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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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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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.. 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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This is the fourth beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a 2.5.0 release in
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February 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause
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some incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes many improvements in the smart server, UI polish for
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the colocated branches, optimizations for revision specifiers to avoid
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history sized operations, enhancements to the config framework, bug fixes
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related to unicode paths and more.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
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External Compatibility Breaks
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* Provides a ``po_merge`` plugin to automatically merge ``.po`` files with
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``msgmerge``. See ``bzr help po_merge`` for details.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #884270)
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* ``bzr branch --stacked`` now only makes a single connection to the remote
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server rather than three. (Jelmer Vernooij, #444293)
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* ``bzr export --uncommitted`` will export the uncommitted tree.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #555613)
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* ``bzr rmbranch`` can now remove colocated branches.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #831464)
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* ``bzr status`` no longer shows shelves if files are specified.
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* ``bzr switch`` now accepts colocated branch names to switch to.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #826814)
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* Plugins can now register additional "location aliases".
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* Revision specifiers will now only browse as much history as they
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need to, rather than grabbing the whole history unnecessarily in some
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cases. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* When using ``bzr switch`` to switch to a sibling of the current
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branch, the relative branch name should no longer be url-encoded.
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* ``bzr switch`` now accepts colocated branch names to switch to.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #826814)
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* ``bzr branch --stacked`` now only makes a single connection to the remote
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server rather than three. (Jelmer Vernooij, #444293)
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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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* Allow lazy compiled patterns from ``bzrlib.lazy_regex`` to be
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pickled. (Jelmer Vernooij, #893149)
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* A new section local option ``basename`` is available to help support some
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``bzr-pipeline`` workflows and more generally help mapping local paths to
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remote ones. See ``bzr help configuration`` for more details.
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from remote repositories. (Jelmer Vernooij, #368717, #762330,
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* Allow lazy compiled patterns from ``bzrlib.lazy_regex`` to be
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pickled. (Jelmer Vernooij, #893149)
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* ``bzr info`` no longer shows empty output if only a control
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directory is present. (Jelmer Vernooij, #159098)
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* Cope with missing revision ids being specified to
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``Repository.gather_stats`` HPSS call. (Jelmer Vernooij, #411290)
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and gives a better error message if the time zone offset is not given.
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* Give meaningful file/line references when reporting deprecation warnings
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for _CompatabilityThunkFeature based test features.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #897718)
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* Make reporting of mistakes involving unversioned files with non-ascii
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filenames work again without 'Unprintable exception' being shown.
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(Martin Packman, #898408)
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* Provide names for lazily registered hooks.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #894609)
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* Raise BadIndexKey exception in btree_index when a key is too large, fixing
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an infinite recursion issue. (Shannon Weyrick, #720853)
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* Resolve regression from colocated branch path handling, by ensuring that
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unreserved characters are unquoted in URLs. (Martin Packman, #842223)
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* Support verifying signatures on remote repositories.
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* Fixed parsing of the timestamp given to ``commit --commit-time``. Now
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prohibits several invalid strings, reads the correct number of seconds,
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and gives a better error message if the time zone offset is not given.
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* Teach the bzr client how to reconnect if we get ``ConnectionReset``
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while making an RPC request. This doesn't handle all possible network
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disconnects, but it should at least handle when the server is asked to
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shutdown gracefully. (John Arbash Meinel, #819604)
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* When a remote format is unknown, bzr will now print a single-line error
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message rather than a backtrace. (Jelmer Vernooij, #687226)
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* ``BzrDir.open_branch`` and ``BranchFormat.open`` now take an optional
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``possible_transports`` argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``Transport.set_segment_parameter``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Repository.verify_revision`` has been renamed to
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``Repository.verify_revision_signature``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``RevisionSpec.wants_revision_history`` now defaults to ``False`` and
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is deprecated. The ``revs`` argument of
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``RevisionInfo.from_revision_id`` is now deprecated. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Tree.get_file_by_path`` is now deprecated. Use ``Tree.get_file`` instead.
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* Some global options for use with commands have been removed, construct
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an ``Option`` with the name instead. (Martin Packman)
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* The unused exception ``HistoryMissing`` has been removed.
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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* Add HPSS call for ``Repository.pack``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894461)
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* ``bzr config`` uses the new configuration implementation.
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* ``RemoteBranch.get_config_stack`` and ``RemoteBzrDir.get_config_stack``
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will now use HPSS calls where possible. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Custom HPSS error handlers can now be installed in the smart server client
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using the ``error_translators`` and ``no_context_error_translators``
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registries. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New HPSS calls ``Repository.has_signature_for_revision_id``,
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``Repository.make_working_trees``, ``BzrDir.destroy_repository``,
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``Repository.get_revision_signature_text``.
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* Add HPSS call for ``Repository.pack``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894461)
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* ``RemoteBranch.get_config_stack`` and ``RemoteBzrDir.get_config_stack``
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will now use HPSS calls where possible. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Custom HPSS error handlers can now be installed in the smart server client
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using the ``error_translators`` and ``no_context_error_translators``
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registries. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The registry of merge types has been moved to ``merge`` from ``option`` but
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``merge.get_merge_type_registry`` remains as an accessor. (Martin Packman)
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
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* Avoid failures in test_transform when OS error messages are localised.
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