Bazaar 1.11 released

[Eugene Wee]

Thank you :)

Just wondering, but Bazaar 1.10 did not have a "nonadmin" version of the
Windows installer. Will Bazaar 1.11 have such a package?

Thanks,
Eugene

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Martin Pool <mbp at canonical.com> wrote:

> I'm happy to announce the release of bzr 1.11.
>
> Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, and feedback.
>
> bzr x.yy is now available for download from
> http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball; packages for various
> systems will be available soon.
>
> Changes since the last release are below.
>
> --
> Martin
> on behalf of the Bazaar developers
>
>
> bzr 1.11 "Eyes up!" 2009-01-19
> ------------------------------
>
> This first monthly release of Bazaar for 2009 improves Bazaar's operation
> in Windows, Mac OS X, and other situations where file names are matched
> without regard to capitalization: Bazaar tries to match the case of an
> existing file.  This release of Bazaar also improves the efficiency of
> Tortoise Windows Shell integration and lets it work on 64-bit platforms.
>
> The UI through which Bazaar supports historic formats has been improved,
> so 'bzr help formats' now gives a simpler and shorter list, with clear
> advice.
>
> This release also fixes a number of bugs, particularly a glitch that can
> occur when there are concurrent writes to a pack repository.
>
>  BUG FIXES:
>
>    * Fix failing test when CompiledChunksToLines is not available.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil)
>
>    * Stacked branches don't repeatedly open their transport connection.
>      (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>
>
> bzr 1.11rc1 "Eyes up!" 2009-01-09
> ---------------------------------
>
>  CHANGES:
>
>    * Formats using Knit-based repository formats are now explicitly
>      marked as deprecated. (Ian Clatworthy)
>
>  NEW FEATURES:
>
>    * Add support for `bzr tags -r 1..2`, that is we now support showing
>      tags applicable for a specified revision range. (Marius Kruger)
>
>    * ``authentication.conf`` now accepts pluggable read-only credential
>      stores. Such a plugin (``netrc_credential_store``) is now included,
>      handles the ``$HOME/.netrc`` file and can server as an example to
>      implement other plugins.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil)
>
>    * ``shelve --list`` can now be used to list shelved changes.
>      (Aaron Bentley)
>
>  IMPROVEMENTS:
>
>    * Add trailing slash to directories in all output of ``bzr ls``, except
>      ``bzr ls --null``. (Gordon P. Hemsley, #306424)
>
>    * ``bzr revision-info`` now supports a -d option to specify an
>      alternative branch. (Michael Hudson)
>
>    * Add connection to a C++ implementation of the Windows Shell Extension
>      which is able to fully replace the current Python implemented one.
>      Advantages include 64bit support and reduction in overhead for
>      processes which drag in shell extensions.
>      (Mark Hammond)
>
>    * Support the Claws mail client directly, rather than via
>      xdg-email. This prevents the display of an unnecessary modal
>      dialog in Claws, informing the user that a file has been
>      attached to the message, and works around bug #291847 in
>      xdg-utils which corrupts the destination address.
>
>    * When working on a case-insensitive case-preserving file-system, as
>      commonly found with Windows, bzr will often ignore the case of the
>      arguments specified by the user in preference to the case of an
> existing
>      item on the file-system or in the inventory to help prevent
>      counter-intuitive behaviour on Windows. (Mark Hammond)
>
>  BUG FIXES:
>
>    * Allow BzrDir implementation to implement backing up of
>      control directory. (#139691)
>
>    * ``bzr push`` creating a new stacked branch will now only open a
>      single connection to the target machine. (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * Don't call iteritems on transport_list_registry, because it may
>      change during iteration.  (Martin Pool, #277048)
>
>    * Don't make a broken branch when pushing an unstackable-format branch
>      that's in a stackable shared repository to a location with default
>      stack-on location.  (Andrew Bennetts, #291046)
>
>    * Don't require embedding user in HTTP(S) URLs do use
> authentication.conf.
>      (Ben Jansen, Vincent Ladeuil, #300347)
>
>    * Fix a problem with CIFS client/server lag on windows colliding with
>      an invariant-per-process algorithm for generating AtomicFile names
>      (Adrian Wilkins, #304023)
>
>    * Fix bogus setUp signature in UnavailableFTPServer.
>      (Gary van der Merwe, #313498)
>
>    * Fix compilation error in ``_dirstate_helpers_c`` on SunOS/Solaris.
>      (Jari Aalto)
>
>    * Fix SystemError in ``_patiencediff_c`` module by calling
>      PyErr_NoMemory() before returning NULL in PatienceSequenceMatcher_new.
>      (Andrew Bennetts, #303206)
>
>    * Give proper error message for diff with non-existent dotted revno.
>      (Marius Kruger, #301969)
>
>    * Handle EACCES (permission denied) errors when launching a message
>      editor, and emit warnings when a configured editor cannot be
>      started. (Andrew Bennetts)
>
>    * ``$HOME/.netrc`` file is now recognized as a read-only credential
> store
>      if configured in ``authentication.conf`` with
> 'password_encoding=netrc'
>      in the appropriate sections.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil, #103029)
>
>    * Opening a stacked branch now properly shares the connection, rather
>      than opening a new connection for the stacked-on branch.
>      (John Arbash meinel)
>
>    * Preserve transport decorators while following redirections.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil, #245964, #270863)
>
>    * Provides a finer and more robust filter for accepted redirections.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil, #303959, #265070)
