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Changes from 0.6c to 0.7:
{{{
core
 improved merge logic
 improved copy/rename support (still experimental)
 automatic binary file handling
 generic file filtering support
 locate branches by tag
 various performance improvements
command line
 new bundle/unbundle commands for exchanging native updates
 more natural support for remove, copy, and rename
 faster, more powerful log command
 new grep command for searching entire history
 support for plug-in extensions
 improved exception handling and debugging facilities
hgweb
 optional downloading of tarballs and zip files
Windows support
 hardlinking support
 newline conversion through file filtering
contrib
 Emacs support
 updated hgk
}}}
= Release Notes =

Be sure to read [:UpgradeNotes].

[[TableOfContents()]]

(See [:/Archive:archive] for older versions. New versions will be released according to the [:TimeBasedReleasePlan:time-based release plan].)

== Version 1.2.1 - 2009-03-20 ==

This is a bugfix release.

 * fixed version number build from tarball
 * fix allow_read logic for hgweb
 * improve handling of damaged revlogs in verify
 * keep .orig files when resolving
 * clear resolve state properly when rebasing
 * improve --command handling with bisect
 * fix diff against bundles
 * improve fetch logic for inactive branches
 * fix diffstat with notify
 * fix 'synthetic file adds' in CVS conversion

== Version 1.2 - 2009-03-04 ==

This is a larger feature release.

General features:

 * explicit closing of named branches via hg commit --close-branch
 * hg now accepts options given after arguments on the commandline
 * added translation support with initial Danish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian translations
 * added optional pure-Python versions of C modules
 * pending changesets can now be accessed safely from hooks
 * diff: added -c option to show single changeset
 * many improvements to the documentation and online help topics

Extensions:

 * convert:
  * new support for perforce sources
  * improvements to handling cvs sources
  * improvements to handling gnu arch source
  * improvements to handling darcs sources
 * bookmarks:
  * set current to new when current is renamed
  * bookmarks: Add track.current option
  * bookmarks: add bookmarks to tags
 * mq: allow qpop when it won't invalidate any dirstate parents
 * patchbomb: respect diff settings
 * rebase: pull --rebase updates if there is nothing to rebase
 * bugzilla: updated to work with Bugzilla 3.2
 * zeroconf: added more documentation
 * hgk: add several color settings
 * the imerge extension has been removed (obsoleted by the resolve command)


== Version 1.1.2 - 2008-12-31 ==

This is a minor release including one security fix and two minor bug fixes

 * improve path auditing (issue 1450)
 * fix date-related test failures in test suite
 * add graph controls to monoblue theme

== Version 1.1.1 - 2008-12-20 ==

This is a bugfix release

 * make hgweb recursion optional (use '**' rather than '*')
 * fix fncache bug for directories ending in ' ' or '.'
 * require -a switch to resolve all files
 * improve help for resolve command
 * fix inotify interaction with bundle diffs
 * fix strange readline import error on Windows
 * fix non-existing target directory with git diffs
 * fix removing symlinks with git diffs
 * fix directory creation bug in patch
 * rebase: allow keeping branch names
 * fix a copy bug in the SVN converter

== Version 1.1 - 2008-12-2 ==

This is a larger feature release.

General:

 * Added 'resolve' command for better tracking of in-progress merges
 * Several speedups for status and diff commands (especially on Windows)
 * Some modules have been rewritten in C for greater speed
 * Compatibility with Python 2.6
 * Improved correctness in the face of casefolding filesystems
 * Fixed a possible race condition in pull
 * Fix support for context-size diff settings
 * Fixed several crashes on Windows related to code freezing
 * Don't complain when trying to load extensions twice
 * Allow C extensions to compile on Haiku
 * Allow for committing in-memory file contents
 * New repository format which limits path lengths in the store
 * Unclutter commands list by extracting extension commands into separate lists
 * static-http support is now a fallback for the general http support
 * Add some buffering to the templater
 * Better documentation on git diffs

Web interface:

