add changelog for 1.18.0-rc1 (#21829)

Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <[email protected]>

Author: techknowlogick

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,182 @@ 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).
 
+## [1.18.0-rc1](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.18.0-rc1) - 2022-11-15
+
+* BREAKING
+  * Remove U2F support (#20141)
+* FEATURES
+  * Add color previews in markdown (#21474)
+  * Allow package version sorting (#21453)
+  * Add support for Chocolatey/NuGet v2 API (#21393)
+  * Add API endpoint to get changed files of a PR (#21177)
+  * Add filetree on left of diff view (#21012)
+  * Support Issue forms and PR forms (#20987)
+  * Add support for Vagrant packages (#20930)
+  * Add support for `npm unpublish` (#20688)
+  * Add badge capabilities to users (#20607)
+  * Add issue filter for Author (#20578)
+  * Add KaTeX rendering to Markdown. (#20571)
+  * Add support for Pub packages (#20560)
+  * Support localized README (#20508)
+  * Add support mCaptcha as captcha provider (#20458)
+  * Add team member invite by email (#20307)
+  * Added email notification option to receive all own messages (#20179)
+  * Switch Unicode Escaping to a VSCode-like system (#19990)
+  * Add user/organization code search (#19977)
+  * Only show relevant repositories on explore page (#19361)
+  * User keypairs and HTTP signatures for ActivityPub federation using go-ap (#19133)
+  * Add sitemap support (#18407)
+  * Allow creation of OAuth2 applications for orgs (#18084)
+  * Add system setting table with cache and also add cache supports for user setting (#18058)
+  * Add pages to view watched repos and subscribed issues/PRs (#17156)
+  * Support Proxy protocol (#12527)
+  * Implement sync push mirror on commit (#19411)
+* API
+  * Make external issue tracker regexp configurable via API (#21338)
+  * Add name field for org api (#21270)
+  * Show teams with no members if user is admin (#21204)
+  * Add latest commit's SHA to content response (#20398)
+  * Add allow_rebase_update, default_delete_branch_after_merge to repository api response (#20079)
+  * Add new endpoints for push mirrors management (#19841)
+* ENHANCEMENTS
+  * Use CSS color-scheme instead of invert (#21616) (#21623)
+  * Respect user's locale when rendering the date range in the repo activity page (#21410)
+  * Change `commits-table` column width (#21564)
+  * Refactor git command arguments and make all arguments to be safe to be used (#21535)
+  * CSS color enhancements (#21534)
+  * Add link to user profile in markdown mention only if user exists (#21533, #21554)
+  * Add option to skip index dirs (#21501)
+  * Diff file tree tweaks (#21446)
+  * Localize all timestamps (#21440)
+  * Add `code` highlighting in issue titles (#21432)
+  * Use Name instead of DisplayName in LFS Lock (#21415)
+  * Consolidate more CSS colors into variables (#21402)
+  * Redirect to new repository owner (#21398)
+  * Use ISO date format instead of hard-coded English date format for date range in repo activity page (#21396)
+  * Use weighted algorithm for string matching when finding files in repo (#21370)
+  * Show private data in feeds (#21369)
+  * Refactor parseTreeEntries, speed up tree list (#21368)
+  * Add GET and DELETE endpoints for Docker blob uploads (#21367)
+  * Add nicer error handling on template compile errors (#21350)
+  * Add `stat` to `ToCommit` function for speed (#21337)
+  * Support instance-wide OAuth2 applications (#21335)
+  * Record OAuth client type at registration (#21316)
+  * Add new CSS variables --color-accent and --color-small-accent (#21305)
+  * Improve error descriptions for unauthorized_client (#21292)
+  * Case-insensitive "find files in repo" (#21269)
+  * Consolidate more CSS rules, fix inline code on arc-green (#21260)
+  * Log real ip of requests from ssh (#21216)
+  * Save files in local storage as group readable (#21198)
+  * Enable fluid page layout on medium size viewports (#21178)
+  * File header tweaks (#21175)
+  * Added missing headers on user packages page (#21172)
+  * Display image digest for container packages (#21170)
+  * Skip dirty check for team forms (#21154)
+  * Keep path when creating a new branch (#21153)
+  * Remove fomantic image module (#21145)
+  * Make labels clickable in the comments section. (#21137)
+  * Sort branches and tags by date descending (#21136)
+  * Better repo API unit checks (#21130)
+  * Improve commit status icons (#21124)
+  * Limit length of repo description and repo url input fields (#21119)
+  * Show .editorconfig errors in frontend (#21088)
+  * Allow poster to choose reviewers (#21084)
+  * Remove black labels and CSS cleanup (#21003)
+  * Make e-mail sanity check more precise (#20991)
+  * Use native inputs in whitespace dropdown (#20980)
+  * Enhance package date display (#20928)
+  * Display total blob size of a package version (#20927)
+  * Show language name on hover (#20923)
+  * Show instructions for all generic package files (#20917)
