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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only display if the branch is out-of-date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 fourth release in our 2.1 series addresses some user-inconvenience bugs.
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None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on earlier 2.1
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* Launchpad has announced that the ``edge.launchpad.net`` instance is
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deprecated and may be shut down in the future
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<http://blog.launchpad.net/general/edge-is-deprecated>. Bazaar has therefore
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been updated in this release to talk to the main (``launchpad.net``) servers,
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rather than the ``edge`` ones. (Vincent Ladeuil, #583667)
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* Avoid UnicodeDecodeError in ``bzr add`` with multiple files under a non-ascii
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path on windows from symlink support addition. (Martin [gz], #686611)
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* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
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needed to succesfully run the test suite for installed versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
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* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as root.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
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* Using bzr with `lp:` URLs behind an HTTP proxy should work.
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(Robert Collins, #558343)
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:Codename: Do run run
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The third release in our 2.1 series addresses several user-inconvenience bugs
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(and includes the fixes done in 2.0.6). None are critical, but upgrading is
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recommended for all users on earlier 2.1 releases.
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
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(Martin [gz], #254278)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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This release fixes two critical networking issues with older servers and
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with interrupted system call errors when pushing or pulling. We recommend
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upgrading to anyone running a 2.1.x version of bzr.
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* ``bzr clean-tree`` should not delete nested bzrdirs. Required for proper
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support of bzr-externals and scmproj plugins.
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(Alexander Belchenko, bug #572098)
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* ``bzr switch`` does not die if a ConfigurableFileMerger is used.
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(Aaron Bentley, #559436)
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* Do not register a SIGWINCH signal handler, instead just poll for the
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terminal width as needed. This avoids the "Interrupted System Call"
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problems that occur on POSIX with all currently released versions of
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(Andrew Bennetts, #583941)
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* Fixed ``AssertionError`` when accessing smart servers running Bazaar
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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* Reset ``siginterrupt`` flag to False every time we handle a signal
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installed with ``set_signal_handler(..., restart_syscall=True)`` (from
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``bzrlib.osutils``. Reduces the likelihood of "Interrupted System Call"
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errors compared to registering ``signal.signal`` directly.
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Support Pyrex 0.9.9, required changing how we handle exceptions in Pyrex.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #582656)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``_remember_remote_is_before`` no longer raises AssertionError when
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suboptimal network behaviour is noticed; instead it just mutters to the
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log file (and warns the user if they have set the ``hpss`` debug flag).
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This was causing unnecessary aborts for performance bugs that are minor
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(Andrew Bennetts, #528041)
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This is a small bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for anyone
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running 2.1.0 or earlier.
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* Allow syscalls to automatically restart when ``TextUIFactory``'s
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SIGWINCH handler is invoked, avoiding ``EINTR`` errors during blocking
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IO, which are often poorly handled by Python's libraries and parts of
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bzrlib. (Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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* Avoid ``malloc(0)`` in ``patiencediff``, which is non-portable.
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(Martin Pool, #331095)
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* Fix plugin packaging on Windows. (Ian Clatworthy, #524162)
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* Fix stub SFTP test server to call os.getcwdu().
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #526221, #526353)
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* Fixed CHM generation by moving the NEWS section template into
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a separate file. (Ian Clatworthy, #524184)
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* Merge correctly when this_tree is not a WorkingTree. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Register SIGWINCH handler only when creating a ``TextUIFactory``; avoids
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problems importing bzrlib from a non-main thread.
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(Elliot Murphy, #521989)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Standardize the error handling when creating a new ``StaticTuple``
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(problems will raise TypeError). (Matt Nordhoff, #457979)
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* Warn if pyrex is too old to compile the new ``SimpleSet`` and
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``StaticTuple`` extensions, rather than having the build fail randomly.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #449776)
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* Added a link to the Desktop Guide. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Added What's New in Bazaar 2.1 document. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Drop Google Analytics from the core docs as they caused problems
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in the CHM files. (Ian Clatworthy, #502010)
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* Added ``bzrlib.osutils.set_signal_handler``, a convenience function that
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can set a signal handler and call ``signal.siginterrupt(signum,
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False)`` for it, if the platform and Python version supports it.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #496813)
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:Codename: Strasbourg
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This release marks our second long-term-stable series. The Bazaar team
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has decided that we will continue to make bugfix-only 2.0.x and 2.1.x
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releases, along with 2.2 development releases.
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This is a fairly incremental update, focusing on polish and bugfixing.
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There are no changes for supported disk formats. Key updates include
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reduced memory consumption for many operations, a new per-file merge
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hook, ignore patterns can now include '!' to exclude files, globbing
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support for all commands on Windows, and support for addressing home
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directories via ``bzr+ssh://host/~/`` syntax.
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the 2.0 stable series.
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* Don't require testtools to use SFTP.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #516183)
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* Fix "AttributeError in Inter1and2Helper" during fetch.
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(Martin Pool, #513432)
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* ``bzr update`` performs the two merges in a more logical order and will stop
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when it encounters conflicts.
