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:2.3.b2: NOT RELEASED YET
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* Add ``mainline`` revision specifier, which selects the revision that
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merged a specified revision into the mainline. (Aaron Bentley)
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* Add ``annotate`` revision specifier, which selects the revision that
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introduced a specified line of a file. (Aaron Bentley)
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* ``bzr status`` now displays a summary of existing shelves after
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the other status information. This is done using a ``post_status``
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(Parth Malwankar, #403687)
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* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
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needed to succesfully run the test suite for installed versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
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* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as root.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
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* When running ``bzr selftest --subunit`` the subunit stream will no
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longer include the "log" information for tests which are considered to
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be 'successes' (success, xfail, skip, etc) (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Fix tests that failed when run under ``LANG=C``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #632387)
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* Use tests.TestCaseInTempDir for tests that requires disk resources.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #650001)
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This is the first beta of the 2.3 series, leading up to a 2.3.0
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release in January or February. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
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but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
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small updates to work with 2.3b1.
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2.3b1 includes some performance improvements in both speed and memory
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consumption, some preliminary support for generating a texinfo version of
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the doc and better support for launchpad. Many changes were made to make
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our test suite more robust as well as numerous documentation fixes. It
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improves the common infrastructure for dealing with colocated named
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branches and foreign branches. We plan to continue with these themes
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through the 2.3 series.
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It also includes bug fixes for 2.0.6, 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 and over 40 fixes of
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* BzrError subclasses no longer support the name "message" to be used
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as an argument for __init__ or in _fmt format specification as this
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breaks in some Python versions. errors.LockError.__init__ argument
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is now named "msg" instead of earlier "message".
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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* ``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransformBase.final_kind``,
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``bzrlib.transform.TreeTransform.tree_kind`` and
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``bzrlib.transform.TransformPreview.tree_kind`` now return None instead
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of raising NoSuchFile. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* `ControlDirFormat` and `ControlDir` have been split out of `BzrDirFormat`
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and `BzrDir`, respectively. `ControlDirFormat`
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and `ControlDir` should be used as the base classes for new non-.bzr
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`BzrDirFormat.register_control_format` has been renamed to
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`ControlDirFormat.register_format`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_server_control_format` has been removed.
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Probing for control directories is now done by separate objects derived
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from `bzrlib.controldir.Prober` and registered using
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_prober` or
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`bzrlib.controldir.ControlDirFormat.register_server_prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.probe_transport` has been moved onto `Prober`.
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`BzrDirFormat.register_format` has been renamed to
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`BzrProber.register_bzrdir_format`.
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`bzrlib.bzrdir.network_format_registry` has been moved to
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP server that returns reply '250 Directory
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created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* `decode` parameter to get() method in FtpTransport and GioTransport classes
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is deprecated. (Alexander Belchenko)
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* `FileInWrongBranch` is deprecated in favour of `PathNotChild` and no
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
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connections to pre-1.6 bzr+ssh servers to fail, and causing warnings on
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stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
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* Only call ``setlocale`` in the bzr startup script on posix systems. This
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avoids an issue with the newer windows C runtimes used by Python 2.6 and
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later which can mangle bytestrings printed to the console.
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(Martin [gz], #631350)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
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(Martin [gz], #254278)
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest> is an actively-maintained
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macrobenchmark suite.
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* `tree_files` and `internal_tree_files` are now deprecated in favor of
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`WorkingTree.open_containing_paths`.
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* Upgrading or fetching from a non-rich-root repository to a rich-root
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repository (e.g. from pack-0.92 to 2a) no longer fails with
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``'Inter1and2Helper' object has no attribute 'source_repo'``. This was
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a regression from Bazaar 2.1. (Andrew Bennetts, #636930)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* Added ``pre_status`` and ``post_status`` hooks. This allows plugins
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to register custom handlers which will be invoked before/after the
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standard status output is displayed. (Parth Malwankar)
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* ``bzr break-lock --config [location]`` can now break config files
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locks. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* ``bzr break-lock --force`` breaks the lock without prompting. (Before
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using this, make sure the process holding the lock really is dead.)
