Release Notes

Features and bugfixes in our latest releases.

Be sure to read the upgrade notes when upgrading.

Contents

1.8 (2011-03-01)
1.7.5 (2011-02-01)
1.7.4 (2011-02-01)
1.7.3 (2011-01-01)
1.7.2 (2010-12-01)
1.7.1 (2010-11-15)
1.7 (2010-11-01)
1.6.4 (2010-10-01)
1.6.3 (2010-08-26)
1.6.2 (2010-08-02)
1.6.1 (2010-08-01)
1.6 (2010-07-01)
1.5.4 (2010-06-01)
1.5.3 (2010-05-13)
1.5.2 (2010-05-01)
1.5.1 (2010-04-01)
1.5 (2010-03-06)
See also

(See archive for older versions.)

1. 1.8 (2011-03-01)

1.1. Core

Bookmarks are now a core feature (see UpgradeNotes)
New listfile: pattern-matching (patterns)
Revset syntax supported by most commands
Performance improvements for reading large repository indexes
Certificate validation for HTTPS proxies

1.2. Subrepos

New support for git subrepos
Various improvements to merge, update, and commit logic

1.3. Windows

Numerous robustness improvements for quirks in Windows file handling
Now uses the native ctypes module rather than PyWin32

1.4. Extensions

eol: filter aliases for compatibility with win32text
mq: --exact option for qpush
mq: various robustness improvements
progress: remaining time estimates

2. 1.7.5 (2011-02-01)

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

subrepo: fix update -C with svn subrepos when cwd != repo.root
subrepo: make update -C clean the working directory for svn subrepos
url: add --insecure option to bypass verification of ssl certificates
win32mbcs: Fix typo in documentation

3. 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.

bookmarks: always write undo file
bookmarks: respect rollbacks dryrun parameter
hgrc.5: mention that web.cacerts are run through util.expandpath
opener: force copy on 'a'ppend if nlinks() returns 0 (issue1922)
subrepo: compare svn subrepo state to last committed revision
subrepo: do not report known files inside repositories as unknown
url: 'ssh known host'-like checking of fingerprints of HTTPS certificates (see CACertificates)
url: check subjectAltName when verifying ssl certificate
url: expand path for web.cacerts
url: fix UnicodeDecodeError on certificate verification error
win32: add cacert.pem file to Inno Setup installer
win32: win32console.GetStdHandle() can return None

4. 1.7.3 (2011-01-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release.

archive: don't set gzip filename header when there's no filename
checknlink: use two testfiles (issue2543)
churn: ignore trailing and leading spaces (issue2546)
date: fix matching of underspecified date ranges
eol: improve help on whether EOLs are changed in working copy or repository
fncachestore: copy dh directory before the manifest
hgweb: abort if config file isn't found
hook: assume relative path to hook is given from repo root
hook: fix import path handling for repo=None
https: use web.cacerts configuration from local repo to validate remote repo
https: warn when server certificate isn't verified (see CACertificates)
keyword: copy: when copied source is a symlink, follow it
patch: write .rej files without rewriting EOLs
strip: typo bugfix related to '--nobackup -> --no-backup' rename (issue2377)
tag: abort if not at a branch head (issue2552)
tag: don't check .hgtags status if --local passed
tag: fix uncommitted merge check and error message (issue2542)
util: fix ellipsis() not to break multi-byte sequence (issue2564)
util: work around behavior change in Python 2.7.1
windows.rename: eliminate temp name race (issue2571)
wix: add an ssl certificate file to the WiX installers (see CACertificates)

5. 1.7.2 (2010-12-01)

This is a scheduled bugfix release.

