2011-05 May - 2011-07 July

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Summary of significant changes to Phabricator, Arcanist and libphutil between May, 2011 and July, 2011.

Administration

• Users may now be made administrators.
• Various semi-sensitive functions are now restricted to administrators. These display a red header.
• Users may now be disabled.
• There is a user and administrative activity log.
• Added a user administration script.
• Script now masks passwords as they are entered.
• Users may be created from the web UI.
• Schema upgrade script now accepts "-f" to force upgrade.
• Added "phd debug".
• Phabricator no longer requires flex/bison if you aren't a developer.
• Added a garbage collector daemon.

Arcanist

• Added "arc install-certificate" workflow.
• Added "arc branch" workflow.
• Added "arc call-conduit" workflow.
• Added "arc liberate" workflow.
• Improved binary support in "arc patch".
• Improved UTF-8 support.
• Removed obsolete code that examined 'USER' env variable.
• Arcanist now validates host URI configuration.
• Added PyFlakes and PEP8 linters.
• "arc unit" now shows performance information.
• Improved performance of some workflows.
• Verify that ~/.arcrc has 600 file permissions.
• XHPAST linter now detects duplicate keys in array literals.
• XHPAST linter now detects aliased iterators in loops.
• XHPAST linter now detects subexpressions which can be statically evaluated.
• Arcanist now correctly handles textconv.
• BUG: Fixed an issue with library resolution.

Conduit

• Added differential.getrevision method.
• Added paste.info method.
• Added maniphest.info method.
• Added slowvote.info method.
• Added diffusion.getrecentcommitsbypath method.
• Added file.download method.
• Added differential.getalldiffs method.
• Added more fields to many methods.

Configuration/Install

• Detect openssl dependency.
• Detect pcntl dependency.
• Added RHEL install script.
• Added Ubuntu install script.
• Detect magic quotes.
• Detect MyISAM minimum word length.
• Detect bogus memory_limit setting.
• BUG: Tables now explicitly use InnoDB engine.

Countdown

• New "Countdown" application allows you to show a countdown timer to some event.
• Added fullscreen mode.
• Countdown now supports localization correctly.

Developer

• All service calls are now tracked in DarkConsole.
• New query analyzer simplifies query analysis.
• Visual and usability improvements to XHProf extension.
• Improved error reporting for syntax errors and fatals.
• Improved display of stack traces.

Differential

• Revision creation now appears on the timeline.
• Fixed a parsing issue with older versions of the git client.
• "Ignore All" whitespace mode is now "Ignore Most" and works better. It can be disabled for languages with semantic whitespace (e.g., python).
• Column width is now configurable per-language and defaults to 120 for Java.
• Differential now supports UTF-8 properly.
• Restored raw file view.
• Restored syntax highlighting.
• Restored email replies.
• Restored "next" and "prev" links to inline comments.
• Removed various nonfunctional inline comment links.
• Differential now includes hints about 'arc' usage.
• Differential now shows Arcanist project names, base revisions, and diff line counts on revision detail pages.
• Improved performance of syntax highlighting.
• You can now !unsubscribe by email.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for diff navigation.
• Added a keyboard shortcut to fix the reply interface to the bottom of the page.
• Added "Undo" for inline comments.
• Added an "Add CCs" action.
• Unposted comments are now displayed with a separate style.
• Emails now explicitly list reviewers.
• Changes with inline comments are now never hidden by default.
• BUG: It is no longer possible to make invalid inline comments.
• BUG: Metadata now renders correctly.
• BUG: Fixed many bugs with rendering obscure diff formats.
• BUG: Unsubscribe now properly blocks resubscription.

Diffusion

• Page title now shows filename in browse views.
• Authors are now linked in blame views.
• Commits are now searchable.
• Increased robustness when dealing with deleted repositories.
• BUG: Line number links in git repositories now work properly.
• BUG: View parameter now persists when clicking a line number.
• BUG: Author names with spaces are now parsed correctly.

Feed

• There is now a basic activity feed.
• Added a public mode.

Files

• Now supports more than 100 files.
• Image macros are now editable via web interface.
• Added basic thumbnail transformations.
• Files now support multiple storage engines.
• Added a local disk storage engine.

Herald

• Added "only once" action.

IRC Bot

• Built an IRC bot with Differential and Diffusion object support.
• Added Paste object support.
• Added Maniphest object support.
• Bot now waits a few minutes before mentioning an object again.
• BUG: Fixed issue with unusual IRC names.
• BUG: Fixed issue where remote disconnect would cause a fail loop.

Mail

• Documented Lamson support.
• Improved GMail and threading support.
• Amazon SES correctly includes human-readable data.
• Phabricator now supports private reply-to addresses.
• Phabricator now supports public reply-to addresses.
• Explicitly list "To" and "CC" in multiplexed mail.
• Email subject prefixes may now be configured.
• Improved behavior for stripping quoted replies.
• Added SendGrid support.
• Improved handling of multipart mail with several inline text parts
• BUG: Some handlers now have better UTF-8 support.

Maniphest

• Added drafts.
• You can now edit attached Differential revisions from Maniphest.
• Description changes are viewable inline.
• You can now drag-and-drop files to upload them.
• You can now attach files by email.
• You can now quickly add projects from the task creation interface.
• Added a merge feature.
• Massively improved scalability.
• Added a "subscribed" view.
• Added project filtering.
• You can now search for tasks owned by "upforgrabs".
• You can now create tasks by email.
• BUG: Fixed some issues with CC handling.

Paste

• New "Paste" application allows you to share snippets of text or code.
• Improved language support.
• Pastes now track ancestry when forked.

Phabricator

• Added timezone localization.
• Improved caching behavior of static resources.
• Users may now have multiple concurrent web sessions.
• Users may login with username or email address.
• New logo and favicon.
• Now supports keyboard shortcuts.
• Users now appear in search results.
• BUG: Users are now correctly redirected to the page they tried to access after login no matter which login method they use.
• BUG: Empty email and realname are now correctly rejected.
• BUG: Fixed an issue where CSRF token cycling was overly conservative and pages which had been open for more than an hour would sometimes fail in a confusing way when submitted.

Phriction

• New "Phriction" application allows you to create a wiki.
• Phriction edits now support an optional description.

Projects

• Added subproject support.
• Improved project list to be more useful.

Remarkup

• You can now link to specific comments in Maniphest and Differential.
• Improved display of monospaced text.
• You can now @mention other users, and they will be CC'd on revisions or tasks where they are mentioned.
• "Pxxxx" now links to pastes.
• Now supports embedding Youtube videos.
• Now supports proxying images.
• BUG: Now uses a stricter regexp to recognize revisions.

Slowvote

• New "Slowvote" application allows you to deliberately democratize decisions.

Security

• Fixed an XSS hole in inline commenting.
• Fixed an XSS hole in Youtube videos.

Testing

• Provided database isolation.
• All right