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rhg-status: use `Filelog` default options when opening filelogs

This is not currently a problem since the options are the same, but would
have become one at some point in the future.

= Mercurial 6.9rc1 =

/!\ These are release notes for a release candidate version. Any and all points can be reverted before the final release.

 * streamclone: disable the volatile file open handle optimization on Windows
 * rust-update: make `update_from_null` respect `worker.numcpu` config option
 * rust-update: handle SIGINT from long-running update threads
 * rust-cpython: add a TODO about repo reuse
 * pytype: add relative timestamp to the output if `ts` is available
 * hgweb: skip logging ConnectionAbortedError

Below are many, many changes that have to do with building/testing wheels,
adding some sharding to the CI and MacOS + Windows compatibility work:

 * run-tests: don't use shell call for subprocess
 * run-tests: add a --hg-wheel options to test a pre-built wheel
 * ci: unify the way `check-pytype` inherit the common setting
 * ci: split the jobs on more stage
 * ci: build a wheel and use it to run c tests
 * tests: stabilize `test-extdiff.t` on macOS
 * tests: disable `test-git-interop.t` with a requirements directive
 * tests: disable a section of `test-hgrc.t` that may hit a zeroconf bug
 * ci: add a runner for Windows 10
 * tests: treat `select` as a built-in module on Windows
 * tests: disable a section of `test-paths.t` that may hit a zeroconf bug
 * tests: conditionalize missing output in test-racy-mutations.t on Windows
 * tests: add a "missing" tests for manifest content in test-racy-mutations.t
 * tests: bump the wait timeouts in test-racy-mutations.t
 * test-install: use the global hg for the install step
 * test-install: glob instance of "python" in warning
 * ci: pre-adjust some identation
 * setup: add a way to force the setup to translate (or fail)
 * ci: use smaller VM to build wheel
 * ci: use a pre-setup many-linux image to build wheel
 * ci: build (and use) wheel for all supported version
 * ci: automatically compute the python tag we use to identify tag
 * run-tests: install wheel using --prefix instead of --user
 * pycompat: drop some now useless workaround for makedirs
 * wheel: build mac os wheel through the CI
 * ci: use the macos wheel to run tests
 * ci: use extends instead of <<: *x
 * ci: move some variables closer to their usage
 * ci: rationalize variable usage
 * ci: abstract the of absolute /tmp/ path
 * ci: move the "tempory work dir" to "concurrency-safe" location
 * ci: adjust the starting port range to runner concurrency
 * ci: have the mac test run if you trigger building the mac wheel
 * run-tests: implement crude sharding support
 * ci: shard the test run on mac os X
 * dev-version: change the scheme of non tagged version
 * wheel: enforce that translation being build for macos wheel
 * run-tests: focus on listing the selected test for the shard tests
 * run-tests: cleanup the "output" directory after the related tests
 * tests: drop PYTHONPATH manipulation in test-pushvars.t
 * windows: work around argument size limitation in test-bookmarks-pushpull.t
 * windows: adjust PYTHONPATH update in test-status-color.t
 * ci: use a concurrency safe TMP dir on Windows
 * ci: again common element into a `.windows` template
 * ci: split the windows runtest invocation into more granular variables
 * windows: skip test-clonebundles-autogen.t in the CI
 * ci: adjust port range on windows too
 * windows: simply rely on the PATH adjustment to find python.exe in tests
 * wheel: assign CIBW_SKIP globally
 * wheel: make --hg-wheel works on Windows
 * wheel: build Windows wheels too
 * wheel: explicitly list built architecture
 * wheel: test the built wheel in the windows tests
 * ci: shard the tests on windows too
 * wheel: enforce that translation being build for windows wheel
 * setup: remote a debug statement that slipped through
 * setup: factor version computation in a function
 * setup: use the same code to compute tag from archive
 * wheel: add a platform level to the wheel directories
 * wheel: add a job uploading nightly build
 * wheels: factor the core of Linux wheel building into a script
 * wheels: update the Linux wheels make target
 * clone: properly exclude rev-branch-cache from post clone cache warming
 * setup: make sure Rust build its extension for the right python
 * setup: preserve version part after the "+" on Windows
 * wheel: build windows wheel for ARM64 too
 * ci: adds a trigger for all pycompat jobs
 * ci: let the Windows runner decide how many job they want to run

= Mercurial 6.9rc0 =

/!\ These are release notes for a release candidate version. Any and all points can be reverted before the final release.

