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== Mercurial 2.1-rc (2012-01-20) ==

Preliminary notes for the 2.1 release candidate - please test!

 * add: support adding explicit files in subrepos
 * annotate: append newline after non newline-terminated file listings (BC)
 * annotate: show full changeset hash when invoked with --debug and -c
 * annotate: support diff whitespace filtering flags (Bts:issue3030)
 * bisect: remove superfluous parameter in label()
 * bookmarks: automatically advance bookmark on naked update (BC) (Bts:issue2894)
 * bookmarks: clarify help for -i/--inactive
 * bookmarks: mark divergent bookmarks with book@pathalias when source in [paths]
 * bookmarks: shadow divergent bookmarks of foo with foo@n
 * bugzilla: make XMLRPC interface support http and https access
 * changeset_printer: display changeset phase on debug level
 * clone: get all bookmarks before updating
 * convert/svn: update svn working copy only when necessary
 * copies: rewrite copy detection for non-merge users
 * copies: split the copies api for "normal" and merge cases (API)
 * cygwin: add cygwin specific normcase logic
 * diff: always use / in paths in diff
 * dispatch: exit with 8-bit exit code
 * filectx: fix cmp() of file starting with '\1\n'
 * forget: support forgetting explicit paths in subrepos
 * grep: make multiline mode the default (BC)
 * hgcia: fix diffstat support
 * hooks: prioritize run order of hooks
 * id: add command line options for handling ssh and https urls
 * largefiles: add --normal option to hg add (Bts:issue3061)
 * largefiles: add error checking to tags conversion (Bts:issue3092)
 * largefiles: add tests for uncovered codepaths (Bts:issue3092)
 * largefiles: cache new largefiles for new heads when pulling
 * largefiles: check if largefile could be found when archiving (Bts:issue3193)
 * largefiles: correctly download new largefiles when merging
 * largefiles: correctly handle dirstate status when rebasing
 * largefiles: correctly handle newly added largefile on other side of merge
 * largefiles: display remote errors from putlfile (Bts:issue3123) (Bts:issue3149)
 * largefiles: don't reference uninitialized variable (Bts:issue3092)
 * largefiles: fix caching largefiles from an aliased repo (Bts:issue3212)
 * largefiles: fix confusion upon removal of added largefile (Bts:issue3176)
 * largefiles: fix inappropriate locking (Bts:issue3182)
 * largefiles: fix output of hg summary (Bts:issue3060)
 * largefiles: implement addremove (Bts:issue3064)
 * largefiles: optimize performance of status on largefiles repos (Bts:issue3136)
 * largefiles: optimize status when files are specified (Bts:issue3144)
 * largefiles: remove empty directories upon update (Bts:issue3202)
 * mail: mbox handling as a part of mail handling, refactored from patchbomb
 * mail: use quoted-printable for mime encoding to avoid too long lines (Bts:issue3075)
 * merge: give a special message for internal:merge failure (Bts:issue3105)
 * mq: add a warning about uncommitted changes for qfinish
 * mq: have mq create secret changeset only
 * notify: add option for writing to mbox
 * notify: change behavior of "changegroup" hook
 * phase: report phase movement
 * phases: ``{phase}`` template keyword display the phase name
 * phases: add a phases command to display and manipulate phases
 * phases: add a phases.publish option
 * phases: implements simple revset symbol
 * phases: prevent mq to qimport immutable change
 * phases: prevent rebase to rebase immutable changeset
 * push: propagate --new-branch and --ssh options when pushing subrepos
 * rebase: add a "D" short option for detach
 * rebase: allow --detach when --rev is used
 * rebase: reinstate old-style rev spec support for the source and base (Bts:issue3181)
 * rebase: write series file without removed mq patches
 * revset: add remote() predicate to lookup remote revisions
 * revset: allow slashes in symbols
 * setup: fix py2exe generation broken by c3a6ec304055 (Bts:issue3116)
 * ssh: quote remote paths (Bts:issue2983)
 * sslutil: abort properly if no certificate received for https connection
 * sslutil: show fingerprint when cacerts validation fails
 * status: support revsets with --change
 * subrepo: avoid syncing bookmarks twice on clone (Bts:issue3191)
 * tag: invalidate tag cache immediately after adding new tag (Bts:issue3210)
 * util: don't encode ':' in url paths
 * win32mbcs: allow win32mbcs extension to be enabled on cygwin platform

Release Notes

Features and bugfixes in our latest releases.

