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This is the sixth (and last (really)) beta of the 2.5 series, leading to a
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2.5.0 release in March 2012. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
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backward compatible way, fix more glitches in the colocated UI, verify https
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certificates for the urllib https client implementation, fix some more
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unicode issues and more.
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* ``bzr version`` no longer throws a UnicodeDecodeError if the .bzr.log path
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* Support scripts that don't call bzrlib.initialize() but still call run_bzr().
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validity as well as the hostname.
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* ``config.config_dir`` and related functions now always return paths as
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unicode. (Martin Packman, #825826)
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* ``ControlDir`` now has a new method ``set_branch_reference`` which can
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* ``ControlDir.destroy_branch`` now raises ``NotBranchError`` rather than
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``NoSuchFile`` if the branch didn't exist. (Jelmer Vernooij, #921693)
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