martin pool bvpcanonicalcom im happy announce release version 13 bazaar version control system httpbazaarvcsorgdownload since 12 weve improved speed several important operations including log annotate operations revision history several bugs fixed new options features added including option hardlink files working trees full history changes listed release bazaar becomes part gnu system decision taken consultation core bazaar developers canonical management richard stallman leader gnu project canonical delighted gnu projects decision remains engaged ever bazaar project martin behalf bazaar developers bzr 13 20080320 testing avoid spurious failure testversiontest_version matching directory names 202778 martin pool bzr 13rc1 20080316 notes upgrading backup directory created upgrade called backupbzr bzrbackup martin albisetti changes new repository format development added format represent latest inprogress format bzr developers interested getting earlyadopter testing feedback docdevelopersdevelopmentrepotxt detailed information robert collins bzr_log environment variable controls location bzrlog trace file user suppress writing messages bzrlog using devnull filename linux nul windows bzr_log variable defined bzr_home defined default location bzrlog trace file bzr_homebzrlog alexander belchenko launchpad builtin plugin shipped separate part standalone bzrexe installed cprogram filesbazaarplugins directory standalone installer allows user skip installation plugin alexander belchenko restore autodetection plinkexe windows dmitry vasiliev version number shown 12 12pr2 without zeroed missing final fields martin pool features branch checkout hardlink working tree files faster saves space aaron bentley bzr send also look child_submit_to setting submit branch determine email address send jelmer vernooij improvements bzrbranch_lefthand_history faster pack repos aaron bentley branch6generate_revision_history faster aaron bentley directory services registered allowing special urls dereferenced real urls generalization cleanup lp transport lookup aaron bentley merge directives automatically attached emails nicer filenames based branchnick revno aaron bentley push revision option specify revision push daniel watkins significantly reducing execution time network traffic trivial case running bzr missing command two identical branches alexander belchenko speed operations look revision graph bzr log knitpackrepositorget_revision_graph uses graphiter_ancestry extract revision history allows filtering ghosts stepping instead needing peek ahead john arbash meinel hooks command lists installed hooks assist debugging daniel watkins updates annotate work see measurable improvement performance memory consumption file lot merges also correctly handle line introduced parents attributed first merge notices subsequent merges john arbash meinel bugfixes autopacking longer holds full set inventory lines memory copying large repositories amount hundreds mb ram consumption ian clatworthy john arbash meinel cherrypicking using formatmerge3 explictly excludes base lines john arbash meinel 151731 disable plinks interactive prompt password 107593 dmitry vasiliev encode command line arguments unicode user_encoding invoking external mail client bzr send command 139318 alexander belchenko fixed problem connecting bzrhttps servers 198793 john ferlito improved error reporting launchpad plugin daniel watkins 196618 include quickstartsummarysvg file pythonbased installers windows 192924 alexander belchenko lca merge respects specified files aaron bentley make versioninfo custom imply 195560 james westby merge preview works merges add modify symlinks james henstridge redirecting output bzr merge remembered location used works john arbash meinel setuppy script explicitly checks python version jari aalto alexander belchenko 200569 unknownformaterrors longer refer branches regardless kind unknown format daniel watkins 173980 upgrade bundled configobj version 452 properly quotes signs among small improvements matt nordhoff 86838 use correct indices emitting lca conflicts fixes indexerror errors aaron bentley 196780 documentation explained use versioninfo custom user guide neil martinsenburrell api breaks support loading plugins zip files bzrlibpluginload_from_zip function deprecated alexander belchenko testing branch interface tests invalid branches using richroot repositories empty string valid fileid robert collins internals graphiter_ancestry returns ancestry revision ids similar repositoryget_revision_graph except includes ghosts stop partway john arbash meinel graphiter_ancestry returns ancestry revision ids similar repositoryget_revision_graph except includes ghosts stop partway john arbash meinel new module toolspackage_mfpy provide custom module finder python packages improves standard python librarys modulefinderpy used setuppy script building standalone bzrexe alexander belchenko new remote method remotebzrdirfind_repositoryv2 adding support detecting external lookup support remote repositories method attempted first lookup repositories leading extra round trip older bzr smart servers robert collins repository formats new supportedfeature attribute supports_external_lookups used indicate repositories support falling back repositories partial data robert collins repositoryget_revision_graph_with_ghosts bzrlibrevisioncommon_ancestormultiplerevisionsourcescommon_graph deprecated john arbash meinel treeiter_changes public api replacing workinprogress tree_iter_changes api considered stable ready external users aaron bentley bzrdir format registry accepts alias keyword register_metadir used indicate format name alias format thus reported describing format robert collins httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythonannouncelist support python software foundation httpwwwpythonorgpsfdonationshtml wed 06 aug 2008 215818 1100 bazaar 13 released