Note that Mercurial follows a time-based release plan with major releases every four months and minor (bugfix) releases on the first of every month (see TimeBasedReleasePlan).

{i} Be sure to read the upgrade notes when upgrading.

(See archive for older versions.)

1. Mercurial 2.1-rc (2012-01-20)

Preliminary notes for the 2.1 release candidate - please test!

  • add: support adding explicit files in subrepos
  • annotate: append newline after non newline-terminated file listings (BC)
  • annotate: show full changeset hash when invoked with --debug and -c
  • annotate: support diff whitespace filtering flags (issue3030)

  • bisect: remove superfluous parameter in label()
  • bookmarks: automatically advance bookmark on naked update (BC) (issue2894)

  • bookmarks: clarify help for -i/--inactive
  • bookmarks: mark divergent bookmarks with book@pathalias when source in [paths]
  • bookmarks: shadow divergent bookmarks of foo with foo@n
  • bugzilla: make XMLRPC interface support http and https access
  • changeset_printer: display changeset phase on debug level
  • clone: get all bookmarks before updating
  • convert/svn: update svn working copy only when necessary
  • copies: rewrite copy detection for non-merge users
  • copies: split the copies api for "normal" and merge cases (API)
  • cygwin: add cygwin specific normcase logic
  • diff: always use / in paths in diff
  • dispatch: exit with 8-bit exit code
  • filectx: fix cmp() of file starting with '\1\n'
  • forget: support forgetting explicit paths in subrepos
  • grep: make multiline mode the default (BC)
  • hgcia: fix diffstat support
  • hooks: prioritize run order of hooks
  • id: add command line options for handling ssh and https urls
  • largefiles: add --normal option to hg add (issue3061)

  • largefiles: add error checking to tags conversion (issue3092)

  • largefiles: add tests for uncovered codepaths (issue3092)

  • largefiles: cache new largefiles for new heads when pulling
  • largefiles: check if largefile could be found when archiving (issue3193)

  • largefiles: correctly download new largefiles when merging
  • largefiles: correctly handle dirstate status when rebasing
  • largefiles: correctly handle newly added largefile on other side of merge
  • largefiles: display remote errors from putlfile (issue3123) (issue3149)

  • largefiles: don't reference uninitialized variable (issue3092)

  • largefiles: fix caching largefiles from an aliased repo (issue3212)

  • largefiles: fix confusion upon removal of added largefile (issue3176)

  • largefiles: fix inappropriate locking (issue3182)

  • largefiles: fix output of hg summary (issue3060)

  • largefiles: implement addremove (issue3064)

  • largefiles: optimize performance of status on largefiles repos (issue3136)

  • largefiles: optimize status when files are specified (issue3144)

  • largefiles: remove empty directories upon update (issue3202)

  • mail: mbox handling as a part of mail handling, refactored from patchbomb
  • mail: use quoted-printable for mime encoding to avoid too long lines (issue3075)

  • merge: give a special message for internal:merge failure (issue3105)

  • mq: add a warning about uncommitted changes for qfinish
  • mq: have mq create secret changeset only
  • notify: add option for writing to mbox
  • notify: change behavior of "changegroup" hook
  • phase: report phase movement
  • phases: {phase} template keyword display the phase name