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(Martin Pool, #392315)
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* ``bzrlib.config.LockableConfig`` is a base class for config files that
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needs to be protected against multiple writers. All methods that
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change a configuration variable value must be decorated with
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@needs_write_lock (set_option() for example).
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* The ``lp:`` prefix will now use your known username (from
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``bzr launchpad-login``) to expand ``~`` to your username. For example:
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``bzr launchpad-login user && bzr push lp:~/project/branch`` will now
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push to ``lp:~user/project/branch``. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* New development format ``development8-subtree`` which is similar to the
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``2a`` format and adds subtree support. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Fix traceback with python-2.7's xmlrpclib
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(Toshio Kuratomi, #612096)
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* Allow using both --using and --diff-options.
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(Matthäus G. Chajdas, #234708)
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* Allow using non-integer bug ID with generic bug trackers.
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(Alexandre Garnier, #440472)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
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* ``clean-tree`` issues a warning if it is unable to delete a file
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due to ``errno.EACCES`` instead of exiting with an error on Windows.
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(Parth Malwankar, #430785)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now protected against
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concurrent writers by using a lock. (Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP Server and VSFTPd that return reply '250
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Directory created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Decrease peak memory during ``bzr send``. The old code was caching all
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text content and all inventory strings for all revisions before
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computing the diffs. Now we only cache as long as there is a child that
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will need them. Sending 2000 bzr revisions drops from 1.2GB peak to
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256MB peak. (John Arbash Meinel, #614576)
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* Don't print internal object name when print an invalid revision spec
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error. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #598701)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* ``EPIPE`` can be raised during test server shutdown. This happened on
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gentoo only so far. (Vincent Ladeuil, #627277)
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* Errors occurring during http(s) test server starts should now be
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handled cleanly. (Vincent Ladeuil, #392402)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
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connections to pre-1.6 bzr+ssh servers to fail, and causing warnings on
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stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
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* Fix spurious paramiko warning on hardy by ensuring that ``selftest``
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properly remove its warning filter. (Vincent Ladeuil, #625686)
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* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
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with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
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* Most of the leaked threads during selftest are now fixed, allowing the
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full test suite to pass on gentoo.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #392127)
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* Only call ``setlocale`` in the bzr startup script on posix systems. This
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avoids an issue with the newer windows C runtimes used by Python 2.6 and
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later which can mangle bytestrings printed to the console.
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(Martin [gz], #631350)
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* `PathNotChild` should not give a traceback.
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(Martin Pool, #98735)
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* ``PQM`` will no longer ignore syntax errors in submissions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #626667)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* strace test-helper tests cope with the new Ubuntu policy of not allowing
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users to attach to their own processes by default.
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(Martin Pool, #626679)
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* Test classes like ``TestCase``, ``TestLoader``, and ``TestSuite`` should
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be available from ``bzrlib.tests.*``. They used to be, but were
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accidentally removed. (John Arbash Meinel, #627438)
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* Treat all IO, OS, and socket errors consistently when establishing
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SSH/SFTP connections via a subprocess. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``Transport.stat`` on a symlink, including a transport pointing directly
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to a symlink, now returns information about the symlink.
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* Upgrading or fetching from a non-rich-root repository to a rich-root
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repository (e.g. from pack-0.92 to 2a) no longer fails with
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``'Inter1and2Helper' object has no attribute 'source_repo'``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #636930)
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* Wait for the SSH server to actually finish, rather than just waiting for
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it to negotiate the key exchange. (John Arbash Meinel, #626876)
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* ``bzr remove`` now just backs up changed files instead of exiting,
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forcing you to choose to either keep or delete them. Bazaar will now delete
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the files if they can easily be recovered using revert, otherwise they
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will be backed up (adding an extention of the form .~#~).
