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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 2.0.6
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:2.0.6: 2010-09-17
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The sixth release in our 2.0 series addresses several user-inconvenience
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bugs. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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earlier 2.0 releases.
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Bug Fixes
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr revert`` now only takes write lock on working tree, instead of on
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both working tree and branch.
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(Danny van Heumen, #498409)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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bzr 2.0.5
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:2.0.5: 2010-03-23
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This fifth release in our 2.0 series addresses several user-inconvenience
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bugs. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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earlier 2.0 releases.
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Bug Fixes
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* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
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(Martin Pool, #331095)
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* Concurrent autopacking is more resilient to already-renamed pack files.
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If we find that a file we are about to obsolete is already obsoleted, we
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do not try to rename it, and we leave the file in ``obsolete_packs``.
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The code is also fault tolerant if a file goes missing, assuming that
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another process already removed the file.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #507557)
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* Cope with the lockdir ``held/info`` file being empty, which seems to
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happen fairly often if the process is suddenly interrupted while taking
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a lock.
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(Martin Pool, #185103)
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* Give the warning about potentially slow cross-format fetches much
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earlier on in the fetch operation. Don't show this message during
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upgrades, and show the correct format indication for remote
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repositories.
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(Martin Pool, #456077, #515356, #513157)
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* Handle renames correctly when there are files or directories that
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differ only in case. (Chris Jones, Martin Pool, #368931)
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* If ``bzr push --create-prefix`` triggers an unexpected ``NoSuchFile``
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error, report that error rather than failing with an unhelpful
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``UnboundLocalError``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #423563)
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* Running ``bzr`` command without any arguments now shows bzr
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version number along with rest of the help text.
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(Parth Malwankar, #369501)
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* Use osutils.O_NOINHERIT for some files on win32 to avoid PermissionDenied
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errors.
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(Inada Naoki, #524560)
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* Added ``location-alias`` help topic.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #337834)
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* Fixed CHM generation by moving the NEWS section template into
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a separate file. (Ian Clatworthy, #524184)
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bzr 2.0.4
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:Codename: smooth sailing
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:2.0.4: 2010-01-21
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The fourth bugfix-only release in the 2.0 series contains more than a
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dozen bugfixes relative to 2.0.3. The primary focus is on handling
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interruptions and concurrent operations more cleanly, there is also a fair
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improvement to ``bzr export`` when exporting a remote branch.
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* ``bzr annotate`` on another branch with ``-r branch:...`` no longer
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fails with an ``ObjectNotLocked`` error. (Andrew Bennetts, #496590)
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* ``bzr export dir`` now requests all file content as a record stream,
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rather than requsting the file content one file-at-a-time. This can make
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exporting over the network significantly faster (54min => 9min in one
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case). (John Arbash Meinel, #343218)
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* ``bzr serve`` no longer slowly leaks memory. The compiled
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``bzrlib.bencode.Encoder()`` class was using ``__del__`` to cleanup and
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free resources, and it should have been using ``__dealloc__``.
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This will likely have an impact on any other process that is serving for
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an extended period of time. (John Arbash Meinel, #494406)
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* Check for SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and other signals immediately if ``readdir``
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returns ``EINTR`` by calling ``PyErr_CheckSignals``. This affected the
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optional ``_readdir_pyx`` extension. (Andrew Bennetts, #495023)
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* Concurrent autopacks will no longer lose a newly created pack file.
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There was a race condition, where if the reload happened at the right
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time, the second packer would forget the name of the newly added pack
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file. (John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #507566)
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* Give a clearer message if the lockdir disappears after being apparently
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successfully taken. (Martin Pool, #498378)
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* Give a warning when fetching between repositories (local or remote) with
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sufficiently different formats that the content will need to be
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serialized (ie ``InterDifferingSerializer`` or ``inventory-deltas``), so
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the user has a clue that upgrading could make it faster.
