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:2.4b4: NOT RELEASED YET
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External Compatibility Breaks
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16
.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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* Do not treat configuration option 'check_signatures = require' as if
19
it were 'create_signatures = always' (Jonathan Riddell)
24
.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
26
* New hook server_exception in bzrlib.smart.server to catch any
27
exception caused while running bzr serve. (Jonathan Riddell,
30
* New hook set_commit_message in bzrlib.msgeditor to set
31
a commit message and revision properties. (Jonathan Riddell,
34
* Support ``-S`` as an alias for ``--short`` for the ``log`` and
35
``missing`` commands. (Martin von Gagern, #38655)
40
.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
41
or memory usage, or better results.
43
* ``bzr annotate`` can be run without setting whoami data first. (Jonathan
49
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
50
or undesirable results.
52
* Bazaar can now detect when a lock file is held by a dead process
53
originating from the same machine, and steal the lock after printing a
54
message to the user. This is off by default, for safety, but can be
55
turned on by setting the configuration variable ``locks.steal_dead`` to
57
(Martin Pool, #220464)
59
* Credentials in the log output produced by ``-Dhttp`` are masked so users
60
can more freely post them in bug reports. (Vincent Ladeuil, #723074)
62
* Fix a race condition for ``server_started`` hooks leading to a spurious
63
test failure. (Vincent Ladeuil, #789167)
65
* Handle files that get created but don't get used during TreeTransform.
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``open()`` can create a file, and still raise an exception before it
67
returns. So anything we might have created, make sure we destroy during
68
``finalize()``. (Martin [gz], #597686)
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* ``pack_repo`` now uses ``Transport.move`` instead of
71
``Transport.rename``, deleting any existing targets even on SFTP.
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(Martin von Gagern, #421776)
74
* Pass the ``build_mo`` command to the rest of the setup() calls in
75
setup.py. The ``bdist_wininst`` and ``py2exe`` code paths were failing
76
because ``build_mo`` became a required step that they didn't know about.
77
(John Arbash Meinel, #787122)
79
* Reports the original error when an InvalidHttpResponse exception is
80
encountered to facilitate debug. (Vincent Ladeuil, #788530)
82
* Reports a non-existant file error when trying to merge in a file
83
that does not exist. (Jonathan Riddell, #330063)
85
* ``UIFactory.prompt``, ``UIFactory.get_username``,
86
``UIFactory.get_password`` and ``UIFactory.get_boolean`` now require a
87
unicode prompt to be passed in. (Jelmer Vernooij, #592083)
89
* Support merging into the empty tree. (Aaron Bentley, #595328)
94
.. Improved or updated documentation.
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* Improve documentation of ``bzr merge --force``.
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(Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #767307)
99
* Make docs for configuration options for digital signatures match
100
reality. (Jonathan Riddell)
102
* Add user-guide page on GPG signatures. (Jonathan Riddell)
107
.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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* Information about held lockdir locks returned from eg `LockDir.peek` is
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now represented as a `LockHeldInfo` object, rather than a plain Python
117
.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
118
developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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* ``tools/check-newsbugs.py`` accepts a ``--browser`` option to open
121
corresponding launchpad pages in a browser. (Vincent Ladeuil)
126
.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
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suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
128
spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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* A `ImportTariffTestCase` base class has been added in
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``bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff``, which can be used for import tariff
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tests in plugins. (Jelmer Vernooij, #793465)
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* Fix deadlock in `TestImportTariffs.test_simple_serve` when stderr gets
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more output than fits in the default buffer. This was happening on the
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Windows buildslave, and could easily happen in other circumstances where
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the default OS buffer size for pipes is small or the ``python -v``
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output is large. (Andrew Bennetts, #784802)
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* Fix spurious test failure on OSX for WorkingTreeFormat2.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #787942)
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* Re-target ``bb.test_merge.TestMerge.test_merge_reversed_revision_range``
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and rewrite it as a parameterized test to avoid unrelated failures.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #795456)
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* Show log file contents from subprocesses started by
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`start_bzr_subprocess` in test failure details. This may help diagnose
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strange hangs and failures involving subprocesses. (Andrew Bennetts)
151
* Skip ``utextwrap`` tests when ``sphinx`` breaks text_wrap by an hostile
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monkeypatch to textwrap.TextWrapper.wordsep_re.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #785098)
155
* Multiple ``selftest --exclude`` options are now combined instead of
156
overriding each other. (Vincent Ladeuil, #746991)
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* Restore some ``FTPTransport`` test coverage by allowing ``pyftpdlib
159
0.6.0`` to be used. Also restore ``medusa`` support while leaving it
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disabled to make it easier to use if/when we can in the future.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #781140)
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* `TestImportTariffs` no longer uses the real ``$HOME``. This prevents it
164
from polluting ``$HOME/.bzr.log`` or being accidentally influenced by
165
user configuration such as aliases. It still runs with all the user's
166
plugins enabled, as intended.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, Andrew Bennetts, #789505)
175
This is the third beta of the 2.4 series, leading to a 2.4.0 release in
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August 2011. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
177
incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
183
External Compatibility Breaks
184
*****************************
186
.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
188
* ``bzr-2.4`` has officially dropped support for python2.4 and python2.5.
