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bzr-explorer Release Notes
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0.10.0 DD-MMM-2009
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Please edit ~/.bazaar/explorer/tools.xml (or the equivalent location
on Windows) and rename the top level folder to "My Tools".

Compatibility breaks:

* The Plugins and Advanced Commands actions have moved from the
  Tools menu into the main Bazaar menu.

New features:

* Bazaar > Advanced Commands now launches the qrun dialog by default.
  A preference is provided for users who prefer the old behaviour of
  launching a terminal instead.

* The status bar now provides a button for running lp-open.
  For a repository, the project page on Launchpad can be opened from
  that button if it can be intelligently guessed.

* For feature branches, a details panel is now displayed showing the
  submit delta so far. (This replaces the "Branch changes" experimental
  feature which is no longer available.)

* Numerous useful links have been added for Bazaar Support and
  Bazaar Development as standard tools.

* A toolbox now shares space with the working tree browser. This
  provides faster access to the standard tools, your personal tools
  and tools provided by the current hat, if any.

* A dialog is now provided for adding Tools.

Improvements:

* The default and extended toolbars now include an Advanced action.

* F8 is now a keyboard shortcut for Advanced Commands.

* The Preferences dialog now uses tabs rather than group boxes.
  (This arguably makes preferences harder to find but it scales
  better as new preferences are added later.)

* Custom dialog boxes are now individually configurable so that
  heavyweight checkouts can be used with the qgetnew dialog, but
  feature branches can be made with the custom init dialog.
  The old 'custom-dialogs' setting is no longer used so you
  can delete it from explorer.conf if you wish.
  (A. S. Budden)

Bug fixes:

* Allow switch action for bound branches (heavyweight checkouts).
  (A. S. Budden, Bug #479356)

* Create parent(s) of ~/.bazaar/explorer directory if needed.
  (A. S. Budden, Bug #474812)


0.9.0 02-Nov-2009
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New features:

* Virtual repositories are now supported. These are plain directories
  which are searched for nested locations. If you attempt to open a
  location which is not a normal (shared) repository, branch or
  checkout, you will be asked if you wish to open it as a virtual
  repository. No question is asked if the location is bookmarked or
  given on the command line. The virtual repository view is pretty
  much identical to a normal repository view, though some menu actions
  (like Explore --> Location Information) are not enabled.

* Custom editor applications are now supported. This allows the Edit
  action to launch something more sensible than a text editor for
  images, diagrams, web pages, office documents, etc. A default set
  of editors are defined (in lib/standard_profile/editors.conf) and
  these can be extended or overridden by providing a file of the
  same name in your explorer configuration directory.

* The repository view now has a Log button. Multiple items can be
  logged at once by selecting more than one location at a time.
  If no location is selected, the repository is selected.

Improvements:

* Multiple branches can be opened from the command line with
  'bzr explorer trunk feature1 feature 2'

* The BZR_EDITOR environment variable is checked when searching for
  the text editor to use if one is not configured in bazaar.conf.

Translations:

* Added translations for Danish, English (United Kingdom), Galician,
  Indonesian, Polish, Serbian, Swedish.


0.8.3 13-Oct-2009
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Improvements:

* Change the Help URL to go to the Documentation page on the
  website, not the vision page.

* 'bzr help explorer' now points to the new website. It also
  provides more information about how to troubleshoot problems.

Bug fixes:

* Display a message rather than error when the "Local Changes" and
  "Missing Revisions" tabs are selected for a remote repository.
  (Craig Hewetson, #433916)

Translations:

* Added translations for Arabic, Lithuanian and Ukrainian.


0.8.2 22-Sep-2009
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Improvements:

* Creating a new branch now implicitly opens it on completion.

* When a branch destination is outside a shared repository,
  the user is now told and given the option of initializing one.

Bug fixes:

* Fixed the ImportError of parent_directories for bzr versions prior
  to 1.16.

* Handle non-ASCII path to wordpad.exe.

Translations:

* Added Czech translation.


0.8.1 16-Sep-2009
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Improvements:

* The layout of the Welcome page has been improved, particularly
  the "Open existing location" panel.

* The repository view is now less busy with the filter bar hidden
  by default. A checkbox has been added to display it when required.

* The repository view now refreshes to show the new branch after
  creating one using the Branch button.

Important bug fixes:

* Prompt via a dialog rather than via the console when connecting to
  a branch.

* Configuration files on Windows are now created if missing as Wordpad
  doesn't do that for us.


