2015 Week 25 (Late June)

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Summary of changes from June 13, 2015 to June 20, 2015.

General

• There is an upcoming major design change. You can preview the changes here, on secure.phabricator.com. See T8549 for discussion and feedback.
• There is an upcoming mandatory migration from old Differential hunk storage to new Differential hunk storage. Installs with a large amount of data and a long history can avoid maintenance downtime by running this migration manually in advance of when it becomes mandatory. Follow T8623 for discussion. This migration is several weeks away.
• Several substantial performance regressions have been fixed.
• Properties for individual diffs (like lint and unit test results) are now shown separately. This allows you to review test failures for old diffs.

Security

• No discussion this week.

Upgrading/Compatibility

• We now maintain stable branches for libphutil, Arcanist, and Phabricator, but they aren't documented yet. They are slightly more stable than master. Check back next week for more details.
• This release includes a migration adds some keys to differential_revision, which may take a few minutes on large installs.

Promoted to Stable

• [stable; rPcace777b] Fixed an issue where duplicate mail could be sent if the recipient list included a disabled user.

Diviner

• Modernized Diviner in a variety of ways.
• Diviner books can now be bound to repositories.

Documentation

• Added a guide on Troubleshooting Performance Problems, aimed at administrators.
• Greatly expanded the guide on Internationalization, aimed at developers and contributors.

Policy

• Phabricator now supports "object policies", which are policy rules that are specific to types of objects: for example, Maniphest Tasks now support a "Task Author" policy. Some of these rules are available as both custom policy rules and top-level policies.
• Added a "Room Participants" object policy to Conpherence.
• Added a "Subscribers" object policy.
• Policy hints now show the more restrictive of the space policy and the object policy, when one is strictly stronger.
• Policy dialogs now explain spaces in more detail.

Passphrase

• Added a "Note" credential type to store blocks of arbitrary text, like a secret diary entry or your proprietary oatmeal cookie recipe.

Minor/Bugs

• Fixed some "Unknown Thing" strings which should be "Restricted Thing".
• Added a few more mail preferences options.
• The "Quote" button in Remarkup text areas is now smarter about quoting already-quoted text.
• Fixed an issue where DarkConsole could do a large amount of useless work.
• Slightly improved Diffusion handling of large files, like PDFs.
• Conduit API parameters of type order are now marked as optional order.
• Owners package typeahead is less of a mess.
• Calendar now renders event descriptions with Remarkup.

Infrastructure

• Everything now extends from Phobject. This is a sweeping infrastructure change which can cause errors when Phobject detects access to undeclared properties that were previously ignored. Let us know if you catch any.