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{i} Be sure to read the [[UpgradeNotes|upgrade notes]]

According to the [[TimeBasedReleasePlan|time-based release plan]], new major releases (labeled X.Y) containing new features are released three times per year, interleaved by (at least) monthly bugfix releases (labeled X.Y.Z).

No more bugfix releases for a major release will be made as soon as the next major release has been released.

Features and bugfixes in our latest releases.

{i} Be sure to read the [[UpgradeNotes|upgrade notes]] when [[UpgradingMercurial|upgrading]].
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Release Notes

Features and bugfixes in our latest releases.

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

(See archive for older versions.)

1. 1.6.4 (2010-10-01)

This is a monthly bugfix release.

  • archive: set date to 1980 for very old zip files
  • bookmarks: fix _bookmarks/lookup() reentrancy issue (issue2016)

  • color: add win32 support for non-black background
  • context: fix filectx.undelete() (issue2388)

  • convert/darcs: handle non-ASCII metadata in darcs changelog (issue2354)

  • convert/svn: fix broken symlink renames in svn sink
  • core: use lexists() instead of exists() where appropriate
  • hgweb: Fix memory leak when using hg commands over http repositories
  • hgweb: correct Content-Type header values for archive downloads
  • log: include unmodified-in-merge files in log diff/stat (issue2383)

  • mq: always require --force when pushing patches (issue2363)

  • patch: do not overwrite broken untracked symlinks
  • patch: fix rename text to binary file (issue2400)

  • patch: fix target when patching broken symlinks (issue2368)

  • patch: upgrade to git patch when removing binary file
  • rename: do not overwrite existing broken symlinks
  • url: verify correctness of https server certificates (issue2407)

  • util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)

  • verify: fix "missing revlog!" errors for revlog format v0 and add test
  • win32: add Emacs scripts to Inno Setup installer
  • win32: add hgweb scripts to Inno Setup installer

2. 1.6.3 (2010-08-26)

This is a monthly bugfix release. It includes several significant fixes, including a fix for a long-standing hardlink corruption issue on Windows (issue761).

  • alias: make shadowing behavior more consistent (issue2054)

  • bisect: better message for unrelated starting revisions
  • bookmarks: Check if the bookmark to delete exists on the remote
  • bookmarks: guard against listing bookmarks on unsupported repos
  • chunkbuffer: use += rather than cStringIO to reduce memory footprint
  • convert: Using --dest-type svn crashed, if the source repo used tags.
  • convert: properly set encoding for gnuarch converter
  • convert: use encoding.encoding instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
  • encoding: improve handling of buggy getpreferredencoding() on Mac OS X
  • graphlog: mark --branch as incompatible with --graph
  • http basic auth: reset redirect counter on new requests (issue2255)

  • httprepo: decompress stream incrementally to reduce memory usage
  • log: fix the bug 'hg log --stat -p == hg log --stat'
  • mercurial.spec: gettext is a build requirement for getting proper localization
  • merge: drop reference to file contents after write
  • merge: move reverse-merge logic out of filemerge (issue2342)

  • merge: fix detection of conflict markers with checkconflicts enabled
  • mq: don't inherit default and default-push paths with --mq (issue2333)

  • resolve: updated help documentation for improved clarity
  • revlog: drop cache after use to save memory footprint
  • templatefilters: unnest uescape()
  • templates: add filenolink to raw style (issue2332)

  • url: expand vars in all [auth] settings (issue2328)

  • url: limit expansion to safe auth keys (Issue2328)

  • util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)

  • verify: initialize rp variable in case we hit out of memory
  • verify: reduce memory footprint when unpacking files
  • verify: report exceptions that don't have a str() method
  • win32: correctly break hardlinks on network drives (issue761)

3. 1.6.2 (2010-08-02)

This release addresses a regression in the color extension.

  • color: pass write/write_err to win32print correctly (issue2312)

  • convert/progress: use plural and avoid retrieving
  • color: call correct superclass method in write_err

4. 1.6.1 (2010-08-01)

This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release.