0.8 14-Sep-2009
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New features:

* The Welcome page has been revised to provide better guidance for
  new users.

* The status report is automatically refreshed after actions
  that update it, namely Add, Commit, Pull, Merge, Update,
  Conflicts, Switch, Bind, Unbind, Revert and Uncommit.

* The working tree browser now provides dynamic filtering of the
  displayed items. This makes it easy to find files you wish to
  edit for example.

* Tools > Advanced Commands action is now supported. This currently
  launches a terminal (though it may launch 'qrun' in the future).
  On GNOME and KDE, the terminal is started in the root directory
  of the current location, if any.

* Bazaar > Start > Initialize now launches a custom dialog by default.
  This dialog makes it easy to set things up in commonly used
  ways. It also automatically opens the created location on
  completion.

* Bazaar > Start > Checkout now launches a custom dialog by default.
  This dialog always creates a lightweight checkout and automatically
  opens the new location on completion. (Note that Explorer only
  supports lightweight checkouts. To obtain a "heavyweight"
  checkout, create a bound branch instead.)

Improvements:

* Import has been removed from the Welcome page and Bazaar > Start
  menu because it's not implemented yet.


0.7 25-Aug-2009
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New features:

* Bazaar > Collaborate > Export action is now supported.
  This requires QBzr 0.14 or later be installed.

* Bazaar > Work > Bind and Bazaar > Work > Unbind actions are
  now supported. These require QBzr 0.14 or later be installed.

* Bazaar > Work > Uncommit action is now supported.
  This requires QBzr 0.14 or later be installed.

* Tools > Plugins action is now supported.
  This requires QBzr 0.14 or later be installed.

Improvements:

* The toolbar actions with menus now all display and behave the same
  way. As a consequence, Log History has been moved to the top of the
  Explore menu now it is no longer directly available on the toolbar.

* Update Working Tree now launches the qupdate dialog instead of
  the qgetupdates one.

* Bazaar > Explore > System Log now uses qviewer instead of the
  user's editor. This is because some editors (e.g. Wordpad)
  struggle opening files used by other processes.

* Shelve and Unshelve have been removed from the Bazaar > Work menu
  because they won't be ready by 1.0.


0.6.1 11-Aug-2009
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Bug fixes:

* Compatibility with standalone bzr.exe re obtaining Python version 
  for About dialog.


0.6 11-Aug-2009
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Compatibility breaks:

* The editor user configuration setting may now have options added.
  If the editor path contains spaces, the path component within that
  setting must now be quoted using double quotes.

* Now that the app-suite and toolbar-style are configurable via
  preferences, they are no longer available as command line options.

New features:

* Bazaar > Collaborate > Send New Revisions action is now supported.
  This requires QBzr 0.13 or later be installed.

* Bazaar > Work > Switch Checkout action is now supported.
  This requires QBzr 0.13 or later be installed.

* Preferences can now be selected via the appropriate menu action
  for each desktop. For example, the menu item is Edit > Preferences
  on GNOME and Tools > Options on Windows. Preferences are stored in the
  explorer/explorer.conf file under Bazaar's configuration directory.
  The preferences currently supported are:

  * app-suite - qbzr or gtk (latter only available if bzr-gtk is installed)

  * toolbar-contents - default or expanded

  * toolbar-style - text-below-icon, icon-only, etc.

Improvements:

* Checkouts now appear first in the repository view.

* Help > Contents and Help > About now link to the new website.

* "Edit" of a directory now opens it in the file manager, not the editor.

* Most exceptions are now trapped and reported to the user, instead
  of silently appearing in the terminal that launched Explorer.

* The gtk application suite now falls back to using actions in qbzr
  when bzr-gtk doesn't provide an alternative.

* The Help > About dialog now displays information about the current
  PyQt, Qt and Python versions being used.

Bug fixes:

* If a location no longer exists, tell the user and close the page
  instead of aborting.

Translations:

* Added Dutch translation.


0.5 21-Jul-2009
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General UI improvements:

* To simplify the UI for new users starting with the Solo workflow,
  the collaborate actions (pull/merge/update/push/send) are now a
  submenu on the toolbar instead of separate actions.

* Working tree browser hidden when not applicable, e.g. when showing
  Welcome page.

* If a page is opened a second time, switch to the already opened
  one rather than create a new one.

* The Bazaar menu has been tweaked with the Tags action now on the
  Collaborate submenu. The unimplemented Rename and Delete actions
  have also been removed from the Work submenu as these are more
  likely to be accessed in other ways (e.g. the Working Tree
  browser) once implemented.

