Hi all, I am delighted to announce the release of darcs 2.1.0, available at
http://darcs.net/darcs-2.1.0.tar.gz What has changed? ----------------- This version provides over 40 bug fixes and 20 new features since darcs 2.0.2. The most notable changes are: * Defaulting to darcs-2. The darcs initialize command now creates darcs-2 format repositories by default. This change will make the the improved conflict handling and merging semantics from darcs 2 available to more users. Note that no action is required on your part. Darcs will continue working with all pre-existing repositories. You can explicitly request an old-fashioned repository if needed. * Better HTTP support. Dmitry Kurochkin has refined our HTTP support and fixed several http-related bugs from darcs 2.0.2. There is also an experimental --http-pipelining feature you can enable on the command line (or in your defaults file) for faster downloading. Note: --http-pipelining is enabled by default for libwww, and also for libcurl 7.19.1 (not yet released at the time of this writing) * Repository correctness. David Roundy has resolved a longstanding 'pending patch' regression (originally reported on 2008-02). Needless to say the offending case has been moved to our regression testing suite See the attached ChangeLog for more details. What should I do? ----------------- Upgrade! Binary versions should be available shortly, either from your favourite package distributor or by third party contributors. Other than installing the new darcs, no action is required on your part to perform this upgrade. Darcs 2, including this particular version, is 100% compatible with your pre-existing repositories. If you have not done so already, you should consider using the hashed repository format in place of your current old-fashioned repositories. This format offers greater protection against accidental corruption, better support for case insensitive file systems. It also provides some very nice performance features, including lazy fetching of patches and a global cache (both optional). If darcs 1 compatibility is not a concern, you could also upgrade your repositories all the way to the darcs 2 format. In addition to the robustness and performance features above, this gives you the improved merging semantics and conflicts handling that give darcs 2 its name. More details about upgrading to darcs 2 here: http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/DarcsTwo What comes next? ---------------- We will now be shifting to a time based release model, with the next darcs release planned for January 2009. For the next release of darcs, we will be focusing on optimising darcs's day to day performance issues. We want darcs to fetch repositories as fast as it possibly can over a network, and we especially want to rehabilitate known slow commands like darcs annotate. We believe that a few simple and practical changes can really improve the darcs experience for most users. Think you can help? We would love to hear from you. In fact, the first darcs hacking sprint (25-26 October) is fast approaching! We have three venues available: Brighton, Paris and Portland and everybody is invited to come hack. See http://wiki.darcs.net/index.html/Sprints for details. Thanks everybody, and enjoy! -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
darcs (2.1.0)
-- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 09 Oct 2008 12:05:32 GMT
* Bug Fix: Eliminate a 'same URLs with different parameters' error when
fetching files over HTTP (issue1131, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* User Experience: Corrections to the default boring file (Ben Franksen)
* Bug Fix: Fix the %a option in darcs send --sendmail-command (Ben Franksen)
* Bug Fix: Do not obscure the SSH prompts or text editor output with
progress reporting (issue1104, issue1109, Dmitry Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: pull --intersection work now works as advertised (Tommy
Pettersson)
darcs (2.1.0pre3)
-- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 02 Oct 2008 09:12:41 GMT
* Bug Fix: Eliminate an error merging repeated conflicts in darcs-2
repositories (issue1043, David Roundy)
* New Feature: Hide 'Ignore-this:' lines which will be generated by future
versions of darcs to prevent patch-id collisions. (issue1102, Eric Kow,
David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Support darcs repositories which have symbolic links in their
paths (issue1078, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Make ssh connection sharing (darcs transfer-mode) work with
old-fashioned repositories (issue1003, David Roundy)
darcs (2.1.0pre2)
-- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 25 Sep 2008 08:10:49 GMT
* IMPORTANT: Create darcs-2 repositories by default in darcs init (issue806,
David Roundy)
* User Experience: Do not allow users to add files to a darcs repository if
their filenames would be considered invalid under Windows. This can be
overridden with the --reserved-ok flag (issue53, Eric Kow)
* Bug Fix: Do not leave behind a half-gotten directory if darcs get fails
(issue1041, Vlad Dogaru, David Roundy)
* User Experience: notice when you are trying to pull from a seemingly
unrelated repository, that is one with a sufficiently different history.