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(Marius Kruger, #400554)
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* ``bzr revert`` and ``bzr status`` are up to 15% faster on large trees
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with many changes by not repeatedly building a list of all file-ids.
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* Decrease memory consumption when many chk index pages are loaded. (Such
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as during ``bzr co`` or ``bzr ls -R`` of a large tree.) Often we need to
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read many chk pages because the individual chk map nodes will be spread
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randomly. Peak memory for 'bzr ls -R' on a large tree dropped from 396MB
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down to 247MB, expect even more significant savings on 64-bit platforms.
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* ``DirState`` internals use a little bit less memory. For bzr.dev it
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drops the memory from 1MB down to about 800kB. And replaces a few
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thousand tuples and sets with StaticTuple. (John Arbash Meinel)
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* Inventory entries now consume less memory (on 32-bit Ubuntu file entries
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have dropped from 68 bytes to 40, and directory entries from 120 bytes
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to 48). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* When building new working trees, default to reading from the repository
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rather than the source tree unless explicitly requested. (via
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``--files-from`` and ``--hardlink`` for ``bzr branch`` and
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``bzr checkout``. Generally, 2a format repositories extract
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content faster than seeking and reading content from another tree,
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especially in cold-cache situations. (John Arbash Meinel, #607298)
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* Add ``__pycache__`` to the default ``ignores`` file. Future releases of
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Python will use this directory to store bytecodes.
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(Andrea Corbellini, #626687)
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* Added a builder/writer sphinx extension that can generate texinfo files. The
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generated files are syntactically correct but the info navigation nodes
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needs more work. (Vincent Ladeuil, #219334)
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* First tests defined for sphinx, including a new bzrlib.tests.features.sphinx
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to make the tests conditional.
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* Suggest ``bzr revert`` for restoring locally deleted files in help text
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for ``bzr update``. (John C Barstow, #191466)
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* Configuration files should now use the ``from_string`` constructor rather
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than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The later has
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been deprecated. ``from_string`` also accept a ``save=True`` parameter to
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have the configuration file immediately written to disk.
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* Deprecate treating a `PushResult` and `PullResult` as an integer for the
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relative change in revno.
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* ``IniBaseConfig`` objects should now use the ``from_string`` constructor
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the rather than the ``file`` parameter of the ``_get_parser`` method. The
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later has been deprecated. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* InventoryEntry instances now raise AttributeError if you try to assign
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to attributes that are irrelevant to that kind of entry. e.g. setting
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``symlink_target`` on an InventoryFile will fail. It is still okay to
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read those attributes on any kind of InventoryEntry. The complete list
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of affected attributes is: ``executable``, ``text_id``, ``text_sha1``,
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``text_size`` (only valid for kind == file); ``symlink_target`` (only
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valid for kind == link); and ``reference_revision`` (only valid for kind
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== tree-reference). (Andrew Bennetts)
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* InventoryEntry objects no longer have ``_put_in_tar`` or
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``_put_on_disk`` methods. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The ``get_filename`` parameter in the ``config.IniBaseConfig``
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constructor has been deprecated, use the ``file_name`` parameter instead.
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Catch socket errors to avoid
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bt.test_sftp_transport.SSHVendorBadConnection.test_bad_connection_ssh
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random failures. (Vincent Ladeuil, #601804)
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* HTTP test servers will leak less threads (and sockets) and will not hang on
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AIX anymore. (Vincent Ladeuil, #405745)
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* On platforms that don't support forking give a nice error message saying so
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when ``bzr selftest --parallel=fork`` is used. (Martin [gz], #528730)
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* Rearrange thread leak detection code to eliminate global state and make it
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possible to extend the reporting. (Martin [gz], #633462)
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* Suppress the "maximum recursion depth exceeded in __subclasscheck__"
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warning on stderr emitted during ``test_dict_deepnested`` in
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``bzrlib/tests/test__bencode.py``. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* The test suite now simply holds log files in memory, rather than writing them
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out to disk and then reading them back in and deleting them.
