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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 2.6 series (2.6.1, etc), while 2.7
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will become our new development series.
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This is a bugfix and polish release over the 2.5 series, with a large number
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of bugs fixed (~50 for the 2.6 series alone).
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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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* ``bzr lp-propose --approve`` now also adds an "Approve" vote to the merge
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proposal. (Jonathan Lange)
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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context (i.e. showing lines that have not changed). Also available as the
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named parameter 'context_lines' to bzrlib.diff.internal_diff(). (Paul Nixon)
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* The 'grep' plugin is now shipped with bzr. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The 'ping' plugin is now shipped with bzr. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzr help env-variables`` now points users at ``bzr help configuration``
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which has much more detailed information on the same stuff.
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* ``bzr lp-find-proposal`` now only cares about the revision-id that is
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specified, not the branch you use. This was enabled by a new API call in
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Launchpad's web service. (Aaron Bentley)
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``bzr lp-find-proposal`` now only cares about the revision-id that is
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specified, not the branch you use. This was enabled by a new API call in
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Launchpad's web service. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Implement authentication.conf password obfuscation, the password_encoding
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* Local configurations files (i.e. accessed on the local file system like
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``bazaar.conf`` and ``locations.conf``) are now shared, reducing the
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number of IOs when querying a configuation option. (Vincent Ladeuil,
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* ``bzr lp-propose --approve`` now correctly specifies the approved revision
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and provides an "Approve" vote from the proposer, allowing for smoother
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interaction with downstream merge tools. (Jonathan Lange)
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* Add a ``progress_bar`` configuration option defaulting to
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``BZR_PROGRESS_BAR``. This can be set in ``bazaar.conf`` or specified from
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the command line with ``-Oprogress_bar=text``. (Vincent Ladeuil, #388275)
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* ``Authentication.Config`` now always returns unicode user names and passwords.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #514301)
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* Fixed a bug where the entire contents of ``/etc/mailname`` is read in.
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(Haw Loeung, #932515)
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* Fixed a syntax error in ``doc/ja/user-guide/http_smart_server.txt`` that
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causes breakage with docutils 0.9.1.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, Jelmer Vernooij, #1066307)
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* Support utf8 characters in platform names even without looking inside the
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box (Fedora's Schrödinger's Cat).
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(Toshio Kuratomi, Vincent Ladeuil, #1195783)
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* Warn when ``--show-base`` is used for ``pull`` in a treeless branch
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instead of failing. It's useless but harmless. (Vincent Ladeuil, #1022160)
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* When a missing referenced chk root error is encountered, bzr now suggests
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running ``bzr reconcile --canonicalize-chks``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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running ``bzr reconcile --canonicalize-chks``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #1021537)
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* When pushing a specific revision, create the new working tree at
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that revision. (#484516, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* Clarify ``bzr config`` usages especially around other option references
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expansion. (Vincent Ladeuil, #996401)
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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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* Add __iter__ to http ResponseFile. (Jelmer Vernooij, #1184021)
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* The launchpad plugin now requires API 1.6.0 or later. This version shipped
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with Ubuntu 9.10. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Better align with upstream gzip.py in tuned_gzip.py. We may lose a bit of
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performance but that's for knit and weave formats and already partly
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deprecated, better keep compatibility than failing fast ;)
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #1116079)
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* Fix test failures occurring only with LC_ALL=C, when prompting a user,
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``stderr`` encoding should be preferred over terminal encoding if
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available. (Vincent Ladeuil, #1086209)
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
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