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bzr 2.1.0rc1 (not released yet)
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:Codename: the 'new' stable
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:2.1.0rc1: 2009-01-06 (expected)
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* Add bug information to log output when available.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Guillermo Gonzalez, #251729)
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* ``bzr branch`` now takes a ``--bind`` option. This lets you
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branch and bind all in one command. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``bzr unshelve --preview`` can now be used to show how a patch on the
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shelf would be applied to the working tree.
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(Guilherme Salgado, #308122)
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* ``bzr update`` now takes a ``--revision`` argument. This lets you
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change the revision of the working tree to any revision in the
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ancestry of the current or master branch. (Matthieu Moy, Mark Hammond,
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* ``-Dbytes`` can now be used to display the total number of bytes
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transferred for the current command. This information is always logged
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to ``.bzr.log`` for later inspection. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* The ``suppress_warnings`` configuration option has been introduced and
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accept the ``format_deprecation`` value to disable the corresponding
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warning for repositories. It can be set to in either ``bazaar.conf``,
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``locations.conf`` or ``branch.conf``.
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(Ted Gould, Matthew Fuller, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Always show a message if an OS error occurs while trying to run a
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user-specified commit message editor.
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(Martin Pool, #504842)
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* ``bzr export dir`` now requests all file content as a record stream,
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rather than requsting the file content one file-at-a-time. This can make
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exporting over the network significantly faster (54min => 9min in one
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case). (John Arbash Meinel, #343218)
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* ``bzr serve`` no longer slowly leaks memory. The compiled
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``bzrlib.bencode.Encoder()`` class was using ``__del__`` to cleanup and
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free resources, and it should have been using ``__dealloc__``.
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This will likely have an impact on any other process that is serving for
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an extended period of time. (John Arbash Meinel, #494406)
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* ``bzr switch -b`` can now create branches that are located using directory
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services such as ``lp:``, even when the branch name doesn't contain a
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'/'. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #495263)
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* ``bzr unshelve`` has improved messages about what it is doing.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #496917)
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* Check for SIGINT (Ctrl-C) and other signals immediately if ``readdir``
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returns ``EINTR`` by calling ``PyErr_CheckSignals``. This affected the
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optional ``_readdir_pyx`` extension. (Andrew Bennetts, #495023)
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* Fixed a side effect mutation of ``RemoteBzrDirFormat._network_name``
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that caused some tests to fail when run in a non-default order.
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Probably no user impact. (Martin Pool, #504102)
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* Fixed ``ObjectNotLocked`` error in ``bzr cat -rbranch:../foo FILE``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #506274)
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* FTP transports support Unicode paths by encoding/decoding them as utf8.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #472161)
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* Give a clearer message if the lockdir disappears after being apparently
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successfully taken. (Martin Pool, #498378)
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* Listen to the SIGWINCH signal to update the terminal width.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #316357)
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* The 2a format wasn't properly restarting autopacks when something
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changed underneath it (like another autopack). Now concurrent
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autopackers will properly succeed. (John Arbash Meinel, #495000)
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* When operations update the working tree, all affected files should end
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up with the same mtime. (eg. when versioning a generated file, if you
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update the source and the generated file together, the generated file
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should appear up-to-date.)
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(John Arbash Meinel, Martin <gzlist>, #488724)
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* Added ``add_cleanup`` and ``cleanup_now`` to ``bzrlib.command.Command``.
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All the builtin commands now use ``add_cleanup`` rather than
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``try``/``finally`` blocks where applicable as it is simpler and more
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robust. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Push will now inform the user when they are trying to push to a foreign
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VCS for which roundtripping is not supported, and will suggest them to
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use dpush. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The version of bzr being run is now written to the log file.
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* Transport network activity indicator is shown more of the time when
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Bazaar is doing network IO.
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* Improved help for ``bzr send``.
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(Martin Pool, Bojan Nikolic)
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* There is a System Administrator's Guide in ``doc/en/admin-guide``,
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including discussions of installation, relevant plugins, security and
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backup. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* The ``conflicts`` help topic has been renamed to ``conflict-types``.
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* The User Reference is now presented as a series of topics.
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Many of the included topics have link and format tweaks applied.
