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 2.9.1 (2014-03-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

2. Mercurial 2.9 (2014-02-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

3. Mercurial 2.8.2 (2014-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

4. Mercurial 2.8.1 (2013-12-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

5. Mercurial 2.8 (2013-11-01)

This is a regularly scheduled feature release.

5.1. Core features

5.2. Extension features

5.3. Fixes

6. 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.

7. Mercurial 2.7.1 (2013-09-03)

Regularly scheduled bugfix release.

8. 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.

8.1. Core features

8.2. Extension features

8.3. Fixes

9. Mercurial 2.6.3 (2013-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

10. Mercurial 2.6.2 (2013-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

11. Mercurial 2.6.1 (2013-05-14)

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

12. 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.

12.1. Core features

12.2. Extension features

12.3. Fixes

13. Mercurial 2.5.4 (2013-04-04)

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

14. Mercurial 2.5.3 (2013-04-01)

15. Mercurial 2.5.2 (2013-03-01)

16. Mercurial 2.5.1 (2013-02-08)

This is a non-scheduled bugfix release.

17. Mercurial 2.5 (2013-02-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

17.1. Core features

17.2. Changeset Evolution

Major progress toward ChangesetEvolution were done.

17.3. Extension features

17.4. Fixes

18. Mercurial 2.4.2 (2013-01-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

19. Mercurial 2.4.1 (2012-12-03)

This is a regularly-schedule bugfix release.

20. Mercurial 2.4 (2012-11-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled feature release.

20.1. Core features

20.2. Extension features

20.3. Fixes

21. Mercurial 2.3.2 (2012-10-01)

22. Mercurial 2.3.1 (2012-09-01)

23. Mercurial 2.3 (2012-08-01)

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

23.1. Core features

23.2. Extension features

23.3. Fixes

24. Mercurial 2.2.3 (2012-07-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

25. Mercurial 2.2.2 (2012-06-01)

This is a regularly-scheduled bugfix release.

26. Mercurial 2.2.1 (2012-05-03)

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

27. 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.

27.1. Core features

27.2. Extension features

27.3. Fixes