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== Mercurial 1.9.1 (2011-08-01) == This is a regular bugfix release. It fixes several regressions introduced in 1.9. The hgweb server now disables MIME type guessing by default to avoid a potential cross-site scripting issue when hosting untrusted repositories (Bts:issue2923). See UpgradeNotes for more info. * dispatch: make sure global options on the command line take precedence * eol: ignore IOError from deleted files in commitctx * hgcia: set default value of strip to -1 (Bts:issue2891) * hgweb: do not ignore [auth] if url has a username (Bts:issue2822) * hgweb: handle 'baseurl' configurations with leading slash (Bts:issue2934) * hgweb: raw file mimetype guessing configurable, off by default (BC) (Bts:issue2923) * httpclient: import ca33b88d143c from py-nonblocking-http (issue2932) * patch: fix parsing patch files containing CRs not followed by LFs * rebase: block collapse with keepbranches on multiple named branches (Bts:issue2112) * rebase: reset bookmarks (Bts:issue2265 and Bts:issue2873) * revert: restore check for uncommitted merge (Bts:issue2915) (BC) * revsets: catch type error on tip^p1(tip) (Bts:issue2884) * revsets: do the right thing with x^:y (Bts:issue2884) * subrepo: handle adding svn subrepo with a svn:external file in it (Bts:issue2931) * subrepo: use working copy of .hgsub to filter status (Bts:issue2901) * url: store and assume the query part of an url is in escaped form (Bts:issue2921) * util: rename the util.localpath that uses url to urllocalpath (Bts:issue2875) * verify: filter messages about missing null manifests (Bts:issue2900) * web: output a correct date in short format (Bts:issue2902) * win32: assign winstdout to sys.__stdout__ as well (Bts:issue2888) == Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01) == This is a regular feature release. See UpgradeNotes for some minor compatibility notes. === Major features === * New [[http://www.selenic.com/hg/help/filesets|fileset]] file matching support * Improved remote changeset discovery * New [[CommandServer|command server]] mode to improve application integration * Experimental generaldelta storage scheme * Experimental new http client library === Command changes === * HGPLAIN: allow exceptions to plain mode, like i18n, via HGPLAINEXCEPT * manifest: add new option --all * aliases: add positional arguments to non-shell aliases * add: introduce a warning message for non-portable filenames (Bts:issue2756) * add: notify when adding a file that would cause a case-folding collision * bisect: new command to extend the bisect range (Bts:issue2690) * bookmarks: allow deactivating current bookmark with -i * bundle: update current bookmark to most recent revision on current branch * diff: make diff -c aware of revision sets * help: add -c/--command flag to only show command help (Bts:issue2799) * help: add -e/--extension switch to display extension help text * help: move hgignore man page into built-in help (Bts:issue2769) * http: correctly handle redirects from http to https * identify: list bookmarks for remote repositories * import: add --bypass option * paths: Add support for -q/--quiet * pushkey: add hooks for pushkey/listkeys * revset: add aliases * revset: add ^ and ~ operators from parentrevspec extension * revset: add a revset command to get bisect state * revset: add desc(string) to search in commit messages * revset: add follow(filename) to follow a filename's history across copies * revset: introduce filelog() to emulate log's fast path * revset: add a last() function === Web changes === * add bookmarks listing to raw style and summary pages * support alternate logo url * add base link to file log for paper and coal styles (Bts:issue2452) * paper, coal: display diffstat on the changeset page * elapsed time calculation dynamic (javascript) * provide diffstat and summary on the changeset page === Extension changes === * hgcia: handle URL like in notify (Bts:issue2406) * rebase: add -m/--message to rebase --collapse (Bts:issue2389) * Updating hgext.extdiff to use revsets * bash_completion: enable alias auto-complete * bugzilla: add XMLRPC interface * color: add support for terminfo-based attributes and color * convert/mtn: add support for using monotone's "automate stdio" when available * convert/svn: stop using svn bindings when pushing to svn * convert: add bookmark support for hg and git backends * convert: add svnrev, svnpath and svnuuid template keywords * extdiff: add repository root as a variable * graphlog: support more log command features with revsets * keyword: convert a verbatim block to a field list * keyword: offer additional datefilters when the extension is enabled * mq: add a 'mq()' revset predicate that returns applied mq csets * notify: send changesets on 'outgoing' hook, updated doc * progress: add speed format * rebase: add --tool argument for specifying merge tool * rebase: allow for rebasing descendants onto ancestors on different named branches * record: add an option to backup all wc modifications * record: add qrefresh -i/--interactive * record: add white space diff options * record: alias qrecord to qnew -i/--interactive === Bug fixes === * bookmarks: allow create/move bookmark without making it current (Bts:issue2788) * bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (Bts:issue1877) * changegroup: do not count closed new heads (Bts:issue2697) * config: handle comment lines in continuations (Bts:issue2854) * dispatch: propagate ui command options to the local ui (Bts:issue2523) * eol: make the hook check all new heads, not only tip (Bts:issue2666) * grep: don't print data from binary files for matches (Bts:issue2614) * http: report unexpected unparsable push responses (Bts:issue2777) * httprepo: handle large lengths by bypassing the len() operator * httprepo: long arguments support (Bts:issue2126) * httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (Bts:issue2019) * httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (Bts:issue2828) * localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (Bts:issue2761) * localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (Bts:issue2750) * merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (Bts:issue2680) * patch: do not patch unknown files (Bts:issue752) * path_auditor: check filenames for basic platform validity (Bts:issue2755) * rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (Bts:issue2725) * rebase: preserve mq series order after