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@@ -4,6 +4,286 @@ This changelog goes through all the changes that have been made in each release
 without substantial changes to our git log; to see the highlights of what has
 been added to each release, please refer to the [blog](https://blog.gitea.io).
 
+## [1.12.0-rc1](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.12.0-rc1) - 2020-05-18
+
+* BREAKING
+  * Remove migration support from versions earlier than 1.6.0 (#10026)
+  * Enable ENABLE_HARD_LINE_BREAK by default for rendering markdown (#11162)
+  * Fix sanitizer config - multiple rules (#11133)
+  * When using API CreateRelease set created_unix to the tag commit time (#11218)
+  * Remove check on username when using AccessToken authentication for the API (#11015)
+  * Return 404 from Contents API when items don't exist (#10323)
+  * Notification API should always return a JSON object with the current count of notifications (#10059)
+* FEATURES
+  * Improve config logging when WrappedQueue times out (#11174)
+  * Add branch delete to API (#11112)
+  * Use markdown frontmatter to provide Table of contents, language and frontmatter rendering (#11047)
+  * Add a way to mark Conversation (code comment) resolved (#11037)
+  * Handle yaml frontmatter in markdown (#11016)
+  * Cache PullRequest Divergence (#10914)
+  * Make `gitea admin auth list` formatting configurable (#10844)
+  * Add Matrix webhook (#10831)
+  * Add Organization Wide Labels (#10814)
+  * Allow to set protected file patterns for files that can not be changed under no conditions (#10806)
+  * Option to set default branch at repository creation (#10803)
+  * Add request review from specific reviewers feature in pull request (#10756)
+  * Add NextCloud oauth (#10562)
+  * System-wide webhooks (#10546)
+  * Relax sanitization as per https://github.com/jch/html-pipeline (#10527)
+  * Use media links for img in post-process (#10515)
+  * Add API endpoints to manage OAuth2 Application (list/create/delete) (#10437)
+  * Render READMEs in docs/ .gitea or .github from root (#10361)
+  * Add feishu webhook support (#10229)
+  * Cache last commit to accelerate the repository directory page visit (#10069)
+  * Implement basic app.ini and path checks to doctor cmd (#10064)
+  * Make WorkerPools and Queues flushable (#10001)
+  * Implement "embedded" command to extract static resources (#9982)
+  * Add API endpoint for repo transfer (#9947)
+  * Make archive prefixing configurable with a global setting (#9943)
+  * Add Unique Queue infrastructure and move TestPullRequests to this (#9856)
+  * Issue/PR Context Popups (#9822)
+  * Add "Update Branch" button to Pull Requests (#9784)
+  * Add require signed commit for protected branch (#9708)
+  * Mark PR reviews as stale at push and allow to dismiss stale approvals (#9532)
+  * Add API notification endpoints (#9488)
+  * Issue search support elasticsearch (#9428)
+  * Add API branch protection endpoint (#9311)
+  * Add a new command doctor to check if some wrong configurations on gitea instance (#9095)
+  * Add support for migrating from Gitlab (#9084)
+  * Add support for database schema in PostgreSQL (#8819)
+  * Add setting to set default and global disabled repository units. (#8788)
+  * Language statistics bar for repositories (#8037)
+  * Restricted users (#6274)
+* BUGFIXES
+  * Check branch protection on IsUserAllowedToUpdate (#11448)
+  * Fix margin on attached segment headers when they are separated by other element (#11425)
+  * Fix webhook template when validation errors occur (#11421)
+  * Fix NPE in template due to missing signing key on commit page (#11392)
+  * Restore active background to Register button on Register page (#11390)
+  * Fix hook failure due to relative LFS_CONTENT_PATH (#11362)
+  * Correctly set the organization num repos (#11339)
+  * Prevent 500 with badly formed task list (#11328)
+  * Allow compare page to look up base, head, own-fork, forkbase-of-head (#11327)
+  * Handle panics that percolate up to the graceful module (#11291)
+  * Don't allow registration via the web form, when AllowOnlyExternalRegistration is True (#11248)
+  * Patch fomantic-ui to workaround build issue (#11244)