189
We will continue to maintain ``bzr-2.3`` for people who still need to
190
use those versions of python. (John Arbash Meinel)
195
.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* The text compressor used for 2a repositories now has a tweakable
198
parameter that can be set in bazaar.conf.
199
``bzr.groupcompress.max_entries_per_source`` default of 65536.
200
When doing compression, we build up an index of locations to match
201
against. Setting this higher will result in slightly better compression,
202
at a cost of more memory. Note that a value of 65k represents fully
203
sampling a 1MB file. So this only has an effect when compressing texts
204
larger than N*16 bytes. (John Arbash Meinel, #602614)
209
.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
210
or memory usage, or better results.
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* ``bzr branch --stacked`` from a smart server uses the network a little
213
more efficiently. For a simple branch it reduces the number of
214
round-trips by about 20%. (Andrew Bennetts)
216
* ``bzr log --line`` scales the width of the author field with the size of
217
the line. This means that the full author name is shown when the
218
environment variable BZR_COLUMNS=0. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
220
* ``bzr pull`` now properly triggers the fast
221
``CHKInventory.iter_changes`` rather than the slow generic
222
inter-Inventory changes. It used to use a ``DirStateRevisionTree`` as
223
one of the source trees, which is faster when we have to read the whole
224
inventory anyway, but much slower when we can get just the delta out of
225
the repository. On a 70k record tree, this changes ``bzr pull`` from 28s
226
down to 17s. (John Arbash Meinel, #780677)
228
* Slightly reduced memory consumption when fetching into a 2a repository
229
by reusing existing caching a little better. (Andrew Bennetts)
231
* Speed up ``bzr status`` by a little bit when there are a couple of
232
modified files. We now track how many files we have seen that need
233
updating, and only rewrite the dirstate file if enough of them have
234
changed. The default is 10, and can be overridden by setting the branch
235
option "``bzr.workingtree.worth_saving_limit``".
236
(Ian Clatworthy, John Arbash Meinel, #380202)
238
* Speed up ``bzr uncommit``. Instead of resetting the dirstate from
239
scratch, use ``update_basis_by_delta``, computing the delta from the
240
repository. (John Arbash Meinel, #780544)
245
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
246
or undesirable results.
248
* All Tree types can now be exported as tar.*, zip or directories.
251
* ``bzr merge --no-remember location`` never sets ``submit_branch``.
252
(Vincent Ladeuil, #782169)
254
* ``bzr pull --no-remember location`` never sets
255
``parent_location``. ``bzr push --no-remember location`` never
256
sets ``push_location``. ``bzr send --no-remember
257
submit_location public_location`` never sets ``submit_branch``
258
nor ``public_branch``. (Vincent Ladeuil)
260
* Conflicts involving non-ascii filenames are now properly reported rather
261
than failing with a UnicodeEncodeError. (Martin [GZ], #686161)
263
* Correct parent is now set when using 'switch -b' with bound branches.