rebasing (Bts:issue2849) * rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (Bts:issue2107) * revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (Bts:issue2654) * scmutil: improve path calculation for install-relative RC files (Bts:issue2841) * set NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED on .hg dir (Bts:issue2694) * sslutil: fall back to commonName when no dNSName in subjectAltName (Bts:issue2798) * subrepo: be more careful with deletions of .hgsub and .hgsubstate (Bts:issue2844) * subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (Bts:issue2759) * subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (Bts:issue2833) * subrepo: be smarter about what's an absolute path (Bts:issue2808) * svn subrepo: attempt work around obstructed checkouts (Bts:issue2752) * svn subrepos: work around checkout obstructions (Bts:issue2752) * tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (Bts:issue2779) * util: add Mac-specific check whether we're in a GUI session (Bts:issue2553) == Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01) == This is a regular time-based bugfix release. * bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (Bts:issue1877) * changelog: convert user and desc from local encoding early * fix bookmarks rollback behavior * hgrc.5: document shell aliases * httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (Bts:issue2019) * httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (Bts:issue2828) * localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (Bts:issue2761) * localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (Bts:issue2750) * mq: strip extra whitespace from node ids in header (Bts:issue2790) * rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (Bts:issue2107) * revset: expand help for contains predicate * revset: note case-insensitive matches in keyword and user * revset: note case-sensitive match in grep * revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (Bts:issue2654) * revset: the name is optional for the tag predicate * simplemerge: do not allow binary files to abort an entire merge * strip: make it clear that --force discards changes (Bts:issue310) * subrepo: don't crash when git .hgsubstate is empty (Bts:issue2716) * subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (Bts:issue2759) * subrepo: respect non-default path for incoming/outgoing * subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (Bts:issue2833) * subrepo: use code from 71ea5b only if Python needs it (Bts:issue2795) * tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (Bts:issue2779) == Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01) == This is a regular time-based bugfix release. * convert: make filemap prune useless branch closing revs (Bts:issue2774) * encoding: avoid localstr when a string can be encoded losslessly (Bts:issue2763) * extdiff: fix broken symlinks handling (Bts:issue1909) * help config: explain that config files do not exist by default * hgweb: add bookmark labels to gitweb theme * hgweb: add missing bookmarks definition to coal/map * hgweb: add missing bookmarks templates to atom/rss styles * hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to gitweb theme * hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to monoblue theme * hgweb: detect change based on changelog size too * hgweb: fix inconsistant display of graphlog (Bts:issue1706) * hgweb: fix typo and inactive link in page_nav and page_header of gitweb's help * hgweb: fix typo in page-header of monoblue's help template * hgweb: format page_nav of gitweb/error.tmpl and add missing links * rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (Bts:issue2725) * subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions * subrepo: prevent url normalization from removing // in ssh paths (Bts:issue2556) * subrepo: tell Subversion when we are non-interactive (Bts:issue2759) * url: use a regex to hide unsupported ssh passwords (Bts:issue2754) * zeroconf: notify the Zeroconf threads when hg exits == Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01) == This is a regular time-based bugfix release. * bookmarks: discard current bookmark if absent from the bookmarks (Bts:issue2692) * bookmarks: fix update of the current bookmark during rename * color: port to using ctypes (Bts:issue2687) * convert/svn: fix _iterfiles() output in root dir case (Bts:issue2647) * eol: do not abort when win32text is found, only warn * eol: use dirstate methods to clear dirstate * fix compiling of extensions for OS X and XCode 4.0 * hgweb: add display of bookmarks for changelog and changeset * hgweb: add separate page with bookmarks listing * merge: avoid unlinking destination of merge when case changes (Bts:issue2715) * mq: do not let qrefresh write bad patch * pager: don't page stderr if it's being redirected (Bts:issue2541) * push/outgoing: print remote target path even if there's an error (Bts:issue2561) * subrepo: recognize scp-style paths as git URLs * templates: widen the graph canvas (Bts:issue2683) == Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10) == This release backs out a behavior change for so-called 'fast-forward' merges on named branches. * annotate: rewrite to deal with crossed linkrevs (Bts:issue2682) * bookmark: fix invalidation of localrepo._bookmarkcurrent * cacert: improve error report when web.cacert file does not exist * contrib: update tcsh_completion for Mercurial 1.8 * hgcia: accept "queued." xmlrpc return as success * hgweb: fix filelog rss links generation * hgweb: use tip in gitweb/monoblue filelog rss links (Bts:issue2677) * merge: back out single-parent fast-forward merge * merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (Bts:issue2680) * merge: improve unresolved conflicts warning (Bts:issue2681) * mergetools: add alternate registry keys for 32bit apps on 64bit O/S * mq: forbid commit of merge involving mq patches * subrepo: backout 67fbe566eff1, --force requires svn >= 1.5 * subrepo: don't crash when git repo is missing * subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions * wix: drop bin/ folder from MSI installers (Bts:issue2673) == Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01) == |
