Undocumented 8.4 features

Meta issue to track which new features are lacking documentation.

Taken from the CHANGELOG.

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Major

• Add Sentry integration https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/12513
• Added custom application performance measuring system powered by InfluxDB https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2484
• Add housekeeping function to project settings page https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2371
• Add CAS support (tduehr) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/commit/8e3f1fa629a61741282214b293c1bc9438aada59
• Enable forcing Two-Factor authentication site-wide, with optional grace period https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2155
• Import GitHub Pull Requests into GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2390
• Enable Microsoft Azure OAuth2 support (Janis Meybohm) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2187
• Add file finder feature in tree view (Kyungchul Shin) https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2541
• Add API support for managing project's builds https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2207
• Add API support for managing project's build triggers https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2286
• Add API support for managing project's build variables https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2264
• Import GitHub wiki into GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2390
• Add build artifacts browser https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2511

Minor

• Add user's last used IP addresses to admin page (Stan Hu)
• Allow LDAP users to change their email if it was not set by the LDAP server https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2502
• Consider re-assign as a mention from a notification point of view
• Add pagination headers to already paginated API resources https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2435
• Accept 2xx status codes for successful Web hook triggers (Stan Hu)
• Don't notify users twice if they are both project watchers and subscribers (Stan Hu)
• Implement search inside emoji picker https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/9091
• Let the CI runner know about builds that this build depends on
• Add API support for looking up a user by username (Stan Hu)
• Add project permissions to all project API endpoints (Stan Hu)
• Only allow group/project members to mention @all
• Add "Frequently used" category to emoji picker https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/9091
• Add link to merge request on build detail page
• Add system hook messages for project rename and transfer (Steve Norman)
• Add Open Graph and Twitter Card data to all pages
• Change single user API endpoint to return more detailed data (Michael Potthoff)
• Validate README format before displaying
• Ajax filter by message for commits page
• API: Add support for deleting a tag via the API (Robert Schilling)
• Allow subsequent validations in CI Linter
• Show referenced MRs & Issues only when the current viewer can access them
• Allow broadcast messages to be edited
• Add reporters ability to download and browse build artifacts (Andrew Johnson)
• Autofill referring url in message box when reporting user abuse.
• Expose button to CI Lint tool on project builds page https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2445
• Fix: Creator should be added as a master of the project on creation
• Added X-GitLab-... headers to emails from CI and Email On Push services (Anton Baklanov)

Marked the task Import GitHub Pull Requests into GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2390 as completed

Marked the task Import GitHub wiki into GitLab https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2390 as completed

Marked the task Add CAS support (tduehr) as completed

Marked the task Add API support for managing project's build variables as completed

Marked the task Add API support for managing project's build triggers as completed

Marked the task Add API support for managing project's builds as completed

Marked the task Add housekeeping function to project settings page https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/2371 as completed

mentioned in issue #12678 (closed)

Title changed from Undocumented features for 8.4 to Undocumented 8.4 features

@axil please ask the contributors and mergers to add the documentation. if there is no response from the merger please let me know.

I did update the system hook documentation for "Add system hook messages for project rename and transfer (Steve Norman)".

https://gitlab.com/help/system_hooks/system_hooks.md

Marked the task Add system hook messages for project rename and transfer (Steve Norman) as completed

Milestone changed to 8.6

I'm gonna close this one.

Status changed to closed