement 'Groups View' as an option for dashboard preferences !3379 (Elias W.)

  - Better errors handling when creating milestones inside groups

  - Fix high CPU usage when PostReceive receives refs/merge-requests/<id>

  - Hide `Create a group` help block when creating a new project in a group

  - Implement 'TODOs View' as an option for dashboard preferences !3379 (Elias W.)

  - Allow issues and merge requests to be assigned to the author !2765

  - Make Ci::Commit to group only similar builds and make it stateful (ref, tag)

  - Gracefully handle notes on deleted commits in merge requests (Stan Hu)

  - Decouple membership and notifications

  - Fix creation of merge requests for orphaned branches (Stan Hu)

  - API: Ability to retrieve a single tag (Robert Schilling)

  - While signing up, don't persist the user password across form redisplays

  - Fall back to `In-Reply-To` and `References` headers when sub-addressing is not available (David Padilla)

  - Remove "Congratulations!" tweet button on newly-created project. (Connor Shea)

  - Fix admin/projects when using visibility levels on search (PotHix)

  - Build status notifications

  - Update email confirmation interface

  - API: Expose user location (Robert Schilling)

  - API: Do not leak group existence via return code (Robert Schilling)

  - ClosingIssueExtractor regex now also works with colons. e.g. "Fixes: #1234" !3591

  - Update number of Todos in the sidebar when it's marked as "Done". !3600

  - Sanitize branch names created for confidential issues

  - API: Expose 'updated_at' for issue, snippet, and merge request notes (Robert Schilling)

  - API: User can leave a project through the API when not master or owner. !3613

  - Fix repository cache invalidation issue when project is recreated with an empty repo (Stan Hu)

  - Fix: Allow empty recipients list for builds emails service when pushed is added (Frank Groeneveld)

  - Improved markdown forms

  - Diff design updates (colors, button styles, etc)
  - Copying and pasting a diff no longer pastes the line numbers or +/-
  - Add null check to formData when updating profile content to fix Firefox bug

  - Disable spellcheck and autocorrect for username field in admin page

  - Delete tags using Rugged for performance reasons (Robert Schilling)

  - Add Slack notifications when Wiki is edited (Sebastian Klier)

  - Diffs load at the correct point when linking from from number
  - Selected diff rows highlight

  - Fix emoji categories in the emoji picker

  - API: Properly display annotated tags for GET /projects/:id/repository/tags (Robert Schilling)

  - Add encrypted credentials for imported projects and migrate old ones

  - Properly format all merge request references with ! rather than # !3740 (Ben Bodenmiller)

  - Author and participants are displayed first on users autocompletion

  - Show number sign on external issue reference text (Florent Baldino)

  - Updated print style for issues

  - Use GitHub Issue/PR number as iid to keep references

  - Import GitHub labels

  - Add option to filter by "Owned projects" on dashboard page

  - Import GitHub milestones

  - Fix emoji catgories in the emoji picker
  - Execute system web hooks on push to the project

  - Allow enable/disable push events for system hooks

  - Fix GitHub project's link in the import page when provider has a custom URL

  - Add RAW build trace output and button on build page

  - Add incremental build trace update into CI API

v 8.6.7

  - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper
  - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in Label and Milestone dropdowns

  - Fix vulnerability that made it possible to enumerate private projects belonging to group

v 8.6.6

  - Expire the exists cache before deletion to ensure project dir actually exists (Stan Hu). !3413
  - Fix error on language detection when repository has no HEAD (e.g., master branch) (Jeroen Bobbeldijk). !3654
  - Fix revoking of authorized OAuth applications (Connor Shea). !3690

  - Fix error on language detection when repository has no HEAD (e.g., master branch). !3654 (Jeroen Bobbeldijk)

  - Issuable header is consistent between issues and merge requests
  - Improved spacing in issuable header on mobile

v 8.6.5
  - Fix importing from GitHub Enterprise. !3529
  - Perform the language detection after updating merge requests in `GitPushService`, leading to faster visual feedback for the end-user. !3533
  - Check permissions when user attempts to import members from another project. !3535
  - Only update repository language if it is not set to improve performance. !3556
  - Return status code 303 after a branch DELETE operation to avoid project deletion (Stan Hu). !3583
  - Unblock user when active_directory is disabled and it can be found !3550
  - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.

v 8.6.4
  - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu)

  - Redesign the Labels page

v 8.6.3
  - Mentions on confidential issues doesn't create todos for non-members. !3374

  - Destroy related todos when an Issue/MR is deleted. !3376
  - Fix error 500 when target is nil on todo list. !3376