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| == 1.6.4 (2010-10-01) == This is a monthly bugfix release. * archive: set date to 1980 for very old zip files * bookmarks: fix _bookmarks/lookup() reentrancy issue (Bts:issue2016) * color: add win32 support for non-black background * context: fix filectx.undelete() (Bts:issue2388) * convert/darcs: handle non-ASCII metadata in darcs changelog (Bts:issue2354) * convert/svn: fix broken symlink renames in svn sink * core: use lexists() instead of exists() where appropriate * hgweb: Fix memory leak when using hg commands over http repositories * hgweb: correct Content-Type header values for archive downloads * log: include unmodified-in-merge files in log diff/stat (Bts:issue2383) * mq: always require --force when pushing patches (Bts:issue2363) * patch: do not overwrite broken untracked symlinks * patch: fix rename text to binary file (Bts:issue2400) * patch: fix target when patching broken symlinks (Bts:issue2368) * patch: upgrade to git patch when removing binary file * rename: do not overwrite existing broken symlinks * url: verify correctness of https server certificates (Bts:issue2407) * util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (Bts:issue2278) * verify: fix "missing revlog!" errors for revlog format v0 and add test * win32: add Emacs scripts to Inno Setup installer * win32: add hgweb scripts to Inno Setup installer == 1.6.3 (2010-08-26) == This is a monthly bugfix release. It includes several significant fixes, including a fix for a long-standing hardlink corruption issue on Windows (Bts:issue761). * alias: make shadowing behavior more consistent (Bts:issue2054) * bisect: better message for unrelated starting revisions * bookmarks: Check if the bookmark to delete exists on the remote * bookmarks: guard against listing bookmarks on unsupported repos * chunkbuffer: use += rather than cStringIO to reduce memory footprint * convert: Using --dest-type svn crashed, if the source repo used tags. * convert: properly set encoding for gnuarch converter * convert: use encoding.encoding instead of locale.getpreferredencoding() * encoding: improve handling of buggy getpreferredencoding() on Mac OS X * graphlog: mark --branch as incompatible with --graph * http basic auth: reset redirect counter on new requests (Bts:issue2255) * httprepo: decompress stream incrementally to reduce memory usage * log: fix the bug 'hg log --stat -p == hg log --stat' * mercurial.spec: gettext is a build requirement for getting proper localization * merge: drop reference to file contents after write * merge: move reverse-merge logic out of filemerge (Bts:issue2342) * merge: fix detection of conflict markers with checkconflicts enabled * mq: don't inherit default and default-push paths with --mq (Bts:issue2333) * resolve: updated help documentation for improved clarity * revlog: drop cache after use to save memory footprint * templatefilters: unnest uescape() * templates: add filenolink to raw style (Bts:issue2332) * url: expand vars in all [auth] settings (Bts:issue2328) * url: limit expansion to safe auth keys (Bts:Issue2328) * util: avoid using hashlib on Python < 2.5 (Bts:issue2278) * verify: initialize rp variable in case we hit out of memory * verify: reduce memory footprint when unpacking files * verify: report exceptions that don't have a str() method * win32: correctly break hardlinks on network drives (Bts:issue761) == 1.6.2 (2010-08-02) == This release addresses a regression in the color extension. * color: pass write/write_err to win32print correctly (Bts:issue2312) * convert/progress: use plural and avoid retrieving * color: call correct superclass method in write_err == 1.6.1 (2010-08-01) == This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release. * alias: ensure checksignature() is applied directly to the command (Bts:issue2286) * bash/zsh completion: use HGPLAIN when invoking hg (Bts:issue2297) * bookmarks: don't allow name to contain whitespaces only * bookmarks: ensure current bookmark is updated when specified with -r . * bundle: lookup revisions after addbranchrevs * color/progress: subclass ui instead of using wrapfunction (Bts:issue2096) * commit: only warn when reopening the workdir's branch * dispatch: give better error message when cwd doesn't exist (Bts:issue2293) * doc: make sure we use our own code for generating man pages * filelog: cmp: don't read data if hashes are identical (Bts:issue2273) * filelog: test behaviour for data starting with "\1\n" * hg.clone: fix branch value when passing a repo object (Bts:issue2267) * hgweb.wsgi: add a URL to the corresponding wiki documentation * hgwebdir: allow pure relative globs in paths * hgwebdir: use template paths configured in the hgrc (Bts:issue2281) * init: create target directory recursively * inotify: check all components of filenames against hgignore (Bts:issue884) * keyword: move collecting of [keyword] patterns to reposetup (Bts:issue2303) * log: fix missing diff output for hg log -p in subdirectory * log: follow filenames through renames (Bts:issue647) * mail: ensure that Python2.4 to 2.7 use the same header format * mercurial.spec: rename docutils to python-docutils in BuildRequires * mq: clarify the fact that qimport is trying to read a file * mq: cleanup status if applied mq is stripped (Bts:issue1881) * mq: fixed ENOENT when qrename to new/directory.patch * mq: reset self.added after the mq transaction instead of inside qimport * qpush --move: move the right patch even with comment lines * rebase: re-add patches to mq repo after rebase * revert: rename original to .orig instead of copying (Bts:issue2282) * revset: fix ancestor subset handling (Bts:issue2298) * runrst: try to be more helpful if docutils is not installed * tag: do not allow tag names to consist solely of whitespace (Bts:issue2307) * transplant: crash if repo.commit() finds nothing to commit == 1.6 (2010-07-01) == (This release makes a couple small behavior changes, be sure to read UpgradeNotes!) === Core === * addremove: optimize `addremove -s100` by matching files by their SHA1 hashes * archive: auto-detect archive type by extension (Bts:issue2058) * commit: more friendly handling of new and closed named branches * hooks: provide pre- and post- hooks with parsed command line arguments * log: add `--branch` for filtering on named branch * log: add `--stat` for diffstat output * push: add `--new-branch` option to allow initial push of new branches * push: break infinite http recursion bug with Python 2.6.5 (Bts:issue2179) * rollback: add `-n`/`--dry-run` flag, report what's being rolled back * subrepo: various fixes * summary: report copies and renames and add subrepo status * tag: add `-e`/`--edit` option for modifying the commit message * revsets: introduce a