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Darcs 2.4 release announcement

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Darcs 2.4.1 release announcement

hunk ./doc/announce.html 21 -February 27, 2010 - The darcs team is proud to announce the immediate availability of darcs 2.4. -darcs 2.4 contains many improvements and bugfixes compared to darcs 2.3.1. -Highlights are the faster operation of record, revert and related commands, -and the experimental interactive hunk editing. +The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of darcs +2.4.1. This release fixes a number of issues that were found in darcs 2.4. The +most important of these issues were that darcs did not work on Windows shares, +and that darcs would not work if it was built with a wrong version of the mmap +package. hunk ./doc/announce.html 31 -beta release by doing:

+release by doing:

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Alternatively, you can download the tarball from -http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.tar.gz, and build it by hand as +

+Alternatively, you can download the tarball from +http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.1.tar.gz and build it by hand as hunk ./doc/announce.html 43 -

Interactive hunk editing

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What's New

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-To try out interactive hunk editing, press 'e' when you are prompted with a -hunk patch by 'darcs record'. You will then be shown an editor screen in which -you can edit the state you want to record between the last two ruler lines. -

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Important changes in Darcs 2.4.1

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-You can find more information about the hunk editing feature on -the hunk editor wiki page. -

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Performance

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-darcs in its current form does not perform very well on huge repositories. In -order to systematically address this issue, and to catch performance -regressions, we have started a darcs benchmarking project. You can find -benchmarks of darcs performance in many different situations on -the benchmarks wiki page. On this other wiki page, you will find graphs of the benchmark results on a Windows Vista machine. -

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Bugs Fixed in Darcs 2.4.1

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-On that page, you will also find instructions on how to run your own darcs -benchmarks. -

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Reporting bugs

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Reporting bugs

hunk ./doc/announce.html 74 -If you have an issue with darcs 2.4, you can report it via the web on -http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs@darcs.net. +If you have an issue with darcs 2.4.1, you can report it via the web on +http://bugs.darcs.net/ . You can also report bugs by email to bugs@darcs.net. hunk ./doc/announce.html 78 -

What's New

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A list of important changes since 2.3.1 is as follows:

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A list of issues resolved since 2.3.1:

- hunk ./doc/announce.html 80 -Kind Regards,
-the darcs release manager,
+Kind Regards,
+the darcs release manager,
hunk ./doc/announce.html 86 -[1]: You can download the Haskell platform from http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ +[1]: You can download the Haskell platform from + http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/ hunk ./doc/index.html 54 -
  • Darcs 2.4 release, announced 27 February 2010.
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  • Darcs 2.4.1 release, announced 27 February 2010.
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  • Latest Stable Source (2.4) +
  • Latest Stable Source (2.4.1)