Full list of changes: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew)
Version 1.3 - 2009-07-01
Major Changes
* experimental support for sub-repositories
* Python 2.3 is no longer supported; now requires Python 2.4-2.6
Web interface
* read configuration data from webdir configs
* add branches page to hgweb
* pluggable templater engine support
* refresh hgwebdir configuration periodically
* let web.encoding override ui.encoding setting
* deal with dicts/lists like webdir config paths
Extensions
* experimental share extension
* the alias extension has been moved into core
* several fixes/changes in extensions.
Submitted by: Yuri Ryazantsev <yuri@unix.ru>
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
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
OS X only utility (FileMerge). The bug has been fixed recently but as it
is irrelevant to FreeBSD, remove the offending line to avoid tripping on
the bug on older systems.
This should fix hgmerge on these systems.
Reminded by: tobez