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(Martin Pool, #456077)
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* If we fail to open ``~/.bzr.log`` write a clear message to stderr rather
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than using ``warning()``. The log file is opened before logging is set
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up, and it leads to very confusing: 'no handlers for "bzr"' messages for
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users, rather than something nicer.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Barry Warsaw, #503886)
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* Refuse to build with any Pyrex 0.9.4 release, as they have known bugs.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #449372)
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* ``setup.py bdist_rpm`` now properly finds extra files needed for the
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build. (there is still the distutils bug
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http://bugs.python.org/issue644744) (Joe Julian, #175839)
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* The 2a format wasn't properly restarting autopacks when something
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changed underneath it (like another autopack). Now concurrent
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autopackers will properly succeed. (John Arbash Meinel, #495000)
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* ``TreeTransform`` can now handle when a delta says that the file id for
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the tree root changes. Rather than trying to rename your working
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directory, or failing early saying that you can't have multiple
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tree roots. This also fixes revert, update, and pull when the root id
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changes. (John Arbash Meinel, #494269, #504390)
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* ``_update_current_block`` no longer suppresses exceptions, so ^C at just
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the right time will get propagated, rather than silently failing to move
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the block pointer. (John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #495023)
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handle exceptions somehow. (Possibly by setting ``# cannot_raise``
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rather than an ``except ?:`` clause.) This should help prevent bugs like
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bug #495023. (John Arbash Meinel)
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bzr 2.0.3
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:Codename: little italy
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:2.0.3: 2009-12-14
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The third stable release of Bazaar has a small handful of bugfixes. As
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2.0.2 (or 2.0.0).
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* ``bzr push --use-existing-dir`` no longer crashes if the directory
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exists but contains an invalid ``.bzr`` directory.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #423563)
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* Content filters are now applied correctly after pull, merge and switch.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #385879)
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* Fix a potential segfault in the groupcompress hash map handling code.
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When inserting new entries, if the final hash bucket was empty, we could
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end up trying to access if ``(last_entry+1)->ptr == NULL``.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #490228)
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* Improve "Binary files differ" hunk handling. (Aaron Bentley, #436325)
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bzr 2.0.2
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:Codename: after the scare
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:2.0.2: 2009-11-02
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The second in our "let's keep the stable bugfixes flowing" series. As
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expected this has a few (~9) bugfixes relative to 2.0.1, and no major api
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changes or features.
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* Avoid "NoneType has no attribute st_mode" error when files disappear
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from a directory while it's being read. (Martin Pool, #446033)
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* Content filters are now applied correctly after revert.
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(Ian Clatworthy)
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* Diff parsing handles "Binary files differ" hunks. (Aaron Bentley, #436325)
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* Fetching from stacked pre-2a repository via a smart server no longer
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fails intermittently with "second push failed to complete".
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(Andrew Bennetts, #437626)
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* Fix typos left after test_selftest refactoring.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, Matt Nordhoff, #461149)
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* Fixed ``ObjectNotLocked`` errors during ``bzr log -r NNN somefile``.
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* PreviewTree file names are not limited by the encoding of the temp
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directory's filesystem. (Aaron Bentley, #436794)
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* ``bzr log`` now read-locks branches exactly once, so makes better use of
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* Filtered views user documentation upgraded to refer to format 2a
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instead of pre-2.0 formats. (Ian Clatworthy)
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bzr 2.0.1
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:Codename: Stability First
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:2.0.1: 2009-10-14
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The first of our new ongoing bugfix-only stable releases has arrived. It
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includes a collection of 12 bugfixes applied to bzr 2.0.0, but does not
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include any of the feature development in the 2.1.0 series.
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* ``bzr add`` in a tree that has files with ``\r`` or ``\n`` in the
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filename will issue a warning and skip over those files.
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(Robert Collins, #3918)
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* bzr will attempt to authenticate with SSH servers that support
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``keyboard-interactive`` auth but not ``password`` auth when using
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Paramiko. (Andrew Bennetts, #433846)
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* Fixed fetches from a stacked branch on a smart server that were failing
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with some combinations of remote and local formats. This was causing
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"unknown object type identifier 60" errors. (Andrew Bennetts, #427736)
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* Fixed ``ObjectNotLocked`` errors when doing some log and diff operations
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on branches via a smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #389413)
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* Handle things like ``bzr add foo`` and ``bzr rm foo`` when the tree is
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at the root of a drive. ``osutils._cicp_canonical_relpath`` always
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assumed that ``abspath()`` returned a path that did not have a trailing
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``/``, but that is not true when working at the root of the filesystem.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Jason Spashett, #322807)
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* Hide deprecation warnings for 'final' releases for python2.6.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #440062)
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* Improve the time for ``bzr log DIR`` for 2a format repositories.