  • phases: add a phases command to display and manipulate phases
  • phases: add a phases.publish option
  • phases: implements simple revset symbol
  • phases: prevent mq to qimport immutable change
  • phases: prevent rebase to rebase immutable changeset
  • push: propagate --new-branch and --ssh options when pushing subrepos
  • rebase: add a "D" short option for detach
  • rebase: allow --detach when --rev is used
  • rebase: reinstate old-style rev spec support for the source and base (issue3181)

  • rebase: write series file without removed mq patches
  • revset: add remote() predicate to lookup remote revisions
  • revset: allow slashes in symbols
  • setup: fix py2exe generation broken by c3a6ec304055 (issue3116)

  • ssh: quote remote paths (issue2983)

  • sslutil: abort properly if no certificate received for https connection
  • sslutil: show fingerprint when cacerts validation fails
  • status: support revsets with --change
  • subrepo: avoid syncing bookmarks twice on clone (issue3191)

  • tag: invalidate tag cache immediately after adding new tag (issue3210)

  • util: don't encode ':' in url paths
  • win32mbcs: allow win32mbcs extension to be enabled on cygwin platform

2. Mercurial 2.0.2 (2012-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

  • alias: shortcut command matching so shadowing works properly (issue3104)

  • branch: warn on branching
  • changelog: handle decoding of NULs in extra more carefully (issue3156)

  • convert: improve exception reporting for SVN logstream
  • diff: don't crash when diffing a revision with a deleted subrepo (issue3153)

  • fetch: fix unneeded commit when no merge attempted (issue2847)

  • fetch: patch cornercase in children calculation (issue2773)

  • largefiles: copy files in binary mode (issue3164)

  • largefiles: don't require a user cache (issue3088) (issue3155)

  • largefiles: fix 'hg status' abort after merge
  • largefiles: handle merges between normal files and largefiles (issue3084)

  • merge: check filename case collision between changesets for branch merging
  • pathauditor: switch normcase logic according to case sensitivity of filesystem
  • progress: check for ui.quiet and ui.debugflag before we write
  • rollback: always call destroyed() (regression from 1.9)
  • util: fix url.str() for windows file URLs

  • windows: use upper() instead of lower() or os.path.normcase()

3. Mercurial 2.0.1 (2011-12-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

  • alias: shortcut command matching show shadowing works properly (issue3104)

  • bundlerepo: don't write branch cache to disk
  • clone: don't save user's password in .hg/hgrc (issue3122)

  • convert/bzr: correctly handle divergent nested renames (issue3089)

  • convert/bzr: fix test of divergent nested renames for bzr 1.x
  • convert/svn: fix URL quoting issue with svn 1.7
  • convert: handle trailing slashes in filemap better (issue3124)

  • diff: '\ No newline at end of file' is also not part of the header
  • diff: --ignore-blank-lines was too enthusiastic
  • dirstate: fix case-folding identity for traditional Unix
  • graft: disallow grafting grafted csets in specific situations (issue3091)

  • graft: preserve original source in subsequent grafts
  • hook: flush stdout before redirecting to stderr
  • import: fix parent selection when importing merges
  • largefiles: ensure destination directory exists before findfile links to there
  • largefiles: file storage should be relative to repo, not relative to cwd
  • largefiles: fix 'hg clone . ../foo' OSError abort
  • largefiles: fix rename (issue3093)

  • largefiles: treat status of cache missed largefiles as "missing" correctly
  • largefiles: use "ui.configlist()" to get largefiles.patterns configuration
  • largefiles: write .hg/largefiles/ files atomically
  • makedate: wrong timezone offset if DST rules changed this year (issue2511)

  • mdiff/patch: fix bad hunk handling for unified diffs with zero context
  • posix: add extended support for OS X path folding
  • posix: fix findexe() to check for file type and access
  • rebase: ensure target is not taken as external (issue3085)

  • rebase: treat nullmerge as a special case in rebasestate (issue3046)

  • revset: balance %l or-expressions (issue3129)

  • revset: follow(nosuchfile) should give an empty set (issue3114)

  • subrepo: fix git status false positive (issue3109)

  • subrepo: use correct paths for subrepos with ..-relative paths on windows
  • update: don't clobber untracked files with wrong casing
  • url: handle file://localhost/c:/foo "correctly"

4. Mercurial 2.0 (2011-11-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release. See UpgradeNotes for some minor compatibility notes.

