Rev 4898: NEWS updates for 2.1.0b4 in http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/2.1.0b4-dev

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jameinel/bzr/2.1.0b4-dev

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revno: 4898
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20091214204957-r71bjr1s6x8qunu3
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20091214202755-4dxijbonauq3og01
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: 2.1.0b4-dev
timestamp: Mon 2009-12-14 14:49:57 -0600
message:
  NEWS updates for 2.1.0b4
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 :Codename: san francisco airport
 :2.1.0b4: 2009-12-14
 
+The fourth beta release in the 2.1 series brings with it a significant
+number of bugfixes (~20). The test suite is once again (finally) "green"
+on Windows, and should remain that way for future releases. There are a
+few performance related updates (faster upgrade and log), and several UI
+tweaks. There has also been a significant number of tweaks to the runtime
+documentation.
+
+
 Compatibility Breaks
 ********************
 
@@ -114,6 +122,10 @@
 * ``bzr update`` provides feedback on which branch it is up to date with.
   (Neil Martinsen-Burrell)
 
+* ``bzr upgrade`` from pre-2a to 2a can be significantly faster (4x).
+  For details see the xml8 patch and heads() improvements.
+  (John Arbash Meinel)
+
 * ``bzrlib.urlutils.local_path_from_url`` now accepts
   'file://localhost/' as well as 'file:///' URLs on POSIX.  (Michael
   Hudson)
@@ -127,6 +139,9 @@
 Documentation
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+* Lots of documentation tweaks for inline help topics and command help
+  information.
+
 API Changes
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