DRAFT 2.0.0 ANNOUNCEMENT

[Ben Finney]

Robert Collins <robert.collins at canonical.com> writes:

> The full NEWS since 1.18.1 is attached, but some highlights are worth
> including in the main announcement.

I think these should be marked up as list items, to make it clearer
where the features begin and end. I'd also find them easier to scan if
divided into the following sections:

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Feature improvements
--------------------

> The keywords plugin can now expand keywords on files changed by the
> commit.

> On Windows auto-detection of Putty's plink.exe is disabled. Default SSH
> client for Windows is paramiko. User still can force usage of plink if
> explicitly set environment variable BZR_SSH=plink.
>
> 'bzr branch --switch' can now switch the checkout in the current
> directory to the newly created branch.
>
> 'bzr branch' of 2a repositories over HTTP is much faster.  bzr now
> batches together small fetches from 2a repositories, rather than
> fetching only a few hundred bytes at a time.

> 'bzr shelve' and 'bzr unshelve' now work on windows.

Bug fixes
---------

> bzr check in pack-0.92, 1.6 and 1.9 format repositories will no longer
> report incorrect errors about Missing inventory ('TREE_ROOT', ...)

(This one should have “'bzr check' in …”, similar to other mentions of
commands, to be clear what the actual command being discussed is.)

> Clearer message when Bazaar runs out of memory, instead of a MemoryError
> traceback. 
>
> 'bzr push' locally on windows will no longer give a locking error with
> dirstate based formats.

And then the following would be a regular not-a-list-item paragraph, to
clearly show that it's back to talking about “this release”.

> This release also improves the documentation content and presentation,
> including adding PDF and Windows HtmlHelp versions.

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Thanks for the nice selection of highlights.

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Ben Finney
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