+  * Prevent panic during wrappedConn close at hammertime (#11219)
+  * On logout force redirect to start page (#11202)
+  * Fix creation of Organization repos by Users with max created personal repos (#11183)
+  * Add option to increase provided OAuth2 token maximum size (#11180)
+  * Log the indexer path on failure (#11172)
+  * Ensure that relative paths in edit preview work (#11143)
+  * Make API EditIssue and EditPullRequest issue notifications (#11123)
+  * Send 404 immediately for known public requests (#11117)
+  * Remove nil inserts in models (#11096)
+  * Add GetReviews() to RetryDownloader (#11093)
+  * Remove nonexistent serviceworker entries (#11091)
+  * Simplify and fix GetApprovalCounts (#11086)
+  * Fix wiki revision template and simplify some tmpl conditions (#11080)
+  * Make branch parameter optional for /api/v1/repos/{owner}/{repo}/contents/{filepath} (#11067)
+  * Align review-item svg octicons (#11065)
+  * Automatically remove Watches, Assignments, etc if user loses access due to being removed as collaborator or from a team (#10997)
+  * Users should not be able to prohibit their own login (#10970)
+  * Fix scrollbar issues in dropdowns (#10897)
+  * Change the order of issues.closed_by to list opening user first (#10876)
+  * Allow site admin to check /api/v1/orgs endpoints (#10867)
+  * Avoid logging []byte in queue failures - convert to string first (#10865)
+  * Use ErrKeyUnableToVerify if fail to calc fingerprint in ssh-keygen (#10863)
+  * Fix assignees double load bug (#10856)
+  * Handle push rejection in branch and upload (#10854)
+  * In authorized_keys use double-quote for windows compatibility (#10841)
+  * Fix milestone template (#10824)
+  * log.Fatal on failure to listen to SSH port (#10795)
+  * Fix forked repo has no icon and language stat. (#10791)
+  * Fix tag/release deletion (#10663)
+  * Fix webhook migration (#10641)
+  * Migration for deleting orphaned dependencies (#10617)
+  * Add migration to fix the old broken merge-bases (#10604)
+  * Update templates for Go 1.14 (#10596)
+  * Remove unnecessary parentheses in wiki/view template (#10583)
+  * Change default value of DefaultCommandExecutionTimeout to match docs (#10581)
+  * Handle panic in indexer initialisation better (#10534)
+  * Set correct content_type value for Gogs/Gitea webhooks (#9504) (#10456)
+  * Fixed wrong AppSubUrl in multiple templates (#10447)
+  * Fix profile page CSS (#10406)
+  * Inject SVG sprite via ajax (#10320)
+  * Fix migration information update bug when linked github account (#10310)
+  * Allow admin to check org membership by API for other users (#10201)
+  * Fix topics dropdown (#10167)
+  * Ensure DeleteUser is not allowed to Delete Orgs and visa versa (#10134)
+  * Fix IsErrPullClosed (#10093)
+  * Accept punctuation after simple+cross repository issue references (#10091)
+  * On merge of already closed PR redirect back to the pulls page (#10010)
+  * Fix crowdin update script (#9969)
+  * Fix pull view when head repository or head branch missed and close related pull requests when delete head repository or head branch (#9927)
+  * Add option to prevent LDAP from deactivating everything on empty search (#9879)
+  * Fix admin handling at merge of PR (#9749)
+  * err_admin_name_pattern_not_allowed String Clarification (#9731)
+  * Fix wrong original git service type on a migrated repository (#9693)
+  * Fix ref links in issue overviews for tags (#8742)
+* ENHANCEMENTS
+  * Increase width for authors on commit view (#11441)
+  * Hide archived repos by default in repo-list (#11440)
+  * Better styling for code review comment textarea (#11428)
+  * Support view individual commit for wiki pages (#11415)
+  * Fix yellow background on active elements in code review (#11414)
+  * Better styling for code review comment form (#11413)
+  * Change install description on homepage (#11395)
+  * Ensure search action button is coalesced to adjacent input (#11385)
+  * Switch code editor to Monaco (#11366)
+  * Add paging and archive/private repository filtering to dashboard list (#11321)
+  * Changed image of openid-connect logo for better look on arc-green theme (#11312)
+  * Load Repo Topics on blame view too (#11307)
+  * Change the style in admin notice content view from `<p>` to `<pre>` (#11301)