264
(A. S. Budden, #513709)
266
* Fix `bzr plugins` regression in bzr 2.4 which resulted in a traceback
267
from writelines on ckj terminals. (Martin [GZ], #754082)
269
* ``WT.inventory`` and ``WT.iter_entries_by_dir()`` was not correctly
270
reporting subdirectories that were tree references (in formats that
271
supported them). (John Arbash Meinel, #764677)
273
* Merging into empty branches now gives an error as this is currently
274
not supported. (Jonathan Riddell, #242175)
276
* Do not show exception to user on pointless commit error (Jonathan
279
* ``WT.update_basis_by_delta`` no longer requires that the deltas match
280
the current WT state. This allows ``update_basis_by_delta`` to be used
281
by more commands than just commit. Updating with a delta allows us to
282
not load the whole inventory, which can take 10+s with large trees.
283
(Jonathan Riddell, John Arbash Meinel, #781168)
289
.. Improved or updated documentation.
291
* Restore the workaround for option names including dots (--1.14) which was
292
disabled when we stopped listing --1.9 as a format.
293
(Vincent Ladeuil, #782289)
298
.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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* ``annotate_file`` has been deprecated in favor of
302
``annotate_file_revision_tree``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #775598)
304
* ``Branch.fetch`` now takes an optional ``limit`` argument.
305
(Andrew Bennetts, Jelmer Vernooij, #750175)
307
* ``Inter.get`` now raises ``NoCompatibleInter`` if there are no
308
compatible optimisers rather than an instance of the class it is called
309
on. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``Branch.push`` now takes a ``lossy`` argument.
312
``Branch.lossy_push`` has been removed.
315
* New method ``Repository.get_file_graph`` which can return the
316
per-file revision graph. (Jelmer Vernooij, #775578)
318
* The default implementation of ``Branch`` is now oriented to
319
storing the branch tip. Branch implementations which store the full
320
history should now subclass ``FullHistoryBzrBranch``.
321
``Branch._last_revision_info`` has been renamed to
322
``Branch._read_last_revision_info`` (Jelmer Vernooij)
324
* ``Tree.__iter__`` has been deprecated; use ``Tree.all_file_ids``
325
instead. (Jelmer Vernooij)
327
* ``Tree.get_symlink_target`` now takes an optional ``path``
328
argument. (Jelmer Vernooij)
333
.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
334
developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
336
* ``MutableTree.smart_add`` now uses inventory deltas.
337
(Jelmer Vernooij, #146165)
339
* Removed ``bzrlib.branch._run_with_write_locked_target`` as
340
``bzrlib.cleanup`` provides the same functionality in a more general
341
way. (Andrew Bennetts)
346
.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
347
suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
348
spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
350
* A test that was expected to fail but passes instead now counts as a failure
351
catching up with new testtools and subunit handling. (Martin [GZ], #654474)
353
* Make it easier for plugins to reuse the per_workingtree scenarios by
354
restoring the wt_scenarios helper that was accidentally deleted.
355
(Vincent Ladeuil, #783472)
357
* Removed ``test_breakin`` tests that were excessively prone to hanging,
358
did not work on Wine, and partly already disabled.
359
(Martin Pool, #408814, #746985)
361
* Windows locations are different and should be tested accordingly.
362
(Vincent Ladeuil, #788131)
369
This is the second beta of the 2.4 series, leading to a 2.4.0 release in
370
August 2011. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some
371
incompatibilities with plugins.
373
This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
377
External Compatibility Breaks
378
*****************************
380
.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
382
* Two command synonyms for ``bzr branch`` have been deprecated, to avoid
383
confusion and to allow the names to later be reused. The removed names
384
are: ``get`` and ``clone``. (Martin Pool, #506265)
389
.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
391
* ``bzr commit`` now supports a ``--lossy`` argument that can be used
392
to discard any data that can not be natively represented when committing
393
to a foreign VCS. (Jelmer Vernooij, #587721)
398
.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
399
or memory usage, or better results.