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* Many test features were renamed from ``FooFeature`` to ``foo_feature``
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to be consistent with instances being lower case and classes being
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CamelCase. For the features that were more likely to be used, we added a
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deprecation thunk, but not all. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* The Branch hooks pre_change_branch_tip no longer masks exceptions raised
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by plugins - the original exceptions are now preserved. (Robert Collins)
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* The Transport ``Server.tearDown`` method is now renamed to
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``stop_server`` and ``setUp`` to ``start_server`` for consistency with
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our normal naming pattern, and to avoid confusion with Python's
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``TestCase.tearDown``. (Martin Pool)
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* ``WorkingTree.update`` implementations must now accept a ``revision``
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* New helper osutils.UnicodeOrBytesToBytesWriter which encodes unicode
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objects but passes str objects straight through. This is used for
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selftest but may be useful for diff and other operations that generate
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mixed output. (Robert Collins)
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* New exception ``NoRoundtrippingSupport``, for use by foreign branch
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plugins. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``bzrlib.tests.permute_for_extension`` is a helper that simplifies
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running all tests in the current module, once against a pure python
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implementation, and once against an extension (pyrex/C) implementation.
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It can be used to dramatically simplify the implementation of
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``load_tests``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``bzrlib.tests.TestCase`` now subclasses ``testtools.testcase.TestCase``.
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This permits features in testtools such as getUniqueInteger and
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getUniqueString to be used. Because of this, testtools version 0.9.2 or
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newer is now a dependency to run bzr selftest. Running with versions of
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testtools less than 0.9.2 will cause bzr to error while loading the test
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suite. (Robert Collins)
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* Shell-like tests now support the command "mv" for moving files. The
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syntax for ``mv file1 file2``, ``mv dir1 dir2`` and ``mv file dir`` is
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supported. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* The test progress bar no longer distinguishes tests that 'errored' from
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tests that 'failed' - they're all just failures.
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bzr 2.0.4 (not released yet)
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* Give a clearer message if the lockdir disappears after being apparently
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successfully taken. (Martin Pool, #498378)
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* Give a warning when fetching between local repositories with
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sufficiently different formats that the content will need to be
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serialized (ie ``InterDifferingSerializer``) so the user has a clue that
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upgrading could make it faster.
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(Martin Pool, #456077)
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* If we fail to open ``~/.bzr.log`` write a clear message to stderr rather
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than using ``warning()``. The log file is opened before logging is set
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up, and it leads to very confusing: 'no handlers for "bzr"' messages for
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users, rather than something nicer.
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(John Arbash Meinel, Barry Warsaw, #503886)
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* Refuse to build with any Pyrex 0.9.4 release, as they have known bugs.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #449372)
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* ``setup.py bdist_rpm`` now properly finds extra files needed for the
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build. (there is still the distutils bug
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http://bugs.python.org/issue644744) (Joe Julian, #175839)
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* The 2a format wasn't properly restarting autopacks when something
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changed underneath it (like another autopack). Now concurrent
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autopackers will properly succeed. (John Arbash Meinel, #495000)
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* ``TreeTransform`` can now handle when a delta says that the file id for
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the tree root changes. Rather than trying to rename your working
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directory, or failing early saying that you can't have multiple
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tree roots. This also fixes revert, update, and pull when the root id
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changes. (John Arbash Meinel, #494269, #504390)
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* ``_update_current_block`` no longer suppresses exceptions, so ^C at just
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the right time will get propagated, rather than silently failing to move
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the block pointer. (John Arbash Meinel, Gareth White, #495023)
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bug #495023. (John Arbash Meinel)
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:Codename: san francisco airport
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The fourth beta release in the 2.1 series brings with it a significant
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number of bugfixes (~20). The test suite is once again (finally) "green"
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on Windows, and should remain that way for future releases. There are a
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few performance related updates (faster upgrade and log), and several UI
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tweaks. There has also been a significant number of tweaks to the runtime
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documentation. 2.1.0b4 include everything from the 2.0.3 release.
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* The BZR_SSH environmental variable may now be set to the path of a secure
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shell client. If currently set to the value ``ssh`` it will now guess the
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vendor of the program with that name, to restore the old behaviour that
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indicated the SSH Corporation client use ``sshcorp`` instead as the magic
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string. (Martin <gzlist@googlemail.com>, #176292)
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* ``bzr commit`` now has a ``--commit-time`` option.