4.1. Major features

  • New core graft command (similar to transplant extension)

  • New largefiles extension

4.2. Core changes

  • commit: abort when there are uncommitted subrepos, use the -S option to recurse
  • help: most commands now have usage examples with help -v
  • import: add --edit switch
  • revset: add more keywords for bisection
  • revert: introduce short option -C for --no-backup
  • log: add new 'bisect' style that prints the bisection status
  • hgweb: add a "web/logoimg" setting to customize the web logo image
  • subrepo: pull revisions on demand when archiving hg subrepos

4.3. Extension changes

  • color: add styles for tags
  • convert: added bookmarks support in filemap
  • eol: add new eol.fix-trailing-newline setting
  • eol: eol.only-consistent can now be specified in .hgeol
  • export: add %m to file format string (first line of the commit message)
  • mq: make qqueue print current queue name
  • rebase: add --edit switch
  • rebase: add --rev option to rebase
  • rebase: allow rebase on ancestor
  • share: introduce unshare command
  • transplant: add --edit option

4.4. Bug fixes

  • alias: don't shadow commands that we only partially matched (issue2993) (BC)

  • commit: suppress spurious new head message for duplicate commit (issue2893)

  • contrib: some support for named branches in zsh_completion (issue2988)

  • progress: add a changedelay to prevent parallel topics from flapping (issue2698)

  • rebase: allow rebase to ancestor (issue3010)

  • rollback: avoid unsafe rollback when not at tip (issue2998)

  • subrepo: fix git branch tracking logic (issue2920)

  • subrepo: fix repo relative path calculation for root directories (issue3033)

  • summary: show bookmarks separate from tags and note active mark (issue2892)

  • util: wrap lines with multi-byte characters correctly (issue2943)

  • verify: filter messages about missing null manifests (issue2900)

  • wireproto: do not call pushkey module directly (issue3041)

  • auth: fix realm handling with Python < 2.4.3 (issue2739)

  • diffstat: be more picky when marking file as 'binary' (issue2816)

  • dirstate: don't fail when dropping a not-tracked file (issue3080)

  • grep: correct handling of matching lines without line ending (issue3050)

  • hgweb: fix dynamic date calculation not working under Safari
  • mq: avoid data loss upon qfold + qmv (issue3058)

  • setup: set whole env for running hg even if .hg doesn't exist (issue3073)

  • windows: recompute flags when committing a merge (issue1802)

  • windows: sanity-check symlink placeholders

5. Mercurial 1.9.3 (2011-10-01)

This is a regular bugfix release.

  • setup: build inotify for sys.platform='linux*'
  • bundlerepo: add argument check before unlink
  • hgweb: properly check for bookmarks when drawing graph
  • http: handle push of bundles > 2 GB again (issue3017)

  • keyword: preserve file mode when overwriting
  • osutil: avoid accidentally destroying the True object in isgui (issue2937)

  • patch: correctly handle non-tabular Subject: line
  • patch: handle 'gitpatches' being empty, but not none
  • record: use command wrapper properly for qnew/qrefresh (issue3001)

  • setdiscovery: fix hang when #heads>200 (issue2971)

  • ui: also swap sys.stdout with self.fout in _readline
  • ui: write traceback to self.ferr
  • url: Remove the proxy env variables only when needed (issue2451)

  • url: parse fragments first (issue2997)
  • util: fix crash converting an invalid future date to string
  • util: wrap lines with multi-byte characters correctly (issue2943)

  • win32: quietly ignore missing CreateHardLinkA for Wine

6. Mercurial 1.9.2 (2011-08-26)

This is a regular bugfix release (slightly early due to travel plans).

