[Monotone-devel] [ANNOUNCE] monotone 0.36 released

[Richard Levitte]

Finally, monotone 0.36 has arrived.  There are quite a number of
changes and corrections in this release, well worth investigating.

Take a closer look at http://monotone.ca/


Fri Aug  3 06:08:36 UTC 2007

        0.36 release.

        Changes

        - The help command is now able to show documentation on subcommands
          (such as 'attr set').

        - The help command now shows a brief abstract of each command,
          instead of only listing their names.

        - The command `list changed` now outputs the new path of any
          renamed item making it easier to copy and paste these paths
          for external program usage.

        - `automate attributes` has been renamed to `automate get_attributes`,
          also a bug has been fixed there so resurrected attributes are now
          properly outputted as "new" and not "changed".

        New features

        - Two new commands to set and drop attributes over automate:
          `automate set_attribute` and `automate drop_attribute`

        - There is a new function available to the lua hooks,
          'server_request_sync(what, address, include, exclude)', which will
          initate a netsync connection to the server at "address", with the
          given include and exclude patterns, and will sync, push, or pull,
          as given in the "what" argument. If called from a monotone instance
          which is not acting as a server, this function will do nothing.

        - There is a new hook available,
          'get_netsync_key(server, include, exclude)', which is called to
          determine which key to use for netsync operations. Note that the
          server calls this once at startup with the address it is listening
          on, "*", and "" as arguments, rather than for each connection.

        Other

        - Giving the --confdir argument will automatically set the key store
          directory to keys/ under that directory, unless --keydir is also
          given. This is a bugfix.

        - Fixed a regression in 0.35 that resulted in some databases
          becoming significantly larger when storing new revisions. Existing
          databases with this problem can be fixed by pulling into a fresh
          database using 0.36.

        - contrib/lua-mode.el, a Lua mode for GNU emacs.

        - contrib/monotone-buildbot-notification.lua, a netsync hook to have a
          server notify a buildbot when new changes have arrived.  Useful for
          anyone who uses a buildbot with monotone as source.

        - contrib/monotone-cluster-push.lua, a netsync hook script to have
          arriving changes be forwarded to other servers automatically.  It
          uses the new internal lua function 'server_request_sync'.

        - contrib/mtn_makepermissions, a simple script to create
          read-permissions and write-permissions from files in the directories
          read-permissions.d and write-permissions.d, Debian style.

        - contrib/Monotone.pm, a first attempt to write a Perl module to
          interface with 'monotone automate stdio'.

        - contrib/monotone-import.pl has been removed since monotone now has
          an internal import command.

        Internal

        - Commands are now defined as a tree of commands instead of a
          plain list, which allows the help system to look up information
          of a command at an level in the tree.

        - The command class, the automate class and all the associated
          macros have been cleaned up.

        - All C++ files now depend on base.hh, which includes the few things
          that are used virtually everywhere.  'make distcheck' will check for
          the presence of base.hh in all source files and will protest if
          it's not there.  This is explained further in HACKING.

        - Update the internal SQLite to version 3.4.0.

        - Updated Visual C building system, which now also builds the test
          programs.  The script visualc/runtests.bat can be used to run the
          tests.

        - Monotone can now be built successfully with Boost 1.34. Older
          versions of monotone would sometimes seem to work depending on
          the compiler used, but would have bugs in path normalization.

        - Monotone now requires Boost 1.33 or later.

        - The Boost filesystem library is no longer required.

        - The Boost unit test system is no longer required.



Cheers,
Richard

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Richard Levitte                         address@hidden
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"When I became a man I put away childish things, including
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