.. _changelog:

Changelog

=========

1.1.0 (**2010-XX-XX**)

----------------------

:status: in-progress

:branch: beta

news

++++

- rewrite of internals for vcs >=0.1.10

- uses mercurial 1.7 with dotencode disabled for maintaining compatibility 

  with older clients

- anonymous access, authentication via ldap

- performance upgrade for cached repos list - each repository has it's own 

  cache that's invalidated when needed.

- performance upgrades on repositories with large amount of commits (20K+)

- main page quick filter for filtering repositories

- user dashboards with ability to follow chosen repositories actions

- sends email to admin on new user registration

- added cache/statistics reset options into repository settings

- more detailed action logger (based on hooks) with pushed changesets lists

  and options to disable those hooks from admin panel

- introduced new enhanced changelog for merges that shows more accurate results

- new improved and faster code stats (based on pygments lexers mapping tables, 

- gui optimizations, fixed application width to 1024px

- whoosh, celeryd, upgrade moved to paster command

- other than sqlite database backends can be used

fixes

+++++

- fixes #61 forked repo was showing only after cache expired

- fixes #76 no confirmation on user deletes

- fixes #66 Name field misspelled

- fixes #72 block user removal when he owns repositories

- fixes #69 added password confirmation fields

- a lot of fixes and tweaks for file browser

- fixed detached session issues

- fixed when user had no repos he would see all repos listed in my account

- fixed ui() instance bug when global hgrc settings was loaded for server 

  instance and all hgrc options were merged with our db ui() object

- numerous small bugfixes

(special thanks for TkSoh for detailed feedback)

1.0.2 (**2010-11-12**)

----------------------

news

++++

- tested under python2.7

- bumped sqlalchemy and celery versions

fixes

+++++

- fixed #59 missing graph.js

- fixed repo_size crash when repository had broken symlinks

- fixed python2.5 crashes.

1.0.1 (**2010-11-10**)

----------------------

news

++++

- small css updated

fixes

+++++

- fixed #53 python2.5 incompatible enumerate calls

- fixed #52 disable mercurial extension for web

- fixed #51 deleting repositories don't delete it's dependent objects

1.0.0 (**2010-11-02**)

----------------------

- security bugfix simplehg wasn't checking for permissions on commands

  other than pull or push.

- fixed doubled messages after push or pull in admin journal

- templating and css corrections, fixed repo switcher on chrome, updated titles

- admin menu accessible from options menu on repository view

- permissions cached queries

1.0.0rc4  (**2010-10-12**)

--------------------------

- fixed python2.5 missing simplejson imports (thanks to Jens Bäckman)

- removed cache_manager settings from sqlalchemy meta

- added sqlalchemy cache settings to ini files

- validated password length and added second try of failure on paster setup-app

- fixed setup database destroy prompt even when there was no db

1.0.0rc3 (**2010-10-11**)

-------------------------

- fixed i18n during installation.

1.0.0rc2 (**2010-10-11**)

-------------------------

- Disabled dirsize in file browser, it's causing nasty bug when dir renames 

  occure. After vcs is fixed it'll be put back again.

- templating/css rewrites, optimized css.

.. _enable_git:

Enabling GIT support (beta)

===========================

Git support in RhodeCode 1.1 was disabled due to some instability issues, but

If You would like to test it fell free to re-enable it. To enable GIT just

uncomment git line in rhodecode/__init__.py file

.. code-block:: python

   BACKENDS = {

       'hg': 'Mercurial repository',

       #'git': 'Git repository',

   }

.. note::

   Please note that it's not fully stable and it might crash (that's why it 

   production !

.. _installation:

Installation

============

``RhodeCode`` is written entirely in Python, but in order to use it's full

potential there are some third-party requirements. When RhodeCode is used 

together with celery You have to install some kind of message broker,

recommended one is rabbitmq_ to make the async tasks work.

Of course RhodeCode works in sync mode also, then You don't have to install

any third party apps. Celery_ will give You large speed improvement when using

will work just fine without celery running.

Requirements for Celery

-----------------------

.. note::

   Installing message broker and using celery is optional, RhodeCode will

   work without them perfectly fine.