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(Alexander Sack, #459276)
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* ``-Dhpss`` now increases logging done when run on the bzr server,
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similarly to how it works on the client. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* New option ``bzr unshelve --keep`` applies the changes and leaves them
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on the shelf. (Martin Pool, Oscar Fuentes, #492091)
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* The ``BZR_COLUMNS`` envrionment variable can be set to force bzr to
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respect a given terminal width. This can be useful when output is
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redirected or in obscure cases where the default value is not
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appropriate. Pagers can use it to get a better control of the line
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* The new command ``bzr lp-mirror`` will request that Launchpad update its
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mirror of a local branch. This command will only function if launchpadlib
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* After renaming a file, the dirstate could accidentally reference
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``source\\path`` rather than ``source/path`` on Windows. This might be a
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source of some dirstate-related failures. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``bzr commit`` now detects commit messages that looks like file names
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and issues a warning.
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(Gioele Barabucci, #73073)
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* ``bzr ignore /`` no longer causes an IndexError. (Gorder Tyler, #456036)
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* ``bzr log -n0 -rN`` should not return revisions beyond its merged revisions.
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(#325618, #484109, Marius Kruger)
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* ``bzr merge --weave`` and ``--lca`` will now create ``.BASE`` files for
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files with conflicts (similar to ``--merge3``). The contents of the file
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is a synthesis of all bases used for the merge.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #40412)
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* ``bzr mv --quiet`` really is quiet now. (Gordon Tyler, #271790)
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* ``bzr serve`` is more clear about the risk of supplying --allow-writes.
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(Robert Collins, #84659)
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* ``bzr serve --quiet`` really is quiet now. (Gordon Tyler, #252834)
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* Fix bug with redirected URLs over authenticated HTTP.
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(Glen Mailer, Neil Martinsen-Burrell, Vincent Ladeuil, #395714)
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* Interactive merge doesn't leave branch locks behind. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Lots of bugfixes for the test suite on Windows. We should once again
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have a test suite with no failures on Windows. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``osutils.terminal_width()`` obeys the BZR_COLUMNS environment
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variable but returns None if the terminal is not a tty (when output is
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redirected for example). Also fixes its usage under OSes that doesn't
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provide termios.TIOCGWINSZ. Make sure the corresponding tests runs on
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(Joke de Buhr, Vincent Ladeuil, #353370, #62539)
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(John Arbash Meinel, Vincent Ladeuil, #492561)
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* Terminate ssh subprocesses when no references to them remain, fixing
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subprocess and file descriptor leaks. (Andrew Bennetts, #426662)
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* The ``--hardlink`` option of ``bzr branch`` and ``bzr checkout`` now
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works for 2a format trees. Only files unaffected by content filters
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will be hardlinked. (Andrew Bennetts, #408193)
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* The new glob expansion on Windows would replace all ``\`` characters
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with ``/`` even if it there wasn't a glob to expand, the arg was quoted,
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etc. Now only change slashes if there is something being glob expanded.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #485771)
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* Use our faster ``KnownGraph.heads()`` functionality when computing the
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new rich-root heads. This can cut a conversion time in half (mysql from
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13.5h => 6.2h) (John Arbash Meinel, #487632)
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* When launching a external diff tool via bzr diff --using, temporary files
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are no longer created, rather, the path to the file in the working tree is
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passed to the external diff tool. This allows the file to be edited if the
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diff tool provides for this. (Gary van der Merwe, #490738)
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* The launchpad-open command can now be used from a subdirectory of a
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branch, not just from the root of the branch.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #489102)
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* ``bzr log`` is now faster. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* ``bzr update`` provides feedback on which branch it is up to date with.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` from pre-2a to 2a can be significantly faster (4x).
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For details see the xml8 patch and heads() improvements.
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* ``bzrlib.urlutils.local_path_from_url`` now accepts
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'file://localhost/' as well as 'file:///' URLs on POSIX. (Michael
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* The progress bar now shows only a spinner and per-operation counts,
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not an overall progress bar. The previous bar was often not correlated
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with real overall operation progress, either because the operations take
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nonlinear time, or because at the start of the operation Bazaar couldn't
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estimate how much work there was to do. (Martin Pool)
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* Lots of documentation tweaks for inline help topics and command help
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* ``bzrlib.textui`` (vestigial module) removed. (Martin Pool)
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* The Launchpad plugin now has a function ``login`` which will log in to
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Launchpad with launchpadlib, and ``load_branch`` which will return the
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Launchpad Branch object corresponding to a given Bazaar Branch object.
