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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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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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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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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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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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This is the fifth (and last) beta of the 2.4 series leading to
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2.4.0 release in Auguest 2011. Beta releases are suitable for
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everyday use but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at
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the time of this release.
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* New command ``verify-signatures`` to check if all commits or specified commits
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have digital signatures from trusted keys. Requires python-gpgme to be
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* New option ``--signatures`` for ``bzr log`` to display digital signature
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verification results for each commit.
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* Config option acceptable_keys to list which GPG keys are verified as trusted.
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* Config option validate_signatures_in_log to always show signatures in
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* ``Branch.open`` is now about 3x faster (about 2ms instead of 6.5ms).
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* Display a proper error message when a config file content cannot be
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decoded as UTF-8 or when it cannot be parsed.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #502060, #688677, #797246)
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* Generate a single conflict (instead of two) when merging a branch
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modifying and renaming a file in a branch that deleted it (or vice-versa).
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #688101)
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* Give a more helpful message when the bzr executable doesn't match the
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library. (This typically happens because of a misconfigured PYTHONPATH
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or half-installed bzr.)
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(Martin Pool, #804553)
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* Properly load utf8-encoded config files. (Vincent Ladeuil, #799212)
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* ``GraphThunkIdsToKeys.merge_sort`` now properly returns
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keys rather than ids. (Jelmer Vernooij, #799677)
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* ``TreeTransformBase.fixup_new_roots`` can now check that a tree root
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is present. (Jelmer Vernooij, #801257)
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* New attributes ``WorkingTreeFormat.supports_versioned_directories`` and
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``RepositoryFormat.supports_versioned_directories``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #765815)
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* The "revno" field type when using the python version-info format is now
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a string (to handle dotted revnos) (Benoît Pierre, #796259)
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* Start implementing localization, starting with command help text (but not
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the command options themselves). This will allow bootstrapping the bzr
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internationalization process. (Inada Naoki)
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* Fix test failures when running as a homeless user (debian buildd). Tests
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leaking into ``${HOME}/.bzr.log`` should be detected properly now.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #798698)
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:2.4b4: NOT RELEASED YET
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This is the fourth beta of the 2.4 series, leading to a 2.4.0 release in
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August 2011. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
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incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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* Do not treat configuration option 'check_signatures = require' as if
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it were 'create_signatures = always' (Jonathan Riddell)
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* Hooks have been added for config stacks: ``get``, ``set`` and ``remove``
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are called when an option is respectively read, modified or deleted. Also
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added ``load`` and ``save`` hooks for config stores, called when the
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stores are loaded or saved. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* New hook server_exception in bzrlib.smart.server to catch any
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exception caused while running bzr serve. (Jonathan Riddell,
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exception caused while running bzr serve.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #274578)
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* New hook set_commit_message in bzrlib.msgeditor to set
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a commit message and revision properties. (Jonathan Riddell,
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* New hook set_commit_message in bzrlib.msgeditor to set a commit message
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and revision properties. (Jonathan Riddell, #274578)
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* Support ``-S`` as an alias for ``--short`` for the ``log`` and
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``missing`` commands. (Martin von Gagern, #38655)
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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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* ``bzr annotate`` can be run without setting whoami data first.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #667408)
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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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* Bazaar can now detect when a lock file is held by a dead process
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originating from the same machine, and steal the lock after printing a
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message to the user. This is off by default, for safety, but can be
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turned on by setting the configuration variable ``locks.steal_dead`` to
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(Martin Pool, #220464)
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* ``bzr version-info`` now works when the tree is on a dotted revno.
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(Benoît Pierre, #796259)
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* Credentials in the log output produced by ``-Dhttp`` are masked so users
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can more freely post them in bug reports. (Vincent Ladeuil, #723074)
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* Fix a race condition for ``server_started`` hooks leading to a spurious
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test failure. (Vincent Ladeuil, #789167)
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* Fix exporting subdirectory with ``--per-file-timestamps``.
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(Szilveszter Farkas, #795557)
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* Handle files that get created but don't get used during TreeTransform.
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``open()`` can create a file, and still raise an exception before it
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returns. So anything we might have created, make sure we destroy during
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* Improve documentation of ``bzr merge --force``.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #767307)
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* Make docs for configuration options for digital signatures match
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reality. (Jonathan Riddell)
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* Add user-guide page on GPG signatures. (Jonathan Riddell)
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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* Test optional features including the base `Feature` class have been
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moved to `bzrlib.tests.features`.
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* Checking for a file id in a `Tree` or `Inventory` using ``in`` is now
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deprecated. Instead, use `has_id`.
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* Exporters are now all exposed as generators, rather than as single-call
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functions, so that calling code can take stream the output.
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* Information about held lockdir locks returned from eg `LockDir.peek` is
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now represented as a `LockHeldInfo` object, rather than a plain
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* Remove `file_status` function.
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* ``Repository.iter_reverse_revision_history`` is now deprecated.
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Use ``Graph.iter_lefthand_ancestry`` instead.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #739481)
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* ``Repository.get_ancestry`` has been deprecated. Use
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``Graph.iter_ancestry`` instead.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #784511)
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