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(Gerard Krol, #113809)
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* Give a better error message when doing ``bzr bind`` in an already bound
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branch. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #513063)
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* Ignore ``KeyError`` from ``remove_index`` during ``_abort_write_group``
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in a pack repository, which can happen harmlessly if the abort occurs during
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finishing the write group. Also use ``bzrlib.cleanup`` so that any
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other errors that occur while aborting the individual packs won't be
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hidden by secondary failures when removing the corresponding indices.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #423015)
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* Set the mtime of files exported to a directory by ``bzr export`` all to
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the same value to avoid confusing ``make`` and other date-based build
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systems. (Robert Collins, #515631)
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* Fetching into experimental formats will now print a warning. (Jelmer
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* ``Repository.deserialise_inventory`` has been renamed to
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``Repository._deserialise_inventory`` to indicate it is private.
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* ``Repository.get_inventory_xml`` has been renamed to
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``Repository._get_inventory_xml`` to indicate it is private.
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* ``Repository.serialise_inventory`` has been renamed to
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``Repository._serialise_inventory`` to indicate it is private.
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* Using the ``bzrlib.chk_map`` module from within multiple threads at the
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same time was broken due to race conditions with a module level page
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cache. This shows up as a KeyError in the ``bzrlib.lru_cache`` code with
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``bzrlib.chk_map`` in the backtrace, and can be triggered without using
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the same high level objects such as ``bzrlib.repository.Repository``
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from different threads. chk_map now uses a thread local cache which may
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increase memory pressure on processes using threads.
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(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #514090)
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* The new ``merge_file_content`` should now be ok with tests to avoid
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #515597)
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* Use ``bzrlib.cleanup`` rather than less robust ``try``/``finally``
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blocks in several places in ``bzrlib.merge``. This avoids masking prior
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errors when errors like ``ImmortalPendingDeletion`` occur during cleanup
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(Andrew Bennetts, #517275)
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* The ``remove_index`` method of
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``bzrlib.repofmt.pack_repo.AggregateIndex`` no longer takes a ``pack``
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argument. This argument was always ignored.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #423015)
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:Codename: after the bubbles
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:2.1.0rc2: 2010-01-29
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This is a quick-turn-around to update a small issue with our new per-file
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merge hook. We expect no major changes from this to the final 2.1.0.
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* The new ``merge_file_content`` hook point has been altered to provide a
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better API where state for extensions can be stored rather than the
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too-simple function based approach. This fixes a performance regression
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where branch configuration would be parsed per-file during merge. As
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part of this the included news_merger has been refactored into a base
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helper class ``bzrlib.merge.ConfigurableFileMerger``.
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(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel, #513822)
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:Codename: the 'new' stable
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:2.1.0rc1: 2009-01-21
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This is the first stable release candidate for Bazaar's 2.1 series. From
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this point onwards, the 2.1 series will be considered stable (as the 2.0
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series) and only bugfixes are expected to be incorporated. The dozen or so
449
bugfixes in the 2.0.4 release are also included in this release (along
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with more than 15 more bugfixes). Some of the interesting features are
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support for per-file merge hooks, ``bzr unshelve --preview``, support
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for using ! in ignore files to exclude files from being ignored, a small
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memory leak was squashed, and many ``ObjectNotLocked`` errors were fixed.
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This looks to be a very good start for a new stable series.
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* Add bug information to log output when available.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Guillermo Gonzalez, #251729)
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* Added ``merge_file_content`` hook point to ``Merger``, allowing plugins
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to register custom merge logic, e.g. to provide smarter merging for
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* Bazaar now includes the ``news_merge`` plugin. It is disabled by
468
default, to enable it add a ``news_merge_files`` option to your
469
configuration. Consult ``bzr help news_merge`` for more information.
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* ``bzr branch`` now takes a ``--bind`` option. This lets you
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branch and bind all in one command. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``bzr switch`` now takes a ``--revision`` option, to allow switching to
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a specific revision of a branch. (Daniel Watkins, #183559)
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* ``bzr unshelve --preview`` can now be used to show how a patch on the
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shelf would be applied to the working tree.
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(Guilherme Salgado, #308122)
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* ``bzr update`` now takes a ``--revision`` argument. This lets you
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change the revision of the working tree to any revision in the
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ancestry of the current or master branch. (Matthieu Moy, Mark Hammond,
487
* ``-Dbytes`` can now be used to display the total number of bytes
488
transferred for the current command. This information is always logged
489
to ``.bzr.log`` for later inspection. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* New ignore patterns. Patterns prefixed with '!' are exceptions to
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ignore patterns and take precedence over regular ignores. Such
493
exceptions are used to specify files that should be versioned which
494
would otherwise be ignored. Patterns prefixed with '!!' act as regular
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ignore patterns, but have highest precedence, even over the '!'
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exception patterns. (John Whitley, #428031)
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* The ``supress_warnings`` configuration option has been introduced to disable
499
various warnings (it currently only supports the ``format_deprecation``
500
warning). The new option can be set in any of the following locations:
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``bazaar.conf``, ``locations.conf`` and/or ``branch.conf``.