checknlink: return False if .hgtmp file preexists (issue2517)
commit: search both parents for missing copy revision (issue2484)
context: walk both parents for workingctx.ancestors()
convert/svn: fix changed files list upon directory replacements
hgwebdir: fix incorrect index generation for invalid paths (issue2023)
keyword: copy: when copied source is a symlink, follow it
mq: ignore subrepos (issue2499)
rebase: support --detach when null is common ancestor
subrepo: fix removing read-only svn files on Windows
subrepo: handle missing subrepo spec file as removed
subrepo: prune empty directories when removing svn subrepo
subrepo: use subprocess directly to avoid python 2.6 bug
util: do not crash on revisions with negative timestamp (issue2513)
util: do not recurse in makedirs if name is '' (issue2528)
win32mbcs: use extsetup() to wrap functions only once
wix: add support for x64 native MSI packages

6. 1.7.1 (2010-11-15)

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

alias: fall back to normal error handling for ambigious commands (issue2475)
bundlerepository: get rid of temporary bundle files (issue2478)
bundlerepository: test self.tempfile field, not tempfile module
eol: exclude .hgtags file from eol translation (issue2493)
log: fix log -rREV FILE when REV isnt the last filerev (issue2492)
opener: check hardlink count reporting (issue1866)
pushkey: force HTTP POST on push and add tests (issue2489)
revlog: fix descendants() if nullrev is in revs
subrepo: test & fix svn subrepo removal
win32: remove try-catch block of GetModuleFileNameEx (issue2480)

7. 1.7 (2010-11-01)

7.1. Core

filelog: improve cmp performances (issue2273)
patch: don't strip '#' lines from patch descriptions (issue2417)
patch: when native patching fails (ui.patch is not set), don't retry with an external tool
setup/hg: always load Mercurial from where it was installed.
setup: user-friendly error message if Python headers are missing
store: new unsupported and experimental parentdelta format (see UpgradeNotes)
store: encode first period or space in filenames (issue1713)
url: expand environment variables in [auth] settings (issue2328)
url: check validity (notBefore/notAfter) using OpenSSL (issue2407)

7.2. Commands

addremove: use similarity 100 by default
alias: add support for shell command aliases starting with '!' (see [alias] in hgrc(5))
backout: add --tool argument for specifying merge tool
backout: backout linearly by default instead of branching and merging (use --merge to get the former behaviour)
dispatch: properly handle relative path aliases used with -R (issue2376)
init: expand destination url as a configured paths
log: do not --follow file that is deleted and recreated later (issue732)
merge: don't detect copies as "divergent renames", make diagnostic message more helpful
merge: add --tool argument to merge and resolve
merge: handle no file parent in backwards merge (issue2364)
tags: do not fail if tags.cache is corrupted (issue2444)
templater: add "hex" filter and "children" keywords (see hg help templating)

7.3. Subrepos

support remapping of subrepository source paths (see [subpaths] in hgrc(5))
make add, diff, incoming, outgoing and status commands recurse into subrepos with --subrepos/-S
subrepo: add support for 'hg archive'
subrepo: fix status check on SVN subrepos (issue2445)

7.4. Revsets

add id() and rev() to allow explicit references to changes by hash or rev (see hg help revsets)
add min() function to complement max()
add present() function to avoid lookup errors on possibly missing changesets
rename tagged() to tag() and allow it to take an optional tag name
strip: add revsets support
add revsets support to bisect and update (issue1993)
bookmarks: add a bookmark([name]) revset for referencing bookmarks
transplant: add a transplanted(set) revset to get transplanted revisions

7.5. hgweb

add a help view for accessing the built-in documentation (see help link in hg serve)
let HTTPS serve use more compatible but less secure encryption
support very simple caching model (issue1845)

