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External Compatibility Breaks
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* The ``lp:`` directory service now supports Launchpad's QA staging.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #667483)
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* External merge tools can now be configured in bazaar.conf. See
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``bzr help configuration`` for more information. (Gordon Tyler, #489915)
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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* A new hidden command ``bzr repair-workingtree``. This is a way to force
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the dirstate file to be rebuilt, rather than using a ``bzr checkout``
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workaround. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Branching, merging and pulling a branch now copies revisions named in
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tags, not just the tag metadata. (Andrew Bennetts, #309682)
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* ``bzr cat-revision`` no longer requires a working tree. (Jelmer Vernooij, #704405)
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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or undesirable results.
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* ``bzr annotate -r-1 file`` will now properly annotate a deleted file.
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(Andrew King, #537442)
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* ``bzr export`` to zip files will now set a mode on directories.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #207253)
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* ``bzr push --overwrite`` with an older revision specified will now correctly
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roll back the target branch. (Jelmer Vernooij, #386576)
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* ``bzr lp-propose`` can now propose merges against packaging branches on
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Launchpad without requiring the target branch to be specified.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #704647)
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* ``bzr lp-propose`` no longer requires a reviewer to be specified. It will
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instead leave setting the reviewer up to Launchpad if it was not specified.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #583772)
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* ``bzr pull`` will now exit with exit code 1 if there were tag conflicts.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #213185)
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* ``bzr mv`` user errors no longer throw UnicodeEncodeError with non-ascii
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paths, however they may still print junk if not on a UTF-8 terminal.
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(Martin [gz], #707954)
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* ``bzr reconfigure --unstacked`` now copies revisions (and their
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ancestors) named in tags into the unstacked repository, not just the
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ancestry of the branch's tip. (Andrew Bennetts, #401646)
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* ``bzr serve`` no longer crashes when a server_started hook is installed and
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IPv6 support is available on the system. (Jelmer Vernooij, #293697)
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* ``bzr whoami`` will now display an error if both a new identity and
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``--email`` were specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #680449)
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* ``launchpadlib`` doesn't provide the ``uris`` module in some old versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #706835)
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* Empty entries in the ``NO_PROXY`` variable are no longer treated as matching
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(Martin Pool, #586341)
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* Plugins incompatible with the current version of bzr no longer produce a
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warning on every command invocation. Instead, a message is shown by
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``bzr plugins`` and in crash reports.
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(#704195, Martin Pool)
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* The "pretty" version of ``needs_read_lock`` and ``needs_write_lock`` now
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preserves the identity of default parameter values.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #718569)
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* ``bzr dump-btree --raw`` no longer tracebacks on a B-Tree file
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containing no rows. (Eric Siegerman, #715508)
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* Fix ``bzr lp-mirror`` to work on command line branch URLs and branches
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without an explicit public location. (Max Bowsher)
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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* Added ``bzrlib.mergetools`` module with helper functions for working with
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the list of external merge tools. (Gordon Tyler, #489915)
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* ``Branch.fetch`` implementations must now accept an optional
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``fetch_spec`` keyword argument. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``Branch.import_last_revision_info`` is deprecated. Use the
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``import_last_revision_info_and_tags`` method instead.
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* Repository formats should now be registered on the format registry
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(``bzrlib.repository.format_registry``) rather than using the class
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methods on ``RepositoryFormat``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The ``revision_id`` parameter of
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``Repository.search_missing_revision_ids`` and
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``InterRepository.search_missing_revision_ids`` is deprecated. It is
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replaced by the ``revision_ids`` parameter. (Andrew Bennetts)
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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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* ``CatchingExceptionThread`` (formerly ThreadWithException) has been moved
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out of the ``bzrlib.tests`` hierarchy to make it clearer that it can be used
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outside of tests. This class makes it easier to track exceptions in threads
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by cacthing them so they can be re-raised in the controlling thread. It's
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available in the ``bzrlib.cethread`` module. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
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spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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