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Sun Apr 10 17:49:25 PDT 2005

        0.18 release.  performance improvements, features, and bug fixes.
	This release is dedicated to Shweta Narayan.

        - most operations sped up by a factor of 2 or better; many sped up
	  by up several orders of magnitude.
                - special thanks to Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>, Derek
                  Scherger <derek@echologic.com>, Linus Torvalds
                  <torvalds@osdl.org>.
        - new concept: "database vars".  Used in several features below.
        - new features:
                - new file "MT/log" can be edited while you work,
                  sets default changelog.  (no change in behaviour if
                  you do not edit it.)  Thanks to Jeremy Cowgar
                  <jeremy@cowgar.com>.
                - monotone now stores default netsync
                  server/collection, initialized on first use of
                  netsync.
                - you no longer need to manually import server
                  keys, monotone will fetch the key from the server on
                  first netsync.
                - monotone keeps track of keys of servers you have
                  previously synced with, to prevent man-in-the-middle
                  attacks.
                - several powerful new "automate" commands added.
		- new command 'ls known', lists files that are under version
		  control.  Thanks to Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>.
		- preliminary "inodeprints" functionality -- speeds up diff,
		  status, etc.  No UI or documentation yet -- in a working
		  copy, 'touch MT/inodeprints' to enable, then commit or
		  update to populate cache.
        - UI improvements:
                - Added short options -r, -b, -k, -m.
                - default to 'dot' ticker-style when stderr is
                  not a tty, thanks to Derek Scherger
                  <derek@echologic.com>.
                - New "-@/--xargs" option, helpful when using new
                  automate commands.  Thanks to Richard Levitte
                  <richard@levitte.org>.
                - New "--depth" argument to 'log'.  Thanks to Richard
                  Levitte <richard@levitte.org>.
                - 'db info' gives statistics on space usage.
                - new command 'dropkey'.  Thanks to Jeremey Cowgar
                  <jeremy@cowgar.com>.
        - robustness improvement: if monotone crashes in a working
          directory and --dump and --debug were not specified, saves
          debug dump to "MT/debug" for analysis, instead of
          discarding.
        - new contributed scripts: CIA (cia.navi.cx) notification,
          email notification, Bash completion.
        - 33 new integration tests.  total line coverage: ~82%.
        - many bug fixes
		- Special thanks to Matt Johnston <matt@ucc.asn.au>,
		  for going above and beyond to track down the last
		  release blocker.

                - upgrading from 0.17 requires only a 'db migrate'.

Fri Mar 18 15:38:52 PST 2005

        0.17 release. bug fixes and features.

        - many, many robustness improvements
                - more careful checking everywhere
                - much more thorough test suite
                - all revisions subject to careful checks before
                  entering database
                        - not yet fully optimized; "pull" may be very
                          slow and use lots of cpu
                - support for "epochs", to safely manage future
                  rebuilds, hash migration, etc.
                - new "db check" command, thanks to Derek Scherger
                  <derek@echologic.com>.
        - now uses sqlite3, thanks to Christof Petig
          <christof@petig-baender.de>.
                - removes most former size limitations
        - "restrictions" support, thanks to Derek Scherger
          <derek@echologic.com>.
                - most commands now take a list of files to limit
                  their actions to
                - monotone can now be run from anywhere in the working
                  directory (not just the root)
                - new command "monotone setup" required to create a
                  working directory for a new project
        - important security fix -- don't use shell when calling
          external merge commands.
        - format change for "MT/options", ".mt-attrs"; you may have to
          edit these files
                - new command "attr" for managing .mt-attrs.
        - builds merkle tries in-memory -- netsync starts up many
          times faster
        - start of new "automate" interface, for shell scripts and
          others.
        - new command "cdiff": generates context diffs.
        - remove most of now-obsolete manifest/file cert support.
        - 60+ new integration tests.
        - many portability fixes
                - in particular, major win32 cleanups, thanks to Jon
                  Bright <jon@siliconcircus.com>.  win32 is once again
                  fully and natively supported.
        - many bug fixes

                - several incompatible changes: see file UPGRADE for
                  migration information

Thu Dec 30 01:37:54 EST 2004

	0.16 release. bug fixes.

	- 50+ new integration tests
	- many NetBSD portability fixes
	- release build on gcc 3.4 / FC3
	- masses of changeset bugs in 0.15 fixed

		- some bogus changesets were generated
		  in the 0.16 development cycle. you will
		  need to rebuild revision graph.


Sun Nov  7 14:06:03 EST 2004

	0.15 release. major changes.

	- overhauled the internal representation of changes. see 
	  README.changesets for details
	- fixed bugs in merkle trie synchronization code 
	- fixed echoing and progress UI bugs 
	  (helps when using in emacs)
	- upgraded cryptopp to 5.2.1
	- fixed bug 8715, diff hunk coordinate reporting
	- added figures, new tutorial to manual
	- improve accuracy of log command
	- several build, configure, and linkage fixes
	- some OSX / PPC portability fixes

Sat Jul 31 15:38:02 EDT 2004

	0.14 release. bug fixes.

	- some compile fixes for g++ 3.4
	- made --dump=FILE option for saving traces,
	  otherwise failures just print reason (no trace)
	- some things disabled, as scheduled for replacement
	  by upcoming changeset branch work
		- disabled "disapprove" command due to bad semantics
		- removed "bump" and .mt-nonce machinery
	- several critical rename-merging bugs fixed
		- renames vs. deletes
		- renames vs. deltas
		- parallel renames 
	- bugs fixed from savannah bug tracker:
		- 9223 argv overflow
		- 9075 empty commits
		- 8919 rename --verbose to --debug
		- 8958 rename debug to db execute
		- 8920 empty passphrase message
		- 8917 connection refused message
		- 8913 testresult argument
		- 8912 passphrase read on serve
		- 8472 approve into branch
		- 8428 duplicate key warning
		- 8928 nonce uses too many bits

Thu May 20 22:26:27 EDT 2004

	0.13 release. bug fixes.