powerful query language for specifying revisions, see [[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hg.1.html#revsets|the manpage]] or `hg help revsets` === Hgweb === * unify and simplify `hgweb.cgi` and `hgwebdir.cgi` scripts * fix race in refreshing repo list (Bts:issue2188) * simplify `hgweb.cgi`, add help pointer * deliver shell hook output to client * allow `--port=0` to specify "choose free port number automatically" * improved templater performance === Help === * add new hgweb, glossary, and revsets topics * numerous improvements to help text === Extensions === * acl: support for access control base on branches and user-defined or OS-level groups * acl: added support for `pretxncommit`, so that one can call the ACL hook at (?) * bookmarks: add support for pushing and pulling bookmarks * churn: add possibility to include/exclude paths * color: add support for Windows consoles * color: colorize based on output labels instead of parsing output * extdiff: add labels, read diff arguments from `[merge-tools]` * keyword: offer svn-like default keywordmaps * keyword: support (q)record * mq: add a line to hg summary * mq: `qpush --move`, reorder patch series and apply only the patch * progress: progress support for many more commands * rebase: add option to not commit after a collapsing == 1.5.4 (2010-06-01) == This is a scheduled monthly minor bugfix release. * dispatch: include Python version in traceback * push: update help * status: avoid performance regression when no .hgsub is present * clone: fix performance issue with hardlinks and Windows shares * hgweb: fix race in refreshing repo list (Bts:issue2188) * hgrc: clarify that hgrc keys can be overridden and sections can be split * eol: [[EolExtension|new extension]] for managing file newlines based on a version controlled configuration file * pager: fork and exec pager as parent process with /bin/sh -c * rebase: stress that only local changesets should be rebased * convert/svn: close gettags() log stream (Bts:issue2196) * record: check that we are not committing a merge before patch selection == 1.5.3 (2010-05-13) == This is an unscheduled bugfix release to fix Bts:issue2181 (commit generates traceback on Nonetype). Also included: * various improvements to SVN conversion support * minor doc improvements == 1.5.2 (2010-05-01) == This is a monthly bugfix release with numerous minor fixes including: === Core === * clone: fix URL too long problem with many heads * commands: revised documentation of 'default' and 'default-push' * copies: properly visit file context ancestors on working file contexts * diffstat: use ui.plain() instead of ui.interactive() * dirstate: fix in memory dirstate entries for 1-second race * dispatch: don't mangle !ImportError abort messages * filemerge: use working dir parent as ancestor for backward wdir merge * hgrc.5: describe form of config values and mention lists as well * hgweb: fix attribute error in error response (Bts:issue2060) * log: document the new xml style * merge: correctly compute the flag for noexec filesystems * patch: don't look for headers in diff lines * push: fix bug in warning message selection * revlog: fix lazyparser.__iter__() to return all revisions (Bts:issue2137) * static-http: allow clone -r (Bts:issue2164) * subrepo: fix repo root path handling in svn subrepo * subrepo: propagate and catch push failures * templates: document missing template variables * util: fix default termwidth() under Windows * util: use an explicit prefix for checkexec/checklink temporary files === Extensions === * convert/cvs: skip bad tags * convert/git: check status when reading output stream * convert/subversion: fix default URL checker prototype * mq: rewrite strip docstrings * mq: use util.unlink instead of os.unlink and os.removedirs * schemes: fix // breakage with Python 2.6.5 (Bts:issue2111) == 1.5.1 (2010-04-01) == === Core === * improve warning on adding large files * expand ~ in auth filenames and aliases * several improvements to patch parsing * warn about attempts to use hg branch to switch branches * push: fix bug in prepush logic and its tests * hgweb: fix broken URLs of RSS/Atom feeds * subrepo: several bug fixes === Extensions === * acl: added support for '*' (everyone) in user list * progress: use stderr instead of stdout * schemes: add Kiln On Demand to default schemes == 1.5 (2010-03-06) == (This release makes a number of small behavior changes, be sure to read UpgradeNotes!) === Core === * improved behavior for named branches with `heads` command * new XML output template for logs * `import` extract multiple patches from emails, mboxes, files, and URLs * new `patch.eol=auto` option to ignore patch line-endings while preserving target file endings. * new `-b/--branch` option for `clone, bundle, incoming, outgoing, pull, and push` * new `server.validate` option to validate completeness of pushed changesets * subrepos now has basic Subversion support * support for SSL server certificates and improved IPv6 support * the `HGPLAIN` environment variable makes output more stable for scripts === Extensions === * new [[ProgressExtension|progress bar extension]] * mq: new `--mq` option to make regular commands operate on queue repository * mq: automatically upgrade conventional patches to git format where needed * color: add support for bookmarks, `resolve -l`, and `churn --diffstat` * convert: two CVS history editing hooks * win32mbcs: add configuration to specify path encoding * zeroconf: many bug fixes * rebase: new `--detach` option for rebase === Web Interface === * improve navigation on log and graph pages * support for pluggable authorization * raw templates for tags/branches pages * add wsgi script for Microsoft IIS with isapi-wsgi === Windows === * add WiX installer scripts to contrib/wix * handle configuration files in <install-dir>\hgrc.d * expand environment variables specified in merge tools paths === Help and Documentation === * greatly improve error messages and command documentation * support extended documentation with --verbose * provide help for disabled extensions and commands == See also == * [[UpgradeNotes|Upgrade notes]] describe possible compatibility issues * Advice on [[UpgradingMercurial|upgrading Mercurial]] * [[WhatsNew/Archive|Archive]] of older release notes * Our [[TimeBasedReleasePlan|time-based release plan]] * [[API_Changes|API Changes]] for developers of third-party extensions |
Release Notes
Features and bugfixes in our latest releases.