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* New test Feature: ``ModuleAvailableFeature``. It is designed to make it
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easier to handle what tests you want to run based on what modules can be
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imported. (Rather than lots of custom-implemented features that were
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basically copy-and-pasted.) (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``osutils.timer_func()`` can be used to get either ``time.time()`` or
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``time.clock()`` when you want to do performance timing.
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``time.time()`` is limited to 15ms resolution on Windows, but
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``time.clock()`` gives CPU and not wall-clock time on other platforms.
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* Several code paths that were calling ``Transport.get().read()`` have
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been changed to the equalivent ``Transport.get_bytes()``. The main
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difference is that the latter will explicitly call ``file.close()``,
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rather than expecting the garbage collector to handle it. This helps
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with some race conditions on Windows during the test suite and sftp
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tests. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* TestCaseWithMemoryTransport no longer sets $HOME and $BZR_HOME to
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unicode strings. (Michael Hudson, #464174)
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* Improve "Binary files differ" hunk handling. (Aaron Bentley, #436325)
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:Codename: after sprint recovery
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This release was pushed up from its normal release cycle due to a
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regression in python 2.4 compatibility in 2.1.0b2. Since this regression
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was caught before 2.1.0b2 was officially announced, the full changelog
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includes both 2.1.0b3 and 2.1.0b2 changes.
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Highlights of 2.1.0b3 are: new globbing code for all commands on Windows,
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the test suite now conforms to python's trunk enhanced semantics (skip,
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etc.), and ``bzr info -v`` will now report the correct branch and repo
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formats for Remote objects.
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* Users can define a shelve editor to provide shelf functionality at a
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granularity finer than per-patch-hunk. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Fix for shell completion and short options. (Benoît PIERRE)
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* Hooks daughter classes should always call the base constructor.
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(Alexander Belchenko, Vincent Ladeuil, #389648)
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* Improve "Binary files differ" hunk handling. (Aaron Bentley, #436325)
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* On Windows, do glob expansion at the command-line level (as is usually
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done in bash, etc.) This means that *all* commands get glob expansion
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(bzr status, bzr add, bzr mv, etc). It uses a custom command line
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parser, which allows us to know if a given section was quoted. It means
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you can now do ``bzr ignore "*.py"``.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #425510, #426410, #194450)
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* Sanitize commit messages that come in from the '-m' flag. We translate
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'\r\n' => '\n' and a plain '\r' => '\n'. The storage layer doesn't
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allow those because XML store silently translate it anyway. (The parser
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auto-translates \r\n => \n in ways that are hard for us to catch.)
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* Show correct branch and repository format descriptions in
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``bzr info -v`` on a smart server location. (Andrew Bennetts, #196080)
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* The fix for bug #186920 accidentally broke compatibility with python
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2.4. (Vincent Ladeuil, #475585)
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* Using ``Repository.get_commit_builder().record_iter_changes()`` now
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correctly sets ``self.inv_sha1`` to a sha1 string and
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``self.new_inventory`` to an Inventory instance after calling
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``self.finish_inventory()``. (Previously it accidently set both values
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as a tuple on ``self.inv_sha1``. This was missed because
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``repo.add_revision`` ignores the supplied inventory sha1 and recomputes
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the sha1 from the repo directly. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Shelve command refuse to run if there is no real terminal.
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(Alexander Belchenko)
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* Avoid unnecessarily flushing of trace file; it's now unbuffered at the
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Python level. (Martin Pool)
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* Include Japanese translations for documentation (Inada Naoki)
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* New API ``ui_factory.make_output_stream`` to be used for sending bulk
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(rather than user-interaction) data to stdout. This automatically
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coordinates with progress bars or other terminal activity, and can be
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(Martin Pool, 493944)
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* Some of the core groupcompress functionality now releases the GIL before
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operation. Similar to how zlib and bz2 operate without the GIL in the
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core compression and decompression routines. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* -Dhpssvfs will now trigger on ``RemoteBzrDir._ensure_real``, providing
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more debugging of VFS access triggers. (Robert Collins)
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* KnownFailure is now signalled to ``ExtendedTestResult`` using the same
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method that Python 2.7 uses - ``addExpectedFailure``. (Robert Collins)
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* ``--parallel=fork`` is now compatible with --subunit.