* The Settings menu has been re-organised given ignores are actually
  working-tree-specific, not branch-specific. (The difference becomes
  important if you have multiple checkouts switched to the same
  branch.)

Status report improvements:

* Added a "What's next?" section providing state-sensitive workflow
  hints.

* Included the tip (last revision) number in status report summary.

* Add action links to section headers, e.g. add for unversioned,
  log for pending merge tips, conflicts for conflicts.

* Clicking on a text conflict now launches the text editor.

* Add delete action link for unversioned items.

Working tree browser improvements:

* Double-click now opens a file using the default application instead
  of always opening the text editor.

Repository view improvements:

* More interesting locations within a repository (e.g. trunk, work)
  are placed first.

* Rename Unique Revisions tab to Local Changes,
  include the one line summary of working tree status and
  improve the wording w.r.t. unique revisions.

* Improved wording on the Missing Revisions tab.

* Added Manage, Branch and Open buttons. If an item is selected,
  the Manage action opens it in your file manager, otherwise it
  opens the repository. If a branch or bound branch is selected,
  the Branch action uses it as the default source.

Added an experimental mode previewing pending features:

* A "Branch Changes" view showing the equivalent of
  "bzr status -rsubmit:..-1", i.e. previewing what "bzr send"
  would put into a bundle.

Bug fixes:

* Refresh on the repository view now refreshes the details panel.

* Numerous others.

Translations:

* Added German and Turkish translations.


0.4 30-Jun-2009
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Welcome page now opened on start-up if no location given on the command
line. This page provides easy access to actions used to get started and
to any bookmarks that are defined.

Working tree status view now has clickable links for launching the editor
and file-specific diff.

Repository view now has a details panel showing recent history, revisions
unique/missing vs the parent branch.

Double-click on a file in the working tree browser now opens the file
in the text editor. The following actions are now supported in the
working tree browser as well:

* Browse - browse the versioned items (includes access to per-file
  log and annotate)

* Manage - open the current folder in the operating system's file manager

* Edit - edit the selected file.

Menu changes:

* Added Tools > Register Project On menu, providing easy access to the
  project registration pages of Launchpad, GNU Savannah and SourceForge.

* Added Help > Welcome.

* Added Help > Translate This Application.

* Minor renaming of several actions, e.g. List Items to Browse Items.

Added translations: English (Australia), Spanish, French, Italian, 
Japanese, Russian.

Note: Hats are now stored under the explorer directory within your
configuration directory, rather than being stored in the configuration
directory itself. The directory name for a hat named xxx is now
xxx-hat, not explorer-xxx.


0.3.1 22-Jun-2009
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Urgent bugfixes:

 * Fixed broken import (no module named profile).
 
 * Fixed bookmark editing on OS X. (Neil Martinsen-Burrell, #390450)
 
 * Switching hats now actually worked.


0.3 22-Jun-2009
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Better main menu:

* Added some actions:
  
  * Bazaar > Work > Unbind Branch

  * Settings > Branch Specific > Configuration (branch.conf editing)

  * Settings > Branch Specific > Ignores (.bzrignore editing)

  * Bazaar > Explore > System Log (.bzr.log viewing)

* Hid some proposed actions:
  
  * Bazaar > Explore > Annotate File (available via other paths)

  * Bazaar > Work > Filter View (not going to make it for 1.0)

* Moves:

  * Bazaar > Information > Conflicts to Bazaar > Work > Conflicts

Better toolbar with Start, Explore and Work popup menus & Refresh action.

Better QBzr mapping: Checkout is now working and dialogs stay open on
completion of commands; qlog available on repositories.

bzr errors are now correctly trapped and displayed when getting the
status of a working tree. (#387241)

Added an initial cut of overview and roadmap documentation.

Bookmarks and tools can be added, edited and refreshed. Editing allows:

* removal of unwanted bookmarks
 
* organisation into folders

* placement of separators.

In addition to personal bookmarks and tools, role-specific ones can be
loaded by switching the "hat" you're wearing.

Numerous bug fixes including:

* improved unicode handling

* portability fixes/tweaks for KDE, Windows and OS X.

Initial support for I18N.

Windows installer.


0.2 10-Jun-2009
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Core functionality working:

* better menu with clearer labels and status tips

* correct delegation to QBzr and bzr-gtk (if installed) commands

* repository view shows interesting nested locations with drill-down
  on double-click

* basic bound branch support

* numerous portability fixes.


0.1 02-Jun-2009
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Initial release for early adopter feedback.