401
* ``bzr merge`` in large trees is now significantly faster. On a 70k entry
402
tree, the time went from ~3min down to 30s. This also effects ``bzr pull``
403
and ``bzr update`` since they use the same merge logic to update the
404
WorkingTree. (John Arbash Meinel, #759091)
406
* ``bzr revert`` now properly uses ``bzr status``'s optimized
407
``iter_changes``. This can be a significant performance difference (33s
408
to 5s on large trees). (John Arbash Meinel, #759096)
410
* Resolve ``lp:FOO`` urls locally rather than doing an XMLRPC request if
411
the user has done ``bzr launchpad-login``. The bzr+ssh URLs were already
412
being handed off to the remote server anyway (xmlrpc has been mapping
413
``lp:bzr`` to ``bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/+branch/bzr``, rather
414
than ``bzr+ssh://bazaar.launchpad.net/~bzr-pqm/bzr/bzr.dev`` for a few
415
months now.) By doing it ourselves, we can cut out substantial startup
416
time. From Netherlands to London it was taking 368ms to do the XMLRPC
417
call as much as 2s from Sydney. You can test the local logic by using
418
``-Dlaunchpad``. (John Arbash Meinel, #397739)
420
* When building a new WorkingTree (such as during ``bzr co`` or
421
``bzr branch``) we now properly store the stat and hash of files that
422
are old enough. This saves a fair amount of time on the first
423
``bzr status`` (on a 500MB tree, it saves about 30+s).
424
(John Arbash Meinel, #740932)
430
.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
431
or undesirable results.
433
* Arguments that can't be decoded to unicode in the current posix locale give
434
a clearer error message without a traceback. (Martin [gz], #745712)
436
* ``bzrlib.log._DEFAULT_REQUEST_PARAMS`` is no longer accidentally
437
mutated by ``bzrlib.log._apply_log_request_defaults``. In practice
438
these default values aren't relied on very often so this probably
439
wasn't causing any trouble. (Andrew Bennetts)
441
* ``bzr log`` now works on revisions which are not in the current branch.
442
(Matt Giuca, #241998)
444
* Don't rewrite the dirstate file when non-interesting changes have
445
occurred. This can significantly improve 'bzr status' times when there
446
are only small changes to a large tree.
447
(Ian Clatworthy, John Arbash Meinel, #380202)
449
* Lazy hooks are now reset between test runs. (Jelmer Vernooij, #745566)
451
* ``bzrlib.merge.Merge`` now calls ``iter_changes`` without
452
``include_unversioned=True``. This makes it significantly faster in many
453
cases, because it only looks at modified files, rather than building
454
information about all files. This can cause failures in other
455
TreeTransform code, because it had been expecting to know the names of
456
things which had not changed (such as parent directories). All cases we
457
know about so far have been fixed, but there may be fallout for edge
458
cases that we are missing. (John Arbash Meinel, #759091)
460
* ``SFTPTransport`` is more pro-active about closing file-handles. This
461
reduces the chance of having threads fail from async requests while
462
running the test suite. (John Arbash Meinel, #656170)
464
* Standalone bzr.exe installation on Windows: user can put additional python
465
libraries into ``site-packages`` subdirectory of the installation directory,
466
this might be required for "installing" extra dependencies for some plugins.
467
(Alexander Belchenko, #743256)
469
* ``transform.revert()`` has been updated to use
470
``wt.iter_changes(basis_tree)`` rather than
471
``basis_tree.iter_changes(wt)``. This allows the optimized code path to
472
kick in, improving ``bzr revert`` times significantly (33s to 4s on
473
large trees, 0.7s to 0.3s on small trees.) (John Arbash Meinel, #759096)
475
* ``TreeTransform.create_file/new_file`` can now take an optional ``sha1``
476
parameter. If supplied, when the transform is applied, it will then call
477
``self._tree._observed_sha1`` for those files. This lets us update the
478
hash-cache for content that we create, preventing us from re-reading the
479
content in the next ``bzr status``. (John Arbash Meinel, #740932)
484
* Added a section about using a shared SSH account on a server for bzr+ssh
485
access. (Russell Smith)
487
* The documentation now recommends using SSH rather than SFTP in the
488
tutorials and the examples, because that will generally be much faster
489
and better in cases where it can be used. SFTP is still available and
490
mentioned as an alternative. (Martin Pool, #636712)
495
.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
498
* ``Branch.update_revisions`` has been made private and should no
499
longer be used by external users. Use ``Branch.pull`` or ``Branch.push``
500
instead. (Jelmer Vernooij, #771765)
502
* Commands now have an `invoked_as` attribute, showing the name under
503
which they were called before alias expansion.
506
* ``Hooks.create_hook`` is now deprecated in favour of ``Hooks.add_hook``.
509
* If you call `bzrlib.initialize` but forget to enter the resulting object
510
as a context manager, bzrlib will now be initialized anyhow.
511
(Previously simple programs calling bzrlib might find the library was
512
mysteriously silent.)
