2.8.0-RC1

2.8.0-RC1 / 2017-09-18

• Project middleware, hooks, and the :test profile are considered deprecated. (Phil Hagelberg)
• JVMs on 8u131 and newer will default to using cgroups settings for memory limits. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Add :query subcommand to deps to quickly find latest versions. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Fix a bug where dependency resolution wasn't cached correctly. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Warn when $CLASSPATH is set. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Remove warning when running as root. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Add :why subtask to deps for tracing individual deps. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Remove clj-http and cheshire dependencies, reducing likelihood of conflict (Phil Hagelberg)
• Warn when plugin dependencies conflict with Leiningen's own. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Fix a bug where repls outside a project were not run in Leiningen's own process. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Add :plugin-tree and :tree-data subtasks to deps. (Ken Restivo)
• Support skipping bootclasspath for Java 9 compatibility. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Allow vcs task to skip signing tags. (Nicolas Berger)
• The search task no longer downloads indices but hits live search APIs. (Phil Hagelberg)
• Remove duplicate exclusions in lein deps (Emlyn Corrin)
• Leiningen is now installable again via chocolatey (Florian Anderiasch)
• Dependency names can be specified as strings in addition to symbols (Wes Morgan)