+  * Allow log.xxx.default to set logging settings for the default logger only (#11292)
+  * Automatically attempt auto recovery of broken disk queues (Update lunny/levelqueue to 0.3.0) (#11285)
+  * Make sendmail a Process and have default timeout (#11256)
+  * Check value of skip-repository flag in dump command (#11254)
+  * Fix submit review form (#11252)
+  * Allow unauthenticated users to compare (#11240)
+  * Add EventSource support (#11235)
+  * Refactor Milestone related (#11225)
+  * Add pull review API endpoints (#11224)
+  * Add a 'this' to issue close/reopened messages (#11204)
+  * When migrating from Gitlab map Approvals to approving Reviews (#11147)
+  * Improve representation of attachments in issues (#11141)
+  * Protect default branch against deletion (#11115)
+  * Add X-Total-Count on /repos/{owner]/{repo}/pulls API endpoint (#11113)
+  * Fix status label on branches list vertical alignment (#11109)
+  * Add single release page and latest redirect (#11102)
+  * Add missing commit states to PR checks template (#11085)
+  * Change icon on title for merged PR to git-merge (#11064)
+  * Add MergePull comment type instead of close for merge PR (#11058)
+  * Upgrade jQuery to 3.5.0, remove jQuery-Migrate, fix deprecations (#11055)
+  * Consolidate author name across timeline (#11053)
+  * Refactor UpdateOAuth2Application (#11034)
+  * Support unicode emojis and remove emojify.js (#11032)
+  * Add git hook "warning" to admin panel (#11030)
+  * Add flash notify for email preference setting success (#11027)
+  * Remove package code.gitea.io/gitea/modules/git import out of models (#11025)
+  * Match arc-green code tag color to code blocks (#11023)
+  * Move syntax highlighting to web worker (#11017)
+  * Prevent merge of outdated PRs on protected branches (#11012)
+  * Add Get/Update for api/v1/user/applications/oauth2 (#11008)
+  * Upgrade to most recent bluemonday (#11007)
+  * Tweak code tags in markdown (#11000)
+  * Reject duplicate AccessToken names (#10994)
+  * Fix Ctrl-Enter shortcut for issues (#10986)
+  * Provide `OwnerName` field for README template (#10981)
+  * Prettify Timeline (#10972)
+  * Add issue subscription check to API (#10967)
+  * Use AJAX for notifications table (#10961)
+  * Adjust label padding (#10957)
+  * Avoiding directory execution on hook (#10954) (#10955)
+  * Migrate ActivityHeatmap to Vue SFC (#10953)
+  * Change merge strategy： do not check write access if user in merge white list (#10951)
+  * Enable GO111MODULE=on globally in Makefile (#10939)
+  * API endpoint to get single commit via SHA and Ref (#10915)
+  * Add accordion to release list and hide non-latest (#10910)
+  * Split dashboard elements into separate template files (#10885)
+  * Add more message on sidebar menus (#10872)
+  * Set MySQL rowtype to dynamic for new tables (#10833)
+  * Completely fix task-list checkbox styling (#10798)
+  * Hide gear icon for user who can't use them on sidebar (#10750)
+  * Refactor Cron and merge dashboard tasks (#10745)
+  * Change review status icons on pr view style to github style (#10737)
+  * Make pagination optional for API list notification endpoints (#10714)
+  * Fix tab indentation in code view (#10671)
+  * Fix task-list checkbox styling (#10668)
+  * Multiple LFS improvements (#10667)
+  * Make PR message on pushes configurable (#10664)
+  * Move dropzone.js to npm/webpack (#10645)
+  * Ensure Update button is enabled even when CI has failed (#10640)
+  * Add restricted user filter to LDAP authentication (#10600)
+  * Add Yandex OAuth2 provider (#8335) (#10564)
+  * Make avatar lookup occur at image request (#10540)
+  * Prevent accidential selection of language stats bar (#10537)
+  * Add fluid-icon (#10491)
+  * Inform participants on UI too (#10473)
+  * Build with go 1.14 (and raise minimum go version to 1.12) (#10467)
+  * Add max-file-size to LFS (#10463)
+  * Enable paggination for ListRepoTags API (#10454)
+  * Update JS dependencies (#10450)
+  * Show the username as a fallback on feeds if full name is blank (#10438)
+  * Various dark theme fixes (#10416)
+  * Display pull request head branch even the branch deleted or repository deleted (#10413)