515
* Inventory-specific functionality has been split out of ``Tree`` into
516
a new ``InventoryTree`` class. Tree instances no longer
517
necessarily provide an ``inventory`` attribute. (Jelmer Vernooij)
519
* Inventory-specific functionality has been split out of ``RevisionTree``
520
into a new ``InventoryRevisionTree`` class. RevisionTree instances no
521
longer necessarily provide an ``inventory`` attribute. (Jelmer Vernooij)
523
* New method ``Hooks.uninstall_named_hook``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #301472)
525
* ``revision_graph_can_have_wrong_parents`` is now an attribute
526
on ``RepositoryFormat`` rather than a method on ``Repository``.
529
* ``Testament`` now takes a ``tree`` rather than an
530
``inventory``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #762608)
532
* ``TestCase.failUnlessExists`` and ``failIfExists`` are deprecated in
533
favour of ``assertPathExists`` and ``assertPathDoesNotExist``
537
* The ``revno`` parameter of ``log.LogRevision`` may now be None,
538
representing a revision which is not in the current branch.
539
(Matt Giuca, #241998)
541
* The various knit pack repository format classes have been moved
542
from ``bzrlib.repofmt.pack_repo`` to
543
``bzrlib.repofmt.knitpack_repo``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
545
* ``RevisionTree`` now has a new method ``get_file_revision``.
548
* ``WorkingTree`` no longer provides an ``inventory``. Instead,
549
all inventory-related functionality is now on the subclass
550
``InventoryWorkingTree`` that all native Bazaar working tree
551
implementations derive from. (Jelmer Vernooij)
556
.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
557
developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
559
* Added ``osutils.lstat`` and ``osutils.fstat``. These are just the ``os``
560
functions on Linux, but they are wrapped on Windows so that fstat
561
matches lstat results across all python versions.
564
* ``WorkingTree._observed_sha1`` also updates the 'size' column. It
565
happened to be updated as a side-effect of commit, but if we start using
566
the function elsewhere we might as well do it directly.
572
.. Fixes and changes that are only relevant to bzr's test framework and
573
suite. This can include new facilities for writing tests, fixes to
574
spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
576
* Stop using `failIf`, `failUnless`, `failIfEqual`, etc, that give
577
`PendingDeprecationWarnings` on Python2.7.
578
(Martin Pool, #760435)
586
This is the first beta of the 2.4 series, leading up to a 2.4.0
587
release in August 2011. Beta releases are suitable for everyday use
588
but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need
589
small updates to work with 2.4b1.
591
External Compatibility Breaks
592
*****************************
599
* Added ``changelog_merge`` plugin for merging changes to ``Changelog`` files
600
in GNU format. See ``bzr help changelog_merge`` for details.
603
* Configuration options can now use references to other options in the same
604
file by enclosing them with curly brackets (``{other_opt}``). This makes it
605
possible to use, for example,
606
``push_location=lp:~vila/bzr/config-{nickname}`` in ``branch.conf`` when
607
using a loom. During the beta period, the default behaviour is to disable
608
this feature. It can be activated by declaring ``bzr.config.expand = True``
609
in ``bazaar.conf``. (Vincent Ladeuil)
611
* External merge tools can now be configured in bazaar.conf. See
612
``bzr help configuration`` for more information. (Gordon Tyler, #489915)
614
* The ``lp:`` directory service now supports Launchpad's QA staging.
615
(Jelmer Vernooij, #667483)
620
* A new hidden command ``bzr repair-workingtree``. This is a way to force
621
the dirstate file to be rebuilt, rather than using a ``bzr checkout``
622
workaround. (John Arbash Meinel)
624
* Added a ``Branch.heads_to_fetch`` RPC to the smart server protocol.
625
This allows formats from plugins (such as looms) to efficiently tell the
626
client which revisions need to be fetched. (Andrew Bennetts)
628
* Branching, merging and pulling a branch now copies revisions named in
629
tags, not just the tag metadata. (Andrew Bennetts, #309682)
631
* ``bzr cat-revision`` no longer requires a working tree.
