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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 1.14
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:Codename: brisbane-core
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:1.14rc1: 2009-04-06
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:1.14rc2: 2009-04-19
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:1.14: 2009-04-28
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:1.14.1: 2009-05-01
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New formats 1.14 and 1.14-rich-root supporting End-Of-Line (EOL) conversions,
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keyword templating (via the bzr-keywords plugin) and generic content filtering.
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End-of-line conversion is now supported for formats supporting content
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filtering.
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Changes from 1.14final to 1.14.1
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* Change api_minimum_version back to api_minimum_version = (1, 13, 0)
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Changes from 1.14rc2 to 1.14final
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* Fix a bug in the pure-python ``GroupCompress`` code when handling copies
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longer than 64KiB. (John Arbash Meinel, #364900)
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Changes from 1.14rc1 to 1.14rc2
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* Fix for bug 358037 Revision not in
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bzrlib.groupcompress.GroupCompressVersionedFiles (Brian de Alwis,
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John A Meinel)
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* Fix for bug 354036 ErrorFromSmartServer - AbsentContentFactory object has no
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attribute 'get_bytes_as' exception while pulling from Launchpad
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(Jean-Francois Roy, Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
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* Fix for bug 355280 eol content filters are never loaded and thus never
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applied (Brian de Alwis, Ian Clatworthy)
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* bzr.dev -r4280 Change _fetch_uses_deltas = False for CHK repos until we can
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write a better fix. (John Arbash Meinel, Robert Collins)
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* Fix for bug 361574 uncommit recommends undefined --levels and -n options
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(Marius Kruger, Ian Clatworthy)
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* bzr.dev r4289 as cherrypicked at lp:~spiv/bzr/stacking-cherrypick-1.14
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(Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
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Compatibility Breaks
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* A previously disabled code path to accelerate getting configuration
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settings from a smart server has been reinstated. We think this *may*
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cause a incompatibility with servers older than bzr 0.15. We intend
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to issue a point release to address this if it turns out to be a
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problem. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
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* bzr no longer autodetects nested trees as 'tree-references'. They
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must now be explicitly added tree references. At the commandline, use
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join --reference instead of add. (Aaron Bentley)
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* The ``--long`` log format (the default) no longer shows merged
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revisions implicitly, making it consistent with the ``short`` and
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``line`` log formats. To see merged revisions for just a given
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revision, use ``bzr log -n0 -rX``. To see every merged revision,
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use ``bzr log -n0``. (Ian Clatworthy)
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New Features
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* New formats ``1.14`` and ``1.14-rich-root`` supporting End-Of-Line
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(EOL) conversions, keyword templating (via the bzr-keywords plugin)
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and generic content filtering. These formats replace the experimental
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``development-wt5`` and ``development-wt5-rich-root`` formats
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respectively, but have support for filtered views disabled.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* New ``mv --auto`` option recognizes renames after they occur.
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(Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr`` can now get passwords from stdin without requiring a controlling
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terminal (i.e. by redirecting stdin). (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``bzr log`` now supports filtering of multiple files and directories
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and will show changes that touch any of them. Furthermore,
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directory filtering now shows the changes to any children of that
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directory, not just the directory object itself.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #97715)
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* ``bzr shelve`` can now apply changes without storing anything on the
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shelf, via the new --destroy option. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr send`` now accepts --body to specify an initial message body.
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(Aaron bentley)
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* ``bzr xxx --usage`` where xxx is a command now shows a usage
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message and the options without the descriptive help sections
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(like Description and Examples). A message is also given
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explaining how to see the complete help, i.e. ``bzr help xxx``.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* Content filters can now be used to provide custom conversion
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between the canonical format of content (i.e. as stored) and
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the convenience format of content (i.e. as created in working
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trees). See ``bzr help content-filters`` for further details.
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(Ian Clatworthy, Alexander Belchenko)
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* End-of-line conversion is now supported for formats supporting
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content filtering. See ``bzr help eol`` for details.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* Newly-blessed `join` command allows combining two trees into one.
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(Aaron Bentley)
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* A new format name alias ``default-rich-root`` has been added and
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points at the closest relative of the default format that supports
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rich roots. (Jelmer Vernooij, #338061)
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* Branching from a stacked branch using ``bzr*://`` will now stream
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the data when the target repository does not need topological
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ordering, reducing round trips and network overhead. This uses the
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existing smart server methods added in 1.13, so will work on any
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1.13 or newer server. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``bzr cat`` and ``bzr export`` now supports a ``--filters`` option
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that displays/saves the content after content filters are applied.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``bzr ignore`` gives a more informative message when existing
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version controlled files match the ignore pattern. (Neil
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Martinsen-Burrell, #248895)
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* ``bzr log`` now has ``--include-merges`` as an alias for ``--levels 0``.
