Hi, 2.5b2 is our second beta for the 2.5 series and I'm pleased to announce it.
Bazaar <http://bazaar.canonical.com/> is a Canonical project and part of the GNU project <http://gnu.org/> to produce a free operating system. 2.5.0 is planned to be released in February 2012. 2.5b2 contains all know bug fixes including the ones made for the previous stable releases. To wet your appetite: it includes more filtering options for ``bzr log``, idle connections handling for ``bzr serve``, a ``development-colo`` experimental format to flesh out the colocated branches UI, better support for foreign formats, enhancements to the config framework and more. A warm thank you to all people that send feedback, suggestions, even merge proposals making bzr better ! Bazaar is now available for download from https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.5/2.5b2/ as a source tarball. Installers are available for windows and OSX, packages are on their way for the usual GNU/Linux distributions that propose our beta releases as well as the beta PPA for Ubuntu. External Compatibility Breaks ***************************** None New Features ************ * A new ``-O`` standard option (common to all commands) have been added. It provides a value for a config option in the ``-Oname=value`` form that takes precedence over all definitions found in config files. It can be used multiple times to override different options. (Vincent Ladeuil, #491196) * ``bzr log`` now has an option called ``--omit-merges`` to omit those commits that merged branches, i.e. those having more than one parent. In order to avoid confusion, the previous command line option ``--include-merges`` has been renamed to ``--include-merged``. The old name of the command line option will still be accepted. The name change also affects ``bzr missing``. (Martin von Gagern) * ``bzr serve`` will now disconnect clients if they have not issued an RPC request after 5minutes. On POSIX platforms, this will also happen for ``bzr serve --inet``. This can be overridden with the configuration variable ``serve.client_timeout`` or in the command line parameter ``bzr serve --client-timeout=X``. Further, it is possible to request ``bzr serve [--inet]`` to shutdown gracefully by sending SIGHUP. It will finish the current request, and then close the connection. (John Arbash Meinel, #824797, #795025) * The new experimental format ``development-colo`` supports colocated branches. This format will eventually be merged back into the ``2a`` format when it has stabilized and there is adequate UI support for colocated branches. (Jelmer Vernooij, #831481) Improvements ************ * Fixed a bug where ``bzr tags -r x..y`` loaded the branch history once for every revision in the range; it's now much faster. (Vincent Ladeuil, #857335) * ``bzr info -v`` can now be run against branches that don't support ``last_revision_info``, in which case the branch information will simply not be displayed. (Jelmer Vernooij) Bug Fixes ********* * ``bzr shelve`` can now be used in emacs shells as the input handling is turned into a line-based one when ``INSIDE_EMACS`` is set (which is the case for all recent emacs versions). (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261) * ``bzr tags`` can now be used against remote repositories that do not provide access to the revision graph. (Jelmer Vernooij, #858942) * ``bzr update PATH`` will stop if you seem to be asking it to update anything less than a whole tree, because that's not supported by ``bzr``'s concept that the whole tree has a single basis revision. Previously, it would go ahead and update the whole tree, which was surprising. (Martin Pool, #557886) * Don't crash if ``bzrlib.initialize()`` has not been called while accessing configs. (Vincent Ladeuil, #863401) * Redirects between http and https no longer discard path information in some cases. (Jelmer Vernooij, #853765) * The ``--overwrite`` argument to ``bzr push`` and ``bzr pull`` no longer reports all tags as changed. (Jelmer Vernooij, #845396) * ``WorkingTree.get_file_mtime`` now raises NoSuchId if a file id is specified that is unknown. (Jelmer Vernooij, #847435) API Changes *********** * ``Branch.get_revision_delta`` has been deprecated. Use ``Repository.get_revision_delta`` instead. (Jelmer Vernooij, #859712) * Plugins that implement custom protocols for ``bzr serve`` should now also take an argument ``timeout``. This is used by the the bzr protocol to close a connection if a client has been idle for more than X seconds. (Default 5minutes). (John Arbash Meinel) * ``Repository.fileids_altered_by_revision_ids`` has been moved to ``VersionedFileRepository`` and is no longer part of the standard ``Repository`` interface. (Jelmer Vernooij) * The argument ``include_merges`` to ``missing.find_unmerged`` has been renamed to ``include_merged``. The old name is still supported for now but will cause a deprecation warning. (Martin von Gagern) * The new method ``ControlDirFormat.is_initializable()`` returns a boolean indicating whether or not it is possible to use any of the initialization methods of that format to create a new control dir. (Jelmer Vernooij) Internals ********* * ``Branch`` objects can now use a config stack with the newly introduced ``get_config_stack()``. Both ``get_config`` and ``get_config_stack`` can be used for the same branch but it's recommended to stick to one for a given option. Testing ******* * Test scripts can now use ``bzr shelve`` and provide their input as complete lines. (Vincent Ladeuil, #856261) * Really corrupt the pack file without depending on a special length or value. (Vincent Ladeuil, #807032)