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* The way ``bzr selftest --parallel`` generates N partitions of tests to
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run in parallel has changed. Instead of splitting the list of tests at
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N-1 points, it distributes the tests one-by-one into the partitions in a
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round robin fashion. This reduces the total time to run the tests in
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parallel because a series of slow tests in the test suite will be
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distributed evenly among the parallel test suites, rather than slowing
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down just one suite. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Tracebacks from a parameterized test are no longer reported against every
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parameterization of that test. This was done by adding a hack to
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``bzrlib.tests.clone_test`` so that it no longer causes
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testtools.TestCase instances to share a details dict.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #625574)
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:2.2.2: NOT RELEASED YET
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* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
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needed to succesfully run the test suite for installed versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
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* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as root.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
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* Fix tests that failed when run under ``LANG=C``.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #632387)
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This is a bugfix release which also includes bugfixes from 2.0.6 and
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2.1.3. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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earlier 2.2 releases.
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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* CommitBuilder now uses the committer instead of _config.username to generate
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the revision-id. (Aaron Bentley, #614404)
571
* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
572
way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Cope with Microsoft FTP server that returns reply '250 Directory
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created' when mkdir succeeds. (Martin Pool, #224373)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
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* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Fix ``AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'close'`` in
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``_close_ssh_proc`` when using ``bzr+ssh://``. This was causing
591
connections to pre-1.6 bzr+ssh servers to fail, and causing warnings on
592
stderr in some other circumstances. (Andrew Bennetts, #633745)
594
* Only call ``setlocale`` in the bzr startup script on posix systems. This
595
avoids an issue with the newer windows C runtimes used by Python 2.6 and
596
later which can mangle bytestrings printed to the console.
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(Martin [gz], #631350)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
601
fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
612
via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
613
a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
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(Martin [gz], #254278)
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* Upgrading or fetching from a non-rich-root repository to a rich-root
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repository (e.g. from pack-0.92 to 2a) no longer fails with
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``'Inter1and2Helper' object has no attribute 'source_repo'``. This was
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a regression from Bazaar 2.1. (Andrew Bennetts, #636930)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* Fix a lot of references in the docs to the old http://bazaar-vcs.org to
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the new http://bazaar.canonical.com or http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com
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(John Arbash Meinel, #617503)
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* Remove used and broken code path in ``BranchInitHookParams.__repr__``.
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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* Tracebacks from a parameterized test are no longer reported against every
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parameterization of that test. This was done by adding a hack to
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``bzrlib.tests.clone_test`` so that it no longer causes
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testtools.TestCase instances to share a details dict.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #625574)
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:2.1.4: NOT RELEASED YET
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* Skip tests that needs a bzr source tree when there isn't one. This is
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needed to succesfully run the test suite for installed versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #644855).
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* Skip the tests that requires respecting the chmod bits when running as root.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #646133)
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:Codename: Do run run
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The third release in our 2.1 series addresses several user-inconvenience bugs
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(and includes the fixes done in 2.0.6). None are critical, but upgrading is
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recommended for all users on earlier 2.1 releases.
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
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(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
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* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
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way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
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* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
735
* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
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* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
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directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
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* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
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* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
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a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
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* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
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python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
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* Stop ``AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'ElementTree'``
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being thrown from ``xml_serializer`` on certain cElementTree setups.
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(Martin [gz], #254278)
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* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
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directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
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filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
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The sixth release in our 2.0 series addresses several user-inconvenience
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bugs. None are critical, but upgrading is recommended for all users on
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earlier 2.0 releases.
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* Additional merges after an unrelated branch has been merged with its
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history no longer crash when deleted files are involved.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, John Arbash Meinel, #375898)
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* ``bzr add SYMLINK/FILE`` now works properly when the symlink points to a
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previously-unversioned directory within the tree: the directory is
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marked versioned too.
800
(Martin Pool, #192859)
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* ``bzr commit SYMLINK`` now works, rather than trying to commit the
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target of the symlink.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel, #128562)
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* ``bzr revert`` now only takes write lock on working tree, instead of on
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both working tree and branch.