Note that Mercurial follows a time based release plan with major releases every four months and minor (bugfix) releases on the first of every month (see TimeBasedReleasePlan).
Be sure to read the upgrade notes when upgrading.
Contents
- Mercurial 1.9.1 (2011-08-01)
- Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)
- Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01)
- Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01)
- Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01)
- Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10)
- Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01)
- Mercurial 1.7.5 (2011-02-01)
- Mercurial 1.7.4 (2011-02-01)
- Mercurial 1.7.3 (2011-01-01)
- Mercurial 1.7.2 (2010-12-01)
- Mercurial 1.7.1 (2010-11-15)
- Mercurial 1.7 (2010-11-01)
(See archive for older versions.)
1. Mercurial 1.9.1 (2011-08-01)
This is a regular bugfix release. It fixes several regressions introduced in 1.9. The hgweb server now disables MIME type guessing by default to avoid a potential cross-site scripting issue when hosting untrusted repositories (issue2923). See UpgradeNotes for more info.
- dispatch: make sure global options on the command line take precedence
- eol: ignore IOError from deleted files in commitctx
hgcia: set default value of strip to -1 (issue2891)
hgweb: do not ignore [auth] if url has a username (issue2822)
hgweb: handle 'baseurl' configurations with leading slash (issue2934)
hgweb: raw file mimetype guessing configurable, off by default (BC) (issue2923)
- httpclient: import ca33b88d143c from py-nonblocking-http (issue2932)
- patch: fix parsing patch files containing CRs not followed by LFs
rebase: block collapse with keepbranches on multiple named branches (issue2112)
revert: restore check for uncommitted merge (issue2915) (BC)
revsets: catch type error on tip^p1(tip) (issue2884)
revsets: do the right thing with x^:y (issue2884)
subrepo: handle adding svn subrepo with a svn:external file in it (issue2931)
subrepo: use working copy of .hgsub to filter status (issue2901)
url: store and assume the query part of an url is in escaped form (issue2921)
util: rename the util.localpath that uses url to urllocalpath (issue2875)
verify: filter messages about missing null manifests (issue2900)
web: output a correct date in short format (issue2902)
win32: assign winstdout to sys.stdout as well (issue2888)
2. Mercurial 1.9 (2011-07-01)
This is a regular feature release. See UpgradeNotes for some minor compatibility notes.
2.1. Major features
New fileset file matching support
- Improved remote changeset discovery
New command server mode to improve application integration
- Experimental generaldelta storage scheme
- Experimental new http client library
2.2. Command changes
- HGPLAIN: allow exceptions to plain mode, like i18n, via HGPLAINEXCEPT
- manifest: add new option --all
- aliases: add positional arguments to non-shell aliases
add: introduce a warning message for non-portable filenames (issue2756)
- add: notify when adding a file that would cause a case-folding collision
bisect: new command to extend the bisect range (issue2690)
- bookmarks: allow deactivating current bookmark with -i
- bundle: update current bookmark to most recent revision on current branch
- diff: make diff -c aware of revision sets
help: add -c/--command flag to only show command help (issue2799)
- help: add -e/--extension switch to display extension help text
help: move hgignore man page into built-in help (issue2769)
- http: correctly handle redirects from http to https
- identify: list bookmarks for remote repositories
- import: add --bypass option
- paths: Add support for -q/--quiet
- pushkey: add hooks for pushkey/listkeys
- revset: add aliases
- revset: add ^ and ~ operators from parentrevspec extension
- revset: add a revset command to get bisect state
- revset: add desc(string) to search in commit messages
- revset: add follow(filename) to follow a filename's history across copies
- revset: introduce filelog() to emulate log's fast path
- revset: add a last() function
2.3. Web changes
- add bookmarks listing to raw style and summary pages
- support alternate logo url
add base link to file log for paper and coal styles (issue2452)
- paper, coal: display diffstat on the changeset page
- elapsed time calculation dynamic (javascript)
- provide diffstat and summary on the changeset page
2.4. Extension changes
hgcia: handle URL like in notify (issue2406)
rebase: add -m/--message to rebase --collapse (issue2389)
- Updating hgext.extdiff to use revsets
- bash_completion: enable alias auto-complete
- bugzilla: add XMLRPC interface
- color: add support for terminfo-based attributes and color
- convert/mtn: add support for using monotone's "automate stdio" when available
- convert/svn: stop using svn bindings when pushing to svn
- convert: add bookmark support for hg and git backends
- convert: add svnrev, svnpath and svnuuid template keywords
- extdiff: add repository root as a variable
- graphlog: support more log command features with revsets
- keyword: convert a verbatim block to a field list
- keyword: offer additional datefilters when the extension is enabled
- mq: add a 'mq()' revset predicate that returns applied mq csets
- notify: send changesets on 'outgoing' hook, updated doc