  • commands: clarify that 'hg heads foo' shows heads on branch foo
  • dispatch: don't rewrap aliases that have the same definition
  • graphlog: attempt to fix index overrun (issue2912)

  • http: pass user to readauthforuri() (fix 4a43e23b8c55)
  • http: strip credentials from urllib2 manager URIs (issue2885)

  • parsers: avoid pointer aliasing
  • subrepo: fix cloning of repos from urls without slash after host (issue2970)

  • ui: pass ' ' to raw_input when prompting
  • url: really handle urls of the form file:///c:/foo/bar/ correctly

  • win32: msvcr71.dll should be used for python 2.4 and 2.5

7. Mercurial 1.9.1 (2011-08-01)

This is a regular bugfix release. It fixes several regressions introduced in 1.9. The hgweb server now disables MIME type guessing by default to avoid a potential cross-site scripting issue when hosting untrusted repositories (issue2923). See UpgradeNotes for more info.

  • dispatch: make sure global options on the command line take precedence
  • eol: ignore IOError from deleted files in commitctx
  • hgcia: set default value of strip to -1 (issue2891)

  • hgweb: do not ignore [auth] if url has a username (issue2822)

  • hgweb: handle 'baseurl' configurations with leading slash (issue2934)

  • hgweb: raw file mimetype guessing configurable, off by default (BC) (issue2923)

  • httpclient: import ca33b88d143c from py-nonblocking-http (issue2932)
  • patch: fix parsing patch files containing CRs not followed by LFs
  • rebase: block collapse with keepbranches on multiple named branches (issue2112)

  • rebase: reset bookmarks (issue2265 and issue2873)

  • revert: restore check for uncommitted merge (issue2915) (BC)

  • revsets: catch type error on tip^p1(tip) (issue2884)

  • revsets: do the right thing with x^:y (issue2884)

  • subrepo: handle adding svn subrepo with a svn:external file in it (issue2931)

  • subrepo: use working copy of .hgsub to filter status (issue2901)

  • url: store and assume the query part of an url is in escaped form (issue2921)

  • util: rename the util.localpath that uses url to urllocalpath (issue2875)

  • verify: filter messages about missing null manifests (issue2900)

  • web: output a correct date in short format (issue2902)

  • win32: assign winstdout to sys.stdout as well (issue2888)

8. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)

This is a regular feature release. See UpgradeNotes for some minor compatibility notes.

8.1. Major features

  • New fileset file matching support

  • Improved remote changeset discovery
  • New command server mode to improve application integration

  • Experimental generaldelta storage scheme
  • Experimental new http client library

8.2. Command changes

  • HGPLAIN: allow exceptions to plain mode, like i18n, via HGPLAINEXCEPT
  • manifest: add new option --all
  • aliases: add positional arguments to non-shell aliases
  • add: introduce a warning message for non-portable filenames (issue2756)

  • add: notify when adding a file that would cause a case-folding collision
  • bisect: new command to extend the bisect range (issue2690)

  • bookmarks: allow deactivating current bookmark with -i
  • bundle: update current bookmark to most recent revision on current branch
  • diff: make diff -c aware of revision sets
  • help: add -c/--command flag to only show command help (issue2799)

  • help: add -e/--extension switch to display extension help text
  • help: move hgignore man page into built-in help (issue2769)

  • http: correctly handle redirects from http to https
  • identify: list bookmarks for remote repositories
  • import: add --bypass option
  • paths: Add support for -q/--quiet
  • pushkey: add hooks for pushkey/listkeys
  • revset: add aliases
  • revset: add ^ and ~ operators from parentrevspec extension
  • revset: add a revset command to get bisect state
  • revset: add desc(string) to search in commit messages
  • revset: add follow(filename) to follow a filename's history across copies
  • revset: introduce filelog() to emulate log's fast path
  • revset: add a last() function