  - Fix copying uploads when moving issue to another project. !3382
  - Ensuring Merge Request API returns boolean values for work_in_progress (Abhi Rao). !3432
  - Fix raw/rendered diff producing different results on merge requests. !3450
  - Fix commit comment alignment (Stan Hu). !3466

  - Fix Error 500 when searching for a comment in a project snippet. !3468

  - Allow temporary email as notification email. !3477
  - Fix issue with dropdowns not selecting values. !3478
  - Update gitlab-shell version and doc to 2.6.12. gitlab-org/gitlab-ee!280

v 8.6.2
  - Fix dropdown alignment. !3298
  - Fix issuable sidebar overlaps on tablet. !3299
  - Make dropdowns pixel perfect. !3337
  - Fix order of steps to prevent PostgreSQL errors when running migration. !3355
  - Fix bold text in issuable sidebar. !3358
  - Fix error with anonymous token in applications settings. !3362
  - Fix the milestone 'upcoming' filter. !3364 + !3368
  - Fix comments on confidential issues showing up in activity feed to non-members. !3375
  - Fix `NoMethodError` when visiting CI root path at `/ci`. !3377
  - Add a tooltip to new branch button in issue page. !3380
  - Fix an issue hiding the password form when signed-in with a linked account. !3381
  - Add links to CI setup documentation from project settings and builds pages. !3384
  - Fix an issue with width of project select dropdown. !3386
  - Remove redundant `require`s from Banzai files. !3391
  - Fix error 500 with cancel button on issuable edit form. !3392 + !3417
  - Fix background when editing a highlighted note. !3423
  - Remove tabstop from the WIP toggle links. !3426
  - Ensure private project snippets are not viewable by unauthorized people.
  - Gracefully handle notes on deleted commits in merge requests (Stan Hu). !3402
  - Fixed issue with notification settings not saving. !3452

v 8.6.1
  - Add option to reload the schema before restoring a database backup. !2807
  - Display navigation controls on mobile. !3214
  - Fixed bug where participants would not work correctly on merge requests. !3329
  - Fix sorting issues by votes on the groups issues page results in SQL errors. !3333
  - Restrict notifications for confidential issues. !3334
  - Do not allow to move issue if it has not been persisted. !3340
  - Add a confirmation step before deleting an issuable. !3341
  - Fixes issue with signin button overflowing on mobile. !3342
  - Auto collapses the navigation sidebar when resizing. !3343
  - Fix build dependencies, when the dependency is a string. !3344
  - Shows error messages when trying to create label in dropdown menu. !3345
  - Fixes issue with assign milestone not loading milestone list. !3346
  - Fix an issue causing the Dashboard/Milestones page to be blank. !3348

v 8.6.0

  - Add ability to move issue to another project

  - Prevent tokens in the import URL to be showed by the UI

  - Fix bug where wrong commit ID was being used in a merge request diff to show old image (Stan Hu)

  - Add confidential issues

  - Bump gitlab_git to 9.0.3 (Stan Hu)

  - Fix diff image view modes (2-up, swipe, onion skin) not working (Stan Hu)

  - Support Golang subpackage fetching (Stan Hu)

  - Bump Capybara gem to 2.6.2 (Stan Hu)

  - New branch button appears on issues where applicable

  - Contributions to forked projects are included in calendar

  - Improve the formatting for the user page bio (Connor Shea)

  - Easily (un)mark merge request as WIP using link

  - Use specialized system notes when MR is (un)marked as WIP

  - Removed the default password from the initial admin account created during
    setup. A password can be provided during setup (see installation docs), or
    GitLab will ask the user to create a new one upon first visit.

  - Fix issue when pushing to projects ending in .wiki

  - Properly display YAML front matter in Markdown

  - Add support for wiki with UTF-8 page names (Hiroyuki Sato)

  - Fix wiki search results point to raw source (Hiroyuki Sato)

  - Don't load all of GitLab in mail_room

  - Add information about `image` and `services` field at `job` level in the `.gitlab-ci.yml` documentation (Pat Turner)

  - HTTP error pages work independently from location and config (Artem Sidorenko)

  - Update `omniauth-saml` to 1.5.0 to allow for custom response attributes to be set

  - Memoize @group in Admin::GroupsController (Yatish Mehta)

  - Indicate how much an MR diverged from the target branch (Pierre de La Morinerie)

  - Added omniauth-auth0 Gem (Daniel Carraro)

  - Add label description in tooltip to labels in issue index and sidebar

  - Strip leading and trailing spaces in URL validator (evuez)