**Message Broker** 

- preferred is `RabbitMq <http://www.rabbitmq.com/>`_

- possible other is `Redis <http://code.google.com/p/redis/>`_

For installation instructions You can visit: 

http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/index.html

It's very nice tutorial how to start celery_ with rabbitmq_

Install from Cheese Shop

------------------------

Easiest way to install ``rhodecode`` is to run::

 easy_install rhodecode

Or::

 pip install rhodecode

If you prefer to install manually simply grab latest release from

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rhodecode, decompres archive and run::

   python setup.py install

Step by step installation example

---------------------------------

::

 virtualenv --no-site-packages /var/www/rhodecode-venv

- this will install new virtualenv_ into `/var/www/rhodecode-venv`. 

- Activate the virtualenv_ by running 

::

  source activate /var/www/rhodecode-venv/bin/activate

- Make a folder for rhodecode somewhere on the filesystem for example 

::

  mkdir /var/www/rhodecode

- Run this command to install rhodecode

::

  easy_install rhodecode 

- this will install rhodecode together with pylons

  and all other required python libraries

You can now proceed to :ref:`setup`

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv  

.. _python: http://www.python.org/

.. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/

.. _setup:

Setup

=====

Setting up the application

--------------------------

::

 paster make-config RhodeCode production.ini

- This will create `production.ini` config inside the directory

  this config contains various settings for RhodeCode, e.g proxy port, 

::

 paster setup-app production.ini

- This command will create all needed tables and an admin account. 

  When asked for a path You can either use a new location of one with already 

  existing ones. RhodeCode will simply add all new found repositories to 

  it's database. Also make sure You specify correct path to repositories.

- Remember that the given path for mercurial_ repositories must be write 

::

 paster serve production.ini

- This command runs the RhodeCode server the app should be available at the 

  127.0.0.1:5000. This ip and port is configurable via the production.ini 

- Use admin account you created to login.

- Default permissions on each repository is read, and owner is admin. So 

Setting up Whoosh full text search

----------------------------------

Index for whoosh can be build starting from version 1.1 using paster command

passing repo locations to index, as well as Your config file that stores

whoosh index files locations. There is possible to pass `-f` to the options

to enable full index rebuild. Without that indexing will run always in in

incremental mode.

::

for full index rebuild You can use

::

- For full text search You can either put crontab entry for

This command can be run even from crontab in order to do periodical 

index builds and keep Your index always up to date. An example entry might 

look like this

::

When using incremental(default) mode whoosh will check last modification date 

of each file and add it to reindex if newer file is available. Also indexing 

daemon checks for removed files and removes them from index. 

Sometime You might want to rebuild index from scratch. You can do that using 

the `-f` flag passed to paster command or, in admin panel You can check 

`build from scratch` flag.

Setting up LDAP support

-----------------------

RhodeCode starting from version 1.1 supports ldap authentication. In order

to use ldap, You have to install python-ldap package. This package is available

via pypi, so You can install it by running

::

 easy_install python-ldap

::

 pip install python-ldap

.. note::

   python-ldap requires some certain libs on Your system, so before installing 

   it check that You have at least `openldap`, and `sasl` libraries.

ldap settings are located in admin->ldap section,

Here's a typical ldap setup::

 Enable ldap  = checked                 #controls if ldap access is enabled

 Host         = host.domain.org         #actual ldap server to connect

 Port         = 389 or 689 for ldaps    #ldap server ports

 Enable LDAPS = unchecked               #enable disable ldaps

 Account      = <account>               #access for ldap server(if required)

 Password     = <password>              #password for ldap server(if required)

 Base DN      = uid=%(user)s,CN=users,DC=host,DC=domain,DC=org

`Account` and `Password` are optional, and used for two-phase ldap 

authentication so those are credentials to access Your ldap, if it doesn't 

support anonymous search/user lookups. 

Base DN must have %(user)s template inside, it's a placer where Your uid used

to login would go, it allows admins to specify not standard schema for uid 

variable

If all data are entered correctly, and `python-ldap` is properly installed

Users should be granted to access RhodeCode wit ldap accounts. When 

logging at the first time an special ldap account is created inside RhodeCode, 

so You can control over permissions even on ldap users. If such user exists 

already in RhodeCode database ldap user with the same username would be not 

able to access RhodeCode.