502
(Ted Gould, Matthew Fuller, Vincent Ladeuil)
507
* Always show a message if an OS error occurs while trying to run a
508
user-specified commit message editor.
509
(Martin Pool, #504842)
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* ``bzr diff`` will now use the epoch when it is unable to determine
512
the timestamp of a file, if the revision it was introduced in is a
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ghost. (Jelmer Vernooij, #295611)
515
* ``bzr switch -b`` can now create branches that are located using directory
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services such as ``lp:``, even when the branch name doesn't contain a
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'/'. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #495263)
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* ``bzr unshelve`` has improved messages about what it is doing.
520
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #496917)
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* Concurrent autopacking is more resilient to already-renamed pack files.
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If we find that a file we are about to obsolete is already obsoleted, we
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do not try to rename it, and we leave the file in ``obsolete_packs``.
525
The code is also fault tolerant if a file goes missing, assuming that
526
another process already removed the file.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #507557)
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* Fix "Too many concurrent requests" in reconcile when network connection
530
fails. (Andrew Bennetts, #503878)
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* Fixed a side effect mutation of ``RemoteBzrDirFormat._network_name``
533
that caused some tests to fail when run in a non-default order.
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Probably no user impact. (Martin Pool, #504102)
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* Fixed ``ObjectNotLocked`` error in ``bzr cat -rbranch:../foo FILE``.
537
(Andrew Bennetts, #506274)
539
* FTP transports support Unicode paths by encoding/decoding them as utf8.
540
(Vincent Ladeuil, #472161)
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* Listen to the SIGWINCH signal to update the terminal width.
543
(Vincent Ladeuil, #316357)
545
* Progress bars are now hidden when ``--quiet`` is given.
546
(Martin Pool, #320035)
548
* ``SilentUIFactory`` now supports ``make_output_stream`` and discards
549
whatever is written to it. This un-breaks some plugin tests that
550
depended on this behaviour.
551
(Martin Pool, #499757)
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* When operations update the working tree, all affected files should end
554
up with the same mtime. (eg. when versioning a generated file, if you
555
update the source and the generated file together, the generated file
556
should appear up-to-date.)
557
(John Arbash Meinel, Martin <gzlist>, #488724)
562
* Added ``add_cleanup`` and ``cleanup_now`` to ``bzrlib.command.Command``.
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All the builtin commands now use ``add_cleanup`` rather than
564
``try``/``finally`` blocks where applicable as it is simpler and more
565
robust. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* All except a small number of storage formats are now hidden, making
568
the help for numerous commands far more digestible. (Ian Clatworthy)
570
* Attempts to open a shared repository as a branch (e.g. ``bzr branch
571
path/to/repo``) will now include "location is a repository" as a hint in
572
the error message. (Brian de Alwis, Andrew Bennetts, #440952)
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* Push will now inform the user when they are trying to push to a foreign
575
VCS for which roundtripping is not supported, and will suggest them to
576
use dpush. (Jelmer Vernooij)
578
* The version of bzr being run is now written to the log file.
581
* Transport network activity indicator is shown more of the time when
582
Bazaar is doing network IO.
588
* Add documentation on creating merges with more than one parent.
589
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #481526)
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* Better explain the --uncommitted option of merge.
592
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #505088)
594
* Improve discussion of pending merges in the documentation for
595
``revert``. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #505093)
597
* Improved help for ``bzr send``.
598
(Martin Pool, Bojan Nikolic)
600
* There is a System Administrator's Guide in ``doc/en/admin-guide``,
601
including discussions of installation, relevant plugins, security and
602
backup. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
604
* The ``conflicts`` help topic has been renamed to ``conflict-types``.
607
* The User Reference is now presented as a series of topics.
608
Many of the included topics have link and format tweaks applied.
614
* Added ``cachedproperty`` decorator to ``bzrlib.decorators``.
617
* Many test features were renamed from ``FooFeature`` to ``foo_feature``
618
to be consistent with instances being lower case and classes being
619
CamelCase. For the features that were more likely to be used, we added a
620
deprecation thunk, but not all. (John Arbash Meinel)
622
* Merger classes (such as ``Merge3Merger``) now expect a ``this_branch``
623
parameter in their constructors, and provide ``this_branch`` as an
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attribute. (Andrew Bennetts)
626
* The Branch hooks pre_change_branch_tip no longer masks exceptions raised
627
by plugins - the original exceptions are now preserved. (Robert Collins)
629
* The Transport ``Server.tearDown`` method is now renamed to
630
``stop_server`` and ``setUp`` to ``start_server`` for consistency with
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our normal naming pattern, and to avoid confusion with Python's
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``TestCase.tearDown``. (Martin Pool)
634
* ``WorkingTree.update`` implementations must now accept a ``revision``
640
* Added ``BzrDir.open_branchV3`` smart server request, which can receive
641
a string of details (such as "location is a repository") as part of a
642
``nobranch`` response. (Andrew Bennetts, #440952)
644
* New helper osutils.UnicodeOrBytesToBytesWriter which encodes unicode
645
objects but passes str objects straight through. This is used for
646
selftest but may be useful for diff and other operations that generate
647
mixed output. (Robert Collins)
649
* New exception ``NoRoundtrippingSupport``, for use by foreign branch
650
plugins. (Jelmer Vernooij)
655
* ``bzrlib.tests.permute_for_extension`` is a helper that simplifies
656
running all tests in the current module, once against a pure python
657
implementation, and once against an extension (pyrex/C) implementation.
