bzr 1.8 released

[Martin Pool]

I'm happy to announce the release of Bazaar 1.8.

Bazaar 1.8 includes several fixes that improve working tree performance,
display of revision logs, and merges.  The bzr testsuite now passes on
OS X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes on Windows.  The
smartserver code has gained several bug fixes and performance
improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an http server.

Thanks to everyone who contributed patches, suggestions, questions and
bug reports.  We welcome your feedback on this release to
address@hidden or to #bzr on freenode.

bzr 1.8 is now available for download from 
http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download as a source tarball; packages
for various systems will be available soon.

-- 
Martin



bzr 1.8 2008-10-16
------------------

Bazaar 1.8 includes several fixes that improve working tree performance,
display of revision logs, and merges.  The bzr testsuite now passes on OS
X and Python 2.6, and almost completely passes on Windows.  The
smartserver code has gained several bug fixes and performance
improvements, and can now run server-side hooks within an http server.

  BUG FIXES:

   * Fix "Must end write group" error when another error occurs during
     ``bzr push``.  (Andrew Bennetts, #230902)

  PORTABILITY:

   * Some Pyrex versions require the WIN32 macro defined to compile on
     that platform.  (Alexander Belchenko, Martin Pool, #277481)


bzr 1.8rc1 2008-10-07
---------------------

  CHANGES:

    * ``bzr log file`` has been changed. It now uses a different method
      for determining which revisions to show as merging the changes to
      the file. It now only shows revisions which merged the change
      towards your mainline. This simplifies the output, makes it faster,
      and reduces memory consumption.  (John Arbash Meinel)

    * ``bzr merge`` now defaults to having ``--reprocess`` set, whenever
      ``--show-base`` is not supplied.  (John Arbash Meinel)

    * ``bzr+http//`` will now optionally load plugins and write logs on the
      server. (Marius Kruger)

    * ``bzrlib._dirstate_helpers_c.pyx`` does not compile correctly with
      Pyrex 0.9.4.1 (it generates C code which causes segfaults). We
      explicitly blacklist that version of the compiler for that
      extension. Packaged versions will include .c files created with
      pyrex >= 0.9.6 so it doesn't effect releases, only users running
      from the source tree. (John Arbash Meinel, #276868)

  FEATURES

    * bzr is now compatible with python-2.6. python-2.6 is not yet officially
      supported (nor released, tests were conducted with the dev version of
      python-2.6rc2), but all known problems have been fixed.  Feedback
      welcome.
      (Vincent Ladeuil, #269535)

  IMPROVEMENTS:

    * ``bzr annotate`` will now include uncommitted changes from the local
      working tree by default. Such uncommitted changes are given the
      revision number they would get if a commit was done, followed with a
      ? to indicate that its not actually known. (Robert Collins, #3439)

    * ``bzr branch`` now accepts a ``--standalone`` option, which creates a
      standalone branch regardless of the presence of shared repositories.
      (Daniel Watkins)

    * ``bzr push`` is faster in the case there are no new revisions to
      push.  It is also faster if there are no tags in the local branch.
      (Andrew Bennetts)

    * File changes during a commit will update the tree stat cache.
      (Robert Collins)

    * Location aliases can now accept a trailing path.  (Micheal Hudson)

    * New hooks ``Lock.hooks`` when LockDirs are acquired and released. 
      (Robert Collins, MartinPool)

    * Switching in heavyweight checkouts uses the master branch's context, not
      the checkout's context.  (Adrian Wilkins)

    * ``status`` on large trees is now faster, due to optimisations in the
      walkdirs code. Of particular note, the walkdirs code now performs
      a temporary ``chdir()`` while reading a single directory; if your
      platform has non thread-local current working directories (and is
      not windows which has its own implementation), this may introduce a
      race condition during concurrent uses of bzrlib. The bzrlib CLI
      will not encounter this as it is single threaded for working tree
      operations. (Robert Collins)

    * The C extensions now build on python 2.4 (Robert Collins, #271939)

    * The ``-Dhpss`` debug flag now reports the number of smart server
      calls per medium to stderr.  This is in addition to the existing
      detailed logging to the .bzr.log trace file.  (Andrew Bennetts)

