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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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* Don't fail with traceback if `bzr serve` is running as a service on Windows,
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and there is no USERNAME, nor BZR_EMAIL or other whoami-related environment
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variables set. (Alexander Belchenko, Bug #660174)
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* Updated the "Using stacked branches" section of the user guide to
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describe committing to stacked branches and expanded its discussion of
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pushing a stcked branch. (Andrew Bennetts)
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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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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.. 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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* Remove the deprecation decorators for ``failUnlessExists`` and
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``failIfExists``. The deprecation "will" occur in 2.4, not
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before. Providing the wrappers is enough as far as 2.3 is concerned.
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(Vincent Ladeuil #794960)
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
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This fixed a bug in the test suite triggered by python-2.7 deprecating some
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* Stop using `failIf`, `failUnless`, `failIfEqual`, etc, that give
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`PendingDeprecationWarnings` on Python2.7.
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(Martin Pool, #760435)
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
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This was never released due to bug #760435 interrupting the release process by
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breaking the test suite under python-2.7 on natty.
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External Compatibility Breaks
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* Getting all entries from ``CHKInventory.iter_entries_by_dir()`` has been
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sped up dramatically for large trees. Iterating by dir is not the best
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way to load data from a CHK inventory, so it preloads all the items in
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* Bazaar now infers the default user email address on Unix from the local
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account name plus the contents of ``/etc/mailname`` if that file exists.
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In particular, this means that committing as root through etckeeper will
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(Martin Pool, #716389)
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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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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* FreeBSD8 has switched to python-2.7 which revealed a re-occurrence of a test
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failure in the launchpad plugin. ``xmlrpclib.py`` on natty carries a patch
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that is not in python-2.7 upstream and masked the issue. An additional fix
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