658
It can be used to dramatically simplify the implementation of
659
``load_tests``. (John Arbash Meinel)
661
* ``bzrlib.tests.TestCase`` now subclasses ``testtools.testcase.TestCase``.
662
This permits features in testtools such as getUniqueInteger and
663
getUniqueString to be used. Because of this, testtools version 0.9.2 or
664
newer is now a dependency to run bzr selftest. Running with versions of
665
testtools less than 0.9.2 will cause bzr to error while loading the test
666
suite. (Robert Collins)
668
* Shell-like tests now support the command "mv" for moving files. The
669
syntax for ``mv file1 file2``, ``mv dir1 dir2`` and ``mv file dir`` is
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supported. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
672
* The test progress bar no longer distinguishes tests that 'errored' from
673
tests that 'failed' - they're all just failures.
680
:Codename: san francisco airport
683
The fourth beta release in the 2.1 series brings with it a significant
684
number of bugfixes (~20). The test suite is once again (finally) "green"
685
on Windows, and should remain that way for future releases. There are a
686
few performance related updates (faster upgrade and log), and several UI
687
tweaks. There has also been a significant number of tweaks to the runtime
688
documentation. 2.1.0b4 include everything from the 2.0.3 release.
694
* The BZR_SSH environmental variable may now be set to the path of a secure
695
shell client. If currently set to the value ``ssh`` it will now guess the
696
vendor of the program with that name, to restore the old behaviour that
697
indicated the SSH Corporation client use ``sshcorp`` instead as the magic
698
string. (Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #176292)
703
* ``bzr commit`` now has a ``--commit-time`` option.
704
(Alexander Sack, #459276)
706
* ``-Dhpss`` now increases logging done when run on the bzr server,
707
similarly to how it works on the client. (John Arbash Meinel)
709
* New option ``bzr unshelve --keep`` applies the changes and leaves them
710
on the shelf. (Martin Pool, Oscar Fuentes, #492091)
712
* The ``BZR_COLUMNS`` envrionment variable can be set to force bzr to
713
respect a given terminal width. This can be useful when output is
714
redirected or in obscure cases where the default value is not
715
appropriate. Pagers can use it to get a better control of the line
719
* The new command ``bzr lp-mirror`` will request that Launchpad update its
720
mirror of a local branch. This command will only function if launchpadlib
728
* After renaming a file, the dirstate could accidentally reference
729
``source\\path`` rather than ``source/path`` on Windows. This might be a
730
source of some dirstate-related failures. (John Arbash Meinel)
732
* ``bzr commit`` now detects commit messages that looks like file names
733
and issues a warning.
734
(Gioele Barabucci, #73073)
736
* ``bzr ignore /`` no longer causes an IndexError. (Gorden Tyler, #456036)
738
* ``bzr log -n0 -rN`` should not return revisions beyond its merged revisions.
739
(#325618, #484109, Marius Kruger)
741
* ``bzr merge --weave`` and ``--lca`` will now create ``.BASE`` files for
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files with conflicts (similar to ``--merge3``). The contents of the file
743
is a synthesis of all bases used for the merge.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #40412)
746
* ``bzr mv --quiet`` really is quiet now. (Gordon Tyler, #271790)
748
* ``bzr serve`` is more clear about the risk of supplying --allow-writes.
749
(Robert Collins, #84659)
751
* ``bzr serve --quiet`` really is quiet now. (Gordon Tyler, #252834)
753
* Fix bug with redirected URLs over authenticated HTTP.
754
(Glen Mailer, Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Vincent Ladeuil, #395714)
756
* Interactive merge doesn't leave branch locks behind. (Aaron Bentley)
758
* Lots of bugfixes for the test suite on Windows. We should once again
759
have a test suite with no failures on Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
761
* ``osutils.terminal_width()`` obeys the BZR_COLUMNS environment
762
variable but returns None if the terminal is not a tty (when output is
763
redirected for example). Also fixes its usage under OSes that doesn't
764
provide termios.TIOCGWINSZ. Make sure the corresponding tests runs on
766
(Joke de Buhr, Vincent Ladeuil, #353370, #62539)
767
(John Arbash Meinel, Vincent Ladeuil, #492561)
769
* Terminate SSH subprocesses when no references to them remain, fixing
770
subprocess and file descriptor leaks. (Andrew Bennetts, #426662)
772
* The ``--hardlink`` option of ``bzr branch`` and ``bzr checkout`` now
773
works for 2a format trees. Only files unaffected by content filters
774
will be hardlinked. (Andrew Bennetts, #408193)
776
* The new glob expansion on Windows would replace all ``\`` characters
777
with ``/`` even if it there wasn't a glob to expand, the arg was quoted,
778
etc. Now only change slashes if there is something being glob expanded.
