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<div class="section" id="bazaar-release-notes">
<h1>Bazaar Release Notes<a class="headerlink" href="#bazaar-release-notes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<div class="section" id="bzr-1-8">
<h2>bzr 1.8<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-1-8" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Released:</th><td class="field-body">2008-10-16</td>
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<p>Bazaar 1.8 includes several fixes that improve working tree performance,
display of revision logs, and merges. The bzr testsuite now passes on OS
X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes on Windows. The
smartserver code has gained several bug fixes and performance
improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an HTTP server.</p>
<div class="section" id="bug-fixes">
<h3>Bug Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#bug-fixes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix “Must end write group” error when another error occurs during
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">push</span></tt>. (Andrew Bennetts, #230902)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="portability">
<h3>Portability<a class="headerlink" href="#portability" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Some Pyrex versions require the WIN32 macro defined to compile on
that platform. (Alexander Belchenko, Martin Pool, #277481)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="bzr-1-8rc1">
<h2>bzr 1.8rc1<a class="headerlink" href="#bzr-1-8rc1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Released:</th><td class="field-body">2008-10-07</td>
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<div class="section" id="changes">
<h3>Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#changes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">log</span> <span class="pre">file</span></tt> has been changed. It now uses a different method
for determining which revisions to show as merging the changes to
the file. It now only shows revisions which merged the change
towards your mainline. This simplifies the output, makes it faster,
and reduces memory consumption. (John Arbash Meinel)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">merge</span></tt> now defaults to having <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--reprocess</span></tt> set, whenever
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--show-base</span></tt> is not supplied. (John Arbash Meinel)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr+http//</span></tt> will now optionally load plugins and write logs on the
server. (Marius Kruger)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_c.pyx</span></tt> does not compile correctly with
Pyrex 0.9.4.1 (it generates C code which causes segfaults). We
explicitly blacklist that version of the compiler for that
extension. Packaged versions will include .c files created with
pyrex >= 0.9.6 so it doesn’t effect releases, only users running
from the source tree. (John Arbash Meinel, #276868)</li>
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<div class="section" id="features">
<h3>Features<a class="headerlink" href="#features" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>bzr is now compatible with python-2.6. python-2.6 is not yet officially
supported (nor released, tests were conducted with the dev version of
python-2.6rc2), but all known problems have been fixed. Feedback
welcome.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #269535)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="improvements">
<h3>Improvements<a class="headerlink" href="#improvements" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">annotate</span></tt> will now include uncommitted changes from the local
working tree by default. Such uncommitted changes are given the
revision number they would get if a commit was done, followed with a
? to indicate that its not actually known. (Robert Collins, #3439)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">branch</span></tt> now accepts a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--standalone</span></tt> option, which creates a
standalone branch regardless of the presence of shared repositories.
(Daniel Watkins)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">push</span></tt> is faster in the case there are no new revisions to
push. It is also faster if there are no tags in the local branch.
(Andrew Bennetts)</li>
<li>File changes during a commit will update the tree stat cache.
(Robert Collins)</li>
<li>Location aliases can now accept a trailing path. (Micheal Hudson)</li>
<li>New hooks <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Lock.hooks</span></tt> when LockDirs are acquired and released.
(Robert Collins, MartinPool)</li>
<li>Switching in heavyweight checkouts uses the master branch’s context, not
the checkout’s context. (Adrian Wilkins)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">status</span></tt> on large trees is now faster, due to optimisations in the
walkdirs code. Of particular note, the walkdirs code now performs
a temporary <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">chdir()</span></tt> while reading a single directory; if your
platform has non thread-local current working directories (and is
not windows which has its own implementation), this may introduce a
race condition during concurrent uses of bzrlib. The bzrlib CLI
will not encounter this as it is single threaded for working tree
operations. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li>The C extensions now build on python 2.4 (Robert Collins, #271939)</li>
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-Dhpss</span></tt> debug flag now reports the number of smart server
calls per medium to stderr. This is in addition to the existing
detailed logging to the .bzr.log trace file. (Andrew Bennetts)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="id1">
<h3>Bug Fixes<a class="headerlink" href="#id1" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Avoid random failures arising from misinterpreted <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">errno</span></tt> values
in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_readdir_pyx.read_dir</span></tt>.
(Martin Pool, #279381)</li>
<li>Branching from a shared repository on a smart server into a new
repository now preserves the repository format.
