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 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.

2. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)

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

2.1. Major features

2.2. Command changes

2.3. Web changes

2.4. Extension changes

2.5. Bug fixes

3. Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

4. Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

5. Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

6. Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10)

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

7. Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01)

7.1. Core

7.2. Subrepos

7.3. Windows

7.4. Extensions

8. Mercurial 1.7.5 (2011-02-01)

This is a quick bugfix release to include some fixes accidentally dropped from 1.7.4.

9. Mercurial 1.7.4 (2011-02-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release that smooths out some of the rough edged introduced with 1.7.3's HTTPS certificate verification.

10. Mercurial 1.7.3 (2011-01-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release.

11. Mercurial 1.7.2 (2010-12-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release.

12. Mercurial 1.7.1 (2010-11-15)

This is an unscheduled bugfix release. 1.7 clients broke support for pushing bookmarks with HTTP.

13. Mercurial 1.7 (2010-11-01)

13.1. Core

13.2. Commands

13.3. Subrepos

13.4. Revsets

13.5. hgweb

13.6. Extensions

13.7. contrib

13.8. Windows


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