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date Mon, 28 Oct 2024 15:50:20 +0100
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1 = Mercurial 6.9rc0 =
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3 /!\ These are release notes for a release candidate version. Any and all points can be reverted before the final release.
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5 == New Features ==
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7 * exchange: improve computation of relevant markers for large repos
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8 * Add a Rust fast-path to speed up update (also for `clone`) from null (up to 4x faster)
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9 * Introduced a new rev-branch-cache version (v2) that is mmap-resistant
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10 * The branchmap's performance was improved
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11 * Improved the performance of the fix for issue6528
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12 * clonebundles: allow manifest to specify sha256 digest of bundles
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13 * merge: improve working-copy mtime race handling
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14 * profiling: add a py-spy profiling backend
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15 * revlog: use an explicit config option to enable mmap usage for index
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16 * revlog: use mmap by default is pre-population is available
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17 * mmap: populate the mapping by default
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18 * mmap: populate mapping in a background thread
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20 == Experimental features ==
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22 * merge: add a config to allow conflict-free merge of changes on adjacent lines
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24 == Bug Fixes ==
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26 * `config.server.validate` now also works on narrowed repositories
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27 * convert: fix various leaked file descriptors
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28 * stream: prefer keeping an open file handle to volatile file instead of copy
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29 * dummysmtpd: fix EOF handling on newer versions of OpenSSL
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30 * cext: correct the argument handling of `b85encode()`
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31 * branchmap-v3: make sure we write the cache after detecting pure-topo mode
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32 * rust: apply clippy lints
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33 * copies: make sure deleted copy info do not overwriting unrelated ones
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34 * rebase: don't call rewriteutil.precheck() with to-be-skipped commits
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35 * phabricator: correct the default value of `phabhunk.corpus`
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36 * linelog: correct the default value of `annotateresult.lines`
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37 * largefiles: avoid a potentially undefined variable in exception case
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38 * httppeer: move a variable to avoid a bad reference before assignment warning
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39 * httppeer: avoid another bad reference before assignment warning
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40 * tests: use packaging from setuptools instead of deprecated distutils
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41 * manifest: type and fix unhexlify
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42 * manifest: align some vfs option access on the fact we might not have options
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43 * scmutils: read the requires file before writing to avoid unnecessary rewrite
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44 * debugsparse: stop taking the store lock
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45 * sparse: reliably avoid writing to store without a lock
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46 * largefiles: sync up `largefilesdirstate` methods with `dirstate` base class
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47 * shelve: raise an error when loading a corrupt state file in an impossible case
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48 * monotone: replace %s interpolation with appropriate numeric specifiers
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49 * shelve: consistently convert exception to bytes via `stringutil.forcebytestr`
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50 * remotefilelog: honor the `--format` arg of the `debugindex` command
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51 * remotefilelog: adapt the `debugindex` command to past API changes
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52 * run-tests: add color to the progress output
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53 * archive: defer opening the output until a file is matched
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54 * help: add :config-doc:`section.key` shorthand to insert documentation
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55 * censor: document the censor.policy option (issue6909)
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56 * rust-revlog: don't try to open the data file if the index is empty
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57 * bundlerepo: fix mismatches with repository and revlog classes
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58 * revlog: make `clearcaches()` signature consistent with ManifestRevlog
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59 * unionrepo: fix mismatches with revlog classes
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60 * keepalive: fix a signature mismatch for a http.client.HTTPResponse subclass
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61 * lfs: fix various signature mismatches for vfs subclasses
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62 * store: fix a signature mismatch for a vfs subclass
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63 * util: avoid a leaked file descriptor in `util.makelock()` exceptional case
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64 * statichttprepo: fix `httprangereader.read()` for py3
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65 * util: make `mmapread()` work on Windows again
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66 * mdiff: tweak calls into `bdiff.fixws` to match its type hints
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67 * base85: avoid a spurious use-before-initialized warning in `pure` module
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68 * install: static data moved from setup.py to pyproject.toml
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69 * upgrade: disable using the parallel workers optimization on macOS
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70 * doc: generate separate commands/topics/extension pages
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71 * extdiff: don't run gui programs when in a cli-only environment
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72 * clonebundles: stop shell quoting `HGCB_BUNDLE_BASENAME` environment variable
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73 * rev-branch-cache: disable mmapping by default on Windows
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75 == Backwards Compatibility Changes ==
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77 * This release drops support for Python 3.6 and 3.7.
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79 == Internal API Changes ==
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81 * manifest: deprecated readdelta and readfast
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83 == Miscellaneous ==
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85 * http: reuse Python's implementation of read/readline/readinto
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86 * http: use urllib's cookie handler
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87 * rev-branch-cache: schedule a write of the "v2" format if we read from "v1"
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88 * rev-branch-cache: have debugupdatecache warm rbc too
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89 * rev-branch-cache: reenable memory mapping of the revision data
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90 * debugwireproto: redo logging to also work for https
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91 * rust: use `.cargo/config.toml` instead of `.cargo/config`
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92 * A whole bunch of typing improvements, which in turn found many bugs
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93 * Test suite improvements
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94 * Various packaging improvements