(Andrew Bennetts, #269214)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">log</span></tt> now accepts a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--change</span></tt> option.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #248427)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">missing</span></tt> now accepts an <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--include-merges</span></tt> option.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #233817)</li>
<li>Don’t try to filter (internally) ‘.bzr’ from the files to be deleted if
it’s not there.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #272648)</li>
<li>Fix ‘_in_buffer’ AttributeError when using the -Dhpss debug flag.
(Andrew Bennetts)</li>
<li>Fix TooManyConcurrentRequests errors caused by a connection failure
when doing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">pull</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">merge</span></tt> from a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr+ssh</span></tt> URL.
(Andrew Bennetts, #246233)</li>
<li>Fixed <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">st</span> <span class="pre">-r</span> <span class="pre">branch:PATH_TO_BRANCH</span></tt> where the other branch
is in a different repository than the current one.
(Lukáš Lalinský, #144421)</li>
<li>Make the first line of the manpage preamble a comment again.
(David Futcher, #242106)</li>
<li>Remove use of optional parameter in GSSAPI FTP support, since
it breaks newer versions of Python-Kerberos. (Jelmer Vernooij)</li>
<li>The autopacking logic will now always create a single new pack from
all of the content which it deems is worth moving. This avoids the
‘repack a single pack’ bug and should result in better packing
overall. (John Arbash Meinel, #242510, #172644)</li>
<li>Trivial documentation fix.
(John Arbash Meinel, #270471)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">switch</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzr</span> <span class="pre">bind</span></tt> will now update the branch nickname if
it was previously set. All checkouts will now refer to the bound branch
for a nickname if one was not explicitly set.
(Marius Kruger, #230903)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="documentation">
<h3>Documentation<a class="headerlink" href="#documentation" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Explain revision/range identifiers. (Daniel Clemente)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="api-changes">
<h3>API Changes<a class="headerlink" href="#api-changes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CommitBuilder.record_entry_contents</span></tt> returns one more element in
its result tuple - an optional file system hash for the hash cache
to use. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dirstate.DirState.update_entry</span></tt> will now only calculate the sha1
of a file if it is likely to be needed in determining the output
of iter_changes. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li>The PackRepository, RepositoryPackCollection, NewPack classes have a
slightly changed interface to support different index types; as a
result other users of these classes need to supply the index types
they want. (Robert Collins)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="testing">
<h3>Testing<a class="headerlink" href="#testing" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzrlib.tests.repository_implementations</span></tt> has been renamed to
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzrlib.tests.per_repository</span></tt> so that we have a common structure
(and it is shorter). (John Arbash Meinel, #239343)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LocalTransport.abspath()</span></tt> now returns a drive letter if the
transport has one, fixing numerous tests on Windows.
(Mark Hammond)</li>
<li>PreviewTree is now tested via intertree_implementations.
(Aaron Bentley)</li>
<li>The full test suite is passing again on OSX.
(Guillermo Gonzalez, Vincent Ladeuil)</li>
<li>The full test suite passes when run with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-Eallow_debug</span></tt>.
(Andrew Bennetts)</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="internals">
<h3>Internals<a class="headerlink" href="#internals" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
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<li>A new hook, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Branch.open</span></tt>, has been added, which is called when
branch objects are opened. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzrlib.osutils._walkdirs_utf8</span></tt> has been refactored into common
tree walking, and modular directory listing code to aid future
performance optimisations and refactoring. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bzrlib.trace.debug_memory</span></tt> can be used to get a quick memory dump
in the middle of processing. It only reports memory if
<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/proc/PID/status</span></tt> is available. (John Arbash Meinel)</li>
<li>New method <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">RevisionSpec.as_tree</span></tt> for representing the revision
specifier as a revision tree object. (Lukáš Lalinský)</li>
<li>New race-free method on MutableTree <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">get_file_with_stat</span></tt> for use
when generating stat cache results. (Robert Collins)</li>
<li>New win32utils.get_local_appdata_location() provides access to a local
directory for storing data. (Mark Hammond)</li>
<li>To be compatible with python-2.6 a few new rules should be
observed. ‘message’ attribute can’t be used anymore in exception
classes, ‘sha’ and ‘md5’ modules have been deprecated (use
osutils.[md5|sha]), object__init__ and object.__new__ don’t accept
parameters anymore.
(Vincent Ladeuil)</li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#improvements">Improvements</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#id1">Bug Fixes</a></li>
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