Bazaar 1.6.1 release candidate 1 available

[David Ingamells]

With the --stacked option bzr branch produces the following message:

using <bzrlib.repofmt.pack_repo.RepositoryFormatKnitPack5 object at 
0x877a08c> for stacking

I do not feel that such a cryptic message is appropriate: it looks like 
some kind of diagnostic that was not removed before release.

BTW. Performance is great with this version :^)

David.

John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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> Following the "release early, release often" philosophy, we have yet another
> release candidate for you to test.
>
> This release fixes a few regressions found in the 1.6 client. Fetching changes
> was using an O(N^2) buffering algorithm, so for large projects it would cause
> memory thrashing. There is also a specific problem with the --1.6-rich-root
> format, which prevented stacking on top of --rich-root-pack repositories, and
> could allow users to accidentally fetch experimental data (-subtree) without
> representing it properly. The --1.6-rich-root format has been deprecated and
> users are recommended to upgrade to --1.6.1-rich-root immediately.  Also we
> re-introduced a workaround for users who have repositories with incorrect
> nodes (not possible if you only used official releases). I should also clarify
> that none of this is data loss level issues, but still sufficient enough to
> warrant an updated release.
>
> Thanks go out to the people who upgraded to bzr 1.6 and discovered these
> issues and reported them in a timely fashion.
>
>
> The source code is available at:
> https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.6/1.6.1rc1/
>
> Ubuntu packages are available from the beta ppa:
> https://launchpad.net/~bzr-beta-ppa/+archive
>
> Windows and Mac installers should be available soon from:
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download
>
> If no other regressions are found, 1.6.1 final should be released by Friday,
> Sept 5th. (I'm likely to release -final a little bit early for this round.)
>
> John
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> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
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>> Finally, the long awaited bzr 1.6 has been released.
>>
>> This release includes new features like Stacked Branches, improved weave
>> merge, and an updated server protocol (now on v3) which will allow for better
>> cross version compatibility. With this release we have deprecated Knit format
>> repositories, and recommend that users upgrade them, we will continue to
>> support reading and writing them for the forseeable future, but we will not be
>> tuning them for performance as pack repositories have proven to be better at
>> scaling. This will also be the first release to bundle TortoiseBzr in the
>> standalone Windows installer.
>>     
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