If you follow the respective channels you will certainly have read that recently a critical security vulnerability has been discovered in Git. The issue did not only affect Git itself but also all other Git implementations. Among them JGit, which Gonsole uses to actually execute the entered commands. Luckily, together with the announcement, all implementations provided updates with a security fix.

We made an update for Gonsole available a day later on December 19th that requires JGit 3.5.3, which is the version that contains the security-fix.

Now that Christmas holidays are over, we decided to switch to JGit 3.6 and also reflect the small changes made over the last months in an increased version number: 1.1.

Beside the security fix, the new JGit version also contains small enhancements:

• the option --bare for the clone command to clone repositories as bare repositories
• the options --heads and --tags for the ls-remote command to list only heads and/or tags

See the JGit New and Noteworthy page for a complete list of changes,

Since the update resolves a security issue, we recommend to install this update if you haven’t done so far. The new version can be obtained from the Eclipse Marketplace or from the Gonsole software repository:

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