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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* New option ``--overwrite-tags`` for ``bzr pull`` and ``bzr push``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #681792)
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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 branches`` will now also list sibling branches when
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the current location is a lightweight checkout of a branch in
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a shared repository. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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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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* Connecting with HTTPS via HTTP now correctly uses the host name of the
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destination rather than the proxy when checking certificates.
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(Martin Packman, #944696)
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* Fixed merge tool availability checking and invocation to search the
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Windows App Path registry in addition to the PATH. (Gordon Tyler, #939605)
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* Make sure configuration options can provide their own help topic.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #941672)
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* The alpha-quality texinfo sphinx builder has been deprecated. Sphinx >=
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1.1.2 now provides a better one. Most of the documentation can now be
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generated to the texinfo format with ``make texinfo-sphinx``. This will
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generate both the ``.texi`` files and the ``.info`` ones.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #940164)
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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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* Add support for pyftpdlib >= 0.7.0 and drop support for previous pyftpdlib
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versions. (Vincent Ladeuil, #956027)
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This release marks the start of a new long-term-stable series. From here, we
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will only make bugfix releases on the 2.5 series (2.5.1, etc, and support it
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until April 2017), while 2.6 will become our new development series.
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This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.4 series, with a large number
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of bugs fixed (~170 for the 2.5 series alone). The 2.5 series provides a
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faster smart protocol implementation for many operations, basic support for
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colocated branches. We have started translating bzr with the 2.5 series:
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https://translations.launchpad.net/bzr, more than 20 languages have already
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been registered but these are the early days, contributions welcome.
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Only a few bugfixes have been included since 2.5b6 so all known fixed bugs
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
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* The names of colocated branches are used as branch nicks if no nick is
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specified. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Show locks in ``bzr info`` on control directories without a
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repository. (Jelmer Vernooij, #936767)
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* Disable ssl certificate verification on osx and windows until a native
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access to the the root certificates is provided there.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #929179)
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* Stop depending on the particular CPython ordering of dictionary keys
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when testing the result of BzrDir.get_branches.
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This is the sixth (and last (really)) beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a
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2.5.0 release in March 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
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but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins.
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This introduces the support for colocated branches into the '2a' format in a
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backward compatible way, fix more glitches in the colocated UI, verify https
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certificates for the urllib https client implementation, fix some more
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unicode issues and more.
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All bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of this release are
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* Support for colocated branches is now available in the default
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format ("2a"). (Jelmer Vernooij)
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a control directory (but no branch or working tree).
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* Checkouts of colocated branches are now always lightweight.
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* Colocated branches can now have names including forward slashes, to
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allow for namespaces. (Jelmer Vernooij, #907980)
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* New HPSS call for ``BzrDir.get_branches``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894460)
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