  - Add "last_sign_in_at" and "confirmed_at" to GET /users/* API endpoints for admins (evuez)

  - Return empty array instead of 404 when commit has no statuses in commit status API

  - Decrease the font size and the padding of the `.anchor` icons used in the README (Roberto Dip)

  - Rewrite logo to simplify SVG code (Sean Lang)

  - Allow to use YAML anchors when parsing the `.gitlab-ci.yml` (Pascal Bach)
  - Ignore jobs that start with `.` (hidden jobs)

  - Hide builds from project's settings when the feature is disabled

  - Allow to pass name of created artifacts archive in `.gitlab-ci.yml`

  - Refactor and greatly improve search performance

  - Add support for cross-project label references

  - Ensure "new SSH key" email do not ends up as dead Sidekiq jobs

  - Update documentation to reflect Guest role not being enforced on internal projects

  - Allow search for logged out users

  - Allow to define on which builds the current one depends on

  - Allow user subscription to a label: get notified for issues/merge requests related to that label (Timothy Andrew)

  - Fix bug where Bitbucket `closed` issues were imported as `opened` (Iuri de Silvio)

  - Don't show Issues/MRs from archived projects in Groups view

  - Fix wrong "iid of max iid" in Issuable sidebar for some merged MRs

  - Fix empty source_sha on Merge Request when there is no diff (Pierre de La Morinerie)

  - Increase the notes polling timeout over time (Roberto Dip)

  - Add shortcut to toggle markdown preview (Florent Baldino)

  - Show labels in dashboard and group milestone views

  - Fix an issue when the target branch of a MR had been deleted

  - Add main language of a project in the list of projects (Tiago Botelho)

  - Add #upcoming filter to Milestone filter (Tiago Botelho)

  - Add ability to show archived projects on dashboard, explore and group pages

  - Remove fork link closes all merge requests opened on source project (Florent Baldino)

  - Move group activity to separate page

  - Create external users which are excluded of internal and private projects unless access was explicitly granted

  - Continue parameters are checked to ensure redirection goes to the same instance

  - User deletion is now done in the background so the request can not time out

  - Canceled builds are now ignored in compound build status if marked as `allowed to fail`

  - Trigger a todo for mentions on commits page

  - Let project owners and admins soft delete issues and merge requests

v 8.5.11
  - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper

v 8.5.10
  - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.

v 8.5.9
  - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu).

v 8.5.8
  - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4

v 8.5.7

  - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.3

v 8.5.6
  - Obtain a lease before querying LDAP

v 8.5.5

  - Ensure removing a project removes associated Todo entries
  - Prevent a 500 error in Todos when author was removed
  - Fix pagination for filtered dashboard and explore pages
  - Fix "Show all" link behavior

v 8.5.4

  - Do not cache requests for badges (including builds badge)

v 8.5.3
  - Flush repository caches before renaming projects

  - Sort starred projects on dashboard based on last activity by default

  - Show commit message in JIRA mention comment

  - Makes issue page and merge request page usable on mobile browsers.

  - Improved UI for profile settings

v 8.5.2
  - Fix sidebar overlapping content when screen width was below 1200px

  - Don't repeat labels listed on Labels tab
  - Bring the "branded appearance" feature from EE to CE

  - Fix error 500 when commenting on a commit

  - Show days remaining instead of elapsed time for Milestone

  - Fix broken icons on installations with relative URL (Artem Sidorenko)

  - Fix issue where tag list wasn't refreshed after deleting a tag

  - Fix import from gitlab.com (KazSawada)

  - Improve implementation to check read access to forks and add pagination
  - Don't show any "2FA required" message if it's not actually required

  - Fix help keyboard shortcut on relative URL setups (Artem Sidorenko)

  - Update Rails to 4.2.5.2
  - Fix permissions for deprecated CI build status badge

  - Don't show "Welcome to GitLab" when the search didn't return any projects

  - Add Todos documentation

v 8.5.1
  - Fix group projects styles

  - Show Crowd login tab when sign in is disabled and Crowd is enabled (Peter Hudec)

  - Fix a set of small UI glitches in project, profile, and wiki pages
  - Restrict permissions on public/uploads
  - Fix the merge request side-by-side view after loading diff results
  - Fix the look of tooltip for the "Revert" button
  - Add when the Builds & Runners API changes got introduced
  - Fix error 500 on some merged merge requests
  - Fix an issue causing the content of the issuable sidebar to disappear
  - Fix error 500 when trying to mark an already done todo as "done"
  - Fix an issue where MRs weren't sortable
  - Issues can now be dragged & dropped into empty milestone lists. This is also

    possible with MRs

  - Changed padding & background color for highlighted notes
  - Re-add the newrelic_rpm gem which was removed without any deprecation or warning (Stan Hu)
  - Update sentry-raven gem to 0.15.6