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* ``bzr send`` is faster on repositories with deep histories.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* IPv6 literals are accepted in URLs.
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(stlman, Martin Pool, Jelmer Vernooij, #165014)
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* Progress bars now show the rate of network activity for
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``bzr+ssh://`` and ``bzr://`` connections. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Prompt for user names if they are not in the configuration.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #256612)
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* Pushing to a stacked pack-format branch on a 1.12 or older smart server
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now takes many less round trips. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins,
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#294479)
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* Streaming push can be done to older repository formats. This is
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implemented using a new ``Repository.insert_stream_locked`` RPC.
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(Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
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* The "ignoring files outside view: .." message has been re-worded
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to "Ignoring files outside view. View is .." to reduce confusion
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about what was being considered and what was being ignored.
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* The ``long`` log formatter now shows [merge] indicators. If
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only one level of revisions is displayed and merges are found,
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the ``long`` and ``short`` log formatters now tell the user
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how to see the hidden merged revisions. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The ``brisbane-core`` project has delivered its beta format
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``development6-rich-root``. This format is suitable for judicious
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testing by early adopters. In particular if you are benchmarking bzr
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performance please be sure to test using this format. At this stage
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more information is best obtained by contacting the Bazaar mailing list
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or IRC channel if you are interested in using this format. We will make
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end user documentation available closer to blessing the format as
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production ready. (Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, Ian Clatworthy,
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Vincent Ladeuil, Andrew Bennetts, Martin Pool)
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* Tildes are no longer escaped. No more %7Euser/project/branch!
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* Pushing a new stacked branch will also push the parent inventories for
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revisions at the stacking boundary. This makes sure that the stacked
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branch has enough data to calculate inventory deltas for all of its
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revisions (without requiring the fallback branch). This avoids
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"'AbsentContentFactory' object has no attribute 'get_bytes_as'" errors
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when fetching the stacked branch from a 1.13 (or later) smart server.
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This partially fixes #354036. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
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* End-Of-Line content filters are now loaded correctly.
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* Authentication plugins now receive all the parameters from the request
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itself (aka host, port, realm, path, etc). Previously, only the
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authentication section name, username and encoded password were
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provided. (Jean-Francois Roy)
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* bzr gives a better message if an invalid regexp is passed to ``bzr log
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-m``. (Anne Mohsen, Martin Pool)
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* ``bzr split`` now says "See also: join" (Aaron Bentley, #335015)
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* ``bzr version-info`` now works in empty branches. (Jelmer Vernooij,
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* Fix "is not a stackable format" error when pushing a
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stackable-format branch with an unstackable-format repository to a
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destination with a default stacking policy. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Fixed incorrect "Source format does not support stacking" warning
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when pushing to a smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #334114)
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* Fix 'make check-dist-tarball' failure by converting paths to unicode when
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needed. (Vincent Ladeuil, #355454)
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* Fixed "Specified file 'x/y/z' is outside current view: " occurring
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on ``bzr add x/y/z`` in formats supporting views when no view is
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defined. (Ian Clatworthy, #344708)
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* It is no longer possible to fetch between repositories while the
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target repository is in a write group. This prevents race conditions
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that prevent the use of RPC's to perform fetch, and thus allows
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optimising more operations. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``merge --force`` works again. (Robert Collins, #342105)
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* No more warnings are issued about ``sha`` being deprecated under python-2.6.
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* Pushing a new branch to a server that has a stacking policy will now
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upgrade from the local branch format when the stacking policy points at
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a branch which is itself stackable, because we know the client can read
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both branches, we know that the trunk for the project can be read too,
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so the upgrade will not inconvenience users. (Robert Collins, #345169)
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revisions at the stacking boundary. This makes sure that the stacked
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branch has enough data to calculate inventory deltas for all of its
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revisions (without requiring the fallback branch). This avoids
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"'AbsentContentFactory' object has no attribute 'get_bytes_as'" errors
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when fetching the stacked branch from a 1.13 (or later) smart server.
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This partially fixes #354036. (Andrew Bennetts, Robert Collins)
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* The full test suite is passing again on OSX. Several minor issues (mostly
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test related) have been fixed. (Vincent Ladeuil, #355273).
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* The GNU Changelog formatter is slightly improved in the case where
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the delta is empty, and now correctly claims not to support tags.
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(Andrea Bolognani)
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* Shelve can now shelve changes to a symlink target.
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(James Westby, #341558)
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* The help for the ``info`` command has been corrected.
