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What's New in Bazaar 2.5?
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Bazaar 2.5 is still under development, and will be released in February 2012.
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This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed. 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 2.5 vs Bazaar 2.4. 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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Bazaar 2.5.0 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0,
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2.1, 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4, and can read and write repositories generated by all
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Overriding configuration options from the command line
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The ``-O`` parameter available for all bzr commands allows a user to
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override a configuration option from the command line. For example::
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bzr pull -v -Olog_format=line
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will change the way the pulled revisions are displayed (the default log
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format is ``long``). This a work in progress and only some options are
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Working on a posix system without a locale
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Previously bzr needed a valid locale set to work with branches containing
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non-ascii filenames. It will now use utf-8 rather than ascii as a fallback
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encoding for interacting with the filesystem. This makes creating a working
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tree and commiting to it possible for such branches in most environments.
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For more detailed information on the changes made, see the the
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for:
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* the interim bzr `milestones <https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.5>`_
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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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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.3`
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.4`
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