  - Add build coverage in project's builds page (Steffen Köhler)

  - Changed # to ! for merge requests in activity view

v 8.5.0

  - Fix duplicate "me" in tooltip of the "thumbsup" awards Emoji (Stan Hu)

  - Cache various Repository methods to improve performance

  - Fix duplicated branch creation/deletion Webhooks/service notifications when using Web UI (Stan Hu)

  - Ensure rake tasks that don't need a DB connection can be run without one

  - Update New Relic gem to 3.14.1.311 (Stan Hu)

  - Add "visibility" flag to GET /projects api endpoint

  - Add an option to supply root email through an environmental variable (Koichiro Mikami)

  - Ignore binary files in code search to prevent Error 500 (Stan Hu)

  - Render sanitized SVG images (Stan Hu)

  - Support download access by PRIVATE-TOKEN header (Stan Hu)

  - Upgrade gitlab_git to 7.2.23 to fix commit message mentions in first branch push

  - Add option to include the sender name in body of Notify email (Jason Lee)

  - New UI for pagination

  - Don't prevent sign out when 2FA enforcement is enabled and user hasn't yet
    set it up

  - API: Added "merge_requests/:merge_request_id/closes_issues" (Gal Schlezinger)

  - Fix diff comments loaded by AJAX to load comment with diff in discussion tab

  - Fix relative links in other markup formats (Ben Boeckel)

  - Whitelist raw "abbr" elements when parsing Markdown (Benedict Etzel)

  - Fix label links for a merge request pointing to issues list

  - Don't vendor minified JS

  - Increase project import timeout to 15 minutes

  - Be more permissive with email address validation: it only has to contain a single '@'

  - Display 404 error on group not found

  - Track project import failure

  - Support Two-factor Authentication for LDAP users

  - Display database type and version in Administration dashboard

  - Allow limited Markdown in Broadcast Messages

  - Fix visibility level text in admin area (Zeger-Jan van de Weg)

  - Warn admin during OAuth of granting admin rights (Zeger-Jan van de Weg)

  - Update the ExternalIssue regex pattern (Blake Hitchcock)

  - Remember user's inline/side-by-side diff view preference in a cookie (Kirill Katsnelson)

  - Optimized performance of finding issues to be closed by a merge request

  - Add `avatar_url`, `description`, `git_ssh_url`, `git_http_url`, `path_with_namespace`
    and `default_branch` in `project` in push, issue, merge-request and note webhooks data (Kirill Zaitsev)
  - Deprecate the `ssh_url` in favor of `git_ssh_url` and `http_url` in favor of `git_http_url`
    in `project` for push, issue, merge-request and note webhooks data (Kirill Zaitsev)
  - Deprecate the `repository` key in push, issue, merge-request and note webhooks data, use `project` instead (Kirill Zaitsev)

  - API: Expose MergeRequest#merge_status (Andrei Dziahel)

  - Revert "Add IP check against DNSBLs at account sign-up"

  - Actually use the `skip_merges` option in Repository#commits (Tony Chu)

  - Fix API to keep request parameters in Link header (Michael Potthoff)

  - Deprecate API "merge_request/:merge_request_id/comments". Use "merge_requests/:merge_request_id/notes" instead
  - Deprecate API "merge_request/:merge_request_id/...". Use "merge_requests/:merge_request_id/..." instead

  - Prevent parse error when name of project ends with .atom and prevent path issues

  - Discover branches for commit statuses ref-less when doing merge when succeeded

  - Mark inline difference between old and new paths when a file is renamed

  - Support Akismet spam checking for creation of issues via API (Stan Hu)

  - API: Allow to set or update a merge-request's milestone (Kirill Skachkov)

  - Improve UI consistency between projects and groups lists

  - Add sort dropdown to dashboard projects page

  - Fixed logo animation on Safari (Roman Rott)

  - Fix Merge When Succeeded when multiple stages

  - Hide remove source branch button when the MR is merged but new commits are pushed (Zeger-Jan van de Weg)

  - In seach autocomplete show only groups and projects you are member of

  - Don't process cross-reference notes from forks

  - Fix: init.d script not working on OS X

  - Faster snippet search

  - Added API to download build artifacts

  - Title for milestones should be unique (Zeger-Jan van de Weg)