 * Add a canvas-based repository graph
 * New and improved hgweb themes: paper, coal and monoblue
 * paper is now the new default style; the old default is now called 'spartan'
 * Better WSGI compliance
 * Collections now show nested repos (best used without a checkout)
 * diffs are more sensible, follow diff.git settings
 * Full author name available in annotate templates
 * Make it easier to add template paths in extensions
 * Support for allow_read/deny_read access controls
 * Working diff and file log for removed files
 * Better alternative for repository collections
 * Corrected feed link in gitweb theme
 * Fix a bug with CGIs running under IIS

Commands:

 * commit: print the revision ID when invoked with --verbose
 * resolve: new command to help keep track of merges
 * merge: only implicitly select same-branch heads
 * export: append instead of overwrite when exporting multiple changesets
 * bundle: added support for different compression types
 * rollback: clean up empty files
 * help: several more sections from the manual are available through hg help now
 * bisect: better documentation, give better feedback, option for scripted testing
 * branch: allow for resetting current branch name
 * patch: add a --similarity option to do rename/copy detection
 * tag: without a checkout, use tip as the tagging revision's parent
 * log: allow searching by user (with -u)
 * import: importing from URL now works with http authentication
 * unbundle: importing from URL now works
 * pull: with -u, still update if there's only one head on the current branch
 * diff: fix a problem with the --showfunc option

Extensions:

 * rebase: new extension to support rebasing changesets
 * bookmarks: new extension to provide (local-only) git-like branches
 * zeroconf: new extension to support publishing repositories through Zeroconf/Bonjour
 * hgcia: new extension to facilitate communication with [http://cia.vc/ CIA]
 * mq:
  * qfinish: added command for conversion of patches into changesets
  * qpush/qgoto: gracefully abort when encountering guards
  * qrefresh: don't lose work when interrupted
  * qimport: allow for importing patches from URLs
  * qnew: abort early if patch already exists, be more careful in general
  * qdiff: now supports all diff options
  * qfold: more tolerance of file removals, better handling of commit messages
  * import: prevent import from working when patches are applied
 * convert:
  * added support for conversion from bzr repositories
  * incorporate an improved Python version of cvsps, replacing the external cvsps tool (see upgrade notes)
  * compatibility with recent git releases
  * add an option to start from an arbitrary revision
  * correctly encode characters in Subversion repository URLs
  * better, more tolerant tags detection
 * highlight:
  * remove need to pre-generate CSS stylesheet
  * compatibility with older Pygments versions
  * make the lexer guessing faster by not reading all of the file
  * allow demandimport to load it incrementally
 * fetch: improve support for named branches
 * graphlog:
  * now adds --graph options to log, incoming and outgoing
  * fix calls from outside the repository
 * inotify:
  * many bugfixes, should work much better
  * daemon is automatically started by default
 * color:
  * add colorization of diffs
  * add --color options to many commands
 * keywords: be more careful about expanding binary files
 * bugzilla: added support for Bugzilla 3.0
 * pager: allow per-command configuration
 * hgk: display branch names for revisions
 * churn: support for templated statistics report generation
 * patchbomb: charset encoding can now be configured
 * notify: charset encoding can now be configured


== Version 1.0.2 - 2008-08-13 ==

This is a relatively small bugfix release with two security fixes.

Security:

 * ensure that git patches only touch files within the repository ([http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2942 CVE-2008-2942])
 * hgweb: fix "allowpull" permission being ignored when pulling from hgweb

General:

 * commit: handle copies of previously deleted files (issue 1175)
 * bisect: allow for having multiple resulting changesets
 * fix Python 2.3 compatibility
 * make mq patches and .hgtags hardlink-safe again
 * various documentation improvements and fixes
 * fix a crash when addremove was called to replace a deleted directory with a symlink
 * make branches output easier to parse (issue 1230)
 * fix inactive branches detection (issue 1104)
 * hgweb: fix a crash in archive when the URL did not end in an expected archive type
 * sshserver: fix a crash in error handling code
 * fix the patchbomb extension on Windows by including email package in binary installations
 * handle symlinks when OS supports them but FS doesn't (issue 1149)

Extensions:

