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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 0.15
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:Released: 2007-04-01

Bugfixes
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* Handle incompatible repositories as a user issue when fetching.
  (Aaron Bentley)

* Don't give a recommendation to upgrade when branching or
  checking out a branch that contains an old-format working tree.
  (Martin Pool)

bzr 0.15rc3
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:Released:  2007-03-26

Changes
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* A warning is now displayed when opening working trees in older
  formats, to encourage people to upgrade to WorkingTreeFormat4.
  (Martin Pool)

Improvements
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* HTTP redirections are now taken into account when a branch (or a
  bundle) is accessed for the first time. A message is issued at each
  redirection to inform the user. In the past, http redirections were
  silently followed for each request which significantly degraded the
  performances. The http redirections are not followed anymore by
  default, instead a RedirectRequested exception is raised. For bzrlib
  users needing to follow http redirections anyway,
  ``bzrlib.transport.do_catching_redirections`` provide an easy transition
  path.  (vila)

Internals
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* Added ``ReadLock.temporary_write_lock()`` to allow upgrading an OS read
  lock to an OS write lock. Linux can do this without unlocking, Win32
  needs to unlock in between. (John Arbash Meinel)

* New parameter ``recommend_upgrade`` to ``BzrDir.open_workingtree``
  to silence (when false) warnings about opening old formats.
  (Martin Pool)

* Fix minor performance regression with bzr-0.15 on pre-dirstate
  trees. (We were reading the working inventory too many times).
  (John Arbash Meinel)

* Remove ``Branch.get_transaction()`` in favour of a simple cache of
  ``revision_history``.  Branch subclasses should override
  ``_gen_revision_history`` rather than ``revision_history`` to make use of
  this cache, and call ``_clear_revision_history_cache`` and
  ``_cache_revision_history`` at appropriate times. (Andrew Bennetts)

Bugfixes
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* Take ``smtp_server`` from user config into account.
  (vila, #92195)

* Restore Unicode filename handling for versioned and unversioned files.
  (John Arbash Meinel, #92608)

* Don't fail during ``bzr commit`` if a file is marked removed, and
  the containing directory is auto-removed.  (John Arbash Meinel, #93681)

* ``bzr status FILENAME`` failed on Windows because of an uncommon
  errno. (``ERROR_DIRECTORY == 267 != ENOTDIR``).
  (Wouter van Heyst, John Arbash Meinel, #90819)

* ``bzr checkout source`` should create a local branch in the same
  format as source. (John Arbash Meinel, #93854)

* ``bzr commit`` with a kind change was failing to update the
  last-changed-revision for directories.  The
  InventoryDirectory._unchanged only looked at the ``parent_id`` and name,
  ignoring the fact that the kind could have changed, too.
  (John Arbash Meinel, #90111)

* ``bzr mv dir/subdir other`` was incorrectly updating files inside
  the directory. So that there was a chance it would break commit,
  etc. (John Arbash Meinel, #94037)

* Correctly handles mutiple permanent http redirections.
  (vila, #88780)

bzr 0.15rc2
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:Released:  2007-03-14

Notes When Upgrading
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* Release 0.15rc2 of bzr changes the ``bzr init-repo`` command to
  default to ``--trees`` instead of ``--no-trees``.
  Existing shared repositories are not affected.

Improvements
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* New ``merge-directive`` command to generate machine- and human-readable
  merge requests.  (Aaron Bentley)

* New ``submit:`` revision specifier makes it easy to diff against the
  common ancestor with the submit location (Aaron Bentley)

* Added support for Putty's SSH implementation. (Dmitry Vasiliev)

* Added ``bzr status --versioned`` to report only versioned files,
  not unknowns. (Kent Gibson)

* Merge now autodetects the correct line-ending style for its conflict
  markers.  (Aaron Bentley)

Internals
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* Refactored SSH vendor registration into SSHVendorManager class.
  (Dmitry Vasiliev)

Bugfixes
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* New ``--numbered-dirs`` option to ``bzr selftest`` to use
  numbered dirs for TestCaseInTempDir. This is default behavior
  on Windows. Anyone can force named dirs on Windows
  with ``--no-numbered-dirs``. (Alexander Belchenko)

* Fix ``RevisionSpec_revid`` to handle the Unicode strings passed in
  from the command line. (Marien Zwart, #90501)

* Fix ``TreeTransform._iter_changes`` when both the source and
  destination are missing. (Aaron Bentley, #88842)

* Fix commit of merges with symlinks in dirstate trees.
  (Marien Zwart)

* Switch the ``bzr init-repo`` default from --no-trees to --trees.
  (Wouter van Heyst, #53483)


bzr 0.15rc1
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:Released:  2007-03-07

Surprises
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* The default disk format has changed. Please run 'bzr upgrade' in your
  working trees to upgrade. This new default is compatible for network
  operations, but not for local operations. That is, if you have two
  versions of bzr installed locally, after upgrading you can only use the
  bzr 0.15 version. This new default does not enable tags or nested-trees
  as they are incompatible with bzr versions before 0.15 over the network.

