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rust: bump to memmap2 0.5.3, micro-timer 0.4.0, and crossbeam-channel 0.5.0

The merge in 12adf8c695ed had conflicts in rust/Cargo.lock and
rust/hg-core/Cargo.toml . Let's ignore rust/Cargo.lock - it is regenerated.

For rust/hg-core/Cargo.toml, stable had dd6b67d5c256 "rust: fix unsound
`OwningDirstateMap`" which introduced ouroboros (and dropped
stable_deref_trait).

Default had ec8d9b5a5e7c "rust-hg-core: upgrade dependencies" which had a lot
of churn bumping minimum versions - also patch versions. It is indeed a good
idea to bump to *allow* use of latest package. That means that major versions
should be bumped for packages after 1.0, and for packages below 1.0 minor
versions should be bumped too. But it doesn't work to try enforce a policy of
using latest patch by bumping versions at arbitrary times.

For good or bad, the merge doesn't seem to have resolved the conflicts
correctly, and many of the minor "upgrade dependencies" were lost again.

Unfortunately, it also lost the bump of memmap2 to 0.5.3, which is needed for
Fedora packaging where 0.4 isn't available. Same with micro-timer bump to 0.4
(which already is used in rhg). crossbeam-channel bump was also lost.

This change fixes that regression by redoing these "important" lines of the
merge "correctly".

I propose this for stable, even though dependency changes on stable branches
are annoying.

== New Features ==
 
 * `hg purge` is now a core command using `--confirm` by default.
 
 * The `rev-branch-cache` is now updated incrementally whenever changesets
   are added.

 * The new options `experimental.bundlecompthreads` and
   `experimental.bundlecompthreads.<engine>` can be used to instruct
   the compression engines for bundle operations to use multiple threads
   for compression. The default is single threaded operation. Currently
   only supported for zstd.

== Default Format Change ==

These changes affects newly created repositories (or new clone) done with
Mercurial 5.8.

  * The `ZSTD` compression will now be used by default for new repositories
    when available. This compression format was introduced in Mercurial 5.0,
    released in May 2019. See `hg help config.format.revlog-compression` for
    details.

  * Mercurial installation built with the Rust parts will now use the
    "persistent nodemap" feature by default. This feature was introduced in
    Mercurial 5.4 (May 2020). However Mercurial instalation built without the
    fast Rust implementation will refuse to interract with them by default.
    This restriction can be lifted through configuration.

    See `hg help config.format.use-persistent-nodemap` for details

== New Experimental Features ==

 * There's a new `diff.merge` config option to show the changes
    relative to an automerge for merge changesets. This makes it
    easier to detect and review manual changes performed in merge
    changesets. It is supported by `hg diff --change`, `hg log -p`
    `hg incoming -p`, and `hg outgoing -p` so far.


== Bug Fixes ==

 * gracefully recover from inconsistent persistent-nodemap data from disk.


== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==

 * In normal repositories, the first parent of a changeset is not null,
   unless both parents are null (like the first changeset). Some legacy
   repositories violate this condition. The revlog code will now
   silentely swap the parents if this condition is tested. This can
   change the output of `hg log` when explicitly asking for first or
   second parent. The changesets "nodeid" are not affected.


== Internal API Changes ==

 * `changelog.branchinfo` is deprecated and will be removed after 5.8.
   It is superseded by `changelogrevision.branchinfo`.

 * Callbacks for revlog.addgroup and the changelog._nodeduplicatecallback hook
   now get a revision number as argument instead of a node.

 * revlog.addrevision returns the revision number instead of the node.

 * `nodes.nullid` and related constants are being phased out as part of
   the deprecation of SHA1. Repository instances and related classes
   provide access via `nodeconstants` and in some cases `nullid` attributes.