 * mq:
  * fix qrefresh losing metadata on the last refreshed file (issue 1134)
  * fix a crash when renaming a patch just after a versioned queue initialization
  * fix the path of an explicitly specified queue when merging patches
  * strip now updates the working directory only if a parent was stripped
 * convert:
  * CVS: fix a crash when converting an existing working copy
  * monotone: fix quotes and backslashes parsing when reading commit messages
  * Subversion: correctly normalize paths and slashes
  * Subversion: fix compatibility with Subversion 1.5
  * git: allow converter to work with recent git releases
 * color:
  * get coloring for qseries --verbose output
  * improve mq extension detection
  * reset coloring before and after outputting colorized lines
 * highlight: fix a performance issue when detecting file types from large files
 * notify: take the diff options into account


== Version 1.0.1 - 2008-05-22 ==

This is a relatively small bugfix release.

General:
 * several improvements in file copying implementation
 * allow different default value for diff.unified option
 * allow explicit use of internal merge tools

Commands:
 * rename: doesn't unlink source file with --after
 * backout: reverse changeset belongs on current branch

Extensions:
 * convert:
   * svn: improved detection of tags (has also become optional)
   * svn: improved branch handling
   * svn: better detection of file copies
 * mq:
   * expand terse command help texts
   * fix unimplemented qdiff -U option
 * highlight: fix compatibility with older Pygments (0.5.1)
 * churn: allow whitespaces as delimiter in aliases
 * pager: disable when used with --debugger

== Version 1.0 - 2008-03-24 ==

General:
 * greatly improved [:MergeToolConfiguration:merge tool configuration], see "hgrc.5.txt" for details
 * improved copy/rename handling in diffs, status, and merge
 * files in .hg inherit permissions from .hg/store
 * infer --repository when possible, so commands may be run from anywhere.
 * easy-installable
 * new "droplet" logo

Commands:
 * archive: disable ".hg_archival.txt" file addition with "ui.archivemeta"
 * bisect: now built-in with greatly improved performance and usability
 * bundle: new --all option to bundle the whole repository more easily.
 * cat: apply decode filters with --decode
 * clone: can clone from a full-history bundle
 * commit: warn when creating a new head
 * debugancestor: index argument is now optional
 * diff: set the number of context line to show with -U/--unified
 * grep: display matched revisions commit date with --date
 * import: new --no-commit and --user options
 * incoming/outgoing: add --limit option
 * log: use -b/--only-branch to show revisions of a single branch
 * remove: improve handling for --after
 * revert: major speedup
 * serve: prefix the served path with --prefix (also in [web] section)
 * status: unknown files are skipped by --quiet
 * tag: allow multiple tags to be added or removed
 * tags: --verbose flags local tags
 * update: switch between named branches without -C

Extensions:
 * churn: promoted to an official extension (previously in contrib)
 * color: new extension coloring "status" and "qseries" command outputs
 * convert:
   * allow synthetic history to be spliced in with --splicemap
   * support GNU Arch and Monotone sources
   * svn: allow shallow conversions of single branches with convert.svn.startrev option.
   * svn: make trunk/branches/tags layout detection more flexible by allowing either of them to be skipped.
   * svn: preliminary support as a conversion target
 * hgk: configuration file changed from .gitk to .hgk
 * highlight: new extension enabling syntax highlighting in hgweb file view (requires pygments)
 * inotify: new extension using Linux 2.6 inotify API for instant status checking
 * keyword: new extension for filewise RCS-keyword expansion in working directory
 * mq: new --currentdate, --date, --currentuser, and --user options
 * record: add "qrecord" command when used with mq
 * win32mbcs: new extension dealing with problematic MBCS behavior on Windows

Web interface:
 * improved WSGI integration and compatibility
 * follow symlinks in hgwebdir collections
 * show branches in most of gitweb templates
 * add line anchors to annotate, changeset, diff and file views
 * support web.baseurl in hgwebdir, overriding SCRIPT_NAME

Hooks:
 * standard hook to reject text files with CRLF in win32text extension
 * redirect stdout to stderr for ssh and http servers