8.3. Web changes

  • add bookmarks listing to raw style and summary pages
  • support alternate logo url
  • add base link to file log for paper and coal styles (issue2452)

  • paper, coal: display diffstat on the changeset page
  • elapsed time calculation dynamic (javascript)
  • provide diffstat and summary on the changeset page

8.4. Extension changes

  • hgcia: handle URL like in notify (issue2406)

  • rebase: add -m/--message to rebase --collapse (issue2389)

  • Updating hgext.extdiff to use revsets
  • bash_completion: enable alias auto-complete
  • bugzilla: add XMLRPC interface
  • color: add support for terminfo-based attributes and color
  • convert/mtn: add support for using monotone's "automate stdio" when available
  • convert/svn: stop using svn bindings when pushing to svn
  • convert: add bookmark support for hg and git backends
  • convert: add svnrev, svnpath and svnuuid template keywords
  • extdiff: add repository root as a variable
  • graphlog: support more log command features with revsets
  • keyword: convert a verbatim block to a field list
  • keyword: offer additional datefilters when the extension is enabled
  • mq: add a 'mq()' revset predicate that returns applied mq csets
  • notify: send changesets on 'outgoing' hook, updated doc
  • progress: add speed format
  • rebase: add --tool argument for specifying merge tool
  • rebase: allow for rebasing descendants onto ancestors on different named branches
  • record: add an option to backup all wc modifications
  • record: add qrefresh -i/--interactive
  • record: add white space diff options
  • record: alias qrecord to qnew -i/--interactive

8.5. Bug fixes

  • bookmarks: allow create/move bookmark without making it current (issue2788)

  • bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (issue1877)

  • changegroup: do not count closed new heads (issue2697)

  • config: handle comment lines in continuations (issue2854)

  • dispatch: propagate ui command options to the local ui (issue2523)

  • eol: make the hook check all new heads, not only tip (issue2666)

  • grep: don't print data from binary files for matches (issue2614)

  • http: report unexpected unparsable push responses (issue2777)

  • httprepo: handle large lengths by bypassing the len() operator
  • httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126)

  • httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (issue2019)

  • httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (issue2828)

  • localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (issue2761)

  • localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (issue2750)

  • merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (issue2680)

  • patch: do not patch unknown files (issue752)

  • path_auditor: check filenames for basic platform validity (issue2755)

  • rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (issue2725)

  • rebase: preserve mq series order after rebasing (issue2849)

  • rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (issue2107)

  • revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (issue2654)

  • scmutil: improve path calculation for install-relative RC files (issue2841)

  • set NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED on .hg dir (issue2694)

  • sslutil: fall back to commonName when no dNSName in subjectAltName (issue2798)

  • subrepo: be more careful with deletions of .hgsub and .hgsubstate (issue2844)

  • subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (issue2759)

  • subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (issue2833)

  • subrepo: be smarter about what's an absolute path (issue2808)

  • svn subrepo: attempt work around obstructed checkouts (issue2752)

  • svn subrepos: work around checkout obstructions (issue2752)

  • tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (issue2779)

  • util: add Mac-specific check whether we're in a GUI session (issue2553)

9. Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

  • bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (issue1877)

  • changelog: convert user and desc from local encoding early
  • fix bookmarks rollback behavior
  • hgrc.5: document shell aliases
  • httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (issue2019)

  • httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (issue2828)

  • localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (issue2761)

  • localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (issue2750)

  • mq: strip extra whitespace from node ids in header (issue2790)

  • rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (issue2107)

  • revset: expand help for contains predicate
  • revset: note case-insensitive matches in keyword and user
  • revset: note case-sensitive match in grep
  • revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (issue2654)

  • revset: the name is optional for the tag predicate
  • simplemerge: do not allow binary files to abort an entire merge
  • strip: make it clear that --force discards changes (issue310)

  • subrepo: don't crash when git .hgsubstate is empty (issue2716)

  • subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (issue2759)

