[ANN] bzr 2.4b4 released !

Tue Jun 21 12:37:34 UTC 2011

Sorry, I didn't get a chance to work on the Mac installers. I'll try get it done this evening. 

On 2011-06-21, at 7:12 AM, vila <v.ladeuil+lp at free.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A new beta release, our fourth one, has been released: 2.4b4. 2.4.0 is
> planned to be released in August 2011.
> 
> As usual, this contains all known bug fixes (including the ones we made
> for the previous stable releases).
> 
> Thanks to all participants, whether you sent merge proposals, comments,
> suggestions and feedback, we very much appreciate all of them.
> 
> Bazaar is now available for download from
> https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.4/2.4b4/ as a source tarball.
> 
> Installers have been built in record time after the source freeze for
> windows and the OSX ones will hopefully be available soon.
> 
> 2.4b4 is available in Debian sid (unstable) and packages for Ubuntu are
> available in the beta ppa: https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/beta
> 
> Reminder: since 2.4b3, we've stopped supporting python-2.4/2.5 and hardy
> there for the *beta*, the 2.3 stable series will maintain compatibility
> with python2.4.
> 
> IMPORTANT NOTE: Quickly after the beta was made available on debian sid
>    we had two reports of http://pad.lv/799212 . The fix has already
>    landed on trunk and will be available in 2.4b5. It impacts anybody
>    with a bazaar.conf containing some non-ascii chars but only when no
>    BZR_EDITOR environment variable is set. So the workaround is to set
>    BZR_EDITOR to a valid editor.
> 
> We'll have another (and last) beta before the final 2.4.0 release. If
> you're a plugin author, please make sure you have a clearly identified
> released compatible with 2.4 (preferably with a dedicated series like
> http://pad.lv/p/qbzr does or at least a tag for the version you'd like
> to be carried by the installers and the ppas). Whatever you decide, keep
> in touch with the packagers or just reply to this mail. There is no
> urgency (yet ;) but you'll get better feedback if your planned release
> can be packaged with 2.4b5 (expected to be frozen 2011-07-07).
> 
> And now for the gory details:
> 
> External Compatibility Breaks
> *****************************
> 
> * Do not treat configuration option 'check_signatures = require' as if
>  it were 'create_signatures = always' (Jonathan Riddell)
> 
> New Features
> ************
> 
> * Hooks have been added for config stacks: ``get``, ``set`` and ``remove``
>  are called when an option is respectively read, modified or deleted. Also
>  added ``load`` and ``save`` hooks for config stores, called when the
>  stores are loaded or saved. (Vincent Ladeuil)
> 
> * New hook server_exception in bzrlib.smart.server to catch any
>  exception caused while running bzr serve.
>  (Jonathan Riddell, #274578)
> 
> * New hook set_commit_message in bzrlib.msgeditor to set
>  a commit message and revision properties. (Jonathan Riddell,
>  #274578)
> 
> * Support ``-S`` as an alias for ``--short`` for the ``log`` and
>  ``missing`` commands. (Martin von Gagern, #38655)
> 
> Improvements
> ************
> 
> * ``bzr annotate`` can be run without setting whoami data first. (Jonathan
>  Riddell, #667408)
> 
> Bug Fixes
> *********
> 
> * Bazaar can now detect when a lock file is held by a dead process
>  originating from the same machine, and steal the lock after printing a
>  message to the user. This is off by default, for safety, but can be
>  turned on by setting the configuration variable ``locks.steal_dead`` to
>  ``True``.
>  (Martin Pool, #220464)
> 
> * Credentials in the log output produced by ``-Dhttp`` are masked so users
>  can more freely post them in bug reports. (Vincent Ladeuil, #723074)
> 
> * Fix a race condition for ``server_started`` hooks leading to a spurious
>  test failure. (Vincent Ladeuil, #789167)
> 
> * Fix exporting subdirectory with ``--per-file-timestamps``.
>  (Szilveszter Farkas, #795557)
> 