Windows support:
 * "hg" script output set to binary mode for redirecting diff, export, annotate, etc.
 * also search for .hgrc if mercurial.ini cannot be found
 * major speedup of "clone --pull"


== Version 0.9.5 - 2007-10-19 ==

New features:
 * Handle symlinks on systems without symlink support
 * hg archive supports symlinks
 * Display executable/symlink bit with "hg manifest -v" (see UpgradeNotes)
 * Improved hg verify diagostics
 * Faster revlog handling
 * Faster handling of large directories
 * Greatly improved handling of large files
 * Atom syndication support in hgweb
 * Improved test suite with parallel execution

Fixes:
 * Fixes for some file copy and rename corner cases
 * Allow moving newly-added files before commit
 * Improve hg diff whitespace handling
 * Disallow fast-forward merge with an ancestor
 * Fix adding untracked files on directory renames
 * Fix hg archive %r format specifier
 * Fix re: and glob: patterns in .hgignore
 * Improve hg executable path resolution
 * Many options and hgrc parsing improvements
 * Better handling of VFAT filesystems on Linux
 * Fix tgz archival on Windows
 * Fix hg serve on Windows requiring pywin32 modules
 * Fix --profile under Windows

New extensions:
 * alias - allow user-defined command aliases
 * children - show the children of the given or working dir revision
 * imerge - incremental interactive merging
 * interhg - modify changelog text as in InterWiki
 * record - darcs-style interactive change selection during commit

New extension features:
 * convert
   * Now supports Subversion, Darcs and Mercurial as source SCMs
   * Use clone's behaviour for the default destination name
   * Force encoding to UTF-8 for converted repository
   * Support new-style .cvspass file format
   * Filter the files and directories to import
   * Remap paths to new locations during import
 * hgk
   * Fix hgk stopping because of untrusted repository warnings
   * Handle filenames with spaces
   * Improved documentation
 * mq
   * Autodetect --git patches on qrefresh

== Version 0.9.4 - 2007-06-25 ==

New features:
 * support for symlinks
 * improved tag handling
 * improved merge handling of file and directory renames
 * improved named branch usability
 * numerous improvements to commands
 * generic pre- and post-command hooks
 * improved Windows support
 * basic BeOS and OpenVMS support
 * numerous bug fixes

New extensions and contributions:
 * extensions can now be specified in .hg/hgrc
 * new convert extension with CVS support
 * new graphlog extension
 * improved patchbomb extension
 * example FastCGI script

Release Notes

Be sure to read [:UpgradeNotes].

TableOfContents()

(See [:/Archive:archive] for older versions. New versions will be released according to the [:TimeBasedReleasePlan:time-based release plan].)

1. Version 1.2.1 - 2009-03-20

This is a bugfix release.

  • fixed version number build from tarball
  • fix allow_read logic for hgweb
  • improve handling of damaged revlogs in verify
  • keep .orig files when resolving
  • clear resolve state properly when rebasing
  • improve --command handling with bisect
  • fix diff against bundles
  • improve fetch logic for inactive branches
  • fix diffstat with notify
  • fix 'synthetic file adds' in CVS conversion

2. Version 1.2 - 2009-03-04

This is a larger feature release.

General features:

  • explicit closing of named branches via hg commit --close-branch
  • hg now accepts options given after arguments on the commandline
  • added translation support with initial Danish, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian translations
  • added optional pure-Python versions of C modules
  • pending changesets can now be accessed safely from hooks
  • diff: added -c option to show single changeset
  • many improvements to the documentation and online help topics

Extensions:

  • convert:
    • new support for perforce sources
    • improvements to handling cvs sources
    • improvements to handling gnu arch source
    • improvements to handling darcs sources
  • bookmarks:
    • set current to new when current is renamed
    • bookmarks: Add track.current option
    • bookmarks: add bookmarks to tags
  • mq: allow qpop when it won't invalidate any dirstate parents
  • patchbomb: respect diff settings
  • rebase: pull --rebase updates if there is nothing to rebase
  • bugzilla: updated to work with Bugzilla 3.2
  • zeroconf: added more documentation
  • hgk: add several color settings
  • the imerge extension has been removed (obsoleted by the resolve command)