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We had been using the same code path as for <2a formats, which required
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iterating over all objects in all revisions.
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* Make sure that we unlock the tree if we fail to create a TreeTransform
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object when doing a merge, and there is limbo, or pending-deletions
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directory. (Gary van der Merwe, #427773)
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* Occasional IndexError on renamed files have been fixed. Operations that
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set a full inventory in the working tree will now go via the
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apply_inventory_delta code path which is simpler and easier to
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understand than dirstates set_state_from_inventory method. This may
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have a small performance impact on operations built on _write_inventory,
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but such operations are already doing full tree scans, so no radical
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performance change should be observed. (Robert Collins, #403322)
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* Retrieving file text or mtime from a _PreviewTree has good performance when
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there are many changes. (Aaron Bentley)
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* The CHK index pages now use an unlimited cache size. With a limited
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cache and a large project, the random access of chk pages could cause us
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to download the entire cix file many times.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #402623)
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* When a file kind becomes unversionable after being added, a sensible
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* Improved README. (Ian Clatworthy)
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:Codename: Instant Karma
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This release of Bazaar makes the 2a (previously 'brisbane-core') format
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the default when new branches or repositories are created. This format is
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substantially smaller and faster for many operations. Most of the work in
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this release focuses on bug fixes and stabilization, covering both 2a and
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previous formats. (See the Upgrade Guide for information on migrating
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The Bazaar team decided that 2.0 will be a long-term supported release,
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with bugfix-only 2.0.x releases based on it, continuing for at least six
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* Officially branded as 2.0.0 rather than 2.0 to clarify between things
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that "want to happen on the 2.0.x stable series" versus things that want
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to "land in 2.0.0". (Changes how bzrlib._format_version_tuple() handles
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micro = 0.) (John Arbash Meinel)
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:2.0.0rc2: 2009-09-10
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* Added post_commit hook for mutable trees. This allows the keywords
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plugin to expand keywords on files changed by the commit.
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(Ian Clatworthy, #408841)
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* Bazaar's native protocol code now correctly handles EINTR, which most
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noticeably occurs if you break in to the debugger while connected to a
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bzr+ssh server. You can now can continue from the debugger (by typing
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'c') and the process continues. However, note that pressing C-\ in the
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shell may still kill the SSH process, which is bug 162509, so you must
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sent a signal to the bzr process specifically, for example by typing
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``kill -QUIT PID`` in another shell. (Martin Pool, #341535)
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* ``bzr check`` in pack-0.92, 1.6 and 1.9 format repositories will no
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longer report incorrect errors about ``Missing inventory ('TREE_ROOT', ...)``
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(Robert Collins, #416732)
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* ``bzr info -v`` on a 2a format still claimed that it was a "Development
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format" (John Arbash Meinel, #424392)
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* ``bzr log stacked-branch`` shows the full log including
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revisions that are in the fallback repository. (Regressed in 2.0rc1).
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(John Arbash Meinel, #419241)
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* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a ``MemoryError``
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traceback. (Martin Pool, #109115)
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* Conversion to 2a will create a single pack for all the new revisions (as
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long as it ran without interruption). This improves both ``bzr upgrade``
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and ``bzr pull`` or ``bzr merge`` from local branches in older formats.
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The autopack logic that occurs every 100 revisions during local
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conversions was not returning that pack's identifier, which resulted in
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the partial packs created during the conversion not being consolidated
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at the end of the conversion process. (Robert Collins, #423818)
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* Fetches from 2a to 2a are now again requested in 'groupcompress' order.
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Groups that are seen as 'underutilized' will be repacked on-the-fly.
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This means that when the source is fully packed, there is minimal
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overhead during the fetch, but if the source is poorly packed the result
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is a fairly well packed repository (not as good as 'bzr pack' but
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good-enough.) (Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #402652)
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* Fix a potential segmentation fault when doing 'log' of a branch that had
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ghosts in its mainline. (Evaluating None as a tuple is bad.)
