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What's New in Bazaar 2.4?
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Bazaar 2.4 is still under development, and will be released in August 2011.
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This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed. See the
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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 2.4 vs Bazaar 2.3. 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 2.4.0 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0,
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2.1, 2.2 and 2.3, and can read and write repositories generated by all
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Dropping Python2.4 and Python2.5 support
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Bazaar 2.4.0 is the first version of bzr to drop support for python
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versions before 2.6. The 2.3 series will still be maintained in bugfix
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mode for people who need older versions of python. You can also use
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Launchpad to nominate fixes for 2.3. We can't fix everything, but that can
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help guide us to what people are running into. Upgrading to python2.6
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allows us to clean up the syntax in our files, and makes it easier to work
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on python3 compatibility.
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External merge tool configuration has been added to ``bzr`` core. The name
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and commandline of one or more external merge tools can be defined in
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bazaar.conf. See the help topic ``configuration`` for more details.
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Tagged revisions are copied
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When tags are copied from a branch, the associated revisions are now copied
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too. Previously operations like branching, merging or pulling might have
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copied new tags visible in ``bzr tags``, but not copied the revisions. Now
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revisions from tags will always be present, so that operations like ``bzr
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log -r tag:foo`` will always work.
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Deprecated command synonyms
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Two built-in synonyms for ``bzr branch`` have been deprecated: ``clone`` and
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Option values can now refer to other options in the same configuration file by
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enclosing them in curly brackets (``{option}``). This is an opt-in feature
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during the beta period controlled by the ``bzr.config.expand`` option that
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should be declared in ``bazaar.conf`` and no other file.
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Changelog merge plugin
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The ``changelog_merge`` plugin has been added. It provides a merge hook
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to automate merging of changes to ``ChangeLog`` files in GNU's change log
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format. Refer to ``bzr help changelog_merge`` for documentation on how to
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enable it and what it can do.
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Faster operations on Large Trees
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Many bzr commands used to run into pathological behavior on large trees
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(>10k files), reading the inventory data in random order causing cache
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thrashing. Various other tweaks have been applied with feedback from large
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trees. A possibly incomplete list is as follows for running commands on a
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bzr-2.3.1 bzr-2.3.2 bzr-2.4 action
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3m39s 1m03s bzr co --lightweight
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4m45s 29s 17s bzr pull
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Faster stacked branches
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Creating a stacked branch from a smart server with ``bzr branch
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--stacked`` is a bit faster now. For small branches it does 20% fewer
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network roundtrips. Other operations where a local branch is stacked on a
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branch hosted on a smart server will also benefit.
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For more detailed information on the changes made, see the the
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for:
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* the interim bzr `milestones <https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.4>`_
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* the plugins you use.
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For a summary of changes made in earlier releases, see:
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.1`
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.2`
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* :doc:`whats-new-in-2.3`
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