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* Upgrade will now use a sensible default format if the source repository
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uses rich roots. (Jelmer Vernooij, #252908)
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* Expanded the index of the developer documentation. (Eric Siegerman)
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* New topic `bzr help debug-flags`. (Martin Pool)
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* The generated manpage now explicitly lists aliases as commands.
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* APIs deprecated in 1.6 and previous versions of bzr are now removed.
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* ``CommitReporter`` is no longer called with ``unchanged`` status during
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commit - this was a full-tree overhead that bzr no longer performs.
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* New abstract ``UIFactory`` method ``get_username`` which will be called to
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obtain the username to use when connecting to remote machines.
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* New API ``Inventory.filter()`` added that filters an inventory by
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a set of file-ids so that only those fileids, their parents and
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* New sort order for ``get_record_stream`` ``groupcompress`` which
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sorts optimally for use with groupcompress compressors. (John Arbash
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Meinel, Robert Collins)
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* Repository APIs ``get_deltas_for_revisions()`` and
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``get_revision_delta()`` now support an optional ``specific_fileids``
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parameter. If provided, the deltas are filtered so that only those
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* The ``get_credentials`` and ``set_credentials`` methods of
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* The ``pb`` argument to ``fetch()`` is deprecated.
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* The ``Serializer`` class and the serializer ``format registry`` have moved
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from ``bzrlib.xml_serializer`` to ``bzrlib.serializer``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The smart server jail now hooks into BzrDir.open to prevent any BzrDir
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that is not inside the backing transport from being opened. See the
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* ``Tree.get_symlink_target`` now always returns a unicode string result
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python2.6. A new FTP test server based on ``pyftplib`` can be used
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instead. This new server is a soft dependency as medusa which is still
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maps. (Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Added ``bzrlib.inventory_delta`` module. This will be used for
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serializing and deserializing inventory deltas for more efficient
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streaming on the network. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``Branch._get_config`` has been added, which splits out access to the
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specific config file from the branch. This is used to let RemoteBranch
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* ``Branch`` now implements ``set_stacked_on_url`` in the base class as
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the implementation is generic and should impact foreign formats. This
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* ``BtreeIndex._spill_mem_keys_to_disk()`` now generates disk index with
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optmizations turned off. This only has effect when processing > 100,000
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keys during something like ``bzr pack``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``bzr selftest`` now accepts ``--subunit`` to run in subunit output
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mode. Requires ``lp:subunit`` installed to work, but is not a hard
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* ``CommitBuilder`` has a new method, ``record_iter_changes`` which works
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* ``DirState`` can now be passed a custom ``SHA1Provider`` object
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enabling it to store the SHA1 and stat of the canonical (post
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objects, allowing better enforcement of the smart server jail when
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* New hook ``RioVersionInfoBuilder.revision``, allowing extra entries
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* New repository method ``refresh_data`` to cause any repository to
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make visible data inserted into the repository by a smart server
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* ``register_filter_stack_map`` now takes an optional fallback parameter,
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a callable to invoke if a preference has a value not in the map
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of filter stacks. This enhancement allows, for example, bzr-svn to
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handle existing svn properties that define a list of keywords to be
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* ``RemoteBranchConfig`` will use a new verb ``Branch.set_config_option``
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to write config settings to smart servers that support this, saving
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* ``RemoteBranch`` now provides ``_get_config`` for access to just the
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branch specific configuration from a remote server, which uses the
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* ``RemoteRepository`` will now negatively cache missing revisions during
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``get_parent_map`` while read-locked. Write-locks are unaffected.
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``InterPackToRemotePack`` classes, as they are now unnecessary.
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* ``RepositoryFormat`` as a new attribute ``fast_deltas`` to indicate
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whether the repository can efficiently generate deltas between trees
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regardless of tree size. (Robert Collins)
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* ``Repository.iter_files_bytes()`` now properly returns an "iterable of
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byte strings" (aka 'chunked') for the content. It previously was
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returning a plain string, which worked, but performed very poorly when
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building a working tree (file.writelines(str) is very inefficient). This
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can have a large effect on ``bzr checkout`` times. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* selftest now supports a --parallel option, with values of 'fork' or
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'subprocess' to run the test suite in parallel. Currently only Linux
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callables to use to decorate the test suite. Such decorators can add or
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remove tests, or even remote the test suite to another machine if
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* The smart server verb ``Repository.get_parent_map`` can now include
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information about ghosts when the special revision ``include-missing:``
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is in the requested parents map list. With this flag, ghosts are
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included as ``missing:REVISION_ID``. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
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revisions before calling ``get_parent_map`` on the target,
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regardless of ``InterRepository``.
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