+  * Prevent Firefox from using apple-touch-icon (#10402)
+  * Fix input[type=file] on dark theme (#10382)
+  * Improve mobile review-box sizing (#10297)
+  * Notification: queue ui.go notification-service (#10281)
+  * Add detected file language to code search (#10256)
+  * Index code and stats only for non-empty repositories (#10251)
+  * Add Approval Counts to pulls list (#10238)
+  * Limit label list height on edit issue page (#10216)
+  * Improve 404 error message (#10214)
+  * Tweak locale to respect singular conflicting file message in PR list (#10177)
+  * Fix commit view (#10169)
+  * Reorganize frontend files and tooling (#10168)
+  * Allow emoji on popup label (#10166)
+  * ListIssues add filter for milestones API (#10148)
+  * Show if a PR has conflicting files on the PR lists (#10130)
+  * Fix inconsistent label color format in API (#10129)
+  * Show download count info in release list (#10124)
+  * Add Octicon SVG spritemap (#10107)
+  * Update aria-fixed semantic-dropdown to fomantic master (#10096)
+  * Fix apple-touch-icon, regenerate images (#10065)(#10006)
+  * Style blockquote for default issue mail template (#10024)
+  * More expansions in template repositories (#10021)
+  * Allow list collaborators for users with Read access to repo (#9995)
+  * Add explicit dimensions to navbar avatar (#9986)
+  * Remove loadCSS and preload woff2 icon fonts (#9976)
+  * Fix commit view JS features, reimplement folding (#9968)
+  * Fix review avatar image (#9962)
+  * Improve notification pager (#9821)
+  * Move jquery and jquery-migrate to npm/webpack (#9813)
+  * Change font to Roboto to support more charsets (#9803)
+  * Move mailer to use a queue (#9789)
+  * Issue search on my related repositories (#9758)
+  * Add "before" query to ListIssueComments and ListRepoIssueComments API (#9685)
+  * Move tracked time api convert to convert package (#9665)
+  * Improve PR info in default merge message (#9635)
+  * Granular webhook events (#9626)
+  * Add Reviewed-on in commit message (#9623)
+  * Add top author stats to activity page (#9615)
+  * Allow repo admin to merge PR regardless of review status (#9611)
+  * Migrate reactions when migrating repository from github (#9599)
+  * API orgEditTeam make Fields optional (#9556)
+  * Move create/fork repository from models to modules/repository (#9489)
+  * Migrate reviews when migrating repository from github (#9463)
+  * Times API add filters (#9373)
+  * Move push commits from models to modules/repository (#9370)
+  * Add API endpoint to check notifications [Extend #9488] (#9595)
+  * Add GET /orgs API endpoint (#9560)
+  * API add/generalize pagination (#9452)
+  * Make create org repo API call same as github (#9186)
+* BUILD
+  * Turn off go modules for xgo and gxz (#10963)
+  * Add gitea-vet (#10948)
+  * Rename scripts to build and add revive command as a new build tool command (#10942)
+  * Add 'make lint', restructure 'compliance' pipeline (#10861)
+  * Move JS build dependencies to 'dependencies' (#10763)
+  * Use whitelist to find go files, run find only once (#10594)
+  * Move vue and vue-calendar-heatmap to npm/webpack (#10188)
+  * Move jquery.are-you-sure to npm/webpack (#10063)
+  * Move highlight.js to npm/webpack (#10011)
+  * Generate Bindata if TAGS="bindata" and not up-to-date (#10004)
+  * Move CSS build to webpack (#9983)
+  * Move fomantic target, update 'make help' (#9945)
+  * Add css extraction and minification to webpack (#9944)
+  * Misc webpack tweaks (#9924)
+  * Make node_modules a order-only prerequisite (#9923)
+  * Update documentation for the go module era (#9751)
+  * Move swagger-ui to webpack/npm and update it to 3.24.3 (#9714)
+  * Use npm to manage fomantic and only build needed components (#9561)
+* MISC
+  * Add gnupg to Dockerfile (#11365)
+  * Update snapcraft.yaml for core18 and latest features (#11300)
+  * Update JS dependencies, min Node.js version 10.13 (#11246)
+  * Change default charset for MySQL on install to utf8mb4 (#10989)
+  * Return issue subscription status from API subscribe (#10966)
+  * Fix queue log param (#10733)
+  * Add warning when using relative path to app.ini (#10104)
+
 ## [1.11.5](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.11.5) - 2020-05-09
 
 * BUGFIXES