Rev 4714: NEWS entry about fixing bug #494406 in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/2.0.4-494406-serve-memory-leak

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/2.0.4-494406-serve-memory-leak

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revno: 4714
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20091218220309-g1cj97z7cp2nxjvi
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20091218215832-ou5naixonrr1gnbg
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: 2.0.4-494406-serve-memory-leak
timestamp: Fri 2009-12-18 16:03:09 -0600
message:
  NEWS entry about fixing bug #494406
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=== modified file 'NEWS'
--- a/NEWS	2009-12-15 22:04:24 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	2009-12-18 22:03:09 +0000
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 bzr 2.0.4 (not released yet)
 ############################
 
-:Codename: template
+:Codename:
 :2.0.4: ???
 
 Compatibility Breaks
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@
   exporting over the network significantly faster (54min => 9min in one
   case). (John Arbash Meinel, #343218)
 
+* ``bzr serve`` no longer slowly leaks memory. The compiled
+  ``bzrlib.bencode.Encoder()`` class was using ``__del__`` to cleanup and
+  free resources, and it should have been using ``__dealloc__``.
+  This will likely have an impact on any other process that is serving for
+  an extended period of time.  (John Arbash Meinel, #494406)
+
 Improvements
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