  • alias: ensure checksignature() is applied directly to the command (issue2286)

  • bash/zsh completion: use HGPLAIN when invoking hg (issue2297)

  • bookmarks: don't allow name to contain whitespaces only
  • bookmarks: ensure current bookmark is updated when specified with -r .
  • bundle: lookup revisions after addbranchrevs
  • color/progress: subclass ui instead of using wrapfunction (issue2096)

  • commit: only warn when reopening the workdir's branch
  • dispatch: give better error message when cwd doesn't exist (issue2293)

  • doc: make sure we use our own code for generating man pages
  • filelog: cmp: don't read data if hashes are identical (issue2273)

  • filelog: test behaviour for data starting with "\1\n"
  • hg.clone: fix branch value when passing a repo object (issue2267)

  • hgweb.wsgi: add a URL to the corresponding wiki documentation
  • hgwebdir: allow pure relative globs in paths
  • hgwebdir: use template paths configured in the hgrc (issue2281)

  • init: create target directory recursively
  • inotify: check all components of filenames against hgignore (issue884)

  • keyword: move collecting of [keyword] patterns to reposetup (issue2303)

  • log: fix missing diff output for hg log -p in subdirectory
  • log: follow filenames through renames (issue647)

  • mail: ensure that Python2.4 to 2.7 use the same header format
  • mercurial.spec: rename docutils to python-docutils in BuildRequires

  • mq: clarify the fact that qimport is trying to read a file
  • mq: cleanup status if applied mq is stripped (issue1881)

  • mq: fixed ENOENT when qrename to new/directory.patch
  • mq: reset self.added after the mq transaction instead of inside qimport
  • qpush --move: move the right patch even with comment lines
  • rebase: re-add patches to mq repo after rebase
  • revert: rename original to .orig instead of copying (issue2282)

  • revset: fix ancestor subset handling (issue2298)

  • runrst: try to be more helpful if docutils is not installed
  • tag: do not allow tag names to consist solely of whitespace (issue2307)

  • transplant: crash if repo.commit() finds nothing to commit

5. 1.6 (2010-07-01)

(This release makes a couple small behavior changes, be sure to read UpgradeNotes!)

5.1. Core

  • addremove: optimize addremove -s100 by matching files by their SHA1 hashes

  • archive: auto-detect archive type by extension (issue2058)

  • commit: more friendly handling of new and closed named branches
  • hooks: provide pre- and post- hooks with parsed command line arguments
  • log: add --branch for filtering on named branch

  • log: add --stat for diffstat output

  • push: add --new-branch option to allow initial push of new branches

  • push: break infinite http recursion bug with Python 2.6.5 (issue2179)

  • rollback: add -n/--dry-run flag, report what's being rolled back

  • subrepo: various fixes
  • summary: report copies and renames and add subrepo status
  • tag: add -e/--edit option for modifying the commit message

  • revsets: introduce a powerful query language for specifying revisions, see the manpage or hg help revsets

5.2. Hgweb

  • unify and simplify hgweb.cgi and hgwebdir.cgi scripts

  • fix race in refreshing repo list (issue2188)

  • simplify hgweb.cgi, add help pointer

  • deliver shell hook output to client
  • allow --port=0 to specify "choose free port number automatically"

  • improved templater performance

5.3. Help

  • add new hgweb, glossary, and revsets topics
  • numerous improvements to help text

5.4. Extensions

  • acl: support for access control base on branches and user-defined or OS-level groups
  • acl: added support for pretxncommit, so that one can call the ACL hook at (?)

  • bookmarks: add support for pushing and pulling bookmarks
  • churn: add possibility to include/exclude paths
  • color: add support for Windows consoles
  • color: colorize based on output labels instead of parsing output
  • extdiff: add labels, read diff arguments from [merge-tools]

  • keyword: offer svn-like default keywordmaps
  • keyword: support (q)record
  • mq: add a line to hg summary
  • mq: qpush --move, reorder patch series and apply only the patch

  • progress: progress support for many more commands
  • rebase: add option to not commit after a collapsing

6. 1.5.4 (2010-06-01)

This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release.