  • subrepo: respect non-default path for incoming/outgoing
  • subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (issue2833)

  • subrepo: use code from 71ea5b only if Python needs it (issue2795)

  • tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (issue2779)

10. Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

  • convert: make filemap prune useless branch closing revs (issue2774)

  • encoding: avoid localstr when a string can be encoded losslessly (issue2763)

  • extdiff: fix broken symlinks handling (issue1909)

  • help config: explain that config files do not exist by default
  • hgweb: add bookmark labels to gitweb theme
  • hgweb: add missing bookmarks definition to coal/map
  • hgweb: add missing bookmarks templates to atom/rss styles
  • hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to gitweb theme
  • hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to monoblue theme
  • hgweb: detect change based on changelog size too
  • hgweb: fix inconsistant display of graphlog (issue1706)

  • hgweb: fix typo and inactive link in page_nav and page_header of gitweb's help
  • hgweb: fix typo in page-header of monoblue's help template
  • hgweb: format page_nav of gitweb/error.tmpl and add missing links
  • rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (issue2725)

  • subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions
  • subrepo: prevent url normalization from removing // in ssh paths (issue2556)

  • subrepo: tell Subversion when we are non-interactive (issue2759)

  • url: use a regex to hide unsupported ssh passwords (issue2754)

  • zeroconf: notify the Zeroconf threads when hg exits

11. Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

  • bookmarks: discard current bookmark if absent from the bookmarks (issue2692)

  • bookmarks: fix update of the current bookmark during rename
  • color: port to using ctypes (issue2687)

  • convert/svn: fix _iterfiles() output in root dir case (issue2647)

  • eol: do not abort when win32text is found, only warn
  • eol: use dirstate methods to clear dirstate
  • fix compiling of extensions for OS X and XCode 4.0
  • hgweb: add display of bookmarks for changelog and changeset
  • hgweb: add separate page with bookmarks listing
  • merge: avoid unlinking destination of merge when case changes (issue2715)

  • mq: do not let qrefresh write bad patch
  • pager: don't page stderr if it's being redirected (issue2541)

  • push/outgoing: print remote target path even if there's an error (issue2561)

  • subrepo: recognize scp-style paths as git URLs
  • templates: widen the graph canvas (issue2683)

12. Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10)

This release backs out a behavior change for so-called 'fast-forward' merges on named branches.

  • annotate: rewrite to deal with crossed linkrevs (issue2682)

  • bookmark: fix invalidation of localrepo._bookmarkcurrent
  • cacert: improve error report when web.cacert file does not exist
  • contrib: update tcsh_completion for Mercurial 1.8
  • hgcia: accept "queued." xmlrpc return as success
  • hgweb: fix filelog rss links generation
  • hgweb: use tip in gitweb/monoblue filelog rss links (issue2677)

  • merge: back out single-parent fast-forward merge
  • merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (issue2680)

  • merge: improve unresolved conflicts warning (issue2681)

  • mergetools: add alternate registry keys for 32bit apps on 64bit O/S
  • mq: forbid commit of merge involving mq patches
  • subrepo: backout 67fbe566eff1, --force requires svn >= 1.5

  • subrepo: don't crash when git repo is missing
  • subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions
  • wix: drop bin/ folder from MSI installers (issue2673)

13. Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01)

13.1. Core

  • Bookmarks are now a core feature (see UpgradeNotes)

  • New listfile: pattern-matching (patterns)

  • Revset syntax supported by most commands
  • Performance improvements for reading large repository indexes
  • Certificate validation for HTTPS proxies

13.2. Subrepos

  • New support for git subrepos
  • Various improvements to merge, update, and commit logic

13.3. Windows

  • Numerous robustness improvements for quirks in Windows file handling
  • Now uses the native ctypes module rather than PyWin32

13.4. Extensions

  • eol: filter aliases for compatibility with win32text
  • mq: --exact option for qpush

  • mq: various robustness improvements
  • progress: remaining time estimates


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