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(Robert Collins, Vincent Ladeuil, #419776)
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* TestNotApplicable is now handled within the TestCase.run method rather
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than being looked for within ``ExtendedTestResult.addError``. This
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provides better handling with other ``TestResult`` objects, degrading to
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sucess rather than error. (Robert Collins)
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* The private method ``_testConcluded`` on ``ExtendedTestResult`` has been
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removed - it was empty and unused. (Robert Collins)
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* UnavailableFeature is now handled within the TestCase.run method rather
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than being looked for within addError. If the Result object does not
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have an addNotSupported method, addSkip is attempted instead, and
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failing that addSuccess. (Robert Collins)
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* When a TestResult does not have an addSkip method, skipped tests are now
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reported as successful tests, rather than as errors. This change is
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to make it possible to get a clean test run with a less capable
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TestResult. (Robert Collins)
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:Codename: a load off my mind
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This is our second feature-filled release since 2.0, pushing us down the
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path to a 2.1.0. Once again, all bugfixes in 2.0.2 are present in 2.1.0b2.
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Key highlights in this release are: improved handling of
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failures-during-cleanup for commit, fixing a long-standing bug with
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``bzr+http`` and shared repositories, all ``lp:`` urls to be resolved
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behind proxies, and a new StaticTuple datatype, allowing us to reduce
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memory consumption (50%) and garbage collector overhead (40% faster) for
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* A new ``--concurrency`` option has been added as well as an associated
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BZR_CONCURRENCY environment variable to specify the number of
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processes that can be run concurrently when running ``bzr selftest``. The
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command-line option overrides the environment variable if both are
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specified. If none is specified. the number of processes is obtained
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from the OS as before. (Matt Nordhoff, Vincent Ladeuil)
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* ``bzr+http`` servers no longer give spurious jail break errors when
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serving branches inside a shared repository. (Andrew Bennetts, #348308)
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* Errors during commit are handled more robustly so that knock-on errors
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are less likely to occur, and will not obscure the original error if
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they do occur. This fixes some causes of ``TooManyConcurrentRequests``
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and similar errors. (Andrew Bennetts, #429747, #243391)
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* Launchpad urls can now be resolved from behind proxies.
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(Gordon Tyler, Vincent Ladeuil, #186920)
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* Reduce the strictness for StaticTuple, instead add a debug flag
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``-Dstatic_tuple`` which will change apis to be strict and raise errors.
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This way, most users won't see failures, but developers can improve
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internals. (John Arbash Meinel, #471193)
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* TreeTransform.adjust_path updates the limbo paths of descendants of adjusted
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files. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Unicode paths are now handled correctly and consistently by the smart
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server. (Andrew Bennetts, Michael Hudson, #458762)
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* When reading index files, we now use a ``StaticTuple`` rather than a
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plain ``tuple`` object. This generally gives a 20% decrease in peak
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memory, and can give a performance boost up to 40% on large projects.
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* Peak memory under certain operations has been reduced significantly.
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(eg, 'bzr branch launchpad standalone' is cut in half)
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* Filtered views user documentation upgraded to refer to format 2a
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instead of pre-2.0 formats. (Ian Clatworthy)
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* Remove deprecated ``CLIUIFactory``. (Martin Pool)
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* ``UIFactory`` now has new ``show_error``, ``show_message`` and
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``show_warning`` methods, which can be hooked by non-text UIs.
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* Added ``bzrlib._simple_set_pyx``. This is a hybrid between a Set and a
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Dict (it only holds keys, but you can lookup the object located at a
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given key). It has significantly reduced memory consumption versus the
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builtin objects (1/2 the size of Set, 1/3rd the size of Dict). This is
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used as the interning structure for StaticTuple objects.