779
(John Arbash Meinel, #485771)
781
* Use our faster ``KnownGraph.heads()`` functionality when computing the
782
new rich-root heads. This can cut a conversion time in half (mysql from
783
13.5h => 6.2h) (John Arbash Meinel, #487632)
785
* When launching a external diff tool via bzr diff --using, temporary files
786
are no longer created, rather, the path to the file in the working tree is
787
passed to the external diff tool. This allows the file to be edited if the
788
diff tool provides for this. (Gary van der Merwe, #490738)
790
* The launchpad-open command can now be used from a subdirectory of a
791
branch, not just from the root of the branch.
792
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #489102)
798
* ``bzr log`` is now faster. (Ian Clatworthy)
800
* ``bzr update`` provides feedback on which branch it is up to date with.
801
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
803
* ``bzr upgrade`` from pre-2a to 2a can be significantly faster (4x).
804
For details see the xml8 patch and heads() improvements.
807
* ``bzrlib.urlutils.local_path_from_url`` now accepts
808
'file://localhost/' as well as 'file:///' URLs on POSIX. (Michael
811
* The progress bar now shows only a spinner and per-operation counts,
812
not an overall progress bar. The previous bar was often not correlated
813
with real overall operation progress, either because the operations take
814
nonlinear time, or because at the start of the operation Bazaar couldn't
815
estimate how much work there was to do. (Martin Pool)
820
* Lots of documentation tweaks for inline help topics and command help
826
* ``bzrlib.textui`` (vestigial module) removed. (Martin Pool)
828
* The Launchpad plugin now has a function ``login`` which will log in to
829
Launchpad with launchpadlib, and ``load_branch`` which will return the
830
Launchpad Branch object corresponding to a given Bazaar Branch object.
836
* New test Feature: ``ModuleAvailableFeature``. It is designed to make it
837
easier to handle what tests you want to run based on what modules can be
838
imported. (Rather than lots of custom-implemented features that were
839
basically copy-and-pasted.) (John Arbash Meinel)
841
* ``osutils.timer_func()`` can be used to get either ``time.time()`` or
842
``time.clock()`` when you want to do performance timing.
843
``time.time()`` is limited to 15ms resolution on Windows, but
844
``time.clock()`` gives CPU and not wall-clock time on other platforms.
847
* Several code paths that were calling ``Transport.get().read()`` have
848
been changed to the equalivent ``Transport.get_bytes()``. The main
849
difference is that the latter will explicitly call ``file.close()``,
850
rather than expecting the garbage collector to handle it. This helps
851
with some race conditions on Windows during the test suite and SFTP
852
tests. (John Arbash Meinel)
857
* TestCaseWithMemoryTransport no longer sets $HOME and $BZR_HOME to
858
unicode strings. (Michael Hudson, #464174)
864
:Codename: after sprint recovery
867
This release was pushed up from its normal release cycle due to a
868
regression in python 2.4 compatibility in 2.1.0b2. Since this regression
869
was caught before 2.1.0b2 was officially announced, the full changelog
870
includes both 2.1.0b3 and 2.1.0b2 changes.
872
Highlights of 2.1.0b3 are: new globbing code for all commands on Windows,
873
the test suite now conforms to python's trunk enhanced semantics (skip,
874
etc.), and ``bzr info -v`` will now report the correct branch and repo
875
formats for Remote objects.
881
* Users can define a shelve editor to provide shelf functionality at a
882
granularity finer than per-patch-hunk. (Aaron Bentley)
887
* Fix for shell completion and short options. (Benoît PIERRE)
889
* Fix ``bzr --profile-imports`` with Python 2.6. (Martin Pool)
891
* Hooks daughter classes should always call the base constructor.
892
(Alexander Belchenko, Vincent Ladeuil, #389648)
894
* Improve "Binary files differ" hunk handling. (Aaron Bentley, #436325)
896
* On Windows, do glob expansion at the command-line level (as is usually
897
done in bash, etc.) This means that *all* commands get glob expansion
898
(bzr status, bzr add, bzr mv, etc). It uses a custom command line
899
parser, which allows us to know if a given section was quoted. It means
900
you can now do ``bzr ignore "*.py"``.
901
(John Arbash Meinel, #425510, #426410, #194450)
903
* Sanitize commit messages that come in from the '-m' flag. We translate
904
'\r\n' => '\n' and a plain '\r' => '\n'. The storage layer doesn't
905
allow those because XML store silently translate it anyway. (The parser
906
auto-translates \r\n => \n in ways that are hard for us to catch.)
908
* Show correct branch and repository format descriptions in
909
``bzr info -v`` on a smart server location. (Andrew Bennetts, #196080)
911
* The fix for bug #186920 accidentally broke compatibility with python
912
2.4. (Vincent Ladeuil, #475585)
914
* Using ``Repository.get_commit_builder().record_iter_changes()`` now
915
correctly sets ``self.inv_sha1`` to a sha1 string and
916
``self.new_inventory`` to an Inventory instance after calling
917
``self.finish_inventory()``. (Previously it accidently set both values
918
as a tuple on ``self.inv_sha1``. This was missed because
919
``repo.add_revision`` ignores the supplied inventory sha1 and recomputes
920
the sha1 from the repo directly. (John Arbash Meinel)
922
* Shelve command refuse to run if there is no real terminal.