  • dispatch: include Python version in traceback
  • push: update help
  • status: avoid performance regression when no .hgsub is present
  • clone: fix performance issue with hardlinks and Windows shares
  • hgweb: fix race in refreshing repo list (issue2188)

  • hgrc: clarify that hgrc keys can be overridden and sections can be split
  • eol: new extension for managing file newlines based on a version controlled configuration file

  • pager: fork and exec pager as parent process with /bin/sh -c
  • rebase: stress that only local changesets should be rebased
  • convert/svn: close gettags() log stream (issue2196)

  • record: check that we are not committing a merge before patch selection

7. 1.5.3 (2010-05-13)

This is an unscheduled bugfix release to fix Issue2181 (commit generates traceback on Nonetype). Also included:

  • various improvements to SVN conversion support
  • minor doc improvements

8. 1.5.2 (2010-05-01)

This is a monthly bugfix release with numerous minor fixes including:

8.1. Core

  • clone: fix URL too long problem with many heads
  • commands: revised documentation of 'default' and 'default-push'
  • copies: properly visit file context ancestors on working file contexts
  • diffstat: use ui.plain() instead of ui.interactive()
  • dirstate: fix in memory dirstate entries for 1-second race
  • dispatch: don't mangle ImportError abort messages

  • filemerge: use working dir parent as ancestor for backward wdir merge
  • hgrc.5: describe form of config values and mention lists as well
  • hgweb: fix attribute error in error response (issue2060)

  • log: document the new xml style
  • merge: correctly compute the flag for noexec filesystems
  • patch: don't look for headers in diff lines
  • push: fix bug in warning message selection
  • revlog: fix lazyparser.iter() to return all revisions (issue2137)

  • static-http: allow clone -r (issue2164)

  • subrepo: fix repo root path handling in svn subrepo
  • subrepo: propagate and catch push failures
  • templates: document missing template variables
  • util: fix default termwidth() under Windows
  • util: use an explicit prefix for checkexec/checklink temporary files

8.2. Extensions

  • convert/cvs: skip bad tags
  • convert/git: check status when reading output stream
  • convert/subversion: fix default URL checker prototype
  • mq: rewrite strip docstrings
  • mq: use util.unlink instead of os.unlink and os.removedirs
  • schemes: fix // breakage with Python 2.6.5 (issue2111)

9. 1.5.1 (2010-04-01)

9.1. Core

  • improve warning on adding large files
  • expand ~ in auth filenames and aliases
  • several improvements to patch parsing
  • warn about attempts to use hg branch to switch branches
  • push: fix bug in prepush logic and its tests
  • hgweb: fix broken URLs of RSS/Atom feeds
  • subrepo: several bug fixes

9.2. Extensions

  • acl: added support for '*' (everyone) in user list
  • progress: use stderr instead of stdout
  • schemes: add Kiln On Demand to default schemes

10. 1.5 (2010-03-06)

(This release makes a number of small behavior changes, be sure to read UpgradeNotes!)

10.1. Core

  • improved behavior for named branches with heads command

  • new XML output template for logs
  • import extract multiple patches from emails, mboxes, files, and URLs

  • new patch.eol=auto option to ignore patch line-endings while preserving target file endings.

