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 2.8-rc (2013-10-20)

Preliminary release notes for Mercurial 2.8.

2. Mercurial 2.7.2 (2013-10-01)

Regularly scheduled bugfix release. This fixes significant regressions from 2.7 in push/pull performance and SSL negotiation.

3. Mercurial 2.7.1 (2013-09-03)

Regularly scheduled bugfix release.

4. Mercurial 2.7 (2013-08-01)

Regularly scheduled feature release. This release contains an important fix for a merge ancestor calculation regression in the 2.6 series.

5. Mercurial 2.6.3 (2013-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

6. Mercurial 2.6.2 (2013-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

7. Mercurial 2.6.1 (2013-05-14)

This is an unscheduled bugfix release to address some minor regressions in the 2.6 release.

8. Mercurial 2.6 (2013-05-01)

/!\ This release has known issues with some ignore rules (issue3921) and subrepos on Windows (issue3926)

This is a regularly scheduled feature release.

9. Mercurial 2.5.4 (2013-04-04)

This fixes an urgent regression in merging with subrepos introduced in 2.5.

10. Mercurial 2.5.3 (2013-04-01)

11. Mercurial 2.5.2 (2013-03-01)

12. Mercurial 2.5.1 (2013-02-08)

This is a non-scheduled bugfix release.

13. Mercurial 2.5 (2013-02-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

13.1. Core features

13.2. Changeset Evolution

Major progress toward ChangesetEvolution were done.

13.3. Extension features

13.4. Fixes

14. Mercurial 2.4.2 (2013-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

15. Mercurial 2.4.1 (2012-12-03)

This is a regularly-schedule bugfix release.

16. Mercurial 2.4 (2012-11-1)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

16.1. Core features

16.2. Extension features

16.3. Fixes

17. Mercurial 2.3.2 (2012-10-01)

18. Mercurial 2.3.1 (2012-09-01)

19. Mercurial 2.3 (2012-08-01)

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

19.1. Core features

19.2. Extension features

19.3. Fixes

20. Mercurial 2.2.3 (2012-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

21. Mercurial 2.2.2 (2012-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

22. Mercurial 2.2.1 (2012-05-03)

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

23. 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.

23.1. Core features

23.2. Extension features

23.3. Fixes

24. Mercurial 2.1.2 (2012-04-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

25. Mercurial 2.1.1 (2012-03-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

26. Mercurial 2.1 (2012-02-01)

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

26.1. Major features

26.2. Core changes

26.3. Extension changes

26.4. Bug fixes

27. Mercurial 2.0.2 (2012-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

28. Mercurial 2.0.1 (2011-12-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bug-fix release.

29. Mercurial 2.0 (2011-11-01)

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

29.1. Major features

29.2. Core changes

29.3. Extension changes

29.4. Bug fixes

30. Mercurial 1.9.3 (2011-10-01)

This is a regular bugfix release.

31. Mercurial 1.9.2 (2011-08-26)

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

32. 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.

33. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)

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

33.1. Major features

33.2. Command changes

33.3. Web changes

33.4. Extension changes

33.5. Bug fixes