* For users of bzrlib: Two major changes have been made to the working tree
  api in bzrlib. The first is that many methods and attributes, including
  the inventory attribute, are no longer valid for use until one of
  ``lock_read``/``lock_write``/``lock_tree_write`` has been called,
  and become invalid again after unlock is called. This has been done
  to improve performance and correctness as part of the dirstate
  development.
  (Robert Collins, John A Meinel, Martin Pool, and others).

* For users of bzrlib: The attribute 'tree.inventory' should be considered
  readonly. Previously it was possible to directly alter this attribute, or
  its contents, and have the tree notice this. This has been made
  unsupported - it may work in some tree formats, but in the newer dirstate
  format such actions will have no effect and will be ignored, or even
  cause assertions. All operations possible can still be carried out by a
  combination of the tree API, and the bzrlib.transform API. (Robert
  Collins, John A Meinel, Martin Pool, and others).

Improvements
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* Support for OS Windows 98. Also .bzr.log on any windows system
  saved in My Documents folder. (Alexander Belchenko)

* ``bzr mv`` enhanced to support already moved files.
  In the past the mv command would have failed if the source file doesn't
  exist. In this situation ``bzr mv`` would now detect that the file has
  already moved and update the repository accordingly, if the target file
  does exist.
  A new option ``--after`` has been added so that if two files already
  exist, you could notify Bazaar that you have moved a (versioned) file
  and replaced it with another. Thus in this case ``bzr move --after``
  will only update the Bazaar identifier.
  (Steffen Eichenberg, Marius Kruger)

* ``ls`` now works on treeless branches and remote branches.
  (Aaron Bentley)

* ``bzr help global-options`` describes the global options.
  (Aaron Bentley)

* ``bzr pull --overwrite`` will now correctly overwrite checkouts.
  (Robert Collins)

* Files are now allowed to change kind (e.g. from file to symlink).
  Supported by ``commit``, ``revert`` and ``status``
  (Aaron Bentley)

* ``inventory`` and ``unknowns`` hidden in favour of ``ls``
  (Aaron Bentley)

* ``bzr help checkouts`` descibes what checkouts are and some possible
  uses of them. (James Westby, Aaron Bentley)

* A new ``-d`` option to push, pull and merge overrides the default
  directory.  (Martin Pool)

* Branch format 6: smaller, and potentially faster than format 5.  Supports
  ``append_history_only`` mode, where the log view and revnos do not change,
  except by being added to.  Stores policy settings in
  ".bzr/branch/branch.conf".

* ``append_only`` branches:  Format 6 branches may be configured so that log
  view and revnos are always consistent.  Either create the branch using
  "bzr init --append-revisions-only" or edit the config file as descriped
  in docs/configuration.txt.

* rebind: Format 6 branches retain the last-used bind location, so if you
  "bzr unbind", you can "bzr bind" to bind to the previously-selected
  bind location.

* Builtin tags support, created and deleted by the ``tag`` command and
  stored in the branch.  Tags can be accessed with the revisionspec
  ``-rtag:``, and listed with ``bzr tags``.  Tags are not versioned
  at present. Tags require a network incompatible upgrade. To perform this
  upgrade, run ``bzr upgrade --dirstate-tags`` in your branch and
  repositories. (Martin Pool)

* The ``bzr://`` transport now has a well-known port number, 4155,
  which it will use by default.  (Andrew Bennetts, Martin Pool)

* Bazaar now looks for user-installed plugins before looking for site-wide
  plugins. (Jonathan Lange)

* ``bzr resolve`` now detects and marks resolved text conflicts.
  (Aaron Bentley)

Internals
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* Internally revision ids and file ids are now passed around as utf-8
  bytestrings, rather than treating them as Unicode strings. This has
  performance benefits for Knits, since we no longer need to decode the
  revision id for each line of content, nor for each entry in the index.
  This will also help with the future dirstate format.
  (John Arbash Meinel)

* Reserved ids (any revision-id ending in a colon) are rejected by
  versionedfiles, repositories, branches, and working trees
  (Aaron Bentley)

* Minor performance improvement by not creating a ProgressBar for
  every KnitIndex we create. (about 90ms for a bzr.dev tree)
  (John Arbash Meinel)

* New easier to use Branch hooks facility. There are five initial hooks,
  all documented in bzrlib.branch.BranchHooks.__init__ - ``'set_rh'``,
  ``'post_push'``, ``'post_pull'``, ``'post_commit'``,
  ``'post_uncommit'``. These hooks fire after the matching operation
  on a branch has taken place, and were originally added for the
  branchrss plugin. (Robert Collins)

* New method ``Branch.push()`` which should be used when pushing from a
  branch as it makes performance and policy decisions to match the UI
  level command ``push``. (Robert Collins).