- progress: add speed format
- rebase: add --tool argument for specifying merge tool
- rebase: allow for rebasing descendants onto ancestors on different named branches
- record: add an option to backup all wc modifications
- record: add qrefresh -i/--interactive
- record: add white space diff options
- record: alias qrecord to qnew -i/--interactive
2.5. Bug fixes
bookmarks: allow create/move bookmark without making it current (issue2788)
bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (issue1877)
changegroup: do not count closed new heads (issue2697)
config: handle comment lines in continuations (issue2854)
dispatch: propagate ui command options to the local ui (issue2523)
eol: make the hook check all new heads, not only tip (issue2666)
grep: don't print data from binary files for matches (issue2614)
http: report unexpected unparsable push responses (issue2777)
- httprepo: handle large lengths by bypassing the len() operator
httprepo: long arguments support (issue2126)
httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (issue2019)
httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (issue2828)
localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (issue2761)
localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (issue2750)
merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (issue2680)
patch: do not patch unknown files (issue752)
path_auditor: check filenames for basic platform validity (issue2755)
rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (issue2725)
rebase: preserve mq series order after rebasing (issue2849)
rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (issue2107)
revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (issue2654)
scmutil: improve path calculation for install-relative RC files (issue2841)
set NOT_CONTENT_INDEXED on .hg dir (issue2694)
sslutil: fall back to commonName when no dNSName in subjectAltName (issue2798)
subrepo: be more careful with deletions of .hgsub and .hgsubstate (issue2844)
subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (issue2759)
subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (issue2833)
subrepo: be smarter about what's an absolute path (issue2808)
svn subrepo: attempt work around obstructed checkouts (issue2752)
svn subrepos: work around checkout obstructions (issue2752)
tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (issue2779)
util: add Mac-specific check whether we're in a GUI session (issue2553)
3. Mercurial 1.8.4 (2011-06-01)
This is a regular time-based bugfix release.
bookmarks: do not forward merged bookmark (issue1877)
- changelog: convert user and desc from local encoding early
- fix bookmarks rollback behavior
- hgrc.5: document shell aliases
httprepo: proper handling of invalid responses without content-type (issue2019)
httprepo: send URL redirection notices to stderr (issue2828)
localrepo: don't add deleted files to list of modified/added files (issue2761)
localrepo: ignore tags to unknown nodes (issue2750)
mq: strip extra whitespace from node ids in header (issue2790)
rebase: restore mq guards after rebasing (issue2107)
- revset: expand help for contains predicate
- revset: note case-insensitive matches in keyword and user
- revset: note case-sensitive match in grep
revset: report a parse error if a revset is not parsed completely (issue2654)
- revset: the name is optional for the tag predicate
- simplemerge: do not allow binary files to abort an entire merge
strip: make it clear that --force discards changes (issue310)
subrepo: don't crash when git .hgsubstate is empty (issue2716)
subrepo: make stdin for svn a pipe for non-interactive use (issue2759)
- subrepo: respect non-default path for incoming/outgoing
subrepo: svn abort now depends on exit code (issue2833)
subrepo: use code from 71ea5b only if Python needs it (issue2795)
tags: catch more corruption during cache parsing (issue2779)
4. Mercurial 1.8.3 (2011-05-01)
This is a regular time-based bugfix release.
convert: make filemap prune useless branch closing revs (issue2774)
encoding: avoid localstr when a string can be encoded losslessly (issue2763)
extdiff: fix broken symlinks handling (issue1909)
- help config: explain that config files do not exist by default
- hgweb: add bookmark labels to gitweb theme
- hgweb: add missing bookmarks definition to coal/map
- hgweb: add missing bookmarks templates to atom/rss styles
- hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to gitweb theme
- hgweb: add separate bookmarks listing to monoblue theme
- hgweb: detect change based on changelog size too
hgweb: fix inconsistant display of graphlog (issue1706)
- hgweb: fix typo and inactive link in page_nav and page_header of gitweb's help
- hgweb: fix typo in page-header of monoblue's help template
- hgweb: format page_nav of gitweb/error.tmpl and add missing links
rebase: don't mark file as removed if missing in parent's manifest (issue2725)
- subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions
subrepo: prevent url normalization from removing // in ssh paths (issue2556)
subrepo: tell Subversion when we are non-interactive (issue2759)
url: use a regex to hide unsupported ssh passwords (issue2754)
- zeroconf: notify the Zeroconf threads when hg exits
5. Mercurial 1.8.2 (2011-04-01)
This is a regular time-based bugfix release.