923
(Alexander Belchenko)
925
* Avoid unnecessarily flushing of trace file; it's now unbuffered at the
926
Python level. (Martin Pool)
931
* Include Japanese translations for documentation (Inada Naoki)
933
* New API ``ui_factory.make_output_stream`` to be used for sending bulk
934
(rather than user-interaction) data to stdout. This automatically
935
coordinates with progress bars or other terminal activity, and can be
937
(Martin Pool, 493944)
942
* Some of the core groupcompress functionality now releases the GIL before
943
operation. Similar to how zlib and bz2 operate without the GIL in the
944
core compression and decompression routines. (John Arbash Meinel)
949
* -Dhpssvfs will now trigger on ``RemoteBzrDir._ensure_real``, providing
950
more debugging of VFS access triggers. (Robert Collins)
952
* KnownFailure is now signalled to ``ExtendedTestResult`` using the same
953
method that Python 2.7 uses - ``addExpectedFailure``. (Robert Collins)
955
* ``--parallel=fork`` is now compatible with --subunit.
956
(Robert Collins, Vincent Ladeuil, #419776)
958
* Reporting of failures shows test ids not descriptions and thus shows
959
parameterised tests correctly. (Robert Collins)
961
* TestNotApplicable is now handled within the TestCase.run method rather
962
than being looked for within ``ExtendedTestResult.addError``. This
963
provides better handling with other ``TestResult`` objects, degrading to
964
sucess rather than error. (Robert Collins)
966
* The private method ``_testConcluded`` on ``ExtendedTestResult`` has been
967
removed - it was empty and unused. (Robert Collins)
969
* UnavailableFeature is now handled within the TestCase.run method rather
970
than being looked for within addError. If the Result object does not
971
have an addNotSupported method, addSkip is attempted instead, and
972
failing that addSuccess. (Robert Collins)
974
* When a TestResult does not have an addSkip method, skipped tests are now
975
reported as successful tests, rather than as errors. This change is
976
to make it possible to get a clean test run with a less capable
977
TestResult. (Robert Collins)
984
:Codename: a load off my mind
987
This is our second feature-filled release since 2.0, pushing us down the
988
path to a 2.1.0. Once again, all bugfixes in 2.0.2 are present in 2.1.0b2.
990
Key highlights in this release are: improved handling of
991
failures-during-cleanup for commit, fixing a long-standing bug with
992
``bzr+http`` and shared repositories, all ``lp:`` URLs to be resolved
993
behind proxies, and a new StaticTuple datatype, allowing us to reduce
994
memory consumption (50%) and garbage collector overhead (40% faster) for
997
* A new ``--concurrency`` option has been added as well as an associated
998
BZR_CONCURRENCY environment variable to specify the number of
999
processes that can be run concurrently when running ``bzr selftest``. The
1000
command-line option overrides the environment variable if both are
1001
specified. If none is specified. the number of processes is obtained
1002
from the OS as before. (Matt Nordhoff, Vincent Ladeuil)
1007
* ``bzr+http`` servers no longer give spurious jail break errors when
1008
serving branches inside a shared repository. (Andrew Bennetts, #348308)
1010
* Errors during commit are handled more robustly so that knock-on errors
1011
are less likely to occur, and will not obscure the original error if
1012
they do occur. This fixes some causes of ``TooManyConcurrentRequests``
1013
and similar errors. (Andrew Bennetts, #429747, #243391)
1015
* Launchpad URLs can now be resolved from behind proxies.
1016
(Gordon Tyler, Vincent Ladeuil, #186920)
1018
* Reduce the strictness for StaticTuple, instead add a debug flag
1019
``-Dstatic_tuple`` which will change apis to be strict and raise errors.
1020
This way, most users won't see failures, but developers can improve
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internals. (John Arbash Meinel, #471193)
1023
* TreeTransform.adjust_path updates the limbo paths of descendants of adjusted
1024
files. (Aaron Bentley)
1026
* Unicode paths are now handled correctly and consistently by the smart
1027
server. (Andrew Bennetts, Michael Hudson, #458762)
1032
* When reading index files, we now use a ``StaticTuple`` rather than a
1033
plain ``tuple`` object. This generally gives a 20% decrease in peak
1034
memory, and can give a performance boost up to 40% on large projects.
1035
(John Arbash Meinel)
1037
* Peak memory under certain operations has been reduced significantly.
1038
(eg, 'bzr branch launchpad standalone' is cut in half)
1039
(John Arbash Meinel)
1044
* Filtered views user documentation upgraded to refer to format 2a
1045
instead of pre-2.0 formats. (Ian Clatworthy)
1050
* Remove deprecated ``CLIUIFactory``. (Martin Pool)
1052
* ``UIFactory`` now has new ``show_error``, ``show_message`` and
1053
``show_warning`` methods, which can be hooked by non-text UIs.
