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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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* Cope with Unix filesystems, such as smbfs, where chmod gives 'permission
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denied'. (Martin Pool, #606537)
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* When the ``limbo`` or ``pending-deletion`` directories exist, typically
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because of an interrupted tree update, but are empty, bzr no longer
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errors out, because there is nothing for the user to clean up. Also,
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errors in creation of these directories are no longer squelched.
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(Martin Pool, #427773)
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* During merges, when two entries end up using the same path for two
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different file-ids (the same file being 'bzr added' in two different
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branches) , 'duplicate' conflicts are created instead of 'content'
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ones. This was previously leading to a 'Malformed tramsform' exception.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #880701)
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* 'Malformed transform' exceptions are now recognized as internal errors
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instead of user errors and report a traceback. This will reduce user
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confusion as there is generally nothing users can do about them.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #880701)
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* Prevent a traceback being printed to stderr when logging has problems and
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accept utf-8 byte string without breaking. (Martin Packman, #714449)
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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 a bugfix release. Most of the bugs dealt with portability
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issues. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier 2.4 releases.
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* Fixed a bug where ``bzr tags -r x..y`` loaded the branch history once for
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every revision in the range; it's now much faster. (Vincent Ladeuil, #857335)
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* Fixed an infinite loop when creating a repo at the root of the filesystem,
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i.e. "/", due to posixpath.normpath() not collapsing 2 leading slashes into
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one, thus respecting the POSIX standard, but making relpath() loop infinitely.
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(Florian Vichot, #861008)
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* Fixed loading of external merge tools from config to properly decode
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command-lines which contain embedded quotes. (Gordon Tyler, #828803)
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* Include declaration of 'changed' to avoid an UnboundLocalError in dirstate
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pyrex code with new Cython versions. (Denys Duchier, #837221)
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* Prevent several kinds of OverflowError and other fallout from failing to fit
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stat fields into four bytes in dirstate pack_stat implementations.
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(Martin Packman, #683191 #706957)
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* Return early from create_delta_index_from_delta given tiny inputs. This
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avoids raising a spurious MemoryError on certain platforms such as AIX.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #856731)
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* Corrected documentation for ``bzr serve`` in the Admin Guide.
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(Morten Bøgeskov, Martin Pool, #832576)
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* Accept both old and new style testtools output in selftest tests.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, Martin Packman, #815423)
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* Fix the race for TestingThreadingTCPServer in
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test_server_crash_while_responding. (Vincent Ladeuil, #869366)
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* Really corrupt the pack file without depending on a special length or value.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #807032)
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This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users of earlier
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It includes fixes from previous stable releases and address some issues with
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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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* ``config.LocationMatcher`` properly excludes unrelated sections.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #829237)
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* ``dirstate.fdatasync`` and ``repository.fdatasync`` can now properly be
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disabled. (Vincent Ladeuil, #824513)
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* Disable ``os.fsync`` and ``os.fdatasync`` by default when running
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``bzr selftest``. You can use ``--sync`` to re-enable them.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #837293)
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* Fix i18n use when no environment variables are set. (Jelmer Vernooij, #810701)
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* Avoid UnicodeDecode error when reporting EINVAL from transports.
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(IWATA Hidetaka, #829237)
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* Corrected documentation for BZR_PROGRESS_BAR.
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(Dennis Benzinger, #735417)
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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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* The test suite should now be able to run under weird environments where
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``/etc/passwd`` doesn't contain the ``uid`` for the user running selftest
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or where ``fakeroot`` is used but ``/root`` is inacessible.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #825027)
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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 2.4 series (2.4.1, etc, and support it
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until February 2013), while 2.5 will become our new development series.
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This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.3 series, with a large number
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of bugs fixed (>150 for the 2.4 series alone), and some performance
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improvements. Support for python 2.4 and 2.5 has been dropped, many large
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working tree operations have been optimized as well as some stacked branches
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Only bugfixes from other stables series have been included since 2.4b5 so
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all known fixed bugs are included here.
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
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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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* A call to CHKInventory's filter-method will not result in a
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DuplicateFileId error, if you move a subfolder and change a file in
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(Bastian Bowe, #809901)
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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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* Cope with not all Python versions having a ``clear`` method on
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``TestCase._type_equality_funcs``.
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(Martin [gz], Jelmer Vernooij, #809048)
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* Fetching tags when fetching the tip revision of a branch is now
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controlled by the config setting ``branch.fetch_tags``. The behavior has
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been reverted to 2.3's not-fetching tagged revisions by default.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #771184)
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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 August 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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* 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, #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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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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* 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 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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