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authorSebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>2010-01-12 22:48:48 +0100
committerSebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org>2010-01-12 22:48:48 +0100
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parentStart shipping doc sources and release notes (diff)
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Prepare release of 1.2.6 (set release date, sync release notes, update website)v1.2.6
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-Version 1.2.5 - Released 2010/01/04
+Version 1.2.6 - Released 2010/01/12
===================================
FULL CHANGES
------------
- - Allow overriding of VCS commands
+ - Warn on lack of write permissions (fixes #260218)
- - Migrate XML handling from minidom to ElementTree (also fixes #261666)
+ - Migrate to GNU tar's compression format auto-detection
+ which adds potential support for more types of compressed
+ tar archives (LZMA, xz or Z) as a side-effect
+ (Requires GNU tar 1.15 or later, released in 2005)
- - Allow running VCS from PATH (fixes #280539)
+ - Drop support for broken tar overlays with missing category level
+ (and missing profiles/repo_name as a consequence)
- - Fix handling of Subversion overlays whose name contains
- one or more '@' characters (#295018)
+ - Make missing overlay directory not fail removal of that overlay
+ from the local list
- - Fix handling of non-ASCII characters (#286290)
+ - Start shipping doc sources and release notes with release archives
+
+ - Start shipping test suite files missing from the 1.2.5 release
SHORT CHANGES
-------------
- layman-1.2.5 introduces overriding of VCS commands to be used.
- Besides that 1.2.5 is mostly a bugfix release.
+ layman-1.2.6 introduces support for tar overlays that are compressed
+ with an algorithm other than gzip or bzip2. That, plus minor fixes.
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