Sourcegraph 3.36 release

January 21, 2022

Sourcegraph 3.36 is now available! Here are some highlights from this release:

Users with restricted repository access can now push new branches from Batch Changes to forks

Before this release, creating a batch change required you (or your service-account) to have write-access to every target repository. This was incompatible with having tight repository access control, and was impractical at a large scale. We heard from customers that they wanted all users to be able to create batch changes on all repositories, without them needing overly broad write permissions.

That's why we are introducing Batch Changes on forks, which makes it possible for branches created by Batch Changes to be pushed to a fork of the repository rather than the repository itself. This solves those access control challenges and lets you safely enable Batch Changes for everyone. In Sourcegraph 3.36, this is an instance setting that can be turned either on or off for all users, and is off by default.

Find repo files faster with fuzzy finder

We're excited to introduce a new fuzzy file finder which can help you quickly open a file from your repository. The keyboard shortcut to activate it is Cmd+K on macOS, or Ctrl+K on Linux/Windows. Note that it will only activate when you're on repository-related pages, such as the repository overview page for example.

Document your code searches with Notebooks

We're excited to announce that Notebooks have progressed from Experimental to Beta! Notebooks are a great way to document code and codebases to onboard new team members, keep track of bug resolutions, or record search examples to share with teammates. Recently, we published a public Notebook to identify log4j dependencies. Notebooks are shareable, and you can star ones you find useful to keep track of them or to help others find useful Notebooks.

To try them out, make sure Notebooks are enabled in your settings by setting showSearchNotebook to true under the experimentalFeatures property. Once you have Notebooks enabled, go ahead and explore some public Notebooks.

Scope searches on monorepos and large codebases with query-based search contexts

Search contexts can now be defined with a restricted search query as an alternative to a specific list of repositories and revisions; a new feature we're launching in Beta.

What does this mean for users? First, this provides search context support for monorepos. Second, and just as impactful, users with thousands of repositories and different teams or sub-organizations can easily define dynamic search contexts with a query. No more specifying dozens or hundreds of repositories and keeping the list up to date.

You can also now create new search contexts right from the search results page. Once you've enabled query-based search contexts, you can run a search and click the "Create context" button to turn that query into a search context. Check the search contexts docs to learn more about how to enable and use query-based search contexts.