1059
* Added ``bzrlib._simple_set_pyx``. This is a hybrid between a Set and a
1060
Dict (it only holds keys, but you can lookup the object located at a
1061
given key). It has significantly reduced memory consumption versus the
1062
builtin objects (1/2 the size of Set, 1/3rd the size of Dict). This is
1063
used as the interning structure for StaticTuple objects.
1064
(John Arbash Meinel)
1066
* ``bzrlib._static_tuple_c.StaticTuple`` is now available and used by
1067
the btree index parser and the chk map parser. This class functions
1068
similarly to ``tuple`` objects. However, it can only point to a limited
1069
collection of types. (Currently StaticTuple, str, unicode, None, bool,
1070
int, long, float, but not subclasses). This allows us to remove it from
1071
the garbage collector (it cannot be in a cycle), it also allows us to
1072
intern the objects. In testing, this can reduce peak memory by 20-40%,
1073
and significantly improve performance by removing objects from being
1074
inspected by the garbage collector. (John Arbash Meinel)
1076
* ``GroupCompressBlock._ensure_content()`` will now release the
1077
``zlib.decompressobj()`` when the first request is for all of the
1078
content. (Previously it would only be released if you made a request for
1079
part of the content, and then all of it later.) This turns out to be a
1080
significant memory savings, as a ``zstream`` carries around approx 260kB
1081
of internal state and buffers. (For branching bzr.dev this drops peak
1082
memory from 382MB => 345MB.) (John Arbash Meinel)
1084
* When streaming content between ``2a`` format repositories, we now clear
1085
caches from earlier versioned files. (So 'revisions' is cleared when we
1086
start reading 'inventories', etc.) This can have a significant impact on
1087
peak memory for initial copies (~200MB). (John Arbash Meinel)
1093
:Codename: While the cat is away
1094
:2.1.0b1: 2009-10-14
1096
This is the first development release in the new split "stable" and
1097
"development" series. As such, the release is a snapshot of bzr.dev
1098
without creating a release candidate first. This release includes a
1099
fair amount of internal changes, with deprecated code being removed,
1100
and several new feature developments. People looking for a stable code
1101
base with only bugfixes should focus on the 2.0.1 release. All bugfixes
1102
present in 2.0.1 are present in 2.1.0b1.
1104
Highlights include support for ``bzr+ssh://host/~/homedir`` style URLs,
1105
finer control over the plugin search path via extended BZR_PLUGIN_PATH
1106
syntax, visible warnings when extension modules fail to load, and improved
1107
error handling during unlocking.
1113
* Bazaar can now send mail through Apple OS X Mail.app.
1116
* ``bzr+ssh`` and ``bzr`` paths can now be relative to home directories
1117
specified in the URL. Paths starting with a path segment of ``~`` are
1118
relative to the home directory of the user running the server, and paths
1119
starting with ``~user`` are relative to the home directory of the named
1120
user. For example, for a user "bob" with a home directory of
1121
``/home/bob``, these URLs are all equivalent:
1123
* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~/repo``
1124
* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~bob/repo``
1125
* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/home/bob/repo``
1127
If ``bzr serve`` was invoked with a ``--directory`` argument, then no
1128
home directories outside that directory will be accessible via this
1131
This is a feature of ``bzr serve``, so pre-2.1 clients will
1132
automatically benefit from this feature when ``bzr`` on the server is
1133
upgraded. (Andrew Bennetts, #109143)
1135
* Extensions can now be compiled if either Cython or Pyrex is available.
1136
Currently Pyrex is preferred, but that may change in the future.
1139
* Give more control on BZR_PLUGIN_PATH by providing a way to refer to or
1140
disable the user, site and core plugin directories.
1141
(Vincent Ladeuil, #412930, #316192, #145612)
1146
* Bazaar's native protocol code now correctly handles EINTR, which most
1147
noticeably occurs if you break in to the debugger while connected to a
1148
bzr+ssh server. You can now can continue from the debugger (by typing
1149
'c') and the process continues. However, note that pressing C-\ in the
1150
shell may still kill the SSH process, which is bug 162509, so you must
1151
sent a signal to the bzr process specifically, for example by typing
1152
``kill -QUIT PID`` in another shell. (Martin Pool, #341535)
1154
* ``bzr add`` in a tree that has files with ``\r`` or ``\n`` in the
1155
filename will issue a warning and skip over those files.
1156
(Robert Collins, #3918)
1158
* ``bzr dpush`` now aborts if uncommitted changes (including pending merges)
1159
are present in the working tree. The configuration option ``dpush_strict``
1160
can be used to set the default for this behavior.
1161
(Vincent Ladeuil, #438158)
1163
* ``bzr merge`` and ``bzr remove-tree`` now requires --force if pending
1164
merges are present in the working tree.
1165
(Vincent Ladeuil, #426344)
1167
* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a ``MemoryError``
1168
traceback. (Martin Pool, #109115)
1170
* Don't give a warning on Windows when failing to import ``_readdir_pyx``
1171
as it is never built. (John Arbash Meinel, #430645)
1173
* Don't restrict the command name used to run the test suite.