632
(Jelmer Vernooij, #704405)
634
* ``bzr export --per-file-timestamps`` for .tar.gz files will now
635
override the mtime for trees exported on Python 2.7 and later, which
636
expose the 'mtime' field in gzip files. This makes the output of
637
``bzr export --per-file-timestamps`` for a particular tree
638
deterministic. (Jelmer Vernooij, #711226)
640
* ``bzr export --format=zip`` can now export to standard output,
641
like the other exporters can. (Jelmer Vernooij, #513752)
643
* ``bzr export`` can now create ``.tar.xz`` and ``.tar.lzma`` files.
644
(Jelmer Vernooij, #551714)
646
* Getting all entries from ``CHKInventory.iter_entries_by_dir()`` has been
647
sped up dramatically for large trees. Iterating by dir is not the best
648
way to load data from a CHK inventory, so it preloads all the items in
649
the correct order. (With the gcc-tree, this changes it (re)reading 8GB
650
of CHK data, down to just 150MB.) This has noticeable affects for things
651
like building checkouts, etc. (John Arbash Meinel, #737234)
656
* A MemoryError thrown on the server during a remote operation will now be
657
usefully reported, and other unexpected errors will include the class name.
658
(Martin [gz], #722416)
660
* ``bzr annotate -r-1 file`` will now properly annotate a deleted file.
661
(Andrew King, #537442)
663
* ``bzr export`` to zip files will now set a mode on directories.
664
(Jelmer Vernooij, #207253)
666
* ``bzr export`` to tgz files will only write out the basename of the
667
tarfile to the gzip file. (Jelmer Vernooij, #102234)
669
* ``bzr push --overwrite`` with an older revision specified will now correctly
670
roll back the target branch. (Jelmer Vernooij, #386576)
672
* ``bzr lp-propose`` can now propose merges against packaging branches on
673
Launchpad without requiring the target branch to be specified.
674
(Jelmer Vernooij, #704647)
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* ``bzr lp-propose`` no longer requires a reviewer to be specified. It will
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instead leave setting the reviewer up to Launchpad if it was not specified.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #583772)
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* ``bzr pull`` will now exit with exit code 1 if there were tag conflicts.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #213185)
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* ``bzr mv`` user errors no longer throw UnicodeEncodeError with non-ascii
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paths, however they may still print junk if not on a UTF-8 terminal.
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(Martin [gz], #707954)
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* ``bzr reconfigure --unstacked`` now copies revisions (and their
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ancestors) named in tags into the unstacked repository, not just the
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ancestry of the branch's tip. (Andrew Bennetts, #401646)
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* ``bzr serve`` no longer crashes when a server_started hook is installed and
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IPv6 support is available on the system. (Jelmer Vernooij, #293697)
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* ``bzr status`` will not rewrite the dirstate file if it only has
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'trivial' changes. (Currently limited to dir updates and newly-added
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files changing state.) This saves a bit of time for regular operations.
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eg. ``bzr status`` in a 100k tree takes 1.4s to compute the status, but 1s
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to re-save the dirstate file. (John Arbash Meinel, #765881)
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* ``bzr tags`` will no longer choke on branches with ghost revisions in
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their mainline and tags on revisions not in the branch ancestry.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #397556)
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* ``bzr whoami`` will now display an error if both a new identity and
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``--email`` were specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #680449)
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* ``launchpadlib`` doesn't provide the ``uris`` module in some old versions.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #706835)
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* Empty entries in the ``NO_PROXY`` variable are no longer treated as matching
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(Martin Pool, #586341)
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* Plugins incompatible with the current version of bzr no longer produce a
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warning on every command invocation. Instead, a message is shown by
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``bzr plugins`` and in crash reports.
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(#704195, Martin Pool)
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* The "pretty" version of ``needs_read_lock`` and ``needs_write_lock`` now
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preserves the identity of default parameter values.
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(Andrew Bennetts, #718569)
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* ``bzr dump-btree --raw`` no longer tracebacks on a B-Tree file
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containing no rows. (Eric Siegerman, #715508)
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* Fix ``bzr lp-mirror`` to work on command line branch URLs and branches
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without an explicit public location. (Max Bowsher)
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* On Python 2.6 and higher, use multiprocessing.cpu_count() to retrieve the
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number of available processors. (Jelmer Vernooij, #693140)
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* Added ``Branch.heads_to_fetch`` method. Implementations of the Branch API
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must now inherit or implement this method. (Andrew Bennetts, #721328)
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* Added ``bzrlib.mergetools`` module with helper functions for working with
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the list of external merge tools. (Gordon Tyler, #489915)
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* All methods and arguments that were deprecated before 2.0
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have been removed. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Branch formats should now be registered on the format registry
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(``bzrlib.branch.format_registry``) rather than using the class
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methods on ``BranchFormat``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #714729)
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* ``Branch.set_revision_history`` is now deprecated.