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* ``bzrlib._static_tuple_c.StaticTuple`` is now available and used by
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the btree index parser and the chk map parser. This class functions
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similarly to ``tuple`` objects. However, it can only point to a limited
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collection of types. (Currently StaticTuple, str, unicode, None, bool,
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int, long, float, but not subclasses). This allows us to remove it from
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the garbage collector (it cannot be in a cycle), it also allows us to
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intern the objects. In testing, this can reduce peak memory by 20-40%,
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and significantly improve performance by removing objects from being
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inspected by the garbage collector. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* ``GroupCompressBlock._ensure_content()`` will now release the
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``zlib.decompressobj()`` when the first request is for all of the
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content. (Previously it would only be released if you made a request for
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part of the content, and then all of it later.) This turns out to be a
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significant memory savings, as a ``zstream`` carries around approx 260kB
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of internal state and buffers. (For branching bzr.dev this drops peak
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memory from 382MB => 345MB.) (John Arbash Meinel)
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* When streaming content between ``2a`` format repositories, we now clear
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caches from earlier versioned files. (So 'revisions' is cleared when we
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start reading 'inventories', etc.) This can have a significant impact on
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peak memory for initial copies (~200MB). (John Arbash Meinel)
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instead of pre-2.0 formats. (Ian Clatworthy)
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:Codename: While the cat is away
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This is the first development release in the new split "stable" and
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"development" series. As such, the release is a snapshot of bzr.dev
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without creating a release candidate first. This release includes a
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fair amount of internal changes, with deprecated code being removed,
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and several new feature developments. People looking for a stable code
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base with only bugfixes should focus on the 2.0.1 release. All bugfixes
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present in 2.0.1 are present in 2.1.0b1.
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Highlights include support for ``bzr+ssh://host/~/homedir`` style urls,
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finer control over the plugin search path via extended BZR_PLUGIN_PATH
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syntax, visible warnings when extension modules fail to load, and improved
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error handling during unlocking.
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* Bazaar can now send mail through Apple OS X Mail.app.
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* ``bzr+ssh`` and ``bzr`` paths can now be relative to home directories
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specified in the URL. Paths starting with a path segment of ``~`` are
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relative to the home directory of the user running the server, and paths
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starting with ``~user`` are relative to the home directory of the named
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user. For example, for a user "bob" with a home directory of
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``/home/bob``, these URLs are all equivalent:
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~/repo``
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/~bob/repo``
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* ``bzr+ssh://bob@host/home/bob/repo``
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If ``bzr serve`` was invoked with a ``--directory`` argument, then no
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home directories outside that directory will be accessible via this
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This is a feature of ``bzr serve``, so pre-2.1 clients will
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automatically benefit from this feature when ``bzr`` on the server is
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upgraded. (Andrew Bennetts, #109143)
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* Extensions can now be compiled if either Cython or Pyrex is available.
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Currently Pyrex is preferred, but that may change in the future.
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* Give more control on BZR_PLUGIN_PATH by providing a way to refer to or
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disable the user, site and core plugin directories.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #412930, #316192, #145612)
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* Bazaar's native protocol code now correctly handles EINTR, which most
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noticeably occurs if you break in to the debugger while connected to a
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bzr+ssh server. You can now can continue from the debugger (by typing
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'c') and the process continues. However, note that pressing C-\ in the
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shell may still kill the SSH process, which is bug 162509, so you must
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sent a signal to the bzr process specifically, for example by typing
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``kill -QUIT PID`` in another shell. (Martin Pool, #341535)
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* ``bzr add`` in a tree that has files with ``\r`` or ``\n`` in the
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filename will issue a warning and skip over those files.
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(Robert Collins, #3918)
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* ``bzr dpush`` now aborts if uncommitted changes (including pending merges)
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are present in the working tree. The configuration option ``dpush_strict``
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can be used to set the default for this behavior.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #438158)
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* ``bzr merge`` and ``bzr remove-tree`` now requires --force if pending
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merges are present in the working tree.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #426344)
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* Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a ``MemoryError``
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traceback. (Martin Pool, #109115)
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* Don't give a warning on Windows when failing to import ``_readdir_pyx``
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as it is never built. (John Arbash Meinel, #430645)
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* Don't restrict the command name used to run the test suite.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #419950)
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* ftp transports were built differently when the kerberos python module was
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present leading to obscure failures related to ASCII/BINARY modes.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #443041)
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* Network streams now decode adjacent records of the same type into a
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single stream, reducing layering churn. (Robert Collins)
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* PreviewTree behaves correctly when get_file_mtime is invoked on an unmodified
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file. (Aaron Bentley, #251532)
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* Registry objects should not use iteritems() when asked to use items().