This can be overridden with the --allow-unrelated-repos flag (Dmitry
Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Fix hang after a user input error (for example, EOF)
when using haskeline support (Judah Jacobson)
* Quality Assurance: Improvements to documentation and online help (Simon
Michael)
darcs (2.0.3pre1)
-- Eric Kow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 18 Sep 2008 02:36:45 GMT
* New Feature: Optional readline-like functionality when compiled with the
haskeline package (Judah Jacobson, Gaëtan Lehmann)
* Bug Fix: No more spurious pending patches (issue709, issue1012, David
Roundy)
* Bug Fix: darcs get --to-match now works with hashed repositories
(issue885, David Roundy)
* User Experience: Catch mistakes in _darcs/prefs/defaults (issue691, Dmitry
Kurochkin)
* User Experience: Improved support for darcs send over http (see also
tools/upload.cgi) (Dmitry Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Recognize [EMAIL PROTECTED]: as an ssh path, that is, not
requiring a path after the server component. (David Roundy)
* New Feature: Accept an optional directory argument in darcs send
--output-auto-name (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* User Experience: New --no-cache option to help debug network issues
(issue1054, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Performance: New --http-pipelining and --no-http-pipelining flags. Passing
--http-pipelining to darcs can make darcs get and pull faster over HTTP.
Due to a libcurl bug, this is not the default option unless darcs is
compiled with libcurl 7.19.1, due 2008-11. (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Eliminate hanging and crashes while fetching files over HTTP
(issue920, issue977, issue996, issue1037, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Security: Fix some insecure uses of printfs in darcs.cgi (Steve Cotton)
* Bug Fix: Handle filepaths in a simpler and more robust fashion. This fixes
relative filepaths and recognition of symbolic links and avoids possible
future bugs (issue950, issue1057, David Roundy, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Make darcs diff --patch work even if the patch is within a tag
(issue966, darcs 2 regression, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Quality Assurance: Extend use of Haskell's GADTs to most of the darcs
code, fixing many potential bugs along the way (Jason Dagit, David Roundy)
* Quality Assurance: Several improvements to darcs code quality (Petr
Ročkai)
* Bug Fix: Correct assumptions made by darcs about Windows file size types
(issue1015, Simon Marlow, Ganesh Sittampalam)
* Bug Fix: Support case insensitive file systems using hashed repositories
in darcs repair (partial issue971, Petr Ročkai). IMPORTANT: This
introduces a memory use regression, which affects large repositories. We
found that doing a darcs repair on the GHC repository requires a machine
with 2 GB of RAM. The regression is well-understood and should be solved
in the next darcs release. In the meantime we felt that the improved
robustness was worth the performance trade-off.
* Quality Assurance: Simplify building darcs on Windows by optionally using
the zlib and terminfo Haskell packages (Ganesh Sittampalam, Petr Ročkai)
* User Experience: Better error reporting when patches that should commute
fail to do so. (Jason Dagit)
* New Feature: --match "touch filenames", for example --match 'touch
foo|bar|splotz.*(c|h)' (issue115, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* User Experience: Improve debugging and error messages in HTTP code (Dmitry
Kurochkin, David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Ensure that darcs responds to Ctrl-C on Window, even if compiled
with GHC < 6.10 (issue1016, Simon Marlow)
* New Feature: darcs changes --context now also works with --human-readable
and --xml-output (issue995, Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Bug Fix: Always darcs send with context, as if --unified flag were used
(was implemented in 2.0.2, but not consistently) (David Roundy)
* Bug Fix: Make sure that darcs get --tag works even when the user hits
Ctrl-C to get a lazy repository (Dmitry Kurochkin)
* Quality Assurance: Improvements to documentation and online help, most
crucially, user-focused help on upgrading to darcs 2. (Trent Buck, Lele
Gaifax, Simon Michael, Max Battcher)
* New Feature: darcs changes --number associates each patch with number,
counting backwards (see the --index feature) (David Roundy)
* New Feature: ability to match patches on index, for example, darcs changes
--index=3-6 shows the last three to six patches (David Roundy)
* User Experience: slightly reduce the verbosity of darcs pull --verbose
(David Roundy)
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
