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What's New in Bazaar 2.3?
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Bazaar 2.3 is still under development, and will be released in February
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2011. This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed.
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Bazaar 2.3 has been released on the 3rd of February 2011 and marks the start
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of another long-term-stable series. From here, we will only make bugfix
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releases on the 2.3 series (2.3.1, etc), while 2.4 will become our new
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development series. The 2.1 and 2.2 series will also continue to get
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bugfixes. (Currently 2.0 is planned to be EOLed circa September 2011.)
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This document accumulates a high level summary of what's changed.
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:doc:`../release-notes/index` for a full list.
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This
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document outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.3 vs Bazaar 2.2. As well as
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summarizing improvements made to the core product, it highlights
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enhancements within the broader Bazaar world of potential interest to
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Bazaar 2.3.0 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0
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2.1, and 2.2, and can read and write repositories generated by all
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Users are encouraged to upgrade from the other stable series. This document
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outlines the improvements in Bazaar 2.3 vs Bazaar 2.2. As well as summarizing
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improvements made to the core product, it highlights enhancements within the
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broader Bazaar world of potential interest to those upgrading.
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Bazaar 2.3.1 includes all the fixes in the un-released 2.0.7, 2.1.4 and 2.2.5
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versions that weren't included in 2.3.0 and fixes some bugs on its own.
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See the :doc:`../release-notes/index` for details.
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Bazaar 2.3 is fully compatible both locally and on the network with 2.0, 2.1,
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and 2.2. It can read and write repositories generated by all previous
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* Committing a new revision in a stacked branch is now supported, as long as
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you are using the current repository format (2a). It will preserve the
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stacking invariants, etc, so that fetching after commit is guaranteed to
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work. (John Arbash Meinel, #375013)
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* Support for some old development formats have been removed:
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``development-rich-root``, ``development6-rich-root``, and
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``development7-rich-root``. These formats were always labelled experimental
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working tree or branch as well as the ability to set or remove an
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option. Scripts can also use it to get only the value for a given option.
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Expected releases for the 2.3 series
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The 2.3 series has entered the beta phase and 2.3.0 should be released soon
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enough to be included into Natty Narwhal.
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As a rough estimate, consider that 2.3.0 will be released in February
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2011 and be supported until August 2012. Additional releases will be
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made if critical bugs are encountered
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