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #430510)
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* Weave based repositories couldn't be cloned when committers were using
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domains or user ids embedding '.sig'. Now they can.
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(Matthew Fuller, Vincent Ladeuil, #430868)
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* Revision specifiers can now be given in a more DWIM form, without
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needing explicit prefixes for specifiers like tags or revision id's.
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See ``bzr help revisionspec`` for full details. (Matthew Fuller)
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* Bazaar gives a warning before exiting, and writes into ``.bzr.log``, if
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compiled extensions can't be loaded. This typically indicates a
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packaging or installation problem. In this case Bazaar will keep
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running using pure-Python versions, but this may be substantially
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slower. The warning can be disabled by setting
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``ignore_missing_extensions = True`` in ``bazaar.conf``.
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See also <https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+faq/703>.
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(Martin Pool, #406113, #430529)
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* Secondary errors that occur during Branch.unlock and Repository.unlock
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no longer obscure the original error. These methods now use a new
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decorator, ``only_raises``. This fixes many causes of
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``TooManyConcurrentRequests`` and similar errors.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #429747)
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* Describe the new shell-like test feature. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Help on hooks no longer says 'Not deprecated' for hooks that are
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currently supported. (Ian Clatworthy, #422415)
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* ``bzrlib.user_encoding`` has been removed; use
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``bzrlib.osutils.get_user_encoding`` instead. (Martin Pool)
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* ``bzrlib.tests`` now uses ``stopTestRun`` for its ``TestResult``
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subclasses - the same as python's unittest module. (Robert Collins)
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* ``diff._get_trees_to_diff`` has been renamed to
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``diff.get_trees_and_branches_to_diff``. It is now a public API, and it
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returns the old and new branches. (Gary van der Merwe)
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* ``bzrlib.trace.log_error``, ``error`` and ``info`` have been deprecated.
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* ``MutableTree.has_changes()`` does not require a tree parameter anymore. It
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now defaults to comparing to the basis tree. It now checks for pending
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merges too. ``Merger.check_basis`` has been deprecated and replaced by the
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corresponding has_changes() calls. ``Merge.compare_basis``,
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``Merger.file_revisions`` and ``Merger.ensure_revision_trees`` have also
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #440631)
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* ``ProgressTask.note`` is deprecated.
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* Added ``-Drelock`` debug flag. It will ``note`` a message every time a
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repository or branch object is unlocked then relocked the same way.
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* ``BTreeLeafParser.extract_key`` has been tweaked slightly to reduce
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mallocs while parsing the index (approx 3=>1 mallocs per key read).
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This results in a 10% speedup while reading an index.
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* The ``bzrlib.lsprof`` module has a new class ``BzrProfiler`` which makes
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profiling in some situations like callbacks and generators easier.
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* Passing ``--lsprof-tests -v`` to bzr selftest will cause lsprof output to
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be output for every test. Note that this is very verbose! (Robert Collins)
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* Setting ``BZR_TEST_PDB=1`` when running selftest will cause a pdb
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post_mortem to be triggered when a test failure occurs. (Robert Collins)
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* Shell-like tests can now be written. Code in ``bzrlib/tests/script.py`` ,
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documentation in ``developers/testing.txt`` for details.
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* Some tests could end up with the same id, that was dormant for
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #442980)
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* Stop showing the number of tests due to missing features in the test
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progress bar. (Martin Pool)
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* Test parameterisation now does a shallow copy, not a deep copy of the test
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to be parameterised. This is not expected to break external use of test
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parameterisation, and is substantially faster. (Robert Collins)
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* Tests that try to open a bzr dir on an arbitrary transport will now
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fail unless they have explicitly permitted the transport via
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``self.permit_url``. The standard test factories such as ``self.get_url``
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will permit the urls they provide automatically, so only exceptional
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tests should need to do this. (Robert Collins)
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* The break-in test no longer cares about clean shutdown of the child,
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instead it is happy if the debugger starts up. (Robert Collins)
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* The full test suite is expected to pass when the C extensions are not
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present. (Vincent Ladeuil, #430749)
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