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 2.4.1 (2012-12-03)

This is a regularly-schedule bugfix release.

2. Mercurial 2.4 (2012-11-1)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

2.1. Core features

2.2. Extension features

2.3. Fixes

3. Mercurial 2.3.2 (2012-10-01)

4. Mercurial 2.3.1 (2012-09-01)

5. Mercurial 2.3 (2012-08-01)

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

5.1. Core features

5.2. Extension features

5.3. Fixes

6. Mercurial 2.2.3 (2012-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

7. Mercurial 2.2.2 (2012-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

8. Mercurial 2.2.1 (2012-05-03)

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

9. 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.

9.1. Core features

9.2. Extension features

9.3. Fixes

10. Mercurial 2.1.2 (2012-04-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

11. Mercurial 2.1.1 (2012-03-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

12. Mercurial 2.1 (2012-02-01)

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

12.1. Major features

12.2. Core changes

12.3. Extension changes

12.4. Bug fixes

13. Mercurial 2.0.2 (2012-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

14. Mercurial 2.0.1 (2011-12-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

15. Mercurial 2.0 (2011-11-01)

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

15.1. Major features

15.2. Core changes

15.3. Extension changes

15.4. Bug fixes

16. Mercurial 1.9.3 (2011-10-01)

This is a regular bugfix release.

17. Mercurial 1.9.2 (2011-08-26)

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

18. 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.

19. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)

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

19.1. Major features

19.2. Command changes

19.3. Web changes

19.4. Extension changes

19.5. Bug fixes