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* ``BranchFormat.supports_leaving_lock()`` and
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``RepositoryFormat.supports_leaving_lock`` flags have been added.
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* ``Branch.fetch`` implementations must now accept an optional
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``fetch_tags`` keyword argument. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* ``Branch.import_last_revision_info`` is deprecated. Use the
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``import_last_revision_info_and_tags`` method instead.
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* Because it was too specific to BzrDir implementations,
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``ControlDir.sprout`` no longer has a default implementation; it now
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raises ``NotImplementedError``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #717937)
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* ``bzrlib.deprecated_graph`` has been removed. ``bzrlib.graph``
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scales better tree and should be used instead.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #733612)
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* ``ControlDirFormat.register_format`` has been removed. Instead,
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``Prober`` implementations should now implement a ``known_formats``
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method. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ControlDirFormats can now provide a ``check_status`` method and
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raise a custom exception or warning when an unsupported or deprecated
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format is being opened. (Jelmer Vernooij, #731311)
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* ``bzrlib.revionspec.dwim_revspecs`` is deprecated.
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Use ``bzrlib.revisionspec.RevisionSpec_dwim.append_possible_revspec`` and
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``bzrlib.revisionspec.RevisionSpec_dwim.append_possible_lazy_revspec``
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instead. (Jelmer Vernooij, #721971)
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* ``BzrDirFormat`` has a new attribute ``fixed_components`` that
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indicates whether the components of the bzrdir can be upgraded
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independent of the ``BzrDir``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* ``BzrProber.register_format`` and ``BzrProber.unregister_format`` are
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now deprecated in favour of the ``BzrProber.formats`` format registry.
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* ``ControlDir`` implementations no longer have to provide the
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``get_branch_transport``, ``get_workingtree_transport`` and
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``get_repository_transport`` methods. (Jelmer Vernooij, #730325)
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* ``Converter`` has been moved from ``bzrlib.bzrdir`` to
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``bzrlib.controldir``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Repository formats can now provide
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``_get_extra_interrepo_test_combinations`` in the same module
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to provide extra test combinations for ``bzrlib.tests.per_repository``.
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* Repository formats should now be registered on the format registry
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(``bzrlib.repository.format_registry``) rather than using the class
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methods on ``RepositoryFormat``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* Repository formats can now indicate they do not support the full
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VersionedFiles API by setting the ``supports_full_versioned_files``
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attribute to False. A subset of the VersionedFiles API
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(signatures and text graphs) still needs to be supported.
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* Repository formats have a new method ``is_deprecated`` that
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implementations can override to return True to trigger a deprecation
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warning. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The ``revision_id`` parameter of
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``Repository.search_missing_revision_ids`` and
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``InterRepository.search_missing_revision_ids`` is deprecated. It is
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replaced by the ``revision_ids`` parameter. (Andrew Bennetts)
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* Working tree formats should now be registered on the format registry
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(``bzrlib.working_tree.format_registry``) rather than using the class
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methods on ``WorkingTreeFormat``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #714730)
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* Exporting may now be done with a generator
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(``bzrlib.export.get_export_generator``) (Geoff/xaav, #791005)
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* ``CatchingExceptionThread`` (formerly ThreadWithException) has been moved
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out of the ``bzrlib.tests`` hierarchy to make it clearer that it can be used
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outside of tests. This class makes it easier to track exceptions in threads
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by catching them so they can be re-raised in the controlling thread. It's
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available in the ``bzrlib.cethread`` module. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* Correctly propogate malloc failures from diff-delta.c code as MemoryError
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so OOM conditions during groupcompress are clearly reported. This entailed a
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change to several function signatures. (Martin [gz], #633336)
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* ``HookPoint.lazy_hook`` and ``Hooks.install_named_lazy_hook`` can install
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hooks for which the callable is loaded lazily. (Jelmer Vernooij)
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* The Range parsing for HTTP requests will correctly parse incomplete ranges.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #731240)
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