bzr 1.5rc1 2008-05-09
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NOTES WHEN UPGRADING:
CHANGES:
* Broader support of GNU Emacs mail clients. Set
``mail_client=emacsclient`` in your bazaar.conf and ``send`` will pop the
bundle in a mail buffer according to the value of ``mail-user-agent``
variable. (Xavier Maillard)
FEATURES:
IMPROVEMENTS:
* Diff now handles revision specs like "branch:" and "submit:" more
efficiently. (Aaron Bentley)
* More friendly error given when attempt to start the smart server
on an address already in use. (Andrea Corbellini, #200575)
* Pull completes much faster when there is nothing to pull.
(Aaron Bentley)
BUGFIXES:
* Authentication.conf can define sections without password.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #199440)
* Avoid muttering every time a child update does not cause a progress bar
update. (John Arbash Meinel, #213771)
* ``Branch.reconcile()`` is now implemented. This allows ``bzr reconcile``
to fix when a Branch has a non-canonical mainline history. ``bzr check``
also detects this condition. (John Arbash Meinel, #177855)
* ``bzr commit`` now works with Microsoft's FTP service.
(Andreas Deininger)
* Catch definitions outside sections in authentication.conf.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #217650)
* Conversion from non-rich-root to rich-root(-pack) updates inventory
sha1s, even when bundles are used. (Aaron Bentley, #181391)
* Conversion from non-rich-root to rich-root(-pack) works correctly even
though search keys are not topologically sorted. (Aaron Bentley)
* Conversion from non-rich-root to rich-root(-pack) works even when a
parent revision has a different root id. (Aaron Bentley, #177874)
* Disable strace testing until strace is fixed (see bug #103133) and emit a
warning when selftest ends to remind us of leaking tests.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #226769)
* Fetching all revisions from a repository does not cause pack collisions.
(Robert Collins, Aaron Bentley, #212908)
* Fix error about "attempt to add line-delta in non-delta knit".
(Andrew Bennetts, #217701)
* Pushing a branch in "dirstate" format (Branch5) over bzr+ssh would break
if the remote server was < version 1.2. This was due to a bug in the
RemoteRepository.get_parent_map() fallback code.
(John Arbash Meinel, #214894)
* Remove leftover code in ``bzr_branch`` that inappropriately creates
a ``branch-name`` file in the branch control directory.
(Martin Pool)
* Set SO_REUSEADDR on server sockets of ``bzr serve`` to avoid problems
rebinding the socket when starting the server a second time.
(John Arbash Meinel, Martin Pool, #164288)
* Severe performance degradation in fetching from knit repositories to
knits and packs due to parsing the entire revisions.kndx on every graph
walk iteration fixed by using the Repository.get_graph API. There was
another regression in knit => knit fetching which re-read the index for
every revision each side had in common.
(Robert Collins, John Arbash Meinel)
* When logging the changes to a particular file, there was a bug if there
were ghosts in the revision ancestry. (John Arbash Meinel, #209948)
DOCUMENTATION:
* Expanded the User Guide to include new chapters on popular plugins and
integrating Bazaar into your environment. The *Best practices* chapter
was renamed to *Miscellaneous topics* as suggested by community
feedback as well. (Ian Clatworthy)
* Document outlining strategies for TortoiseBzr. (Mark Hammond)
* Improved the documentation on hooks. (Ian Clatworthy)
* Update authentication docs regarding ssh agents.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #183705)
TESTING:
* Add ``thread_name_suffix`` parameter to SmartTCPServer_for_testing, to
make it easy to identify which test spawned a thread with an unhandled
exception. (Andrew Bennetts)
* New ``--debugflag``/``-E`` option to ``bzr selftest`` for setting
options for debugging tests, these are complementary to the the -D
options. The ``-Dselftest_debug`` global option has been replaced by the
``-E=allow_debug`` option for selftest. (Andrew Bennetts)
* Parameterised test ids are preserved correctly to aid diagnosis of test
failures. (Robert Collins, Andrew Bennetts)
* selftest now accepts --starting-with <id> to load only the tests whose id
starts with the one specified. This greatly speeds up running the test
suite on a limited set of tests and can be used to run the tests for a
single module, a single class or even a single test. (Vincent Ladeuil)
* The test suite modules have been modified to define load_tests() instead
of test_suite(). That speeds up selective loading (via --load-list)
significantly and provides many examples on how to migrate (grep for
load_tests). (Vincent Ladeuil)
INTERNALS:
* ``Hooks.install_hook`` is now deprecated in favour of
``Hooks.install_named_hook`` which adds a required ``name`` parameter, to
avoid having to call ``Hooks.name_hook``. (Daniel Watkins)
* Implement xml8 serializer. (Aaron Bentley)
* New form ``@deprecated_method(deprecated_in(1, 5, 0))`` for making
deprecation wrappers. (Martin Pool)
* ``Repository.revision_parents`` is now deprecated in favour of
``Repository.get_parent_map([revid])[revid]``. (Jelmer Vernooij)
* The Python ``assert`` statement is no longer used in Bazaar source, and
a test checks this. (Martin Pool)
API BREAKS:
* ``bzrlib.status.show_pending_merges`` requires the repository to be
locked by the caller. Callers should have been doing it anyway, but it
will now raise an exception if they do not. (John Arbash Meinel)
* Repository.get_data_stream, Repository.get_data_stream_for_search(),
Repository.get_deltas_for_revsions(), Repository.revision_trees(),
Repository.item_keys_introduced_by() no longer take read locks.
(Aaron Bentley)
* ``LockableFiles.get_utf8`` is deprecated, as a start towards
removing LockableFiles and ``.control_files`` entirely.
(Martin Pool)
* Methods deprecated prior to 1.1 have been removed.
(Martin Pool)
