External Compatibility Breaks
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None.
New Features
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* Support for colocated branches is now available in the default
format ("2a"). (Jelmer Vernooij)
Improvements
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* ``bzr switch -b`` in a standalone tree will now create a colocated branch.
(Jelmer Vernooij, #918197)
* ``bzr info`` now reports when there are present (but unused) colocated
branches. (Jelmer Vernooij, #891646)
* Checkouts can now be into target directories that already have
a control directory (but no branch or working tree).
(Jelmer Vernooij, #913980)
* Colocated branches can now have names including forward slashes, to
allow for namespaces. (Jelmer Vernooij, #907980)
* New HPSS call for ``BzrDir.get_branches``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #894460)
* Checkouts of colocated branches are now always lightweight.
(Jelmer Vernooij, #918828)
Bug Fixes
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* ``bzr branch`` now fetches revisions when branching into an empty
control directory. (Jelmer Vernooij, #905594)
* A sane default is provided for ``ssl.ca_certs`` which should points to the
Certificate Authority bundle for supported platforms.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #920455)
* ``bzr branch`` generates correct target branch locations again if not
specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #919218)
* ``bzr send`` works on treeless branches again.
(Jelmer Vernooij, #921591)
* ``bzr version`` no longer throws a UnicodeDecodeError if the .bzr.log path
contains non-ascii characters. (Martin Packman, #312841)
* Support scripts that don't call bzrlib.initialize() but still call run_bzr().
(Vincent Ladeuil, #917733)
* Test for equality instead of object identity where ROOT_PARENT is concerned.
(Wouter van Heyst, #881142)
* urllib-based HTTPS client connections now verify the server certificate
validity as well as the hostname.
(Jelmer Vernooij, Vincent Ladeuil, #651161)
API Changes
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* ``config.config_dir`` and related functions now always return paths as
unicode. (Martin Packman, #825826)
* ``ControlDir`` now has a new method ``set_branch_reference`` which can
be used for setting branch references. (Jelmer Vernooij)
* ``ControlDir.destroy_branch`` now raises ``NotBranchError`` rather than
``NoSuchFile`` if the branch didn't exist. (Jelmer Vernooij, #921693)
Internals
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* A new matcher ``RevisionHistoryMatches`` has been added. (Jelmer Vernooij)
* Add new module ``bzrlib.url_policy_open``. (Jelmer Vernooij, #850843)
* ``MutableTree`` has two new hooks ``pre_transform`` and
``post_transform`` that are called for tree transform operations.
(Jelmer Vernooij, #912084)
Testing
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* Be more careful about closing open files for pypy interoperability.
(Wouter van Heyst)