7.6. Extensions

color: better support for branches and mq guards
convert: handle closed branch heads in hg-hg conversion (issue2185)
convert: support darcs changelogs with bytes 0x7F-0xFF (issue2411)
convert: deprecate --authors in preference for --authormap
graphlog: support header and footer templates when using styles (issue2395)
keyword: do not expand at all during diff
keyword: support copy and rename
mq: extend support for the --mq argument to extension commands
mq: save qrefresh message for easy recovery in case it fails (issue2062)
mq: support hg qimport --existing --name renametothis thatexistingpatch, fix --force case on Windows
mq/qqueue: support renaming of active queue
mq/qqueue: add --purge option to delete a queue and its patches
pager: add global --pager=<auto/boolean> option
patchbomb: add --confirm option to show series details and ask for confirmation
patchbomb: let diffstat prompt only once with complete summary
progress: support rebase and patchbomb
rebase: re-add patches to mq repo after rebase
strip: add --keep flag to avoid modifying working directory during strip
strip: rename --nobackup option to --no-backup (issue2377)
strip: support stripping multiple revisions

7.7. contrib

mergetools.hgrc: add vimdiff
zsh completion: support bookmarks and patchbomb extensions
zsh completion: add qpush --move option

7.8. Windows

64-bit Inno Setup installer
handle spaces in path to Python (issue2074)

8. 1.6.4 (2010-10-01)

This is a monthly bugfix release.

archive: set date to 1980 for very old zip files
bookmarks: fix _bookmarks/lookup() reentrancy issue (issue2016)
color: add win32 support for non-black background
context: fix filectx.undelete() (issue2388)
convert/darcs: handle non-ASCII metadata in darcs changelog (issue2354)
convert/svn: fix broken symlink renames in svn sink
core: use lexists() instead of exists() where appropriate
hgweb: Fix memory leak when using hg commands over http repositories
hgweb: correct Content-Type header values for archive downloads
log: include unmodified-in-merge files in log diff/stat (issue2383)
mq: always require --force when pushing patches (issue2363)
patch: do not overwrite broken untracked symlinks
patch: fix rename text to binary file (issue2400)
patch: fix target when patching broken symlinks (issue2368)
patch: upgrade to git patch when removing binary file
rename: do not overwrite existing broken symlinks
url: verify correctness of https server certificates (issue2407)
util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)
verify: fix "missing revlog!" errors for revlog format v0 and add test
win32: add Emacs scripts to Inno Setup installer
win32: add hgweb scripts to Inno Setup installer

9. 1.6.3 (2010-08-26)

This is a monthly bugfix release. It includes several significant fixes, including a fix for a long-standing hardlink corruption issue on Windows (issue761).

alias: make shadowing behavior more consistent (issue2054)
bisect: better message for unrelated starting revisions
bookmarks: Check if the bookmark to delete exists on the remote
bookmarks: guard against listing bookmarks on unsupported repos
chunkbuffer: use += rather than cStringIO to reduce memory footprint
convert: Using --dest-type svn crashed, if the source repo used tags.
convert: properly set encoding for gnuarch converter
convert: use encoding.encoding instead of locale.getpreferredencoding()
encoding: improve handling of buggy getpreferredencoding() on Mac OS X
graphlog: mark --branch as incompatible with --graph
http basic auth: reset redirect counter on new requests (issue2255)
httprepo: decompress stream incrementally to reduce memory usage
log: fix the bug 'hg log --stat -p == hg log --stat'
mercurial.spec: gettext is a build requirement for getting proper localization
merge: drop reference to file contents after write
merge: move reverse-merge logic out of filemerge (issue2342)
merge: fix detection of conflict markers with checkconflicts enabled
mq: don't inherit default and default-push paths with --mq (issue2333)
resolve: updated help documentation for improved clarity
revlog: drop cache after use to save memory footprint
templatefilters: unnest uescape()
templates: add filenolink to raw style (issue2332)
url: expand vars in all [auth] settings (issue2328)
url: limit expansion to safe auth keys (Issue2328)
util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (issue2278)
verify: initialize rp variable in case we hit out of memory
verify: reduce memory footprint when unpacking files
verify: report exceptions that don't have a str() method
win32: correctly break hardlinks on network drives (issue761)

10. 1.6.2 (2010-08-02)

This release addresses a regression in the color extension.

