The Bazaar developers are happy to announce the release of Bazaar
0.17. This release contains around a dozen bug fixes, better
documentation and some incremental performance improvements to status,
diff, commit, branch and checkout. Details are included in the attached
notes.
Note: While the number of bug fixes isn't large in this release, there
are some important dirstate regressions addressed. For this reason, it
is generally advisable to upgrade to this version if you are
encountering any bugs in this area.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed code, bug reports or
suggestions. Please keep them coming!
The Bazaar source, which works on any machine with Python 2.4 or 2.5,
can be downloaded from
http://bazaar-vcs.org/releases/src/bzr-0.17.tar.gz
Please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or in #bzr on freenode
with any questions, comments or problems. In particular, note that some
minor changes were made to the API which, in theory, could cause
problems with some plugins, though no such problems have been reported
against the Release Candidates to date. Details on those API changes are
included in the attached notes.
Windows installers will (hopefully) follow shortly.
Enjoy,
Ian C. (on behalf of all the Bazaar developers)
bzr 0.17 2007-06-18
BUGFIXES:
* Fix crash of commit due to wrong lookup of filesystem encoding.
(Colin Watson, #120647)
* Revert logging just to stderr in commit as broke unicode filenames.
(Aaron Bentley, Ian Clatworthy, #120930)
bzr 0.17rc1 2007-06-12
NOTES WHEN UPGRADING:
* The kind() and is_executable() APIs on the WorkingTree interface no
longer implicitly (read) locks and unlocks the tree. This *might*
impact some plug-ins and tools using this part of the API. If you find
an issue that may be caused by this change, please let us know,
particularly the plug-in/tool maintainer. If encountered, the API
fix is to surround kind() and is_executable() calls with lock_read()
and unlock() like so::
work_tree.lock_read()
try:
kind = work_tree.kind(...)
finally:
work_tree.unlock()
IMPROVEMENTS:
* There are two new help topics, working-trees and repositories that
attempt to explain these concepts. (James Westby, John Arbash Meinel,
Aaron Bentley)
* Added ``bzr log --limit`` to report a limited number of revisions.
(Kent Gibson, #3659)
* Revert does not try to preserve file contents that were originally
produced by reverting to a historical revision. (Aaron Bentley)
* ``bzr log --short`` now includes ``[merge]`` for revisions which
have more than one parent. This is a small improvement to help
understanding what changes have occurred
(John Arbash Meinel, #83887)
* TreeTransform avoids many renames when contructing large trees,
improving speed. 3.25x speedups have been observed for construction of
kernel-sized-trees, and checkouts are 1.28x faster. (Aaron Bentley)
* Commit on large trees is now faster. In my environment, a commit of
a small change to the Mozilla tree (55k files) has dropped from
66 seconds to 32 seconds. For a small tree of 600 files, commit of a
small change is 33% faster. (Ian Clatworthy)
* Clean up the ``WorkingTree4._iter_changes()`` internal loops as well as
``DirState.update_entry()``. This optimizes the core logic for ``bzr
diff`` and ``bzr status`` significantly improving the speed of
both. (John Arbash Meinel)
* The tutorial has been improved. (Matthew Fuller)
* Better error message for selected file commit of merges. (Aaron Bentley)
* Updated bash completion. (Antonin 'gree' Komenda)
BUGFIXES:
* ``bzr push`` should only connect to the remote location one time.
We have been connecting 3 times because we forget to pass around
the Transport object. This adds ``BzrDir.clone_on_transport()``, so
that we can pass in the Transport that we already have.
(John Arbash Meinel, #75721)
* ``DirState.set_state_from_inventory()`` needs to properly order
based on split paths, not just string paths.
(John Arbash Meinel, #115947)
* Let TestUIFactoy encode the password prompt with its own stdout.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #110204)
* pycurl should take use the range header that takes the range hint
into account.
(Vincent Ladeuil, #112719)
* WorkingTree4.get_file_sha1 no longer raises an exception when invoked
on a missing file. (Aaron Bentley, #118186)
* WorkingTree.remove works correctly with tree references, and when pwd is
not the tree root. (Aaron Bentley)
* Merge no longer fails when a file is renamed in one tree and deleted
in the other. (Aaron Bentley, #110279)
* ``revision-info`` now accepts dotted revnos, doesn't require a tree,
and defaults to the last revision (Matthew Fuller, #90048)
* Tests no longer fail when BZR_REMOTE_PATH is set in the environment.
(Daniel Watkins, #111958)
* ``bzr branch -r revid:foo`` can be used to branch any revision in
your repository. (Previously Branch6 only supported revisions in your
mainline). (John Arbash Meinel, #115343)
* 'branch lp:projname' now creates ./projname as expected.
INTERNALS:
* Rework of LogFormatter API to provide beginning/end of log hooks and to
encapsulate the details of the revision to be logged in a LogRevision
object.
In long log formats, merge revision ids are only shown when --show-ids
is specified, and are labelled "revision-id:", as per mainline
revisions, instead of "merged:". (Kent Gibson)
* New ``BranchBuilder`` API which allows the construction of particular
histories quickly. Useful for testing and potentially other applications
too. (Robert Collins)
