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  2. title: "GitLab 4.0 released"
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  3. date: 2012-12-23 14:20
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  5. community: true
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  8. ### GITLAB 4.0 released
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  10. Hi everyone!
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  12. Finally we released GITLAB v4.0.0!
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  14. There are a lot of changes so we introduce you to the important one
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  19. ### Application behaviour changes:
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  21. * New projects will be namespaced (ex. gitlab/vagrant )
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  22. * Every group got own directory in gitolite
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  23. * All projects of group will be moved under group directory ( git remote should be updated )
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  24. * Projects w/o groups will stay with same remote
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  25. * User got username ( For existsing users it will be generated based on email )
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  26. * User create project under his username ( ex. randx/my-project )
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  27. * User can change username. All projects under his username will be moved 
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  28. * Group got owner
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  29. * Owner can create projects within group
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  30. * Owner can access every project within a group
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  31. * Admin can transfer any project from one namespace(group, user, global) to another
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  32. * Group or user is a namespace for project. Owner of namespace is an owner of project
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  34. ### Other changes
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  36. * Better PostgreSQL support
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  37. * Added email notificatino on project move
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  38. * Fixed email notification on issue close/reopen
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  39. * Reorganized settings
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  40. * Fixed commits compare
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  41. * Update the UI to allow downloading Patch or Diff for Commit, MR
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  42. * Milestones can be closed now. Milestone stays open unless you close it
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  43. * Show comment events on dashboard
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  44. * Quick add team members via group#people page
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  45. * UI improvements
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  46. * In admin area projects, users and groups sorted alphabetically
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  47. * Issue management page on dashboard improved
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  48. * Better integration with GitLab CI ( requires GitLab CI  v1.1.1 )
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  50. ### What we removed in 4.0:
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  52. * gitolite 2 support
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  53. * SQLite support (I like it but this database got locked when several users use gitlab at once)
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  54. * API v2 support (its simply incompatible with namespaced projects)
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  56. ### What should be updated during migration:
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  58. * gitlab.yml config
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  59. * gitolite post-receive hooks
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  60. * permissions on /home/git/repositories/
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  61. * python2 symlink
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  62. 

  63. ## Screenshots:
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  64. Dashboard: 
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  65. ![Screens](/images/4_0/gitlab_dash.png)
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  66. Merge Request with CI status
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  67. ![Screens](/images/4_0/gitlab_project_mr.png)
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  68. Files browsing
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  69. ![Screens](/images/4_0/gitlab_project_tree.png)
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  70. Issues
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  71. ![Screens](/images/4_0/gitlab_project_issues.png)
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  73. ### How to reinstall gitolite with new version
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  75. * [Reinstall gitolite](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/Reinstall-gitolite)
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  77. ### How to migrate from sqlite 
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  79. * [Follow this guide](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/Migrate-from-SQLite-to-MySQL)
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  80. 

  81. ### How to install GitLab v4.0.0 
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  83. * [Complete Installation guide (Recommended)](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/blob/4-0-stable/doc/install/installation.md)
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  84. * [One-script installer for ubuntu 12.04 x64](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-recipes/tree/master/install/v4)
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  86. ### How to update a GitLab to v4.0.0 
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  88. * [Update guide for v3.1](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/From-3.1-to-4.0)
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  89. * [Update guide for v3.0](https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/wiki/From-3.0-to-4.0)
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