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by Martin Pool
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What's New in Bazaar 2.3? |
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Bazaar 2.3 is still under development, and will be released in February |
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2011. This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed. |
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See the |
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for a full list. |
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This |
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document outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.2 vs Bazaar 2.1. As well as |
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summarizing improvements made to the core product, it highlights |
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enhancements within the broader Bazaar world of potential interest to |
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those upgrading. |
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Bazaar 2.2.0 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0 |
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2.1, and 2.2, and can read and write repositories generated by all |
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previous versions. |
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Launchpad integration |
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* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from |
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example: |
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now |
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel) |
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Performance improvements |
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* ``bzr send`` uses less memory. |
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(John Arbash Meinel, #614576) |
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries |
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes |
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to 48). This affects most operations, and depending on the size of the |
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tree may substantially improve the speed of operations like ``bzr |
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commit``. (Andrew Bennetts) |
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository |
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via |
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and |
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract |
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree, |
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298) |
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Documentation |
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* A beta version of the documentation is now available in GNU TexInfo |
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format, used by emacs and the standalone ``info`` reader. |
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #219334) |
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Further information |
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For more detailed information on the changes made, see the |
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the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for: |
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* the interim bzr `milestones <https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.3>`_ |
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* the plugins you use. |
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For a summary of changes made in earlier releases, see: |
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.1` |
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.2` |
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