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What's New in Bazaar 2.3?
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Bazaar 2.3 is still under development, and will be released in February
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2011. This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed.
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Bazaar 2.3 has been released on the 3rd of February 2011 and marks the start
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of another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix
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releases on the 2.3 series (2.3.1, etc), while 2.4 will become our new
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development series. The 2.1 and 2.2 series will also continue to get
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bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be EOLed circa September 2011.)
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This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed.
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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 2.3 vs Bazaar 2.2. 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 2.3.0 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0
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2.1, and 2.2, and can read and write repositories generated by all
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This document
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outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.3 vs Bazaar 2.2. As well as summarizing
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improvements made to the core product, it highlights enhancements within the
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broader Bazaar world of potential interest to those upgrading.
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Bazaar 2.3.1 includes all the fixes in the un-released 2.0.7, 2.1.4 and 2.2.5
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versions that weren't included in 2.3.0 and fixes some bugs on its own.
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See the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for details.
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Bazaar 2.3 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0, 2.1,
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and 2.2. It can read and write repositories generated by all previous
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* Committing a new revision in a stacked branch is now supported, as long as
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you are using the current repository format (2a). It will preserve the
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stacking invariants, etc, so that fetching after commit is guaranteed to
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work. (John Arbash Meinel, #375013)
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* Support for some old development formats have been removed:
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``development-rich-root``, ``development6-rich-root``, and
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``development7-rich-root``. These formats were always labelled experimental
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and not used unless the user specifically asked for them. If you have
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repositories using these old formats you should upgrade them to ``2a`` using
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Bazaar 2.2. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The default ``ignore`` file created by Bazaar will contain ``__pycache__``,
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which is the name of the directory that will be used by Python to store
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get the old behavior, one can use ``bzr tags --sort=alpha``.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #640760)
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* On platforms other than Windows and Mac OS X, Bazaar will use configuration
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files that live in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/bazaar if that directory exists. This
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allows interested individuals to conform to the XDG Base Directory
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specification. The plugin location has not changed and is still
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~/.bazaar/plugins. To use a different directory for plugins, use the
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environment variable BZR_PLUGIN_PATH. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #195397)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now operates recursively when run on a shared
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repository, automatically upgrading the branches within it, and has
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grown additional options for showing what it will do and cleaning up
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after itself. (Ian Clatworthy, Matthew Fuller, #89830, #374734, #422450)
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Launchpad integration
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Launchpad has announced that the ``edge.launchpad.net`` instance is
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deprecated and may be shut down in the future
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<http://blog.launchpad.net/general/edge-is-deprecated>. Bazaar has therefore
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been updated in this release to talk to the main (``launchpad.net``) servers,
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* ``bzr send`` uses less memory.
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* Fetches involving stacked branches and branches with tags now do slightly less
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I/O, and so does branching from an existing branch. This also improves the
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network performance of these operations. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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to 48). This affects most operations, and depending on the size of the
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default behaviour is specified (if needed) by setting the variable to
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``conflict``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #323111)
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* ``bzr resolve --take-this`` and ``bzr resolve --take-other`` can now be
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used for text conflicts. This will ignore the differences that were merged
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cleanly and replace the file with its content in the current branch
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(``--take-this``) or with its content in the merged branch
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(``--take-other``). (Vincent Ladeuil, #638451)
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* ``bzr resolve`` now provides more feedback about the conflicts just
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resolved and the remaining ones. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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``bzr`` can be configure via environment variables, command-line options
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``bzr`` can be configured via environment variables, command-line options
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and configurations files. We've started working on unifying this and give
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access to more options. The first step is a new ``bzr config`` command that
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can be used to display the active configuration options in the current
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working tree or branch as well as the ability to set or remove an option.
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Expected releases for the 2.3 series
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The 2.3 series has entered the beta phase and 2.3.0 should be released soon
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enough to be included into Natty Narwhal.
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As a rough estimate, consider that 2.3.0 will be released in February
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2011 and be supported until August 2012. Additional releases will be
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made if critical bugs are encountered
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working tree or branch as well as the ability to set or remove an
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option. Scripts can also use it to get only the value for a given option.
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