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(Danny van Heumen, #498409)
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* ``bzr upgrade`` now creates the ``backup.bzr`` directory with the same
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permissions as ``.bzr`` directory on a POSIX OS.
812
(Parth Malwankar, #262450)
814
* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
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unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
817
* Don't traceback when a lockdir's ``held/info`` file is corrupt (e.g.
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contains only NUL bytes). Instead warn the user, and allow ``bzr
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break-lock`` to remove it. (Andrew Bennetts, #619872)
821
* Fix ``AttributeError on parent.children`` when adding a file under a
822
directory that was a symlink in the previous commit.
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(Martin Pool, #192859)
825
* Prevent ``CHKMap.apply_delta`` from generating non-canonical CHK maps,
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which can result in "missing referenced chk root keys" errors when
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fetching from repositories with affected revisions.
828
(Andrew Bennetts, #522637)
830
* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
833
* Reduce peak memory by one copy of compressed text.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #566940)
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* Repositories accessed via a smart server now reject being stacked on a
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repository in an incompatible format, as is the case when accessing them
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via other methods. This was causing fetches from those repositories via
839
a smart server (e.g. using ``bzr branch``) to receive invalid data.
840
(Andrew Bennetts, #562380)
842
* Selftest with versions of subunit that support ``stopTestRun`` will no longer
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error. This error was caused by 2.0 not being updated when upstream
844
python merged the end of run patch, which chose ``stopTestRun`` rather than
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``done``. (Robert Collins, #571437)
847
* When passing a file to ``UTF8DirReader`` make sure to close the current
848
directory file handle after the chdir fails. Otherwise when passing many
849
filenames into a command line ``bzr status`` we would leak descriptors.
850
(John Arbash Meinel, #583486)
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* ``build_tree_contents`` can create symlinks.
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(Martin Pool, John Arbash Meinel)
866
This release marks the start of another long-term-stable series. From
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here, we will only make bugfix releases on the 2.2 series (2.2.1, etc),
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while 2.3 will become our new development series. The 2.0 and 2.1 series
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will also continue to get bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be
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supported for another 6 months.)
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This is primarily a bugfix and polish release over the 2.1 series, with
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a large number of bugs fixed (>120), and some performance improvements.
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There are some compatibility changes in this release. For users of bzrlib
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as a library, we now request that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use
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the returned context manager appropriately. For commandline users we no
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longer guess user identity for ``bzr commit``, users must specify their
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identity using ``bzr whoami`` (you don't need to specify your identity for
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readonly operations).
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series.
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* BzrError subclasses no longer support the name "message" to be used
888
as an argument for __init__ or in _fmt format specification as this
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breaks in some Python versions. errors.LockError.__init__ argument
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is now named "msg" instead of earlier "message".
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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* The old ``bzr selftest --benchmark`` option has been removed.
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<https://launchpad.net/bzr-usertest> is an actively-maintained
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macrobenchmark suite.
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* ``bzr ignore PATTERNS`` exits with error if a bad pattern is supplied.
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``InvalidPattern`` exception error message now shows faulting
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(Parth Malwankar #300062)
906
* Configuration files in ``${BZR_HOME}`` are now written in an atomic
907
way which should help avoid problems with concurrent writers.
908
(Vincent Ladeuil, #525571)
910
* Don't traceback trying to unversion children files of an already
911
unversioned directory. (Vincent Ladeuil, #494221)
913
* ``HTTP/1.1`` test servers now set a ``Content-Length`` header to comply
914
with pedantic ``HTTP/1.1`` clients. (Vincent Ladeuil, #568421)
916
* Progress bars prefer to truncate the text message rather than the
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counters. The spinner is shown between the network transfer indicator
918
and the progress message. Progress bars are correctly cleared off when
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they finish. (Martin Pool, #611127)
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* Recursive binding for checkouts is now detected by bzr. A clear error
922
message is shown to the user. (Parth Malwankar, #405192)
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* Add ``bzrlib.merge.MergeIntoMerger``, which can merge part or all of a
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tree, and works with unrelated branches. (Andrew Bennetts)
930
* Add py2exe windows target ``bzrw.exe``. This allow for starting a Bazaar
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GUI with out have a console open in the background.
