[ANN] 0.17 Released

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Ian Clatworthy wrote:
> The Bazaar developers are happy to announce the release of Bazaar
> 0.17.  This release contains around a dozen bug fixes, better
> documentation and some incremental performance improvements to status,
> diff, commit, branch and checkout. Details are included in the attached
> notes.
> 
> Note: While the number of bug fixes isn't large in this release, there
> are some important dirstate regressions addressed. For this reason, it
> is generally advisable to upgrade to this version if you are
> encountering any bugs in this area.
> 
> Many thanks to everyone who contributed code, bug reports or
> suggestions. Please keep them coming!
> 
> The Bazaar source, which works on any machine with Python 2.4 or 2.5,
> can be downloaded from
> 
>  http://bazaar-vcs.org/releases/src/bzr-0.17.tar.gz
> 
> Please contact us at bazaar at lists.canonical.com or in #bzr on freenode
> with any questions, comments or problems. In particular, note that some
> minor changes were made to the API which, in theory, could cause
> problems with some plugins, though no such problems have been reported
> against the Release Candidates to date. Details on those API changes are
> included in the attached notes.
> 
> Windows installers will (hopefully) follow shortly.
> 
> Enjoy,
> Ian C. (on behalf of all the Bazaar developers)
> 

Thanks for putting this together Ian.

 I'm not saying we should/shouldn't haveI did have a question as to why
we went for a full release after encountering regressions, rather than
rc2? It is certainly the release managers decision (coupled with
discussions with the rest of the group). I was just curious to here a
discussion of it.

John
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