bookmarks: discard current bookmark if absent from the bookmarks (issue2692)
- bookmarks: fix update of the current bookmark during rename
color: port to using ctypes (issue2687)
convert/svn: fix _iterfiles() output in root dir case (issue2647)
- eol: do not abort when win32text is found, only warn
- eol: use dirstate methods to clear dirstate
- fix compiling of extensions for OS X and XCode 4.0
- hgweb: add display of bookmarks for changelog and changeset
- hgweb: add separate page with bookmarks listing
merge: avoid unlinking destination of merge when case changes (issue2715)
- mq: do not let qrefresh write bad patch
pager: don't page stderr if it's being redirected (issue2541)
push/outgoing: print remote target path even if there's an error (issue2561)
- subrepo: recognize scp-style paths as git URLs
templates: widen the graph canvas (issue2683)
6. Mercurial 1.8.1 (2011-03-10)
This release backs out a behavior change for so-called 'fast-forward' merges on named branches.
annotate: rewrite to deal with crossed linkrevs (issue2682)
- bookmark: fix invalidation of localrepo._bookmarkcurrent
- cacert: improve error report when web.cacert file does not exist
- contrib: update tcsh_completion for Mercurial 1.8
- hgcia: accept "queued." xmlrpc return as success
- hgweb: fix filelog rss links generation
hgweb: use tip in gitweb/monoblue filelog rss links (issue2677)
- merge: back out single-parent fast-forward merge
merge: drop resolve state for mergers with identical contents (issue2680)
merge: improve unresolved conflicts warning (issue2681)
- mergetools: add alternate registry keys for 32bit apps on 64bit O/S
- mq: forbid commit of merge involving mq patches
subrepo: backout 67fbe566eff1, --force requires svn >= 1.5
- subrepo: don't crash when git repo is missing
- subrepo: handle svn tracked/unknown directory collisions
wix: drop bin/ folder from MSI installers (issue2673)
7. Mercurial 1.8 (2011-03-01)
7.1. Core
Bookmarks are now a core feature (see UpgradeNotes)
New listfile: pattern-matching (patterns)
- Revset syntax supported by most commands
- Performance improvements for reading large repository indexes
- Certificate validation for HTTPS proxies
7.2. Subrepos
- New support for git subrepos
- Various improvements to merge, update, and commit logic
7.3. Windows
- Numerous robustness improvements for quirks in Windows file handling
Now uses the native ctypes module rather than PyWin32
7.4. Extensions
- eol: filter aliases for compatibility with win32text
mq: --exact option for qpush
- mq: various robustness improvements
- progress: remaining time estimates
8. Mercurial 1.7.5 (2011-02-01)
This is a quick bugfix release to include some fixes accidentally dropped from 1.7.4.
- subrepo: fix update -C with svn subrepos when cwd != repo.root
- subrepo: make update -C clean the working directory for svn subrepos
- url: add --insecure option to bypass verification of ssl certificates
- win32mbcs: Fix typo in documentation
9. Mercurial 1.7.4 (2011-02-01)
This is a scheduled bugfix release that smooths out some of the rough edged introduced with 1.7.3's HTTPS certificate verification.
- bookmarks: always write undo file
- bookmarks: respect rollbacks dryrun parameter
- hgrc.5: mention that web.cacerts are run through util.expandpath
opener: force copy on 'a'ppend if nlinks() returns 0 (issue1922)
- subrepo: compare svn subrepo state to last committed revision
- subrepo: do not report known files inside repositories as unknown
url: 'ssh known host'-like checking of fingerprints of HTTPS certificates (see CACertificates)
- url: check subjectAltName when verifying ssl certificate
- url: expand path for web.cacerts
url: fix UnicodeDecodeError on certificate verification error
- win32: add cacert.pem file to Inno Setup installer
win32: win32console.GetStdHandle() can return None
10. Mercurial 1.7.3 (2011-01-01)
This is a scheduled bugfix release.
- archive: don't set gzip filename header when there's no filename
checknlink: use two testfiles (issue2543)
churn: ignore trailing and leading spaces (issue2546)
- date: fix matching of underspecified date ranges
- eol: improve help on whether EOLs are changed in working copy or repository
- fncachestore: copy dh directory before the manifest
- hgweb: abort if config file isn't found
- hook: assume relative path to hook is given from repo root
- hook: fix import path handling for repo=None
- https: use web.cacerts configuration from local repo to validate remote repo
https: warn when server certificate isn't verified (see CACertificates)
- keyword: copy: when copied source is a symlink, follow it
- patch: write .rej files without rewriting EOLs
strip: typo bugfix related to '--nobackup -> --no-backup' rename (issue2377)
tag: abort if not at a branch head (issue2552)
- tag: don't check .hgtags status if --local passed
tag: fix uncommitted merge check and error message (issue2542)
util: fix ellipsis() not to break multi-byte sequence (issue2564)
- util: work around behavior change in Python 2.7.1
windows.rename: eliminate temp name race (issue2571)
wix: add an ssl certificate file to the WiX installers (see CACertificates)
11. Mercurial 1.7.2 (2010-12-01)
This is a scheduled bugfix release.