> * Handle files that get created but don't get used during TreeTransform.
>  ``open()`` can create a file, and still raise an exception before it
>  returns. So anything we might have created, make sure we destroy during
>  ``finalize()``. (Martin [gz], #597686)
> 
> * ``pack_repo`` now uses ``Transport.move`` instead of
>  ``Transport.rename``, deleting any existing targets even on SFTP.
>  (Martin von Gagern, #421776)
> 
> * Pass the ``build_mo`` command to the rest of the setup() calls in
>  setup.py. The ``bdist_wininst`` and ``py2exe`` code paths were failing
>  because ``build_mo`` became a required step that they didn't know about.
>  (John Arbash Meinel, #787122)
> 
> * Properly avoid re-adding a file after it changes case on CICP
>  filesystems. (John Arbash Meinel, #798130)
> 
> * Reports the original error when an InvalidHttpResponse exception is
>  encountered to facilitate debug. (Vincent Ladeuil, #788530)
> 
> * Reports a non-existant file error when trying to merge in a file
>  that does not exist. (Jonathan Riddell, #330063)
> 
> * ``UIFactory.prompt``, ``UIFactory.get_username``,
>  ``UIFactory.get_password`` and ``UIFactory.get_boolean`` now require a
>  unicode prompt to be passed in. (Jelmer Vernooij, #592083)
> 
> * Support merging into the empty tree. (Aaron Bentley, #595328)
> 
> Documentation
> *************
> 
> * Improve documentation of ``bzr merge --force``.
>  (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #767307)
> 
> * Make docs for configuration options for digital signatures match
>  reality. (Jonathan Riddell)
> 
> * Add user-guide page on GPG signatures. (Jonathan Riddell)
> 
> API Changes
> ***********
> 
> * Information about held lockdir locks returned from eg `LockDir.peek` is
>  now represented as a `LockHeldInfo` object, rather than a plain
>  Python dict.
>  (Martin Pool)
> 
> * Remove `file_status` function.
>  (Martin Pool)
> 
> * ``Repository.iter_reverse_revision_history`` is now deprecated.
>  Use ``Graph.iter_lefthand_ancestry`` instead.
>  (Jelmer Vernooij, #739481)
> 
> Internals
> *********
> 
> * ``tools/check-newsbugs.py`` accepts a ``--browser`` option to open
>  corresponding launchpad pages in a browser. (Vincent Ladeuil)
> 
> Testing
> *******
> 
> * A `ImportTariffTestCase` base class has been added in
>  ``bzrlib.tests.test_import_tariff``, which can be used for import tariff
>  tests in plugins. (Jelmer Vernooij, #793465)
> 
> * Fix deadlock in `TestImportTariffs.test_simple_serve` when stderr gets
>  more output than fits in the default buffer. This was happening on the
>  Windows buildslave, and could easily happen in other circumstances where
>  the default OS buffer size for pipes is small or the ``python -v``
>  output is large. (Andrew Bennetts, #784802)
> 
> * Fix spurious test failure on OSX for WorkingTreeFormat2.
>  (Vincent Ladeuil, #787942)
> 
> * Re-target ``bb.test_merge.TestMerge.test_merge_reversed_revision_range``
>  and rewrite it as a parametrized test to avoid unrelated failures.
>  (Vincent Ladeuil, #795456)
> 
> * Show log file contents from subprocesses started by
>  `start_bzr_subprocess` in test failure details. This may help diagnose
>  strange hangs and failures involving subprocesses. (Andrew Bennetts)
> 
> * Skip ``utextwrap`` tests when ``sphinx`` breaks text_wrap by an hostile
>  monkeypatch to textwrap.TextWrapper.wordsep_re.
>  (Vincent Ladeuil, #785098)
> 
> * Multiple ``selftest --exclude`` options are now combined instead of
>  overriding each other. (Vincent Ladeuil, #746991)
> 
> * Restore some ``FTPTransport`` test coverage by allowing ``pyftpdlib
>  0.6.0`` to be used. Also restore ``medusa`` support while leaving it
>  disabled to make it easier to use if/when we can in the future.
>  (Vincent Ladeuil, #781140)
> 
> * `TestImportTariffs` no longer uses the real ``$HOME``. This prevents it
>  from polluting ``$HOME/.bzr.log`` or being accidentally influenced by
>  user configuration such as aliases. It still runs with all the user's
>  plugins enabled, as intended.
>  (Vincent Ladeuil, Andrew Bennetts, #789505)
> 
> 