	- remove (file|manifest) in several commands
	- "list missing" command
	- fixed bugs: 
		- (critical) empty data netsync crash
		- mkstemp, platform lua
		- runtime error reporting chatter
		- non-posix database names
		- non-posix dirnames
		- non-posix merge names
		- 2-way merge algorithm and hook
		- single-character filenames
		- multiple password reads
		- .svn ignore pattern

Sun May  2 21:03:38 EDT 2004

	0.12 release. win32 port, bug fixes and optimizations.

	- ported to native win32 (mingw)
	- implemented human friendly version selectors
	- added post-commit hook for change notification
	- removed spirit-based parsers, reduced compile costs
	- many netsync bugs removed, pipeline performance improved
	- removed old, deprecated networking system
	- several minor CVS import bugs fixed
	- upgraded bundled netxx

Sun Mar 28 12:41:07 EST 2004

	0.11 release. bug fixes and optimizations. 

	NOTE: this release expands the sqlite page size. YOU WILL NEED
	to dump existing databases before upgrading and reload it
	after upgrading, otherwise monotone will complain that the
	database image appears malformed. this condition cannot
	unfortunately be distinguished from a real malformed image on
	disk. for example:

		$ monotone --db=my.db db dump >dump.sql
		$ <upgrade to new monotone>
		$ mv my.db my.db.backup
		$ monotone --db=my.db db load <dump.sql

	- fixed bugs:
		- aliasing bug on debian (-O2 now works)
		- netsync ppc portability / checksums 
		- sha1 whitespace bug
		- netsync broken formatter
		- broken symlink handling
		- merger execution pessimism	
		- LCA bitset calculation pessimism
		- static object initialization order
		- CVS single-version import
		- CVS first-version changelog
		- CVS branch inference and topology
	- cryptographic SSE2 paths enabled on linux/x86. 
	- builds against boost 1.31.0. 
	- removed boost::socket
	- removed documentation about old networking system. 
	- "officially" deprecated old networking system. 
	- enable building with system-local libraries.
	- upgraded bundled sqlite. 
	- changed sqlite page size from 1k -> 8k

Mon Mar  1 00:32:07 EST 2004

	0.10 release. new "netsync" protocol implemented, allowing
	direct monotone-to-monotone database synchronization. random
	number underflow problem fixed. more tests added. database
	schema changed, must migrate schema. added new QA logic to
	update and merge algorithms (testresult / approval).

Thu Jan  1 18:23:06 EST 2004

	0.9 release. support international users (non-ASCII character
	sets, locales). some corrections to update algorithm. line
	merging algorithm reimplemented. support working copy
	MT/monotonerc file. broke format compatibility with MT/work
	files; commit any pending work before upgrading. permit
	spaces, colons, other "funny" characters in filenames. support
	HTTP 1.1, HTTP proxies, handle some corner cases in ancestry
	graph and database faults.

Fri Nov 21 20:25:26 EST 2003

	0.8 release. row size increased to 16mb. more performance
	improvements in cvs importer. cvs branch tags imported now.
	minor UI improvements. new commands: SQL dump and load, vcheck
	for enhanced collision detection, queue addtree for recursive
	queueing. improved networking scalability. historical rename
	certs and .mt-attrs file format changed to accomodate upcoming
	i18n work.

Sun Nov  2 23:38:09 EST 2003

	0.7 release. many critical merge and patch set calculation
	bugs fixed. groups merged with URLs, "monotone db migrate"
	necessary. directory renames and explicit rename certs
	supported. added SMTP support. incorporated adns library,
	avoiding gethostbyname(). new queue commands.

Sat Oct 18 22:10:09 EDT 2003

	0.6 release. more stability and bug fixing, including fix to
	some silent failures in LCA calculation. some minor new
	features: persistent attributes (eg. 'the execute bit'),
	rename and log commands. performance of cvs importer greatly
	improved, lua system upgraded to 5.0, much expanded
	documentation.

Sat Sep 27 11:50:08 EDT 2003

	0.5 release. stability and bug fixing. many UI issues
	addressed, including SHA1 completion, persistent options, new
	revert command and new diff modes. database migration,
	inspection and debugging interfaces added. LCS algorithm and
	line-merger overhauled. several multi-depot bugs
	fixed. existing depot databases should be migrated (depot.cgi
	migratedb).

Thu Sep  4 15:40:07 EDT 2003

	0.4 release. monotone is now self-hosting. database
	compatibility broken since 0.3. depot uses RSA signatures now,
	not mac keys. many bugs removed. depot database compatibility
	broken. database schemas should now remain stable (or be
	provided with safe schema-upgrading function).

Mon Aug 25 18:00:37 EDT 2003

	0.3 release. database compatibility broken. packet format
	compatibility broken. dropped boost sandbox library dependency.
	redid networking to support private HTTP+CGI depots along with
	netnews. wrote depot. added 'propagate' command to move changes
	between branches asymmetrically. rewrote testsuite in autotest.
	cleaned up command line processing. expanded testsuite. improved
	user-friendly error reporting.

Fri Aug  8 10:20:01 EDT 2003 

	0.2 release. database compatibility broken. dropped many
	library dependencies. hand-reimplemented xdelta, parts of
	nana. incorporated subset of cryptopp and sqlite into
	sources. added RCS and CVS importer. switched to piecewise
	reconstruction. generally much more robust storage system.
	scalability tests against real world CVS archives show
	performance gap with CVS closing, but still present.

Sun Apr 6 20:20:42 EDT 2003 

	initial release