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* ``bzr switch`` now automatically stores uncommitted changes in the branch.
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The ``--with-changes`` option provides the original behaviour.
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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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.. 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 the second beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in
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This release includes minor bug fixes.
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This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of
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Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
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* New option ``--overwrite-tags`` for ``bzr pull`` and ``bzr push``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #681792)
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* Colocated branches can now be addressed using the 'co:NAME' rather than
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the more complex 'file://.,branch=NAME'. (Jelmer Vernooij, #833665)
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* "bzr missing" now shows tag names when displaying revision information.
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(#559072, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* Fix ``branch.conf`` saving when unlocking the branch for BranchFormat4.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #1020007)
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* Implement ``ResponseFile.readline`` and ``ReponseFile.tell``,
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fixing some clones over HTTP. (Jelmer Vernooij, #963769)
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* Option values set on locked branches should be saved only when the branch
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is finally unlocked. (Vincent Ladeuil, #948339)
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* Document "bzr lp-propose", "bzr register-branch" and
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the other Launchpad plugin commands in bzr(1).
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #843801, #163995)
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* Force format registration to avoid generate_docs.py traceback when the
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registry is empty. (Vincent Ladeuil, #956860)
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* Generate ``ENVIRONMENT`` section in bzr(1) from known environment variable
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list rather than hardcoding. (Jelmer Vernooij, #197618)
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* ``register_filter_stack_map`` and ``lazy_register_filter_stack_map``
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are noew deprecated. Instead, use ``filter_stacks_registry.register``
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and ``filter_stacks_registry.register_lazy``.
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* Remove deprecated Branch.import_last_revision(). (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Remove deprecated ``RepositoryFormat.register_format``.
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* Remove deprecated Repository.get_ancestry(). (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Remove deprecated Repository.iter_reverse_revision_history().
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* The previously deprecated ``bzrlib.annotate.annotate_file`` function
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has been removed. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Fix test failures by removing a remaining reference to ``features.sphinx``
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which isn't needed anymore since we don't test the texinfo sphinx builder
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anymore either. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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This is the first beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in
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This release includes ssl certificates verification from the urllib-based
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http implementation turned on by default, fixes some UI issues around
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colocated branches, documentation fixes and more.
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This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of
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* Access to HTTPS URLs now uses the urrllib implementation by default.
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For the old pycurl-based implementation, specify ``https+pycurl://`` as
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the URL scheme when accessing a HTTPS location.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #125055)
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* Add short option alias ``-N`` for ``--no-recurse``.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #945904)
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* Avoid 'Invalid range access' errors when whole files are retrieved with
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transport.http.get() . (Vincent Ladeuil, #924746)
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* ``bzr rmbranch`` now supports removing colocated branches.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #920653)
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* ``bzr rmbranch`` no longer removes active branches unless ``--force``
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is specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #922953)
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* ``bzr verify-signatures`` now shows a progress bar.
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* Two new command hooks, ``pre_command`` and ``post_command``,
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provide notification before and after a command has been run.
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(Brian de Alwis, Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Fix ``bzr config`` display for ``RegistryOption`` values.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #930182)
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* Prevent lines of command descriptions starting with a dot to
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accidentally be interpreted as a roff macro in bzr(1).
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #711079)
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* Properly format apostrophes in manual page. (Jelmer Vernooij, #234771)
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* ``GPGStrategy.do_verifications`` has been deprecated.
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* File ids in the ``Tree`` API can now be bytestring as previously,
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or tuples of bytestrings.
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* ``mail_client`` now accepts a configuration stack object rather than
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an old style Config object. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New method ``Repository.verify_revision_signatures``.
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* New configuration option class ``RegistryOption`` which is backed
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onto a registry. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* New convenience API method ``WorkingTree.get_config_stack``.
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``branch.PullResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``branch.PushResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``branch.BranchFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``bzrdir.BzrProber.unregister_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``config.Config.get_editor`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``hooks.known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` deprecated in 2.3,
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``hooks.Hooks.create_hook`` deprecated in 2.4,
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``inventory.Inventory.__contains__`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``merge.Merge3Merger.scalar_three_way`` deprecated in 2.2.0,
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``merge.Merge3Merger.fix_root`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``transform.get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``transform._get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
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* Remove deprecated ``Branch.set_revision_history`` and
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``Branch.revision_history`` methods and the ``set_rh``
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hook on ``Branch``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Tree.path2id`` now once again accepts a list of path elements
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in addition to a path. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Turn config option expansion on by default. The only options for which
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this should be disabled are templates which should already have used
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conf.get(option, expand=False) or conf.get_user_option(option,
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expand=False). (Vincent Ladeuil)
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