What’s new in Gerrit 2.9

Statistics

	Gerrit 2.9-RC1	Gerrit 2.8	Gerrit 2.7	Gerrit 2.6	Gerrit 2.5	Gerrit 2.4
commits ➊	`988`	`1373`	`272`	`1301`	`508`	`122`
resolved issues	`43`	`72`	`9`	`85`	`51`	`35`
contributors	`37`	`54`	`31`	`56`	`34`	`22`

➊ not including merge commits

New Change Screen

The Change Screen was completely redesigned and is now based on the Gerrit REST API.

By default users get the new change screen.
The old change screen
- is still available
- will be removed with the next release

New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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New Change Screen

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Old Change Screen (for comparison)

New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

based on CodeMirror

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen

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New Side-by-Side Diff Screen