I'm happy to announce the release of version 1.3 of the
Bazaar version
control system.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/
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Since 1.2, we've improved the speed of several important
operations,
including log, annotate, and other operations on revision
history.
Several bugs have been fixed and new options and features
have been
added, including an option to hardlink files between working
trees. A
full history of changes is listed below.
In this release, Bazaar becomes part of the GNU system.
This decision
was taken after consultation with some of the core Bazaar
developers,
Canonical management, and Richard Stallman, leader of the
GNU project.
Canonical is delighted by the GNU project's decision and
remains as
engaged as ever in the Bazaar project.
--
Martin
on behalf of the Bazaar developers
bzr 1.3 2008-03-20
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TESTING:
* Avoid spurious failure of ``TestVersion.test_version``
matching
directory names.
(#202778, Martin Pool)
bzr 1.3rc1 2008-03-16
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NOTES WHEN UPGRADING:
* The backup directory created by ``upgrade`` is now
called
``backup.bzr``, not ``.bzr.backup``. (Martin
Albisetti)
CHANGES:
* A new repository format 'development' has been added.
This format will
represent the latest 'in-progress' format that the bzr
developers are
interested in getting early-adopter testing and
feedback on.
``doc/developers/development-repo.txt`` has detailed
information.
(Robert Collins)
* BZR_LOG environment variable controls location of
.bzr.log trace file.
User can suppress writing messages to .bzr.log by
using '/dev/null'
filename (on Linux) or 'NUL' (on Windows). If BZR_LOG
variable
is not defined but BZR_HOME is defined then default
location
for .bzr.log trace file is ``$BZR_HOME/.bzr.log``.
(Alexander Belchenko)
* ``launchpad`` builtin plugin now shipped as separate
part in standalone
bzr.exe, installed to ``C:Program
FilesBazaarplugins`` directory,
and standalone installer allows user to skip
installation of this plugin.
(Alexander Belchenko)
* Restore auto-detection of plink.exe on Windows.
(Dmitry Vasiliev)
* Version number is now shown as "1.2" or
"1.2pr2", without zeroed or
missing final fields. (Martin Pool)
FEATURES:
* ``branch`` and ``checkout`` can hard-link working tree
files, which is
faster and saves space. (Aaron Bentley)
* ``bzr send`` will now also look at the
``child_submit_to`` setting in
the submit branch to determine the email address to
send to.
(Jelmer Vernooij)
IMPROVEMENTS:
* BzrBranch._lefthand_history is faster on pack repos.
(Aaron Bentley)
* Branch6.generate_revision_history is faster. (Aaron
Bentley)
* Directory services can now be registered, allowing
special URLs to be
dereferenced into real URLs. This is a generalization
and cleanup of
the lp: transport lookup. (Aaron Bentley)
* Merge directives that are automatically attached to
emails have nicer
filenames, based on branch-nick + revno. (Aaron
Bentley)
* ``push`` has a ``--revision`` option, to specify what
revision to push up
to. (Daniel Watkins)
* Significantly reducing execution time and network
traffic for trivial
case of running ``bzr missing`` command for two
identical branches.
(Alexander Belchenko)
* Speed up operations that look at the revision graph
(such as 'bzr log').
``KnitPackRepositor.get_revision_graph`` uses
``Graph.iter_ancestry`` to
extract the revision history. This allows filtering
ghosts while
stepping instead of needing to peek ahead. (John
Arbash Meinel)
* The ``hooks`` command lists installed hooks, to assist
in debugging.
(Daniel Watkins)
* Updates to how ``annotate`` work. Should see a
measurable improvement in
performance and memory consumption for file with a lot
of merges.
Also, correctly handle when a line is introduced by
both parents (it
should be attributed to the first merge which notices
this, and not
to all subsequent merges.) (John Arbash Meinel)
BUGFIXES:
* Autopacking no longer holds the full set of inventory
lines in
memory while copying. For large repositories, this can
amount to
hundreds of MB of ram consumption.
(Ian Clatworthy, John Arbash Meinel)
* Cherrypicking when using ``--format=merge3`` now
explictly excludes
BASE lines. (John Arbash Meinel, #151731)
* Disable plink's interactive prompt for password.
(#107593, Dmitry Vasiliev)
* Encode command line arguments from unicode to
user_encoding before
invoking external mail client in `bzr send` command.
(#139318, Alexander Belchenko)
* Fixed problem connecting to ``bzr+https://`` servers.
(#198793, John Ferlito)
* Improved error reporting in the Launchpad plugin.
(Daniel Watkins,
#196618)
* Include quick-start-summary.svg file to python-based
installer(s)
for Windows. (#192924, Alexander Belchenko)
* lca merge now respects specified files. (Aaron
Bentley)
* Make version-info --custom imply --all. (#195560,
James Westby)
* ``merge --preview`` now works for merges that add or
modify
symlinks (James Henstridge)
* Redirecting the output from ``bzr merge`` (when the
remembered
location is used) now works. (John Arbash Meinel)
* setup.py script explicitly checks for Python version.
(Jari Aalto, Alexander Belchenko, #200569)
* UnknownFormatErrors no longer refer to branches
regardless of kind of
unknown format. (Daniel Watkins, #173980)
* Upgrade bundled ConfigObj to version 4.5.2, which
properly quotes #
signs, among other small improvements. (Matt Nordhoff,
#86838)
* Use correct indices when emitting LCA conflicts. This
fixes IndexError
errors. (Aaron Bentley, #196780)
DOCUMENTATION:
* Explained how to use ``version-info --custom`` in the
User Guide.
(Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
API BREAKS:
* Support for loading plugins from zip files and
``bzrlib.plugin.load_from_zip()`` function are
deprecated.
(Alexander Belchenko)
TESTING:
* The branch interface tests were invalid for branches
using rich-root
repositories because the empty string is not a valid
file-id.
(Robert Collins)
INTERNALS:
* ``Graph.iter_ancestry`` returns the ancestry of
revision ids. Similar to
``Repository.get_revision_graph()`` except it includes
ghosts and you can
stop part-way through. (John Arbash Meinel)
* ``Graph.iter_ancestry`` returns the ancestry of
revision ids. Similar to
``Repository.get_revision_graph()`` except it includes
ghosts and you can
stop part-way through. (John Arbash Meinel)
* New module ``tools/package_mf.py`` provide custom
module finder for
python packages (improves standard python library's
modulefinder.py)
used by ``setup.py`` script while building standalone
bzr.exe.
(Alexander Belchenko)
* New remote method ``RemoteBzrDir.find_repositoryV2``
adding support for
detecting external lookup support on remote
repositories. This method is
now attempted first when lookup up repositories,
leading to an extra
round trip on older bzr smart servers. (Robert
Collins)
* Repository formats have a new supported-feature
attribute
``supports_external_lookups`` used to indicate
repositories which support
falling back to other repositories when they have
partial data.
(Robert Collins)
* ``Repository.get_revision_graph_with_ghosts`` and
``bzrlib.revision.(common_ancestor,MultipleRevisionSources,c
ommon_graph)``
have been deprecated. (John Arbash Meinel)
* ``Tree.iter_changes`` is now a public API, replacing
the work-in-progress
``Tree._iter_changes``. The api is now considered
stable and ready for
external users. (Aaron Bentley)
* The bzrdir format registry now accepts an ``alias``
keyword to
register_metadir, used to indicate that a format name
is an alias for
some other format and thus should not be reported when
describing the
format. (Robert Collins)
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