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relnode: document the move to `zstd` as default compression Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D10497
author Pierre-Yves David <pierre-yves.david@octobus.net>
date Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:18:43 +0200
parents 65d18001cfbf
children c3eee5ad1de9
files relnotes/next
diffstat 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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    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.
+
 == New Experimental Features ==
 
  * There's a new `diff.merge` config option to show the changes