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| author |   Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> | 2010-01-12 22:48:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Sebastian Pipping <sebastian@pipping.org> | 2010-01-12 22:48:48 +0100 |
| commit | c0d50a487033ad63f342e2e73e9305cd0696386f (patch) | |
| tree | f893f70da0c195b3c2d89d06c6c81c6281f267d5 /RELEASE_NOTES | |
| parent | Start 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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diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES index e63be1f..572ad84 100644 --- a/RELEASE_NOTES +++ b/RELEASE_NOTES @@ -1,26 +1,32 @@ -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. FRESHMEAT |