color: pass write/write_err to win32print correctly (issue2312)
convert/progress: use plural and avoid retrieving
color: call correct superclass method in write_err

11. 1.6.1 (2010-08-01)

This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release.

alias: ensure checksignature() is applied directly to the command (issue2286)
bash/zsh completion: use HGPLAIN when invoking hg (issue2297)
bookmarks: don't allow name to contain whitespaces only
bookmarks: ensure current bookmark is updated when specified with -r .
bundle: lookup revisions after addbranchrevs
color/progress: subclass ui instead of using wrapfunction (issue2096)
commit: only warn when reopening the workdir's branch
dispatch: give better error message when cwd doesn't exist (issue2293)
doc: make sure we use our own code for generating man pages
filelog: cmp: don't read data if hashes are identical (issue2273)
filelog: test behaviour for data starting with "\1\n"
hg.clone: fix branch value when passing a repo object (issue2267)
hgweb.wsgi: add a URL to the corresponding wiki documentation
hgwebdir: allow pure relative globs in paths
hgwebdir: use template paths configured in the hgrc (issue2281)
init: create target directory recursively
inotify: check all components of filenames against hgignore (issue884)
keyword: move collecting of [keyword] patterns to reposetup (issue2303)
log: fix missing diff output for hg log -p in subdirectory
log: follow filenames through renames (issue647)
mail: ensure that Python2.4 to 2.7 use the same header format
mercurial.spec: rename docutils to python-docutils in BuildRequires
mq: clarify the fact that qimport is trying to read a file
mq: cleanup status if applied mq is stripped (issue1881)
mq: fixed ENOENT when qrename to new/directory.patch
mq: reset self.added after the mq transaction instead of inside qimport
qpush --move: move the right patch even with comment lines
rebase: re-add patches to mq repo after rebase
revert: rename original to .orig instead of copying (issue2282)
revset: fix ancestor subset handling (issue2298)
runrst: try to be more helpful if docutils is not installed
tag: do not allow tag names to consist solely of whitespace (issue2307)
transplant: crash if repo.commit() finds nothing to commit

12. 1.6 (2010-07-01)

(This release makes a couple small behavior changes, be sure to read UpgradeNotes!)

12.1. Core

addremove: optimize addremove -s100 by matching files by their SHA1 hashes
archive: auto-detect archive type by extension (issue2058)
commit: more friendly handling of new and closed named branches
hooks: provide pre- and post- hooks with parsed command line arguments
log: add --branch for filtering on named branch
log: add --stat for diffstat output
push: add --new-branch option to allow initial push of new branches
push: break infinite http recursion bug with Python 2.6.5 (issue2179)
rollback: add -n/--dry-run flag, report what's being rolled back
subrepo: various fixes
summary: report copies and renames and add subrepo status
tag: add -e/--edit option for modifying the commit message
revsets: introduce a powerful query language for specifying revisions, see the manpage or hg help revsets

12.2. Hgweb

unify and simplify hgweb.cgi and hgwebdir.cgi scripts
fix race in refreshing repo list (issue2188)
simplify hgweb.cgi, add help pointer
deliver shell hook output to client
allow --port=0 to specify "choose free port number automatically"
improved templater performance

12.3. Help

add new hgweb, glossary, and revsets topics
numerous improvements to help text

12.4. Extensions

acl: support for access control base on branches and user-defined or OS-level groups
acl: added support for pretxncommit, so that one can call the ACL hook at (?)
bookmarks: add support for pushing and pulling bookmarks
churn: add possibility to include/exclude paths
color: add support for Windows consoles
color: colorize based on output labels instead of parsing output
extdiff: add labels, read diff arguments from [merge-tools]
keyword: offer svn-like default keywordmaps
keyword: support (q)record
mq: add a line to hg summary
mq: qpush --move, reorder patch series and apply only the patch
progress: progress support for many more commands
rebase: add option to not commit after a collapsing

13. 1.5.4 (2010-06-01)