 The last release of Baz was version 1.4.3, released October 2005.A planned 1.5 release of Baz was abandoned in 2006.In February 2005, Martin Pool, a developer who had previously described and reviewed a number of revision control systems in talks and in his weblog, announced that he had been hired by Canonical and tasked with "build[ing] a distributed version-control system that open-source hackers will love to use."