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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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* Accessing a packaging branch on Launchpad (eg, ``lp:ubuntu/bzr``) now
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checks to see if the most recent published source package version for
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that project is present in the branch tags. This should help developers
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trust whether the packaging branch is up-to-date and can be used for new
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changes. The level of verbosity is controlled by the config item
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``launchpad.packaging_verbosity``. It can be set to one of
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only display if the branch is out-of-date
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also display single-line up-to-date and missing,
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(default) display multi-line content for all states
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(John Arbash Meinel, #609187, #812928)
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* The fix for bug #513709 caused us to open a new connection when
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switching a lightweight checkout that was pointing at a bound branch.
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This isn't necessary because we know the master URL without opening it,
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avoiding an extra SSH connection, etc.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #812285)
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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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* `BranchBuilder.build_snapshot` now supports a "flush" action. This
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cleanly and reliably allows tests using `BranchBuilder` to construct
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branches that e.g. rename files out of a directory and unversion that
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directory in the same revision. Previously some changes were impossible
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due to the order that `build_snapshot` performs its actions.
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* `TestCaseWithMemoryTransport` is faster now: `_check_safety_net` now
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just compares the bytes in the dirstate file to its pristine state,
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rather than opening the WorkingTree and calling ``last_revision()``.
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This reduces the overall test suite time by about 10% on my laptop.
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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 commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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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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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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* ``Branch.open`` is now about 3x faster (about 2ms instead of 6.5ms).
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(Andrew Bennetts).
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* Pack, dirstate, and index files are synced to persistent storage if
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possible when writing finishes, to reduce the risk of problems caused by
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a machine crash or similar problem. This can be turned off through the
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``dirstate.fdatasync`` and ``repository.fdatasync`` options, which can
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be set in ``locations.conf`` or ``bazaar.conf``. (Martin Pool,
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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, #792246)
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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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* ``TreeTransformBase.fixup_new_roots`` can now check that a tree root
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is present. (Jelmer Vernooij, #801257)
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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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* 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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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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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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