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(John Arbash Meinel, #419241)
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* ``groupcompress`` sort order is now more stable, rather than relying on
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``topo_sort`` ordering. The implementation is now
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``KnownGraph.gc_sort``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Local data conversion will generate correct deltas. This is a critical
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bugfix vs 2.0rc1, and all 2.0rc1 users should upgrade to 2.0rc2 before
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converting repositories. (Robert Collins, #422849)
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* Network streams now decode adjacent records of the same type into a
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single stream, reducing layering churn. (Robert Collins)
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* Prevent some kinds of incomplete data from being committed to a 2a
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repository, such as revisions without inventories, a missing chk_bytes
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record for an inventory, or a missing text referenced by an inventory.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #423506, #406687)
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* Fix assertion error about "_remember_remote_is_before" when pushing to
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older smart servers.
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* Help on hooks no longer says 'Not deprecated' for hooks that are
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currently supported. (Ian Clatworthy, #422415)
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* PDF and CHM (Windows HtmlHelp) formats are now supported for the
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user documentation. The HTML documentation is better broken up into
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topics. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The developer and foreign language documents are now separated
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out so that searching in the HTML and CHM files produces more
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useful results. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* The main table of contents now provides links to the new Migration Docs
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and Plugins Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)
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bzr 2.0.0rc1
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:Codename: no worries
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* The default format for bzr is now ``2a``. This format brings many
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significant performance and size improvements. bzr can pull from
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any existing repository into a ``2a`` one, but can only transfer
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from ``2a`` into ``rich-root`` repositories. The Upgrade guide
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has more information about this change. (Robert Collins)
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* On Windows auto-detection of Putty's plink.exe is disabled.
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Default SSH client for Windows is paramiko. User still can force
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usage of plink if explicitly set environment variable BZR_SSH=plink.
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(#414743, Alexander Belchenko)
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* ``bzr branch --switch`` can now switch the checkout in the current directory
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to the newly created branch. (Lukáš Lalinský)
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Bug Fixes
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* Further tweaks to handling of ``bzr add`` messages about ignored files.
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(Jason Spashett, #76616)
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* Fetches were being requested in 'groupcompress' order, but weren't
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recombining the groups. Thus they would 'fragment' to get the correct
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order, but not 'recombine' to actually benefit from it. Until we get
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recombining to work, switching to 'unordered' fetches avoids the
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fragmentation. (John Arbash Meinel, #402645)
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* Fix a pycurl related test failure on karmic by recognizing an error
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raised by newer versions of pycurl.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #306264)
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* Fix a test failure on karmic by making a locale test more robust.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #413514)
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* Fix IndexError printing CannotBindAddress errors.
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(Martin Pool, #286871)
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* Fix "Revision ... not present" errors when upgrading stacked branches,
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or when doing fetches from a stacked source to a stacked target.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #399140)
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* ``bzr branch`` of 2a repositories over HTTP is much faster. bzr now
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batches together small fetches from 2a repositories, rather than
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fetching only a few hundred bytes at a time.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #402657)
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* A better description of the platform is shown in crash tracebacks, ``bzr
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--version`` and ``bzr selftest``.
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(Martin Pool, #409137)
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* bzr can now (again) capture crash data through the apport library,
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so that a single human-readable file can be attached to bug reports.
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This can be disabled by using ``-Dno_apport`` on the command line, or by
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putting ``no_apport`` into the ``debug_flags`` section of
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``bazaar.conf``.
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(Martin Pool, Robert Collins, #389328)
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* ``bzr push`` locally on windows will no longer give a locking error with
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dirstate based formats. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzr shelve`` and ``bzr unshelve`` now work on windows.
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(Robert Collins, #305006)
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* Commit of specific files no longer prevents using the iter_changes
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codepath. On 2a repositories, commit of specific files should now be as
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* The internal core code that handles specific file operations like
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``bzr st FILENAME`` or ``bzr commit FILENAME`` has been changed to
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include the parent directories if they have altered, and when a
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directory stops being a directory its children are always included. This
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fixes a number of causes for ``InconsistentDelta`` errors, and permits
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faster commit of specific paths. (Robert Collins, #347649)
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* New developer documentation for content filtering.
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* ``bzrlib.shelf_ui`` has had the ``from_args`` convenience methods of its
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classes changed to manage lock lifetime of the trees they open in a way
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consistent with reader-exclusive locks. (Robert Collins, #305006)
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Loggerhead is a web-based interface for Breezy
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