3. Version 1.1.2 - 2008-12-31

This is a minor release including one security fix and two minor bug fixes

  • improve path auditing (issue 1450)
  • fix date-related test failures in test suite
  • add graph controls to monoblue theme

4. Version 1.1.1 - 2008-12-20

This is a bugfix release

  • make hgweb recursion optional (use '**' rather than '*')
  • fix fncache bug for directories ending in ' ' or '.'
  • require -a switch to resolve all files
  • improve help for resolve command
  • fix inotify interaction with bundle diffs
  • fix strange readline import error on Windows
  • fix non-existing target directory with git diffs
  • fix removing symlinks with git diffs
  • fix directory creation bug in patch
  • rebase: allow keeping branch names
  • fix a copy bug in the SVN converter

5. Version 1.1 - 2008-12-2

This is a larger feature release.

General:

  • Added 'resolve' command for better tracking of in-progress merges
  • Several speedups for status and diff commands (especially on Windows)
  • Some modules have been rewritten in C for greater speed
  • Compatibility with Python 2.6
  • Improved correctness in the face of casefolding filesystems
  • Fixed a possible race condition in pull
  • Fix support for context-size diff settings
  • Fixed several crashes on Windows related to code freezing
  • Don't complain when trying to load extensions twice
  • Allow C extensions to compile on Haiku
  • Allow for committing in-memory file contents
  • New repository format which limits path lengths in the store
  • Unclutter commands list by extracting extension commands into separate lists
  • static-http support is now a fallback for the general http support
  • Add some buffering to the templater
  • Better documentation on git diffs

Web interface:

  • Add a canvas-based repository graph
  • New and improved hgweb themes: paper, coal and monoblue
  • paper is now the new default style; the old default is now called 'spartan'
  • Better WSGI compliance
  • Collections now show nested repos (best used without a checkout)
  • diffs are more sensible, follow diff.git settings
  • Full author name available in annotate templates
  • Make it easier to add template paths in extensions
  • Support for allow_read/deny_read access controls
  • Working diff and file log for removed files
  • Better alternative for repository collections
  • Corrected feed link in gitweb theme
  • Fix a bug with CGIs running under IIS

Commands:

  • commit: print the revision ID when invoked with --verbose
  • resolve: new command to help keep track of merges
  • merge: only implicitly select same-branch heads
  • export: append instead of overwrite when exporting multiple changesets
  • bundle: added support for different compression types
  • rollback: clean up empty files
  • help: several more sections from the manual are available through hg help now
  • bisect: better documentation, give better feedback, option for scripted testing
  • branch: allow for resetting current branch name
  • patch: add a --similarity option to do rename/copy detection
  • tag: without a checkout, use tip as the tagging revision's parent
  • log: allow searching by user (with -u)
  • import: importing from URL now works with http authentication
  • unbundle: importing from URL now works
  • pull: with -u, still update if there's only one head on the current branch
  • diff: fix a problem with the --showfunc option

Extensions:

  • rebase: new extension to support rebasing changesets
  • bookmarks: new extension to provide (local-only) git-like branches
  • zeroconf: new extension to support publishing repositories through Zeroconf/Bonjour
  • hgcia: new extension to facilitate communication with [http://cia.vc/ CIA]

  • mq:
    • qfinish: added command for conversion of patches into changesets
    • qpush/qgoto: gracefully abort when encountering guards
    • qrefresh: don't lose work when interrupted
    • qimport: allow for importing patches from URLs
    • qnew: abort early if patch already exists, be more careful in general
    • qdiff: now supports all diff options
    • qfold: more tolerance of file removals, better handling of commit messages
    • import: prevent import from working when patches are applied
  • convert:
    • added support for conversion from bzr repositories
    • incorporate an improved Python version of cvsps, replacing the external cvsps tool (see upgrade notes)
    • compatibility with recent git releases
    • add an option to start from an arbitrary revision
    • correctly encode characters in Subversion repository URLs
    • better, more tolerant tags detection
  • highlight:
    • remove need to pre-generate CSS stylesheet
    • compatibility with older Pygments versions
    • make the lexer guessing faster by not reading all of the file
    • allow demandimport to load it incrementally
  • fetch: improve support for named branches
  • graphlog:
    • now adds --graph options to log, incoming and outgoing
    • fix calls from outside the repository
  • inotify:
    • many bugfixes, should work much better
    • daemon is automatically started by default
  • color:
    • add colorization of diffs
    • add --color options to many commands
  • keywords: be more careful about expanding binary files
  • bugzilla: added support for Bugzilla 3.0
  • pager: allow per-command configuration
  • hgk: display branch names for revisions
  • churn: support for templated statistics report generation
  • patchbomb: charset encoding can now be configured
  • notify: charset encoding can now be configured

