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.. These may require users to change the way they use Bazaar.
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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.. Improvements to existing commands, especially improved performance
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or memory usage, or better results.
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.. Fixes for situations where bzr would previously crash or give incorrect
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or undesirable results.
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.. Improved or updated documentation.
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.. Changes that may require updates in plugins or other code that uses
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.. Major internal changes, unlikely to be visible to users or plugin
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developers, but interesting for bzr developers.
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.. 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
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spurious test failures and changes to the way things should be tested.
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* Fix test failures when running as a homeless user (debian buildd). Tests
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leaking into ``${HOME}/.bzr.log`` should be detected properly now.
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(Vincent Ladeuil, #798698)
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This is the fourth 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
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incompatibilities with plugins.
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This release includes all bug fixed in previous series known at the time of
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.. New commands, options, etc that users may wish to try out.
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* Hooks have been added for config stacks: ``get``, ``set`` and ``remove``
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are called when an option is repsectively read, modified or deleted. Also
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added ``load`` and ``save`` hooks for config stores, called when the
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stores are loaded or saved. (Vincent Ladeuil)
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* New hook server_exception in bzrlib.smart.server to catch any
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exception caused while running bzr serve. (Jonathan Riddell,
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exception caused while running bzr serve.
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(Jonathan Riddell, #274578)
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* New hook set_commit_message in bzrlib.msgeditor to set
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a commit message and revision properties. (Jonathan Riddell,
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* Fix a race condition for ``server_started`` hooks leading to a spurious
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test failure. (Vincent Ladeuil, #789167)
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* Fix exporting subdirectory with ``--per-file-timestamps``.
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(Szilveszter Farkas, #795557)
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* 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
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returns. So anything we might have created, make sure we destroy during
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because ``build_mo`` became a required step that they didn't know about.
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(John Arbash Meinel, #787122)
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* Properly avoid re-adding a file after it changes case on CICP
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filesystems. (John Arbash Meinel, #798130)
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* Reports the original error when an InvalidHttpResponse exception is
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encountered to facilitate debug. (Vincent Ladeuil, #788530)
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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
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now represented as a `LockHeldInfo` object, rather than a plain
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* Remove `file_status` function.
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* ``Repository.iter_reverse_revision_history`` is now deprecated.
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Use ``Graph.iter_lefthand_ancestry`` instead.
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(Jelmer Vernooij, #739481)
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* ``Repository.get_ancestry`` has been deprecated. Use
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``Graph.iter_ancestry`` instead.
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not load the whole inventory, which can take 10+s with large trees.
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* ``bzr mv --after old_name new_name`` now works if "new_name" is newly
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added. (Benoît Pierre)
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