Hi all,

Here comes our new stable release: 2.5.1

Bazaar http://bazaar.canonical.com/ is a Canonical project and part of the GNU project http://gnu.org/ to produce a free operating system.

This is a bugfix release. Upgrading is recommended for all users on earlier 2.5 releases.

2.5.1 contains all known bug fixes for all stable releases (including the ones we made for the previous stable series).

Thanks to all participants, whether you sent merge proposals, comments, suggestions and feedback, we very much appreciate all of them.

Bazaar is now available for download from https://launchpad.net/bzr/2.5/2.5.1/ as a source tarball.

Installers are available for OSX from the url above, windows ones are on their way.

2.5.1 has also been uploaded to ubuntu.

The detailed changelog is available below,

Vincent

External Compatibility Breaks *****************************

None.

New Features ************

None.

Improvements ************

* ``bzr rmbranch`` now supports removing colocated branches. (Jelmer Vernooij, #920653)

* ``bzr rmbranch`` no longer removes active branches unless ``--force`` is specified. (Jelmer Vernooij, #922953)

Bug Fixes *********

* Connecting with HTTPS via HTTP now correctly uses the host name of the destination rather than the proxy when checking certificates. (Martin Packman, #944696)

* Fixed merge tool availability checking and invocation to search the Windows App Path registry in addition to the PATH. (Gordon Tyler, #939605)

* Fixed problem with getting errors about failing to open /dev/tty when using Bazaar Explorer to sign commits. (Mark Grandi, #847388)

* Fix UnicodeEncodeError when translated progress task messages contain non-ascii text. (Martin Packman, #966934)

* Make sure configuration options can provide their own help topic. (Jelmer Vernooij, #941672)

Documentation *************

* The alpha-quality texinfo sphinx builder has been deprecated. Sphinx >= 1.1.2 now provides a better one. Most of the documentation can now be generated to the texinfo format with ``make texinfo-sphinx``. This will generate both the ``.texi`` files and the ``.info`` ones. (Vincent Ladeuil, #940164)

API Changes ***********

None.

Testing *******

* Add support for pyftpdlib >= 0.7.0 and drop support for previous pyftpdlib versions. (Vincent Ladeuil, #956027)

* Run smoketest for setup.py isolated in a tempdir. (Martin Packman, #140874)