1174
(Vincent Ladeuil, #419950)
1176
* FTP transports were built differently when the kerberos python module was
1177
present leading to obscure failures related to ASCII/BINARY modes.
1178
(Vincent Ladeuil, #443041)
1180
* Network streams now decode adjacent records of the same type into a
1181
single stream, reducing layering churn. (Robert Collins)
1183
* PreviewTree behaves correctly when get_file_mtime is invoked on an unmodified
1184
file. (Aaron Bentley, #251532)
1186
* Registry objects should not use iteritems() when asked to use items().
1187
(Vincent Ladeuil, #430510)
1189
* Weave based repositories couldn't be cloned when committers were using
1190
domains or user ids embedding '.sig'. Now they can.
1191
(Matthew Fuller, Vincent Ladeuil, #430868)
1196
* Revision specifiers can now be given in a more DWIM form, without
1197
needing explicit prefixes for specifiers like tags or revision id's.
1198
See ``bzr help revisionspec`` for full details. (Matthew Fuller)
1200
* Bazaar gives a warning before exiting, and writes into ``.bzr.log``, if
1201
compiled extensions can't be loaded. This typically indicates a
1202
packaging or installation problem. In this case Bazaar will keep
1203
running using pure-Python versions, but this may be substantially
1204
slower. The warning can be disabled by setting
1205
``ignore_missing_extensions = True`` in ``bazaar.conf``.
1206
See also <https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+faq/703>.
1207
(Martin Pool, #406113, #430529)
1209
* Secondary errors that occur during Branch.unlock and Repository.unlock
1210
no longer obscure the original error. These methods now use a new
1211
decorator, ``only_raises``. This fixes many causes of
1212
``TooManyConcurrentRequests`` and similar errors.
1213
(Andrew Bennetts, #429747)
1218
* Describe the new shell-like test feature. (Vincent Ladeuil)
1220
* Help on hooks no longer says 'Not deprecated' for hooks that are
1221
currently supported. (Ian Clatworthy, #422415)
1226
* ``bzrlib.user_encoding`` has been removed; use
1227
``bzrlib.osutils.get_user_encoding`` instead. (Martin Pool)
1229
* ``bzrlib.tests`` now uses ``stopTestRun`` for its ``TestResult``
1230
subclasses - the same as python's unittest module. (Robert Collins)
1232
* ``diff._get_trees_to_diff`` has been renamed to
1233
``diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff``. It is now a public API, and it
1234
returns the old and new branches. (Gary van der Merwe)
1236
* ``bzrlib.trace.log_error``, ``error`` and ``info`` have been deprecated.
1239
* ``MutableTree.has_changes()`` does not require a tree parameter anymore. It
1240
now defaults to comparing to the basis tree. It now checks for pending
1241
merges too. ``Merger.check_basis`` has been deprecated and replaced by the
1242
corresponding has_changes() calls. ``Merge.compare_basis``,
1243
``Merger.file_revisions`` and ``Merger.ensure_revision_trees`` have also
1245
(Vincent Ladeuil, #440631)
1247
* ``ProgressTask.note`` is deprecated.
1253
* Added ``-Drelock`` debug flag. It will ``note`` a message every time a
1254
repository or branch object is unlocked then relocked the same way.
1257
* ``BTreeLeafParser.extract_key`` has been tweaked slightly to reduce
1258
mallocs while parsing the index (approx 3=>1 mallocs per key read).
1259
This results in a 10% speedup while reading an index.
1260
(John Arbash Meinel)
1262
* The ``bzrlib.lsprof`` module has a new class ``BzrProfiler`` which makes
1263
profiling in some situations like callbacks and generators easier.
1269
* Passing ``--lsprof-tests -v`` to bzr selftest will cause lsprof output to
1270
be output for every test. Note that this is very verbose! (Robert Collins)
1272
* Setting ``BZR_TEST_PDB=1`` when running selftest will cause a pdb
1273
post_mortem to be triggered when a test failure occurs. (Robert Collins)
1275
* Shell-like tests can now be written. Code in ``bzrlib/tests/script.py`` ,
1276
documentation in ``developers/testing.txt`` for details.
1279
* Some tests could end up with the same id, that was dormant for
1281
(Vincent Ladeuil, #442980)
1283
* Stop showing the number of tests due to missing features in the test
1284
progress bar. (Martin Pool)
1286
* Test parameterisation now does a shallow copy, not a deep copy of the test
1287
to be parameterised. This is not expected to break external use of test
1288
parameterisation, and is substantially faster. (Robert Collins)
1290
* Tests that try to open a bzr dir on an arbitrary transport will now
1291
fail unless they have explicitly permitted the transport via
1292
``self.permit_url``. The standard test factories such as ``self.get_url``
1293
will permit the URLs they provide automatically, so only exceptional
1294
tests should need to do this. (Robert Collins)
1296
* The break-in test no longer cares about clean shutdown of the child,
1297
instead it is happy if the debugger starts up. (Robert Collins)
1299
* The full test suite is expected to pass when the C extensions are not
1300
present. (Vincent Ladeuil, #430749)
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