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(Gary van der Merwe, #433781)
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* ``bzr help patterns`` now explains case insensitive patterns and
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points to Python regular expression documentation.
939
(Parth Malwankar, #594386)
944
* Delete ``ProgressTask.note``, which was deprecated in 2.1.
949
* Unit test added to ensure that "message" is not uses as a format variable
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name in BzrError subclasses as this conflicts with some Python versions.
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(Parth Malwankar, #603461)
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:Codename: Monkey Magic
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This fourth and final beta in the 2.2 series now stabilizes the internal
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APIs. Plugin authors are recommended to ensure their releases are
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compatible, so that 2.2rc1 can be a true release candidate, containing
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stable and compatible plugin versions.
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For users of bzrlib as a library, one of the primary changes is to request
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that they call ``bzrlib.initialize`` and use the returned context manager
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Better interaction with ``bzr-loom`` to make sure branching from a loom
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even over a smart server still yields a local loom. Not to mention lots of
976
* bzrlib library users now need to call ``__enter__`` and ``__exit__`` on
977
the result of ``bzrlib.initialize``. This change was made when fixing
978
the bad habit recent bzr versions have had of leaving progress bars
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behind on the screen. That required calling another function before
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exiting the program, and it made sense to provide a full context
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manager at the same time. (Robert Collins)
983
* The ``bzr`` front end now requires a ``bzrlib.ui.ui_factory`` which is a
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context manager in the Python 2.5 and above sense. The bzrlib base class
985
is such a manager, but third party UI factories which do not derive from
986
``bzrlib.ui.UIFactory`` will be incompatible with the command line front
989
* URLs like ``foo:bar/baz`` are now always parsed as a URL with scheme "foo"
990
and path "bar/baz", even if bzr does not recognize "foo" as a known URL
991
scheme. Previously these URLs would be treated as local paths.
998
* Support ``--directory`` option for a number of additional commands:
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conflicts, merge-directive, missing, resolve, shelve, switch,
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unshelve, whoami. (Martin von Gagern, #527878)
1005
* ``bzr branch`` to a new repository with a default stacking policy no
1006
longer transfers the full history unnecessarily.
1007
(Andrew Bennetts, #597942)
1009
* ``bzr init`` does not recursively scan directory contents anymore
1010
leading to faster init for directories with existing content.
1011
(Martin [gz], Parth Malwankar, #501307)
1013
* ``bzr log --exclude-common-ancestry`` is now taken into account for
1014
linear ancetries. (Vincent Ladeuil, #575631)
1016
* ``bzr log -r branch:REMOTE`` can now properly log the remote branch,
1017
rather than trying to fetch the data locally and failing because of a
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readonly error. (Martin von Gagern, #149270)
1020
* ``bzr pull`` now works when a lp: URL is explicitly defined as the parent
1021
or pull location in locations.conf or branch.conf.
1022
(Gordon Tyler, #534787)
1024
* ``bzr reconfigure --unstacked`` now works with branches accessed via a
1025
smart server. (Andrew Bennetts, #551525)
1027
* ``BzrDir.find_branches`` should ignore branches with missing repositories.
1028
(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
1030
* ``BzrDir.find_bzrdirs`` should ignore dirs that raises PermissionDenied.
1031
(Marius Kruger, Robert Collins)
1033
* Ensure that wrong path specifications in ``BZR_PLUGINS_AT`` display
1034
proper error messages. (Vincent Ladeuil, #591215)
1036
* Explicitly removing ``--profile-imports`` option from parsed command-line
1037
arguments on Windows, because bzr script does the same.