+  * Refactor AssertExistsAndLoadBean to use generics (#20797)
+  * Move the official website link at the footer of gitea (#20777)
+  * Add support for full name in reverse proxy auth (#20776)
+  * Remove useless JS operation for relative time tooltips (#20756)
+  * Replace some icons with SVG (#20741)
+  * Change commit status icons to SVG (#20736)
+  * Improve single repo action for issue and pull requests (#20730)
+  * Allow multiple files in generic packages (#20661)
+  * Add option to create new issue from /issues page (#20650)
+  * Background color of private list-items updated (#20630)
+  * Added search input field to issue filter (#20623)
+  * Increase default item listing size `ISSUE_PAGING_NUM` to 20 (#20547)
+  * Modify milestone search keywords to be case insensitive again (#20513)
+  * Show hint to link package to repo when viewing empty repo package list (#20504)
+  * Add Tar ZSTD support (#20493)
+  * Make code review checkboxes clickable (#20481)
+  * Add "X-Gitea-Object-Type" header for GET `/raw/` & `/media/` API (#20438)
+  * Display project in issue list (#20434)
+  * Prepend commit message to template content when opening a new PR (#20429)
+  * Replace fomantic popup module with tippy.js (#20428)
+  * Allow to specify colors for text in markup (#20363)
+  * Allow access to the Public Organization Member lists with minimal permissions (#20330)
+  * Use default values when provided values are empty (#20318)
+  * Vertical align navbar avatar at middle (#20302)
+  * Delete cancel button in repo creation page (#21381)
+  * Include login_name in adminCreateUser response (#20283)
+  * fix: icon margin in user/settings/repos (#20281)
+  * Remove blue text on migrate page (#20273)
+  * Modify milestone search keywords to be case insensitive (#20266)
+  * Move some files into models' sub packages (#20262)
+  * Add tooltip to repo icons in explore page (#20241)
+  * Remove deprecated licenses (#20222)
+  * Webhook for Wiki changes (#20219)
+  * Share HTML template renderers and create a watcher framework (#20218)
+  * Allow enable LDAP source and disable user sync via CLI (#20206)
+  * Adds a checkbox to select all issues/PRs (#20177)
+  * Refactor `i18n` to `locale` (#20153)
+  * Disable status checks in template if none found (#20088)
+  * Allow manager logging to set SQL (#20064)
+  * Add order by for assignee no sort issue (#20053)
+  * Take a stab at porting existing components to Vue3 (#20044)
+  * Add doctor command to write commit-graphs (#20007)
+  * Add support for authentication based on reverse proxy email (#19949)
+  * Enable spellcheck for EasyMDE, use contenteditable mode (#19776)
+  * Allow specifying SECRET_KEY_URI, similar to INTERNAL_TOKEN_URI (#19663)
+  * Rework mailer settings (#18982)
+  * Add option to purge users (#18064)
+  * Add author search input (#21246)
+  * Make rss/atom identifier globally unique (#21550)
+* BUGFIXES
+  * Prevent panic in doctor command when running default checks (#21791) (#21807)
+  * Load GitRepo in API before deleting issue (#21720) (#21796)
+  * Ignore line anchor links with leading zeroes (#21728) (#21776)
+  * Set last login when activating account (#21731) (#21755)
+  * Fix UI language switching bug (#21597) (#21749)
+  * Quick fixes monaco-editor error: "vs.editor.nullLanguage" (#21734) (#21738)
+  * Allow local package identifiers for PyPI packages (#21690) (#21727)
+  * Deal with markdown template without metadata (#21639) (#21654)
+  * Fix opaque background on mermaid diagrams (#21642) (#21652)
+  * Fix repository adoption on Windows (#21646) (#21650)
+  * Sync git hooks when config file path changed (#21619) (#21626)
+  * Fix 500 on PR files API (#21602) (#21607)
+  * Fix `Timestamp.IsZero` (#21593) (#21603)
+  * Fix viewing user subscriptions (#21482)
+  * Fix mermaid-related bugs (#21431)
+  * Fix branch dropdown shifting on page load (#21428)
+  * Fix default theme-auto selector when nologin (#21346)
+  * Fix and improve incorrect error messages (#21342)
+  * Fix formatted link for PR review notifications to matrix (#21319)
+  * Center-aligning content of WebAuthN page (#21127)
+  * Remove follow from commits by file (#20765)
+  * Fix commit status popup (#20737)
+  * Fix init mail render logic (#20704)
+  * Use correct page size for link header pagination (#20546)
+  * Preserve unix socket file (#20499)
+  * Use tippy.js for context popup (#20393)
+  * Add missing parameter for error in log message (#20144)
+  * Do not allow organisation owners add themselves as collaborator (#20043)
+  * Rework file highlight rendering and fix yaml copy-paste (#19967)
+  * Improve code diff highlight, fix incorrect rendered diff result (#19958)
+* TESTING
+  * Improve OAuth integration tests (#21390)
+  * Add playwright tests (#20123)
+* BUILD
+  * Switch to building with go1.19 (#20695)
+  * Update JS dependencies, adjust eslint (#20659)
+  * Add more linters to improve code readability (#19989)
+
 ## [1.17.3](https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.17.3) - 2022-10-15
 
 * SECURITY