Release Notes

Features and bugfixes in our latest releases. Please see the Download page for links to source and binaries.

Note that Mercurial follows a time-based release plan with major releases every three 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 2.3 (2012-08-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release with numerous improvements and bugfixes.

2. Mercurial 2.2.3 (2012-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

3. Mercurial 2.2.2 (2012-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

4. Mercurial 2.2.1 (2012-05-03)

This is an unscheduled bugfix release to fix a signficant memory leak in hgweb.

5. Mercurial 2.2 (2012-05-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release. The most notable feature is a new safe '--amend' option for commit using our new phases infrastructure. There are also a number of signficant performance improvements for large repositories and improvements for case-folding filesystems. See UpgradeNotes for minor compatibility notes.

5.1. Core features

5.2. Extension features

5.3. Fixes

6. Mercurial 2.1.2 (2012-04-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

7. Mercurial 2.1.1 (2012-03-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

8. Mercurial 2.1 (2012-02-01)

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

8.1. Major features

8.2. Core changes

8.3. Extension changes

8.4. Bug fixes

9. Mercurial 2.0.2 (2012-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

10. Mercurial 2.0.1 (2011-12-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

11. Mercurial 2.0 (2011-11-01)

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

11.1. Major features

11.2. Core changes

11.3. Extension changes

11.4. Bug fixes

12. Mercurial 1.9.3 (2011-10-01)

This is a regular bugfix release.

13. Mercurial 1.9.2 (2011-08-26)

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

14. 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.

15. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)

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

15.1. Major features

15.2. Command changes

15.3. Web changes

15.4. Extension changes

15.5. Bug fixes

16. Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

17. Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

18. Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01)

This is a regular time-based bugfix release.

19. Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10)

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

20. Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01)

20.1. Core

20.2. Subrepos

20.3. Windows

20.4. Extensions


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