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Bazaar Release Notes

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bzr 2.6b2

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:2.6b2: NOT RELEASED YET

External Compatibility Breaks

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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.

New Features

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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.

* New option ``--overwrite-tags`` for ``bzr pull`` and ``bzr push``.

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #681792)

Improvements

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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance 

   or memory usage, or better results.

* Colocated branches can now be addressed using the 'co:NAME' rather than

  the more complex 'file://.,branch=NAME'. (Jelmer Vernooij, #833665)

Bug Fixes

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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect

   or undesirable results.

* "bzr missing" now shows tag names when displaying revision information.

  (#559072, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

* Implement ``ResponseFile.readline`` and ``ReponseFile.tell``,

  fixing some clones over HTTP. (Jelmer Vernooij, #963769)

Documentation

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.. Improved or updated documentation.

* Force format registration to avoid generate_docs.py traceback when the

  registry is empty. (Vincent Ladeuil, #956860)

API Changes

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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses

   bzrlib.

Internals

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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin 

   developers, but interesting for bzr developers.

Testing

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.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and 

   suite.  This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to 

   spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.

bzr 2.6b1

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:2.6b1: 2012-03-15

This is the first beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in

August 2012.

This release includes ssl certificates verification from the urllib-based

http implementation turned on by default, fixes some UI issues around

colocated branches, documentation fixes and more.

This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of

this release.

Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some

incompatibilities with plugins.  Some plugins may need small updates to work

with 2.6b1.

External Compatibility Breaks

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None.

Improvements

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* Access to HTTPS URLs now uses the urrllib implementation by default.

  For the old pycurl-based implementation, specify ``https+pycurl://`` as

  the URL scheme when accessing a HTTPS location.

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #125055)

* Add short option alias ``-N`` for ``--no-recurse``.

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #945904)

* Avoid 'Invalid range access' errors when whole files are retrieved with

  transport.http.get() . (Vincent Ladeuil, #924746)

* ``bzr rmbranch`` now supports removing colocated branches.

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #920653)

* ``bzr rmbranch`` no longer removes active branches unless ``--force``

  is specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #922953)

* ``bzr verify-signatures`` now shows a progress bar.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Two new command hooks, ``pre_command`` and ``post_command``,

  provide notification before and after a command has been run.

  (Brian de Alwis, Jelmer Vernooij)

Bug Fixes

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* Fix ``bzr config`` display for ``RegistryOption`` values.

  (Vincent Ladeuil, #930182)

* Option values set on locked branches should be saved only when the branch

  is finally unlocked. (Vincent Ladeuil, #948339)

Documentation

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.. Improved or updated documentation.

* Document "bzr lp-propose", "bzr register-branch" and

  the other Launchpad plugin commands in bzr(1).

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #843801, #163995)

* Generate ``ENVIRONMENT`` section in bzr(1) from known environment variable

  list rather than hardcoding. (Jelmer Vernooij, #197618)

* Prevent lines of command descriptions starting with a dot to

  accidentally be interpreted as a roff macro in bzr(1).

  (Jelmer Vernooij, #711079)

* Properly format apostrophes in manual page. (Jelmer Vernooij, #234771)

API Changes

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* ``GPGStrategy.do_verifications`` has been deprecated.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* File ids in the ``Tree`` API can now be bytestring as previously,

  or tuples of bytestrings.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* ``mail_client`` now accepts a configuration stack object rather than

  an old style Config object. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New method ``Repository.verify_revision_signatures``.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New configuration option class ``RegistryOption`` which is backed

  onto a registry. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New convenience API method ``WorkingTree.get_config_stack``.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* ``register_filter_stack_map`` and ``lazy_register_filter_stack_map``

  are noew deprecated. Instead, use ``filter_stacks_registry.register``

  and ``filter_stacks_registry.register_lazy``.

  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove 

  ``branch.PullResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``branch.PushResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``branch.BranchFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``branch.BranchFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``branch.BranchFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``branch.BranchFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``branch.BranchFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``bzrdir.BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``bzrdir.BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``bzrdir.BzrProber.unregister_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``config.Config.get_editor`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``hooks.known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` deprecated in 2.3,

  ``hooks.Hooks.create_hook`` deprecated in 2.4,

  ``inventory.Inventory.__contains__`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``merge.Merge3Merger.scalar_three_way`` deprecated in 2.2.0,

  ``merge.Merge3Merger.fix_root`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``transform.get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``transform._get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,

  (Vincent Ladeuil)

* Remove deprecated ``Branch.set_revision_history`` and

  ``Branch.revision_history`` methods and the ``set_rh``

  hook on ``Branch``. (Jelmer Vernooij)

Internals

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* ``Tree.path2id`` now once again accepts a list of path elements

  in addition to a path. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Turn config option expansion on by default. The only options for which

  this should be disabled are templates which should already have used

  conf.get(option, expand=False) or conf.get_user_option(option,

  expand=False). (Vincent Ladeuil)

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