If You have problems with ldap access and believe You entered correct 

information check out the RhodeCode logs,any error messages sent from 

ldap will be saved there.

Setting Up Celery

-----------------

Since version 1.1 celery is configured by the rhodecode ini configuration files

simply set use_celery=true in the ini file then add / change the configuration 

variables inside the ini file.

Remember that the ini files uses format with '.' not with '_' like celery

so for example setting `BROKER_HOST` in celery means setting `broker.host` in

the config file.

In order to make start using celery run::

 paster celeryd <configfile.ini>

Nginx virtual host example

--------------------------

Sample config for nginx using proxy::

 server {

    listen          80;

    server_name     hg.myserver.com;

    access_log      /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.access.log;

    error_log       /var/log/nginx/rhodecode.error.log;

    location / {

            root /var/www/rhodecode/rhodecode/public/;

            if (!-f $request_filename){

                proxy_pass      http://127.0.0.1:5000;

            }

            #this is important for https !!!

            proxy_set_header X-Url-Scheme $scheme;

            include         /etc/nginx/proxy.conf;  

    }

 }  

Here's the proxy.conf. It's tuned so it'll not timeout on long

pushes and also on large pushes::

    proxy_redirect              off;

    proxy_set_header            Host $host;

    proxy_set_header            X-Host $http_host;

    proxy_set_header            X-Real-IP $remote_addr;

    proxy_set_header            X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

    proxy_set_header            Proxy-host $proxy_host;

    client_max_body_size        400m;

    client_body_buffer_size     128k;

    proxy_buffering             off;

    proxy_connect_timeout       3600;

    proxy_send_timeout          3600;

    proxy_read_timeout          3600;

    proxy_buffer_size           8k;

    proxy_buffers               8 32k;

    proxy_busy_buffers_size     64k;

    proxy_temp_file_write_size  64k;

Also when using root path with nginx You might set the static files to false

in production.ini file::

  [app:main]

    use = egg:rhodecode

    full_stack = true

    static_files = false

    lang=en

    cache_dir = %(here)s/data

To not have the statics served by the application. And improve speed.

Apache reverse proxy

--------------------

Tutorial can be found here

http://wiki.pylonshq.com/display/pylonscookbook/Apache+as+a+reverse+proxy+for+Pylons

Apache's example FCGI config

----------------------------

TODO !

Other configuration files

-------------------------

Some extra configuration files and examples can be found here:

http://hg.python-works.com/rhodecode/files/tip/init.d

and also an celeryconfig file can be use from here:

http://hg.python-works.com/rhodecode/files/tip/celeryconfig.py

Troubleshooting

---------------

- missing static files ?

 - make sure either to set the `static_files = true` in the .ini file or

   double check the root path for Your http setup. It should point to 

   for example:

   /home/my-virtual-python/lib/python2.6/site-packages/rhodecode/public

- can't install celery/rabbitmq

 - don't worry RhodeCode works without them too. No extra setup required

- long lasting push timeouts ?

 - make sure You set a longer timeouts in Your proxy/fcgi settings, timeouts

   are caused by https server and not RhodeCode

- large pushes timeouts ?

 - make sure You set a proper max_body_size for the http server

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv

.. _python: http://www.python.org/

.. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/

.. _upgrade:

Upgrade

=======

Upgrade from Cheese Shop

------------------------

Easiest way to upgrade ``rhodecode`` is to run::

 easy_install -U rhodecode

Or::

 pip install --upgrade rhodecode

Then make sure You run from the installation directory

::

 paster make-config RhodeCode production.ini

This will display any changes made from new version of RhodeCode To your

It's also good to rebuild the whoosh index since after upgrading the whoosh 

.. _virtualenv: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv  

.. _python: http://www.python.org/

.. _mercurial: http://mercurial.selenic.com/

.. _celery: http://celeryproject.org/

.. _rabbitmq: http://www.rabbitmq.com/