1038
(Alexander Belchenko, #588277)
1040
* Fetching was slightly confused about the best code to use and was
1041
using a new code path for all branches, resulting in more lookups than
1042
necessary on old branches. (Robert Collins, #593515)
1044
* Final fix for 'no help for command' issue. We now show a clean message
1045
when a command has no help, document how to set help more clearly, and
1046
test that all commands available to the test suite have help.
1047
(Robert Collins, #177500)
1049
* Invalid patterns supplied to ``Globster`` or ``lazy_regex`` now raise
1050
``InvalidPattern`` exception showing clear error message to the user.
1051
(Parth Malwankar #300062)
1053
* Progress output is cleaned up when exiting. (Aaron Bentley)
1055
* Raise ValueError instead of a string exception.
1056
(John Arbash Meinel, #586926)
1058
* Relative imports in plugins are now handled correctly when using
1059
BZR_PLUGINS_AT. (Vincent Ladeuil, #588959)
1061
* ``ScriptRunner`` now strips off leading indentation from test scripts,
1062
which previously caused "SyntaxError: No command for line".
1065
* Show unicode filenames in diff headers using terminal encoding.
1066
(Alexander Belchenko, Bug #382699)
1067
NOTE for Windows users: If user need to save diff to file then user need to
1068
change encoding of the terminal to ANSI encoding with command ``chcp XXX``
1069
(e.g. ``chcp 1251`` for Russian Windows).
1071
* URL displayed for use with ``break-lock`` when smart server sees lock
1072
contention are now valid. Default timeout for lock contention retry is
1073
now 30 seconds instead of 300 seconds.
1074
(Parth Malwankar, #250451)
1076
* ``walkdirs`` now raises a useful message when the filenames are not using
1077
the filesystem encoding. (Eric Moritz, #488519)
1079
* Enable debugging of bzr on windows with pdb and other tools. This was
1080
broken because we call GetCommandLineW on windows. The fix adjusts the
1081
command line we get to be the same length as sys.argv.
1082
(Jason Spashett, Alexander Belchenko, #587868)
1087
* Bazaar now reads data from SSH connections more efficiently on platforms
1088
that provide the ``socketpair`` function, and when using paramiko.
1089
(Andrew Bennetts, #590637)
1091
* ``Branch.copy_content_into`` is now a convenience method dispatching to
1092
a ``InterBranch`` multi-method. This permits ``bzr-loom`` and other
1093
plugins to intercept this even when a ``RemoteBranch`` proxy is in use.
1094
(Robert Collins, #201613)
1096
* ``Branch`` formats can now be loaded lazily by registering a
1097
``MetaDirBranchFormatFactory`` rather than an actual format. This will
1098
cause the named format class to be loaded only when an enumeration of
1099
formats is needed or when the format string for the object is
1100
encountered. (Robert Collins, Jelmer Vernooij)
1102
* The encoding that bzr uses to output things other than file content can
1103
now be overridden via the output_encoding configuration option.
1104
(Martin Pool, #340394)
1106
* Use lazy imports in ``bzrlib/merge.py`` so that plugins like ``news_merge``
1107
do not cause modules to be loaded unnecessarily just because the plugin
1108
registers a merge hook. This improves ``bzr rocks`` time by about 25%
1109
in a default installation (with just the core plugins).
1115
* Added ``regression`` tag to our tags list. (Robert Collins)
1117
* Improved our release checklist to have a bit less churn and leave things
1118
ready-to-go for the next action (including other people doing
1119
development). (Robert Collins)
1121
* Remove obsolete discussion of PQM in documentation about how to
1122
contribute to Bazaar. (Martin Pool, #588444)
1127
* ``bzrlib.branch.InterBranch._get_branch_formats_to_test`` now returns
1128
an iterable of format pairs, rather than just a single pair, permitting
1129
InterBranch objects that work with multiple permutations to be
1130
comprehensively tested. (Robert Collins)
1132
* ``bzrlib.lsprof.profile`` will no longer silently generate bad threaded
1133
profiles when concurrent profile requests are made. Instead the profile
1134
requests will be serialised. Reentrant requests will now deadlock.
