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Bazaar Release Notes
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bzr 2.6b3
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:2.6b3: NOT RELEASED YET

External Compatibility Breaks
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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.

New Features
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* ``bzr switch --store`` now stores uncommitted changes in the branch, and
  restores them when switching back to the branch. (Aaron Bentley)

* New option '--context' for 'bzr diff' command, to configure the amount of 
  context (i.e. showing lines that have not changed).  Also available as the 
  named parameter 'context_lines' to bzrlib.diff.internal_diff(). (Paul Nixon)

Improvements
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``bzr lp-find-proposal`` now only cares about the revision-id that is
specified, not the branch you use.  This was enabled by a new API call in
Launchpad's web service.  (Aaron Bentley)

* Implement authentication.conf password obfuscation, the password_encoding
  option can now be set to base64. (Florian Dorn)

Bug Fixes
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* Fixed a bug where the entire contents of ``/etc/mailname`` is read in.
  We only want to read in the first line so that comments could be added
  and would be ignored.
  (Haw Loeung, #932515)

* When a missing referenced chk root error is encountered, bzr now suggests
  running ``bzr reconcile --canonicalize-chks``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #1021537)

* When pushing a specific revision, create the new working tree at
  that revision. (#484516, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

Documentation
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.. Improved or updated documentation.

API Changes
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
   bzrlib.

Internals
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* The launchpad plugin now requires API 1.6.0 or later.  This version shipped
  with Ubuntu 9.10.  (Aaron Bentley)

Testing
*******

.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and 
   suite.  This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to 
   spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.


bzr 2.6b2
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:2.6b2: 2012-09-10

This is the second beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in
August 2012.

This release includes minor bug fixes.

This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of
this release.

Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
incompatibilities with plugins.  Some plugins may need small updates to work
with 2.6b2.

External Compatibility Breaks
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None.

New Features
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* New option ``--overwrite-tags`` for ``bzr pull`` and ``bzr push``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #681792)

* The 'grep' plugin is now shipped with bzr. (Jelmer Vernooij)

Improvements
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* Colocated branches can now be addressed using the 'co:NAME' rather than
  the more complex 'file://.,branch=NAME'. (Jelmer Vernooij, #833665)

Bug Fixes
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* "bzr missing" now shows tag names when displaying revision information.
  (#559072, Neil Martinsen-Burrell)

* Fix ``branch.conf`` saving when unlocking the branch for BranchFormat4.
  (Vincent Ladeuil, #1020007)

* Implement ``ResponseFile.readline`` and ``ReponseFile.tell``,
  fixing some clones over HTTP. (Jelmer Vernooij, #963769)

* Option values set on locked branches should be saved only when the branch
  is finally unlocked. (Vincent Ladeuil, #948339)

Documentation
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* Document "bzr lp-propose", "bzr register-branch" and
  the other Launchpad plugin commands in bzr(1).
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #843801, #163995)

* Force format registration to avoid generate_docs.py traceback when the
  registry is empty. (Vincent Ladeuil, #956860)

* Generate ``ENVIRONMENT`` section in bzr(1) from known environment variable
  list rather than hardcoding. (Jelmer Vernooij, #197618)


API Changes
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* ``register_filter_stack_map`` and ``lazy_register_filter_stack_map``
  are noew deprecated. Instead, use ``filter_stacks_registry.register``
  and ``filter_stacks_registry.register_lazy``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove deprecated Branch.import_last_revision(). (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove deprecated ``RepositoryFormat.register_format``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove deprecated Repository.get_ancestry(). (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove deprecated Repository.iter_reverse_revision_history().
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* The previously deprecated ``bzrlib.annotate.annotate_file`` function
  has been removed. (Jelmer Vernooij)


Internals
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None.

Testing
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* Fix test failures by removing a remaining reference to ``features.sphinx``
  which isn't needed anymore since we don't test the texinfo sphinx builder
  anymore either. (Vincent Ladeuil)

bzr 2.6b1
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:2.6b1: 2012-03-15

This is the first beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in
August 2012.

This release includes ssl certificates verification from the urllib-based
http implementation turned on by default, fixes some UI issues around
colocated branches, documentation fixes and more.

This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of
this release.

Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
incompatibilities with plugins.  Some plugins may need small updates to work
with 2.6b1.

External Compatibility Breaks
*****************************

None.

Improvements
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* Access to HTTPS URLs now uses the urrllib implementation by default.
  For the old pycurl-based implementation, specify ``https+pycurl://`` as
  the URL scheme when accessing a HTTPS location.
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #125055)

* Add short option alias ``-N`` for ``--no-recurse``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #945904)

* Avoid 'Invalid range access' errors when whole files are retrieved with
  transport.http.get() . (Vincent Ladeuil, #924746)

* ``bzr rmbranch`` now supports removing colocated branches.
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #920653)

* ``bzr rmbranch`` no longer removes active branches unless ``--force``
  is specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #922953)

* ``bzr verify-signatures`` now shows a progress bar.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Two new command hooks, ``pre_command`` and ``post_command``,
  provide notification before and after a command has been run.
  (Brian de Alwis, Jelmer Vernooij)

Bug Fixes
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* Fix ``bzr config`` display for ``RegistryOption`` values.
  (Vincent Ladeuil, #930182)

Documentation
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* Prevent lines of command descriptions starting with a dot to
  accidentally be interpreted as a roff macro in bzr(1).
  (Jelmer Vernooij, #711079)

* Properly format apostrophes in manual page. (Jelmer Vernooij, #234771)

API Changes
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* ``GPGStrategy.do_verifications`` has been deprecated.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* File ids in the ``Tree`` API can now be bytestring as previously,
  or tuples of bytestrings.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* ``mail_client`` now accepts a configuration stack object rather than
  an old style Config object. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New method ``Repository.verify_revision_signatures``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New configuration option class ``RegistryOption`` which is backed
  onto a registry. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* New convenience API method ``WorkingTree.get_config_stack``.
  (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Remove 
  ``branch.PullResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``branch.PushResult.__int__`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``branch.BranchFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``branch.BranchFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``branch.BranchFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``branch.BranchFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``branch.BranchFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``bzrdir.BzrDir.generate_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``bzrdir.BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``bzrdir.BzrProber.unregister_bzrdir_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``config.Config.get_editor`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``hooks.known_hooks_key_to_parent_and_attribute`` deprecated in 2.3,
  ``hooks.Hooks.create_hook`` deprecated in 2.4,
  ``inventory.Inventory.__contains__`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``merge.Merge3Merger.scalar_three_way`` deprecated in 2.2.0,
  ``merge.Merge3Merger.fix_root`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``transform.TreeTransformBase.has_named_child`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``transform.get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``transform._get_backup_name`` deprecated in 2.3.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.register_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_extra_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.get_formats`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.set_default_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  ``workingtree.WorkingTreeFormat.unregister_format`` deprecated in 2.4.0,
  (Vincent Ladeuil)

* Remove deprecated ``Branch.set_revision_history`` and
  ``Branch.revision_history`` methods and the ``set_rh``
  hook on ``Branch``. (Jelmer Vernooij)

Internals
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* ``Tree.path2id`` now once again accepts a list of path elements
  in addition to a path. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Turn config option expansion on by default. The only options for which
  this should be disabled are templates which should already have used
  conf.get(option, expand=False) or conf.get_user_option(option,
  expand=False). (Vincent Ladeuil)

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