Mercurial 3.9 (2016-08-01)

Mercurial 3.9 (2016-08-01)#

Mercurial 3.9 release#

Features#

  • ui.textwidth can now be set to define width of help text

  • separate() template function added

  • ui.rollback can be set to false to disable the hg rollback command

  • fail- hooks now run when a command fails

  • experimental.graphstyle.* config options to control styling of graphs in console

  • experimental.histedit.autoverb allows histedit lines beginning with “verb!” to be interpreted as histedit actions

  • [hostsecurity] config section for defining advanced per-host security settings

  • ability to define the SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashes of pinned server certificates

  • ability to define CA certificates on a per-host basis

  • ability to define the minimum TLS protocol version on a global or per-host basis

  • sort() revset can now perform topological sorts using the ‘’topo’’ option

  • hgweb can now render JSON for ‘’filelog’’, ‘’filerevision’’, ‘’summary’’, and ‘’search’’ web commands

  • [paths] entries can now define a ‘’pushrev’’ sub-option to control which revisions to push by default

  • The experimental [[JournalExtension|’journal’ extension]] was added, allowing users to view the previous positions of bookmarks and the working copy

Improvements#

This release includes many improvements, including (but not limited to):

  • performance of hg diff has been improved

  • chg now detects more changes to the configuration and execution environment

  • SSL/TLS code has been significantly refactored and now is consistent across all consumers (HTTPS, SMTPS)

  • performance improvements to server communication (particularly for the largefiles and remotefilelog extensions)

  • connections to servers whose certificate authority (CA) is unknown are now refused even if no CA certificates are available (see SecureConnections for details)

  • fingerprints of server certificates are now printed using SHA-256 instead of SHA-1

  • reads and writes to certain files is now robust and avoids more race conditions and edge cases (see ExactCacheValidationPlan)

  • performance improvements to certain revsets

  • cloning will no longer prompt for a password multiple times when cloning from a server that requires a password

  • annotate view in hgweb now groups lines into blocks depending on their revision and highlights lines for the current revision

  • hgweb now displays extra information and also navigation links in popups for each line in annotate view

A full overview is available on WhatsNew.