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Bugfix release. For details see here: (how does one link to all changesets between the two tags 1.0 and 1.0.1?) Bugfix release.

  No changelog has been manually compiled yet. For the list of changes right from the Mercurial repo itself do[[BR]]
  {{{hg clone http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable; cd hg-stable; hg log -r 1.0:1.0.1}}}

Be sure to read [:UpgradeNotes]. See also [:RoadMap].

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(see [:/Archive:archive] for older versions)

Version 1.0.1 - 2008-05-22

Bugfix release.

  • No changelog has been manually compiled yet. For the list of changes right from the Mercurial repo itself doBR hg clone http://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable; cd hg-stable; hg log -r 1.0:1.0.1

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

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