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Bazaar 1.8 includes several fixes that improve working tree performance,
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display of revision logs, and merges. The bzr testsuite now passes on OS
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X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes on Windows. The
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smartserver code has gained several bug fixes and performance
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improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an http server.
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* Fix "Must end write group" error when another error occurs during
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``bzr push``. (Andrew Bennetts, #230902)
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* Some Pyrex versions require the WIN32 macro defined to compile on
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that platform. (Alexander Belchenko, Martin Pool, #277481)
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* ``bzr log file`` has been changed. It now uses a different method
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for determining which revisions to show as merging the changes to
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the file. It now only shows revisions which merged the change
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towards your mainline. This simplifies the output, makes it faster,
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and reduces memory consumption. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``bzr merge`` now defaults to having ``--reprocess`` set, whenever
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``--show-base`` is not supplied. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``bzr+http//`` will now optionally load plugins and write logs on the
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server. (Marius Kruger)
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* ``bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_c.pyx`` does not compile correctly with
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Pyrex 0.9.4.1 (it generates C code which causes segfaults). We
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explicitly blacklist that version of the compiler for that
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extension. Packaged versions will include .c files created with
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pyrex >= 0.9.6 so it doesn't effect releases, only users running
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from the source tree. (John Arbash Meinel, #276868)
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* bzr is now compatible with python-2.6. python-2.6 is not yet officially
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supported (nor released, tests were conducted with the dev version of
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python-2.6rc2), but all known problems have been fixed. Feedback
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #269535)
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* ``bzr annotate`` will now include uncommitted changes from the local
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working tree by default. Such uncommitted changes are given the
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revision number they would get if a commit was done, followed with a
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? to indicate that its not actually known. (Robert Collins, #3439)
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* ``bzr branch`` now accepts a ``--standalone`` option, which creates a
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standalone branch regardless of the presence of shared repositories.
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* ``bzr push`` is faster in the case there are no new revisions to
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push. It is also faster if there are no tags in the local branch.
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* File changes during a commit will update the tree stat cache.
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* Location aliases can now accept a trailing path. (Micheal Hudson)
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* New hooks ``Lock.hooks`` when LockDirs are acquired and released.
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(Robert Collins, MartinPool)
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* Switching in heavyweight checkouts uses the master branch's context, not
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the checkout's context. (Adrian Wilkins)
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* ``status`` on large trees is now faster, due to optimisations in the
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walkdirs code. Of particular note, the walkdirs code now performs
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a temporary ``chdir()`` while reading a single directory; if your
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platform has non thread-local current working directories (and is
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not windows which has its own implementation), this may introduce a
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race condition during concurrent uses of bzrlib. The bzrlib CLI
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will not encounter this as it is single threaded for working tree
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operations. (Robert Collins)
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* The C extensions now build on python 2.4 (Robert Collins, #271939)
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* The ``-Dhpss`` debug flag now reports the number of smart server
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calls per medium to stderr. This is in addition to the existing
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detailed logging to the .bzr.log trace file. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Avoid random failures arising from misinterpreted ``errno`` values
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in ``_readdir_pyx.read_dir``.
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(Martin Pool, #279381)
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* Branching from a shared repository on a smart server into a new
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repository now preserves the repository format.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #269214)
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* ``bzr log`` now accepts a ``--change`` option.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #248427)
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* ``bzr missing`` now accepts an ``--include-merges`` option.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #233817)
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* Don't try to filter (internally) '.bzr' from the files to be deleted if
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #272648)
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* Fix '_in_buffer' AttributeError when using the -Dhpss debug flag.
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* Fix TooManyConcurrentRequests errors caused by a connection failure
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when doing ``bzr pull`` or ``bzr merge`` from a ``bzr+ssh`` URL.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #246233)
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* Fixed ``bzr st -r branch:PATH_TO_BRANCH`` where the other branch
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is in a different repository than the current one.
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(Lukáš Lalinský, #144421)
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* Make the first line of the manpage preamble a comment again.
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(David Futcher, #242106)
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* Remove use of optional parameter in GSSAPI FTP support, since
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it breaks newer versions of Python-Kerberos. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The autopacking logic will now always create a single new pack from
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all of the content which it deems is worth moving. This avoids the
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'repack a single pack' bug and should result in better packing
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overall. (John Arbash Meinel, #242510, #172644)
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* Trivial documentation fix.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #270471)
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* ``bzr switch`` and ``bzr bind`` will now update the branch nickname if
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it was previously set. All checkouts will now refer to the bound branch
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for a nickname if one was not explicitly set.
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(Marius Kruger, #230903)
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* Explain revision/range identifiers. (Daniel Clemente)
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* ``CommitBuilder.record_entry_contents`` returns one more element in
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its result tuple - an optional file system hash for the hash cache
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to use. (Robert Collins)
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* ``dirstate.DirState.update_entry`` will now only calculate the sha1
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of a file if it is likely to be needed in determining the output
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of iter_changes. (Robert Collins)
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* The PackRepository, RepositoryPackCollection, NewPack classes have a
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slightly changed interface to support different index types; as a
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result other users of these classes need to supply the index types
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they want. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.tests.repository_implementations`` has been renamed to
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``bzrlib.tests.per_repository`` so that we have a common structure
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(and it is shorter). (John Arbash Meinel, #239343)
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* ``LocalTransport.abspath()`` now returns a drive letter if the
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transport has one, fixing numerous tests on Windows.
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* PreviewTree is now tested via intertree_implementations.
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* The full test suite is passing again on OSX.
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(Guillermo Gonzalez, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* The full test suite passes when run with ``-Eallow_debug``.
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* A new hook, ``Branch.open``, has been added, which is called when
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branch objects are opened. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.osutils._walkdirs_utf8`` has been refactored into common
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tree walking, and modular directory listing code to aid future
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performance optimisations and refactoring. (Robert Collins)
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* ``bzrlib.trace.debug_memory`` can be used to get a quick memory dump
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in the middle of processing. It only reports memory if
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``/proc/PID/status`` is available. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* New method ``RevisionSpec.as_tree`` for representing the revision
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specifier as a revision tree object. (Lukáš Lalinský)
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* New race-free method on MutableTree ``get_file_with_stat`` for use
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when generating stat cache results. (Robert Collins)
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* New win32utils.get_local_appdata_location() provides access to a local
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directory for storing data. (Mark Hammond)
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* To be compatible with python-2.6 a few new rules should be
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observed. 'message' attribute can't be used anymore in exception
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classes, 'sha' and 'md5' modules have been deprecated (use
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osutils.[md5|sha]), object__init__ and object.__new__ don't accept
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