== New Features ==

 * exchange: improve computation of relevant markers for large repos
 * Add a Rust fast-path to speed up update (also for `clone`) from null (up to 4x faster) 
 * Introduced a new rev-branch-cache version (v2) that is mmap-resistant
 * The branchmap's performance was improved
 * Improved the performance of the fix for issue6528
 * clonebundles: allow manifest to specify sha256 digest of bundles
 * merge: improve working-copy mtime race handling
 * profiling: add a py-spy profiling backend
 * revlog: use an explicit config option to enable mmap usage for index
 * revlog: use mmap by default is pre-population is available
 * mmap: populate the mapping by default
 * mmap: populate mapping in a background thread

== Experimental features ==

 * merge: add a config to allow conflict-free merge of changes on adjacent lines

== Bug Fixes ==

 * `config.server.validate` now also works on narrowed repositories
 * convert: fix various leaked file descriptors
 * stream: prefer keeping an open file handle to volatile file instead of copy
 * dummysmtpd: fix EOF handling on newer versions of OpenSSL
 * cext: correct the argument handling of `b85encode()`
 * branchmap-v3: make sure we write the cache after detecting pure-topo mode
 * rust: apply clippy lints
 * copies: make sure deleted copy info do not overwriting unrelated ones
 * rebase: don't call rewriteutil.precheck() with to-be-skipped commits
 * phabricator: correct the default value of `phabhunk.corpus`
 * linelog: correct the default value of `annotateresult.lines`
 * largefiles: avoid a potentially undefined variable in exception case
 * httppeer: move a variable to avoid a bad reference before assignment warning
 * httppeer: avoid another bad reference before assignment warning
 * tests: use packaging from setuptools instead of deprecated distutils
 * manifest: type and fix unhexlify
 * manifest: align some vfs option access on the fact we might not have options
 * scmutils: read the requires file before writing to avoid unnecessary rewrite
 * debugsparse: stop taking the store lock
 * sparse: reliably avoid writing to store without a lock
 * largefiles: sync up `largefilesdirstate` methods with `dirstate` base class
 * shelve: raise an error when loading a corrupt state file in an impossible case
 * monotone: replace %s interpolation with appropriate numeric specifiers
 * shelve: consistently convert exception to bytes via `stringutil.forcebytestr`
 * remotefilelog: honor the `--format` arg of the `debugindex` command
 * remotefilelog: adapt the `debugindex` command to past API changes
 * run-tests: add color to the progress output
 * archive: defer opening the output until a file is matched
 * help: add :config-doc:`section.key` shorthand to insert documentation
 * censor: document the censor.policy option (issue6909)
 * rust-revlog: don't try to open the data file if the index is empty
 * bundlerepo: fix mismatches with repository and revlog classes
 * revlog: make `clearcaches()` signature consistent with ManifestRevlog
 * unionrepo: fix mismatches with revlog classes
 * keepalive: fix a signature mismatch for a http.client.HTTPResponse subclass
 * lfs: fix various signature mismatches for vfs subclasses
 * store: fix a signature mismatch for a vfs subclass
 * util: avoid a leaked file descriptor in `util.makelock()` exceptional case
 * statichttprepo: fix `httprangereader.read()` for py3
 * util: make `mmapread()` work on Windows again
 * mdiff: tweak calls into `bdiff.fixws` to match its type hints
 * base85: avoid a spurious use-before-initialized warning in `pure` module
 * install: static data moved from setup.py to pyproject.toml
 * upgrade: disable using the parallel workers optimization on macOS
 * doc: generate separate commands/topics/extension pages
 * extdiff: don't run gui programs when in a cli-only environment
 * clonebundles: stop shell quoting `HGCB_BUNDLE_BASENAME` environment variable
 * rev-branch-cache: disable mmapping by default on Windows

== Backwards Compatibility Changes ==

 * This release drops support for Python 3.6 and 3.7.

== Internal API Changes ==

 * manifest: deprecated readdelta and readfast

== Miscellaneous ==

 * http: reuse Python's implementation of read/readline/readinto
 * http: use urllib's cookie handler
 * rev-branch-cache: schedule a write of the "v2" format if we read from "v1"
 * rev-branch-cache: have debugupdatecache warm rbc too
 * rev-branch-cache: reenable memory mapping of the revision data
 * debugwireproto: redo logging to also work for https
 * rust: use `.cargo/config.toml` instead of `.cargo/config`
 * A whole bunch of typing improvements, which in turn found many bugs
 * Test suite improvements
 * Various packaging improvements