1137
* ``bzrlib.knit.KnitSequenceMatcher``, which has been deprecated since
1138
2007, has been deleted. Use ``PatienceSequenceMatcher`` from
1139
``bzrlib.patiencediff`` instead. (Andrew Bennetts)
1141
* ``bzrlib.re_compile_checked`` is now deprecated. Caller should handle
1142
``bzrlib.errors.InvalidPattern`` exception thrown by ``re.match`` in
1143
case the default error message not suitable for the use case.
1146
* ``bzrlib.tests.blackbox.ExternalBase`` is deprecated. It provided only
1147
one method ``check_output``, and we now recommend checking command
1148
output using ``run_script``. (Martin Pool)
1150
* ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHVendor.connect_ssh`` now returns an object
1151
that implements the interface of ``bzrlib.transport.ssh.SSHConnection``.
1152
Third-party implementations of ``SSHVendor`` may need to be updated
1153
accordingly. Similarly, any code using ``SSHConnection`` directly will
1154
need to be updated. (Andrew Bennetts)
1156
* The constructor of ``bzrilb.smart.medium.SmartSSHClientMedium`` has
1157
changed to take an ``SSHParams`` instance (replacing many individual
1158
values). (Andrew Bennetts)
1163
* ``bzrlib.osutils.get_terminal_encoding`` will now only mutter its
1164
selection when explicitly requested; this avoids many duplicate calls
1165
being logged when helpers, wrappers and older code that manually calls
1166
it are executed it is now logged deliberately by the ui setup code.
1169
* Improved ``bzrlib.urlutils`` to handle lp:foo/bar URLs. (Gordon Tyler)
1171
* ``bzrlib._c_static_tuple.StaticTuple`` now implements ``__sizeof__``, so
1172
that ``sys.getsizeof`` and other memory analysis tools will report more
1173
accurate results. (Andrew Bennetts)
1175
* The symbol_versioning module can now cleanup after itself -
1176
``suppress_deprecation_warnings`` now returns a cleanup function.
1182
* Add ``bzrlib.tests.fixtures`` to hold code for setting up objects
1183
to test. (Martin Pool)
1185
* ``test_import_tariff`` now respects BZR_PLUGINS_AT and BZR_PLUGINS_DISABLE.
1186
(Vincent Ladeuil, #595587)
11
:2.2b3: NOT RELEASED YET
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This third beta in the 2.2 series brings with it all the goodness of 2.1.2
1194
and 2.0.6 (though it preceeds 2.0.6 slightly). Of particular note for
1195
users are compatibility fixes with bzr 1.5 and below servers, a hopeful
1196
end to the EINTR errors caused by SIGWINCH interactions, a shiny new
1197
bash completion script and bzr will no longer guess at identity details -
1198
it was too unreliable in reality. Use ``bzr whoami`` on every new install.
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For developers we have some API changes which may impact plugins as well
1200
as a bunch of our regular improvements to internal clarity and test
13
1203
Compatibility Breaks
14
1204
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* An API break has been made to the lock_write method of ``Branch`` and
1207
``Repository`` objects; they now return ``branch.BranchWriteLockResult``
1208
and ``repository.RepositoryWriteLockResult`` objects. This makes
1209
changing the API in future easier and permits some cleaner calling code.
1210
The lock_read method has also changed from having no defined return
1211
value to returning ``LogicalLockResult`` objects.
1214
* ``bzr`` does not try to guess the username as ``username@hostname``
1215
and requires it to be explictly set. This can be set using ``bzr
1216
whoami``. (Parth Malwankar, #549310)
1218
* ``bzrlib.commands.Command`` will now raise ValueError during
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construction if there is no __doc__ set. (Note, this will be reverted in
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2.2b4) (Robert Collins)
1222
* The source tree no longer contains a contrib/zsh/_bzr completion
1223
script. The new file contrib/zsh/README suggests alternatives.
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(Martin von Gagern, #560030)
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