6. Version 1.0.2 - 2008-08-13

This is a relatively small bugfix release with two security fixes.

Security:

General:

  • commit: handle copies of previously deleted files (issue 1175)
  • bisect: allow for having multiple resulting changesets
  • fix Python 2.3 compatibility
  • make mq patches and .hgtags hardlink-safe again
  • various documentation improvements and fixes
  • fix a crash when addremove was called to replace a deleted directory with a symlink
  • make branches output easier to parse (issue 1230)
  • fix inactive branches detection (issue 1104)
  • hgweb: fix a crash in archive when the URL did not end in an expected archive type
  • sshserver: fix a crash in error handling code
  • fix the patchbomb extension on Windows by including email package in binary installations
  • handle symlinks when OS supports them but FS doesn't (issue 1149)

Extensions:

  • mq:
    • fix qrefresh losing metadata on the last refreshed file (issue 1134)
    • fix a crash when renaming a patch just after a versioned queue initialization
    • fix the path of an explicitly specified queue when merging patches
    • strip now updates the working directory only if a parent was stripped
  • convert:
    • CVS: fix a crash when converting an existing working copy
    • monotone: fix quotes and backslashes parsing when reading commit messages
    • Subversion: correctly normalize paths and slashes
    • Subversion: fix compatibility with Subversion 1.5
    • git: allow converter to work with recent git releases
  • color:
    • get coloring for qseries --verbose output
    • improve mq extension detection
    • reset coloring before and after outputting colorized lines
  • highlight: fix a performance issue when detecting file types from large files
  • notify: take the diff options into account

7. Version 1.0.1 - 2008-05-22

This is a relatively small bugfix release.

General:

  • several improvements in file copying implementation
  • allow different default value for diff.unified option
  • allow explicit use of internal merge tools

Commands:

  • rename: doesn't unlink source file with --after
  • backout: reverse changeset belongs on current branch

Extensions:

  • convert:
    • svn: improved detection of tags (has also become optional)
    • svn: improved branch handling
    • svn: better detection of file copies
  • mq:
    • expand terse command help texts
    • fix unimplemented qdiff -U option
  • highlight: fix compatibility with older Pygments (0.5.1)
  • churn: allow whitespaces as delimiter in aliases
  • pager: disable when used with --debugger

8. Version 1.0 - 2008-03-24

General:

  • greatly improved [:MergeToolConfiguration:merge tool configuration], see "hgrc.5.txt" for details

  • improved copy/rename handling in diffs, status, and merge
  • files in .hg inherit permissions from .hg/store
  • infer --repository when possible, so commands may be run from anywhere.
  • easy-installable
  • new "droplet" logo

Commands:

  • archive: disable ".hg_archival.txt" file addition with "ui.archivemeta"
  • bisect: now built-in with greatly improved performance and usability
  • bundle: new --all option to bundle the whole repository more easily.
  • cat: apply decode filters with --decode
  • clone: can clone from a full-history bundle
  • commit: warn when creating a new head
  • debugancestor: index argument is now optional
  • diff: set the number of context line to show with -U/--unified
  • grep: display matched revisions commit date with --date
  • import: new --no-commit and --user options
  • incoming/outgoing: add --limit option
  • log: use -b/--only-branch to show revisions of a single branch
  • remove: improve handling for --after
  • revert: major speedup
  • serve: prefix the served path with --prefix (also in [web] section)
  • status: unknown files are skipped by --quiet
  • tag: allow multiple tags to be added or removed
  • tags: --verbose flags local tags
  • update: switch between named branches without -C