  - Validate correctness of maximum attachment size application setting

  - Replaces "Create merge request" link with one to the "Merge Request" when one exists

  - Fix CI builds badge, add a new link to builds badge, deprecate the old one

  - Fix broken link to project in build notification emails

  - Ability to see and sort on vote count from Issues and MR lists

  - Fix builds scheduler when first build in stage was allowed to fail

  - User project limit is reached notice is hidden if the projects limit is zero

  - Add API support for managing runners and project's runners

  - Allow SAML users to login with no previous account without having to allow
    all Omniauth providers to do so.
  - Allow existing users to auto link their SAML credentials by logging in via SAML

  - Make it possible to erase a build (trace, artifacts) using UI and API

  - Ability to revert changes from a Merge Request or Commit

  - Emoji comment on diffs are not award emoji

  - Add label description (Nuttanart Pornprasitsakul)
  - Show label row when filtering issues or merge requests by label (Nuttanart Pornprasitsakul)

  - Add Todos

v 8.4.9
  - Fix persistent XSS vulnerability in `commit_person_link` helper

v 8.4.8
  - Fix a 2FA authentication spoofing vulnerability.

v 8.4.7
  - Don't attempt to fetch any tags from a forked repo (Stan Hu).

v 8.4.6
  - Bump Git version requirement to 2.7.4

v 8.4.5
  - No CE-specific changes

v 8.4.4
  - Update omniauth-saml gem to 1.4.2

  - Prevent long-running backup tasks from timing out the database connection
  - Add a Project setting to allow guests to view build logs (defaults to true)

  - Sort project milestones by due date including issue editor (Oliver Rogers / Orih)

v 8.4.3

  - Increase lfs_objects size column to 8-byte integer to allow files larger
    than 2.1GB
  - Correctly highlight MR diff when MR has merge conflicts
  - Fix highlighting in blame view
  - Update sentry-raven gem to prevent "Not a git repository" console output
    when running certain commands

  - Add instrumentation to additional Gitlab::Git and Rugged methods for
    performance monitoring
  - Allow autosize textareas to also be manually resized

v 8.4.2

  - Bump required gitlab-workhorse version to bring in a fix for missing
    artifacts in the build artifacts browser
  - Get rid of those ugly borders on the file tree view

  - Fix updating the runner information when asking for builds

  - Bump gitlab_git version to 7.2.24 in order to bring in a performance
    improvement when checking if a repository was empty
  - Add instrumentation for Gitlab::Git::Repository instance methods so we can
    track them in Performance Monitoring.

  - Increase contrast between highlighted code comments and inline diff marker

  - Fix method undefined when using external commit status in builds

  - Fix highlighting in blame view.

v 8.4.1
  - Apply security updates for Rails (4.2.5.1), rails-html-sanitizer (1.0.3),
    and Nokogiri (1.6.7.2)
  - Fix redirect loop during import
  - Fix diff highlighting for all syntax themes

  - Delete project and associations in a background worker

v 8.4.0

  - Allow LDAP users to change their email if it was not set by the LDAP server

  - Ensure Gravatar host looks like an actual host

  - Consider re-assign as a mention from a notification point of view

  - Add pagination headers to already paginated API resources

  - Properly generate diff of orphan commits, like the first commit in a repository

  - Improve the consistency of commit titles, branch names, tag names, issue/MR titles, on their respective project pages

  - Autocomplete data is now always loaded, instead of when focusing a comment text area
  - Improved performance of finding issues for an entire group
  - Added custom application performance measuring system powered by InfluxDB

  - Add syntax highlighting to diffs

  - Gracefully handle invalid UTF-8 sequences in Markdown links (Stan Hu)

  - Bump fog to 1.36.0 (Stan Hu)

  - Add user's last used IP addresses to admin page (Stan Hu)

  - Add housekeeping function to project settings page

  - The default GitLab logo now acts as a loading indicator

  - Fix caching issue where build status was not updating in project dashboard (Stan Hu)

  - Accept 2xx status codes for successful Webhook triggers (Stan Hu)

  - Fix missing date of month in network graph when commits span a month (Stan Hu)

  - Expire view caches when application settings change (e.g. Gravatar disabled) (Stan Hu)

  - Don't notify users twice if they are both project watchers and subscribers (Stan Hu)

  - Remove gray background from layout in UI

  - Fix signup for OAuth providers that don't provide a name

  - Implement new UI for group page

  - Implement search inside emoji picker

  - Let the CI runner know about builds that this build depends on

  - Add API support for looking up a user by username (Stan Hu)