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Be sure to read UpgradeNotes. See also RoadMap.

(see archive for older versions)

Version 1.0 - 2008-03-24

General:

• greatly improved merge tool configuration, see "hgrc.5.txt" for details

• improved copy/rename handling in diffs, status, and merge
• files in .hg inherit permissions from .hg/store
• infer --repository when possible, so commands may be run from anywhere.
• easy-installable
• new "droplet" logo

Commands:

• archive: disable ".hg_archival.txt" file addition with "ui.archivemeta"
• bisect: now built-in with greatly improved performance and usability
• bundle: new --all option to bundle the whole repository more easily.
• cat: apply decode filters with --decode
• clone: can clone from a full-history bundle
• commit: warn when creating a new head
• debugancestor: index argument is now optional
• diff: set the number of context line to show with -U/--unified
• grep: display matched revisions commit date with --date
• import: new --no-commit and --user options
• incoming/outgoing: add --limit option
• log: use -b/--only-branch to show revisions of a single branch
• remove: improve handling for --after
• revert: major speedup
• serve: prefix the served path with --prefix (also in [web] section)
• status: unknown files are skipped by --quiet
• tag: allow multiple tags to be added or removed
• tags: --verbose flags local tags
• update: switch between named branches without -C

Extensions:

• churn: promoted to an official extension (previously in contrib)
• color: new extension coloring "status" and "qseries" command outputs
• convert:
  • allow synthetic history to be spliced in with --splicemap
  • support GNU Arch and Monotone sources
  • svn: allow shallow conversions of single branches with convert.svn.startrev option.
  • svn: make trunk/branches/tags layout detection more flexible by allowing either of them to be skipped.
  • svn: preliminary support as a conversion target
• hgk: configuration file changed from .gitk to .hgk
• highlight: new extension enabling syntax highlighting in hgweb file view (requires pygments)
• inotify: new extension using Linux 2.6 inotify API for instant status checking
• keyword: new extension for filewise RCS-keyword expansion in working directory
• mq: new --currentdate, --date, --currentuser, and --user options
• record: add "qrecord" command when used with mq
• win32mbcs: new extension dealing with problematic MBCS behavior on Windows

Web interface:

• improved WSGI integration and compatibility
• follow symlinks in hgwebdir collections
• show branches in most of gitweb templates
• add line anchors to annotate, changeset, diff and file views
• support web.baseurl in hgwebdir, overriding SCRIPT_NAME

Hooks:

• standard hook to reject text files with CRLF in win32text extension
• redirect stdout to stderr for ssh and http servers

Windows support:

• "hg" script output set to binary mode for redirecting diff, export, annotate, etc.
• also search for .hgrc if mercurial.ini cannot be found
• major speedup of "clone --pull"

Version 0.9.5 - 2007-10-19

New features:

• Handle symlinks on systems without symlink support
• hg archive supports symlinks

• Display executable/symlink bit with "hg manifest -v" (see UpgradeNotes)

• Improved hg verify diagostics
• Faster revlog handling
• Faster handling of large directories
• Greatly improved handling of large files
• Atom syndication support in hgweb
• Improved test suite with parallel execution

Fixes:

• Fixes for some file copy and rename corner cases
• Allow moving newly-added files before commit
• Improve hg diff whitespace handling
• Disallow fast-forward merge with an ancestor
• Fix adding untracked files on directory renames
• Fix hg archive %r format specifier
• Fix re: and glob: patterns in .hgignore
• Improve hg executable path resolution
• Many options and hgrc parsing improvements
• Better handling of VFAT filesystems on Linux
• Fix tgz archival on Windows
• Fix hg serve on Windows requiring pywin32 modules
• Fix --profile under Windows

New extensions:

• alias - allow user-defined command aliases
• children - show the children of the given or working dir revision
• imerge - incremental interactive merging

• interhg - modify changelog text as in InterWiki

• record - darcs-style interactive change selection during commit

New extension features:

• convert
  • Now supports Subversion, Darcs and Mercurial as source SCMs
  • Use clone's behaviour for the default destination name
  • Force encoding to UTF-8 for converted repository
  • Support new-style .cvspass file format
  • Filter the files and directories to import
  • Remap paths to new locations during import
• hgk
  • Fix hgk stopping because of untrusted repository warnings
  • Handle filenames with spaces
  • Improved documentation
• mq
  • Autodetect --git patches on qrefresh

Version 0.9.4 - 2007-06-25

New features:

• support for symlinks
• improved tag handling
• improved merge handling of file and directory renames
• improved named branch usability
• numerous improvements to commands
• generic pre- and post-command hooks
• improved Windows support
• basic BeOS and OpenVMS support
• numerous bug fixes

New extensions and contributions:

• extensions can now be specified in .hg/hgrc
• new convert extension with CVS support
• new graphlog extension
• improved patchbomb extension
• example FastCGI script