We’re happy to announce that we’ve released Repository Templates 4.2.0 on Oct 4, 2024

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Reviewer Groups and Pull Request Description templates settings can be synchronized

Repository Templates can now copy and synchronize the Reviewer Groups and Pull Request Description Templates configuration of your template repositories.

Go to the Project Settings and select Reviewer groups or Description template in your configuration, as shown below

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Enabling synchronization of Reviewer groups and Description templates

Synchronization of Repository permissions is required for Reviewer groups, in order to ensure that users within these groups will have sufficient permissions in associated repositories.

JVM Flag is no longer required for usage with Java 17

In our previous release 4.0, we were requiring an extra JVM flag to make Repository Templates to work. This requirement has been lifted. You therefore don’t need to start Bitbucket with the --add-opens=java.base/java.lang.reflect=ALL-UNNAMED option. Other --add-opens options may still be required by Bitbucket itself.

Project Settings page has a new layout

With the increasing number of synchronizable settings, we have re-thought the layout for the project settings page. Available settings for synchronization should now follow the same structure as in Repository settings.

Changelog

4.2.1: Fix REST API to create repository from template Oct 18, 2024

• Fix REST API endpoint to create repository from template. Due to a regression introduced in 4.0.0, it was required to send a template repository id, even when using the template slug and its project key.
  See our REST API docs.