Extensions:

  • churn: promoted to an official extension (previously in contrib)
  • color: new extension coloring "status" and "qseries" command outputs
  • convert:
    • allow synthetic history to be spliced in with --splicemap
    • support GNU Arch and Monotone sources
    • svn: allow shallow conversions of single branches with convert.svn.startrev option.
    • svn: make trunk/branches/tags layout detection more flexible by allowing either of them to be skipped.
    • svn: preliminary support as a conversion target
  • hgk: configuration file changed from .gitk to .hgk
  • highlight: new extension enabling syntax highlighting in hgweb file view (requires pygments)
  • inotify: new extension using Linux 2.6 inotify API for instant status checking
  • keyword: new extension for filewise RCS-keyword expansion in working directory
  • mq: new --currentdate, --date, --currentuser, and --user options
  • record: add "qrecord" command when used with mq
  • win32mbcs: new extension dealing with problematic MBCS behavior on Windows

Web interface:

  • improved WSGI integration and compatibility
  • follow symlinks in hgwebdir collections
  • show branches in most of gitweb templates
  • add line anchors to annotate, changeset, diff and file views
  • support web.baseurl in hgwebdir, overriding SCRIPT_NAME

Hooks:

  • standard hook to reject text files with CRLF in win32text extension
  • redirect stdout to stderr for ssh and http servers

Windows support:

  • "hg" script output set to binary mode for redirecting diff, export, annotate, etc.
  • also search for .hgrc if mercurial.ini cannot be found
  • major speedup of "clone --pull"

9. Version 0.9.5 - 2007-10-19

New features:

  • Handle symlinks on systems without symlink support
  • hg archive supports symlinks
  • Display executable/symlink bit with "hg manifest -v" (see UpgradeNotes)

  • Improved hg verify diagostics
  • Faster revlog handling
  • Faster handling of large directories
  • Greatly improved handling of large files
  • Atom syndication support in hgweb
  • Improved test suite with parallel execution

Fixes:

  • Fixes for some file copy and rename corner cases
  • Allow moving newly-added files before commit
  • Improve hg diff whitespace handling
  • Disallow fast-forward merge with an ancestor
  • Fix adding untracked files on directory renames
  • Fix hg archive %r format specifier
  • Fix re: and glob: patterns in .hgignore
  • Improve hg executable path resolution
  • Many options and hgrc parsing improvements
  • Better handling of VFAT filesystems on Linux
  • Fix tgz archival on Windows
  • Fix hg serve on Windows requiring pywin32 modules
  • Fix --profile under Windows

New extensions:

  • alias - allow user-defined command aliases
  • children - show the children of the given or working dir revision
  • imerge - incremental interactive merging
  • interhg - modify changelog text as in InterWiki

  • record - darcs-style interactive change selection during commit

New extension features:

  • convert
    • Now supports Subversion, Darcs and Mercurial as source SCMs
    • Use clone's behaviour for the default destination name
    • Force encoding to UTF-8 for converted repository
    • Support new-style .cvspass file format
    • Filter the files and directories to import
    • Remap paths to new locations during import
  • hgk
    • Fix hgk stopping because of untrusted repository warnings
    • Handle filenames with spaces
    • Improved documentation
  • mq
    • Autodetect --git patches on qrefresh

10. Version 0.9.4 - 2007-06-25

New features:

  • support for symlinks
  • improved tag handling
  • improved merge handling of file and directory renames
  • improved named branch usability
  • numerous improvements to commands
  • generic pre- and post-command hooks
  • improved Windows support
  • basic BeOS and OpenVMS support
  • numerous bug fixes

New extensions and contributions:

  • extensions can now be specified in .hg/hgrc
  • new convert extension with CVS support
  • new graphlog extension
  • improved patchbomb extension
  • example FastCGI script

WhatsNew (last edited 2024-06-12 09:32:05 by RaphaelGomes)