Changelog

Major enhancement

Remove 'auto refresh' feature, including now obsolete auto refresh telemetry capability. pull 4503

Enhancement

Allow users with system read permission to view the global security configuration page. JENKINS-61205
Allow users with system read permission to view the About Jenkins page. JENKINS-61201
Users with extended read permission now get a more read-only looking UI. JENKINS-61202
Allow FingerprintFacet to block the deletion of fingerprint. JENKINS-28379
Internal: Remove unused class StringConverter2. pull 4468
Internal: Remove unused internal class Memoizer - use ConcurrentHashMap. pull 4470
Developer: Listen on loopback interface by default in debug mode. pull 4515

Bug fix

Prevent one occurrence of "Jenkins.instance is missing" pull 4525, JENKINS-55070 , JENKINS-59992 , JENKINS-60454 , JENKINS-61192
Reintroduce Build History description truncation by default. Allow managing/disabling the limit via the historyWidget.descriptionLimit system property. A negative value removes the limit, 0 forces empty descriptions. pull 4529, JENKINS-61004 , JENKINS-60299
Avoid a NullPointerException when starting a non-Pipeline build with a custom root directory set to a filesystem root (e.g., C:\). JENKINS-61197

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