* Add a new method ``Tree.revision_tree`` which allows access to cached
  trees for arbitrary revisions. This allows the in development dirstate
  tree format to provide access to the callers to cached copies of
  inventory data which are cheaper to access than inventories from the
  repository.
  (Robert Collins, Martin Pool)

* New ``Branch.last_revision_info`` method, this is being done to allow
  optimization of requests for both the number of revisions and the last
  revision of a branch with smartservers and potentially future branch
  formats. (Wouter van Heyst, Robert Collins)

* Allow ``'import bzrlib.plugins.NAME'`` to work when the plugin NAME has not
  yet been loaded by ``load_plugins()``. This allows plugins to depend on each
  other for code reuse without requiring users to perform file-renaming
  gymnastics. (Robert Collins)

* New Repository method ``'gather_stats'`` for statistic data collection.
  This is expected to grow to cover a number of related uses mainly
  related to bzr info. (Robert Collins)

* Log formatters are now managed with a registry.
  ``log.register_formatter`` continues to work, but callers accessing
  the FORMATTERS dictionary directly will not.

* Allow a start message to be passed to the ``edit_commit_message``
  function.  This will be placed in the message offered to the user
  for editing above the separator. It allows a template commit message
  to be used more easily. (James Westby)

* ``GPGStrategy.sign()`` will now raise ``BzrBadParameterUnicode`` if
  you pass a Unicode string rather than an 8-bit string. Callers need
  to be updated to encode first. (John Arbash Meinel)

* Branch.push, pull, merge now return Result objects with information
  about what happened, rather than a scattering of various methods.  These
  are also passed to the post hooks.  (Martin Pool)

* File formats and architecture is in place for managing a forest of trees
  in bzr, and splitting up existing trees into smaller subtrees, and
  finally joining trees to make a larger tree. This is the first iteration
  of this support, and the user-facing aspects still require substantial
  work.  If you wish to experiment with it, use ``bzr upgrade
  --dirstate-with-subtree`` in your working trees and repositories.
  You can use the hidden commands ``split`` and ``join`` and to create
  and manipulate nested trees, but please consider using the nested-trees
  branch, which contains substantial UI improvements, instead.
  http://code.aaronbentley.com/bzr/bzrrepo/nested-trees/
  (Aaron Bentley, Martin Pool, Robert Collins).

Bugfixes
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* ``bzr annotate`` now uses dotted revnos from the viewpoint of the
  branch, rather than the last changed revision of the file.
  (John Arbash Meinel, #82158)

* Lock operations no longer hang if they encounter a permission problem.
  (Aaron Bentley)

* ``bzr push`` can resume a push that was canceled before it finished.
  Also, it can push even if the target directory exists if you supply
  the ``--use-existing-dir`` flag.
  (John Arbash Meinel, #30576, #45504)

* Fix http proxy authentication when user and an optional
  password appears in the ``*_proxy`` vars. (Vincent Ladeuil,
  #83954).

* ``bzr log branch/file`` works for local treeless branches
  (Aaron Bentley, #84247)

* Fix problem with UNC paths on Windows 98. (Alexander Belchenko, #84728)

* Searching location of CA bundle for PyCurl in env variable
  (``CURL_CA_BUNDLE``), and on win32 along the PATH.
  (Alexander Belchenko, #82086)

* ``bzr init`` works with unicode argument LOCATION.
  (Alexander Belchenko, #85599)

* Raise ``DependencyNotPresent`` if pycurl do not support https.
  (Vincent Ladeuil, #85305)

* Invalid proxy env variables should not cause a traceback.
  (Vincent Ladeuil, #87765)

* Ignore patterns normalised to use '/' path separator.
  (Kent Gibson, #86451)

* bzr rocks. It sure does! Fix case. (Vincent Ladeuil, #78026)

* Fix bzrtools shelve command for removed lines beginning with "--"
  (Johan Dahlberg, #75577)

Testing
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* New ``--first`` option to ``bzr selftest`` to run specified tests
  before the rest of the suite.  (Martin Pool)


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