>
>    * ``shelve`` paths are now interpreted relative to the current working
>      tree.  (Aaron Bentley)
>
>    * ``Transport.readv()`` defaults to not reading more than 100MB in a
>      single array. Further ``RemoteTransport.readv`` sets this to 5MB to
>      work better with how it splits its requests.
>      (John Arbash Meinel, #303538)
>
>    * Pack repositories are now able to reload the pack listing and retry
>      the current operation if another action causes the data to be
>      repacked.  (John Arbash Meinel, #153786)
>
>    * ``pull -v`` now respects the log_format configuration variable.
>      (Aaron Bentley)
>
>    * ``push -v`` now works on non-initial pushes.  (Aaron Bentley)
>
>    * Use the short status format when the short format is used for log.
>      (Vincent Ladeuil, #87179)
>
>    * Allow files to be renamed or moved via remove + add-by-id. (Charles
>      Duffy, #314251)
>
>  DOCUMENTATION:
>
>    * Improved the formats help topic to explain why multiple formats
>      exist and to provide guidelines in selecting one. Introduced
>      two new supporting help topics: current-formats and other-formats.
>      (Ian Clatworthy)
>
>  API CHANGES:
>
>    * ``LRUCache(after_cleanup_size)`` was renamed to
>      ``after_cleanup_count`` and the old name deprecated. The new name is
>      used for clarity, and to avoid confusion with
>      ``LRUSizeCache(after_cleanup_size)``. (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * New ``ForeignRepository`` base class, to help with foreign branch
>      support (e.g. svn).  (Jelmer Vernooij)
>
>    * ``node_distances`` and ``select_farthest`` can no longer be imported
>      from ``bzrlib.graph``.  They can still be imported from
>      ``bzrlib.deprecated_graph``, which has been the preferred way to
>      import them since before 1.0.  (Andrew Bennetts)
>
>    * The logic in commit now delegates inventory basis calculations to
>      the ``CommitBuilder`` object; this requires that the commit builder
>      in use has been updated to support the new ``recording_deletes`` and
>      ``record_delete`` methods. (Robert Collins)
>
>  TESTING:
>
>    * An HTTPS server is now available (it requires python-2.6). Future bzr
>      versions will allow the use of the python-2.6 ssl module that can be
>      installed for 2.5 and 2.4.
>
>    * ``bzr selftest`` now fails if new trailing white space is added to
>      the bazaar sources. It only checks changes not committed yet. This
>      means that PQM will now reject changes that introduce new trailing
>      whitespace. (Marius Kruger)
>
>    * Introduced new experimental formats called ``1.12-preview`` and
>      ``1.12-preview-rich-root`` to enable testing of related pending
>      features, namely content filtering and filtered views.
>      (Ian Clatworthy)
>
>  INTERNALS:
>
>    * Added an ``InventoryEntry`` cache when deserializing inventories.
>      Can cut the time to iterate over multiple RevisionsTrees in half.
>      (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * Added ``bzrlib.fifo_cache.FIFOCache`` which is designed to have
>      minimal overhead versus using a plain dict for cache hits, at the
>      cost of not preserving the 'active' set as well as an ``LRUCache``.
>      (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``bzrlib.patience_diff.unified_diff`` now properly uses a tab
>      character to separate the filename from the date stamp, and doesn't
>      add trailing whitespace when a date stamp is not supplied.
>      (Adeodato Simó, John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``DirStateWorkingTree`` and ``DirStateWorkingTreeFormat`` added
>      as base classes of ``WorkingTree4`` and ``WorkingTreeFormat4``
>      respectively. (Ian Clatworthy)
>
>    * ``KnitVersionedFiles._check_should_delta()`` now uses the
>      ``get_build_details`` api to avoid multiple hits to the index, and
>      to properly follow the ``compression_parent`` rather than assuming
>      it is the left-hand parent. (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``KnitVersionedFiles.get_record_stream()`` will now chose a
>      more optimal ordering when the keys are requested 'unordered'.
>      Previously the order was fully random, now the records should be
>      returned from each pack in turn, in forward I/O order.
>      (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``mutter()`` will now flush the ``~/.bzr.log`` if it has been more
>      than 2s since the last time it flushed. (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * New method ``bzrlib.repository.Repository.add_inventory_by_delta``
>      allows adding an inventory via an inventory delta, which can be
>      more efficient for some repository types. (Robert Collins)
>
>    * Repository ``CommitBuilder`` objects can now accumulate an inventory
>      delta. To enable this functionality call ``builder.recording_deletes``
>      and additionally call ``builder.record_delete`` when a delete
>      against the basis occurs. (Robert Collins)
>
>    * The default http handler has been changed from pycurl to urllib.
>      The default is still pycurl for https connections. (The only
>      advantage of pycurl is that it checks ssl certificates.)
>      (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``VersionedFiles.get_record_stream()`` can now return objects with a
>      storage_kind of ``chunked``. This is a collection (list/tuple) of
>      strings. You can use ``osutils.chunks_to_lines()`` to turn them into
>      guaranteed 'lines' or you can use ``''.join(chunks)`` to turn it
>      into a fulltext. This allows for some very good memory savings when
>      asking for many texts that share ancestry, as the individual chunks
>      can be shared between versions of the file. (John Arbash Meinel)
>
>    * ``pull -v`` and ``push -v`` use new function
>      ``bzrlib.log.show_branch_change`` (Aaron Bentley)
>
>
>
>
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