  BUG FIXES:

    * Avoid random failures arising from misinterpreted ``errno`` values
      in ``_readdir_pyx.read_dir``.
      (Martin Pool, #279381)

    * Branching from a shared repository on a smart server into a new
      repository now preserves the repository format.
      (Andrew Bennetts, #269214)

    * ``bzr log`` now accepts a ``--change`` option.
      (Vincent Ladeuil, #248427)

    * ``bzr missing`` now accepts an ``--include-merges`` option.
      (Vincent Ladeuil, #233817)

    * Don't try to filter (internally) '.bzr' from the files to be deleted if
      it's not there.
      (Vincent Ladeuil, #272648)

    * Fix '_in_buffer' AttributeError when using the -Dhpss debug flag.
      (Andrew Bennetts)

    * Fix TooManyConcurrentRequests errors caused by a connection failure
      when doing ``bzr pull`` or ``bzr merge`` from a ``bzr+ssh`` URL.
      (Andrew Bennetts, #246233)

    * Fixed ``bzr st -r branch:PATH_TO_BRANCH`` where the other branch
      is in a different repository than the current one.
      (Lukáš Lalinský, #144421)

    * Make the first line of the manpage preamble a comment again.
      (David Futcher, #242106)

    * Remove use of optional parameter in GSSAPI FTP support, since 
      it breaks newer versions of Python-Kerberos. (Jelmer Vernooij)

    * The autopacking logic will now always create a single new pack from
      all of the content which it deems is worth moving. This avoids the
      'repack a single pack' bug and should result in better packing
      overall.  (John Arbash Meinel, #242510, #172644)

    * Trivial documentation fix.
      (John Arbash Meinel, #270471)

  DOCUMENTATION:

    * Explain revision/range identifiers. (Daniel Clemente)

  API CHANGES:

    * ``CommitBuilder.record_entry_contents`` returns one more element in
      its result tuple - an optional file system hash for the hash cache
      to use. (Robert Collins)

    * ``dirstate.DirState.update_entry`` will now only calculate the sha1
      of a file if it is likely to be needed in determining the output
      of iter_changes. (Robert Collins)

    * The PackRepository, RepositoryPackCollection, NewPack classes have a
      slightly changed interface to support different index types; as a
      result other users of these classes need to supply the index types
      they want. (Robert Collins)

  TESTING:

    * ``bzrlib.tests.repository_implementations`` has been renamed to
      ``bzrlib.tests.per_repository`` so that we have a common structure
      (and it is shorter). (John Arbash Meinel, #239343)

    * ``LocalTransport.abspath()`` now returns a drive letter if the
      transport has one, fixing numerous tests on Windows.
      (Mark Hammond)

    * PreviewTree is now tested via intertree_implementations.
      (Aaron Bentley)

    * The full test suite is passing again on OSX.
      (Guillermo Gonzalez, Vincent Ladeuil)

    * The full test suite passes when run with ``-Eallow_debug``.
      (Andrew Bennetts)

  INTERNALS:

    * A new hook, ``Branch.open``, has been added, which is called when
      branch objects are opened. (Robert Collins)

    * ``bzrlib.osutils._walkdirs_utf8`` has been refactored into common
      tree walking, and modular directory listing code to aid future
      performance optimisations and refactoring. (Robert Collins)

    * ``bzrlib.trace.debug_memory`` can be used to get a quick memory dump
      in the middle of processing. It only reports memory if
      ``/proc/PID/status`` is available. (John Arbash Meinel)

    * New method ``RevisionSpec.as_tree`` for representing the revision
      specifier as a revision tree object. (Lukáš Lalinský)

    * New race-free method on MutableTree ``get_file_with_stat`` for use
      when generating stat cache results. (Robert Collins)

    * New win32utils.get_local_appdata_location() provides access to a local
      directory for storing data.  (Mark Hammond)

    * To be compatible with python-2.6 a few new rules should be
      observed. 'message' attribute can't be used anymore in exception
      classes, 'sha' and 'md5' modules have been deprecated (use
      osutils.[md5|sha]), object__init__ and object.__new__ don't accept
      parameters anymore.
      (Vincent Ladeuil)

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