  • new -b/--branch option for clone, bundle, incoming, outgoing, pull, and push

  • new server.validate option to validate completeness of pushed changesets

  • subrepos now has basic Subversion support
  • support for SSL server certificates and improved IPv6 support
  • the HGPLAIN environment variable makes output more stable for scripts

10.2. Extensions

  • new progress bar extension

  • mq: new --mq option to make regular commands operate on queue repository

  • mq: automatically upgrade conventional patches to git format where needed
  • color: add support for bookmarks, resolve -l, and churn --diffstat

  • convert: two CVS history editing hooks
  • win32mbcs: add configuration to specify path encoding
  • zeroconf: many bug fixes
  • rebase: new --detach option for rebase

10.3. Web Interface

  • improve navigation on log and graph pages
  • support for pluggable authorization
  • raw templates for tags/branches pages
  • add wsgi script for Microsoft IIS with isapi-wsgi

10.4. Windows

  • add WiX installer scripts to contrib/wix
  • handle configuration files in <install-dir>\hgrc.d

  • expand environment variables specified in merge tools paths

10.5. Help and Documentation

  • greatly improve error messages and command documentation
  • support extended documentation with --verbose
  • provide help for disabled extensions and commands

11. 1.4.3 (2010-02-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release.

  • Mercurial license has changed from GPLv2 to GPLv2+
  • speed up copy detection in merge, status, and diff
  • templates: fix relative path expansion on style setting
  • merge: fix merging of already-merged subrepos
  • summary: fix i18n issue reporting clean working directories
  • hgweb: improve IIS PATH_INFO handling
  • relink: Windows support

12. 1.4.2 (2010-01-01)

This is a minor bugfix release.

12.1. core

  • config: raise ConfigError on non-existing include files

  • alias: do not crash when aliased command has no usage help text
  • auth: allow specifying auth sections in .hg/hgrc
  • patch: fix handling of chunk offsets
  • subrepo: add default path to new clones
  • docs: Fix rst2html detection

12.2. extensions

  • convert/svn: better handling of hg recursive call failure
  • convert/svn: make sink recover gracefully from empty changeset
  • keyword: fix interaction with transplant
  • mq: preserve --git flag when folding and merging patches
  • mq: qnew -f rejects merge working directories
  • mq: qpop: remove added files before re-adding removed files
  • patchbomb: handle repository#rev URLs correctly
  • share: use defaultdest to compute unspecified destination

13. 1.4.1 (2009-12-01)

13.1. regression fixes

  • fix to prepush logic when it creates new heads
  • fix qseries truncation

13.2. other

  • doc fixes: formatting, missing options
  • tests fixes (now less dependent on environment variables)
  • inotify fixes
  • keyword: allow RCSfile like CVS
  • share: fix a bad interaction with clone
  • show non-default branch names with summary -q
  • new schemes extension

  • i18n updates

14. 1.4 (2009-11-16)

14.1. core

  • summary: new command summarizes current working state
  • tags: new tag cache greatly speeds up tag operations
  • diff: new --stat option to show diffstat

  • diff: add --reverse option to diff

  • subrepo: fix a bunch of issues with the experimental subrepo extension
  • status: fixes for behavior when working with clock skew
  • clone: new -u/--updaterev option

  • templater: new latesttag and latesttagdistance keywords

  • push/pull: handle some broken pipe errors during large transfers
  • config: environment variables and ~user constructs are expanded in pathnames

14.2. hgweb

  • fix for showing header lines in raw changeset diffs
  • try to send better error messages to the client
  • use config-supplied ordering by default in hgwebdir index pages
  • add web.descend option to disable showing all nested repositories in hgwebdir

14.3. documentation and help

  • new config help topic
  • help texts are now written in reStructuredText format

  • many translation updates including a new Swedish translation
  • many help text updates and improvements

14.4. extensions

  • mq: add -1 options to qapplied/qunapplied

  • patchbomb: add a --flag option to set a flag value in the Subject header

  • patchbomb: correctly handle Unicode domains (using the IDNA encoding scheme)
  • color: improve colorization of the qseries command
  • inotify: cleaner code, fixed pattern handling
  • zeroconf: show repository descriptions
  • rebase: some performance and correctness fixes
  • extdiff: add 3-way diff for merge changesets
  • convert: handle directory renaming in Darcs, fixed file renaming
  • relink: new extension which helps people re-hardlink their clones

14.5. other

  • contrib/shrink-revlog.py script that can significantly shrink some internal hg files
  • work around non-standard locale settings on OS X

15. See also


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