|RCE| 5.4.0 |RNS|
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Release Date
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- 2024-12-24

New Features
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- RhodeCode and VcsServer operate now on bytestrings instead of strings for diffs and files. This allows a mixed or non-utf8
  encoded files to be used.
- Remap and rescan: added more resilient remap and removal option, and also split the logic to either add or cleanup.
- Automatic merge of approved pull requests (available only for enterprise edition).
- Basic implementation of security scan (secrets, keys, passwords, etc) for repositories (available only for enterprise edition).

General
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- Ported build system to use pyproject.toml.
- Bumped version of mercurial and hg-evolve.


Security
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- Multiple library bumps to fix security issues found in those python packages.


Performance
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- SVN: added same caches for stored file nodes as git and mercurial have for improved performance.
- GIT: moved certain operations into vcsserver

Fixes
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- Fixed UI visualization issues with long commit messages
- Fixed masking for some fields in admin settings
- Fixed issues with caches calculations when passed search fields were empty
- Fixed observer's ability to change a PR status

Upgrade notes
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