checknlink: return False if .hgtmp file preexists (issue2517)
commit: search both parents for missing copy revision (issue2484)
- context: walk both parents for workingctx.ancestors()
- convert/svn: fix changed files list upon directory replacements
hgwebdir: fix incorrect index generation for invalid paths (issue2023)
- keyword: copy: when copied source is a symlink, follow it
mq: ignore subrepos (issue2499)
- rebase: support --detach when null is common ancestor
- subrepo: fix removing read-only svn files on Windows
- subrepo: handle missing subrepo spec file as removed
- subrepo: prune empty directories when removing svn subrepo
- subrepo: use subprocess directly to avoid python 2.6 bug
util: do not crash on revisions with negative timestamp (issue2513)
util: do not recurse in makedirs if name is '' (issue2528)
- win32mbcs: use extsetup() to wrap functions only once
- wix: add support for x64 native MSI packages
12. Mercurial 1.7.1 (2010-11-15)
This is an unscheduled bugfix release. 1.7 clients broke support for pushing bookmarks with HTTP.
alias: fall back to normal error handling for ambigious commands (issue2475)
bundlerepository: get rid of temporary bundle files (issue2478)
- bundlerepository: test self.tempfile field, not tempfile module
eol: exclude .hgtags file from eol translation (issue2493)
log: fix log -rREV FILE when REV isnt the last filerev (issue2492)
opener: check hardlink count reporting (issue1866)
pushkey: force HTTP POST on push and add tests (issue2489)
- revlog: fix descendants() if nullrev is in revs
subrepo: test & fix svn subrepo removal
win32: remove try-catch block of GetModuleFileNameEx (issue2480)
13. Mercurial 1.7 (2010-11-01)
13.1. Core
filelog: improve cmp performances (issue2273)
patch: don't strip '#' lines from patch descriptions (issue2417)
- patch: when native patching fails (ui.patch is not set), don't retry with an external tool
- setup/hg: always load Mercurial from where it was installed.
- setup: user-friendly error message if Python headers are missing
store: new unsupported and experimental parentdelta format (see UpgradeNotes)
store: encode first period or space in filenames (issue1713)
url: expand environment variables in [auth] settings (issue2328)
url: check validity (notBefore/notAfter) using OpenSSL (issue2407)
13.2. Commands
- addremove: use similarity 100 by default
- alias: add support for shell command aliases starting with '!' (see [alias] in hgrc(5))
- backout: add --tool argument for specifying merge tool
- backout: backout linearly by default instead of branching and merging (use --merge to get the former behaviour)
dispatch: properly handle relative path aliases used with -R (issue2376)
- init: expand destination url as a configured paths
log: do not --follow file that is deleted and recreated later (issue732)
- merge: don't detect copies as "divergent renames", make diagnostic message more helpful
- merge: add --tool argument to merge and resolve
merge: handle no file parent in backwards merge (issue2364)
tags: do not fail if tags.cache is corrupted (issue2444)
- templater: add "hex" filter and "children" keywords (see hg help templating)
13.3. Subrepos
- support remapping of subrepository source paths (see [subpaths] in hgrc(5))
- make add, diff, incoming, outgoing and status commands recurse into subrepos with --subrepos/-S
- subrepo: add support for 'hg archive'
subrepo: fix status check on SVN subrepos (issue2445)
13.4. Revsets
- add id() and rev() to allow explicit references to changes by hash or rev (see hg help revsets)
- add min() function to complement max()
- add present() function to avoid lookup errors on possibly missing changesets
- rename tagged() to tag() and allow it to take an optional tag name
- strip: add revsets support
add revsets support to bisect and update (issue1993)
- bookmarks: add a bookmark([name]) revset for referencing bookmarks
- transplant: add a transplanted(set) revset to get transplanted revisions
13.5. hgweb
- add a help view for accessing the built-in documentation (see help link in hg serve)
- let HTTPS serve use more compatible but less secure encryption
support very simple caching model (issue1845)
13.6. Extensions
- color: better support for branches and mq guards
convert: handle closed branch heads in hg-hg conversion (issue2185)
convert: support darcs changelogs with bytes 0x7F-0xFF (issue2411)
convert: deprecate --authors in preference for --authormap
graphlog: support header and footer templates when using styles (issue2395)
- keyword: do not expand at all during diff
- keyword: support copy and rename
mq: extend support for the --mq argument to extension commands
mq: save qrefresh message for easy recovery in case it fails (issue2062)
mq: support hg qimport --existing --name renametothis thatexistingpatch, fix --force case on Windows
- mq/qqueue: support renaming of active queue
mq/qqueue: add --purge option to delete a queue and its patches
pager: add global --pager=<auto/boolean> option
patchbomb: add --confirm option to show series details and ask for confirmation
- patchbomb: let diffstat prompt only once with complete summary
- progress: support rebase and patchbomb
- rebase: re-add patches to mq repo after rebase
strip: add --keep flag to avoid modifying working directory during strip
strip: rename --nobackup option to --no-backup (issue2377)
- strip: support stripping multiple revisions
13.7. contrib
- mergetools.hgrc: add vimdiff
- zsh completion: support bookmarks and patchbomb extensions
- zsh completion: add qpush --move option
13.8. Windows
- 64-bit Inno Setup installer
handle spaces in path to Python (issue2074)