[darcs-users] ANNOUNCE: darcs 2.5.1

Hi, The darcs team is pleased to announce the release of darcs 2.5.1, a minor upgrade for the 2.5 release. The main focus of this release is support for the GHC 7.0 series and the upcoming February 2011 Haskell Platform, but the release also includes a few bug fixes and minor usability improvements. A detailed changelog is below. Installing ---------- The easiest way to install darcs 2.5.1 from source is by first installing the Haskell Platform (http://www.haskell.org/platform). If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this release by doing: $ cabal update $ cabal install darcs-2.5.1 Alternatively, you can download the tarball from http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.5.1.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file. Versions of GHC from 6.10.x to 7.0.x are supported. The 2.5 branch is also available as a darcs repository from http://darcs.net/releases/branch-2.5 Binaries -------- These will be posted to http://wiki.darcs.net/Binaries as they become available. Reporting bugs -------------- If you have an issue with darcs 2.5.1, you can report it via the web on http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs at darcs.net. Changelog --------- * Include original text in conflict marks Conflicts are now marked up as v v v v v v v original text before any conflicting patch ============= conflicting result A ************* conflicting result B .... ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ The inclusion of the original text makes it much easier to understand what the changes on either side of the conflict were. This is only an incremental improvement to our conflict marking, which we understand is still hard to use. More substantial improvements are in the works. * Support GHC 7.0 and various recent library versions (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2008, http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2019) This should mean that darcs 2.5.1 will work with the upcoming Feb 2011 Haskell Platform release. * Restrict the GHC version in the cabal file This means that cabal builds will explicitly fail if an unsupported GHC version is encountered, which should cause less user confusion. * Update warning message about old-fashioned repositories It now points to a wiki page explaining our deprecation plan (http://wiki.darcs.net/OF) * Guard against non-repository paths during get (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2035) Darcs normally checks for paths that point outside the repository when applying patches, but this check was missing in the case of get. * Darcs library API: make the "program name" configurable This makes it easier for external users of the library API to reuse Darcs' framework for handling commands. * darcs send now prints the remote repository address up front Previously it would first read the remote repository, which made it hard to see what was happening when accessing the remote repository hung. * Informational message about --set-default is now disabled by explicit use of --no-set-default (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2003) This allows users to silence the message by placing 'pull no-set-default', 'push no-set-default' and 'send no-set-default' in ~/.darcs/defaults or _darcs/prefs/defaults. * Handle _darcs/format correctly on get (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1978) This is mainly a forwards compatibility issue as no existing version of darcs would create format files that are affected by this bug. * Fix linking with libdarcs on Windows (http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2015) This was a simple problem with a missing object file.