Changes For Version 1.22 (2012-02-xx)
- Greatly improved "diff" processing including the new --brief option,
partial line matching, colorized in-line diffs, and better performance.
- Promote "allow-symlinks" to a versionable setting
- Harden the CGI processing logic against DOS attacks
- Add the ability to run TH1 scripts after sync requests
- Store the repository name in _FOSSIL_ as it is type in the "open" command,
possibly as a relative pathname.
- Make ".fslckout" the alternative name for the "_FOSSIL_" file.
- Change the "ssh:" transfer method to allow all access regardless of
user permission.
- Various minor bug fixes
Changes For Version 1.21 (2011-12-13)
- Added side-by-side diffs in the command-line interface
- Automatically enable hyperlinks if the UserAgent string in the
HTTP header suggests that the requestor is a human and not a bot.
- Show only commonly used commands with "fossil help". Use
"fossil help --all" to see the complete list now.
- Improvements to the "stash" command: (1) Stash all files, not just
those below the working directory. (2) Add the --detail option to
"list". (3) Confirm before "drop --all". (4) Add the "help"
subcommand.
- Add an Admin/Access setting to change the number of octets of the
IP address that are saved in login cookies - allowing this setting
to be changed to zero
- Promote the "test-md5sum" command to "md5sum".
- Added the "whatis" command.
- Stop showing the server-code in status outputs - it is no longer used
for anything.
- Added a compile-time option (--with-tcl) to build in the full
TCL interpreter to augment TH1.
- Merged the JSON branch into trunk. Disabled by default. Enabled
by a compile-time option. Probably it will be enabled by default
in some future release.
- Update to use SQLite version 3.7.9 plus the alignment fix for Sparc.
align
Changes For Version 1.20 (2011-10-21)
- Added side-by-side diffs in HTML interface. [0bde74ea1e]
- Added support for symlinks. (Controlled by "allow-symlinks" setting,
off by default). [e4f1c1fe95]
- Fixed CLI annotate to show the proper file version in case there
are multiple equal versions in history. [e161670939]
- Timeline now shows tag changes (requires rebuild).[87540ed6e6]
- Fixed annotate to show "more relevant" versions of lines in
some cases. [e161670939]
- New command: ticket history. [98a855c508]
- Disabled SSLv2 in HTTPS client.[ea1d369d23]
- Fixed constant prompting regarding previously-saved SSL
certificates. [636804745b]
- Other SSL improvements.
- Added -R REPOFILE support to several more CLI commands. [e080560378]
- Generated tarballs now have constant timestamps, so they are
always identical for any given checkin. [e080560378]
- A number of minor HTML-related tweaks and fixes.
- Added --args FILENAME global CLI argument to import arbitrary
CLI arguments from a file (e.g. long file lists). [e080560378]
- Fixed significant memory leak in annotation of files with long
histories.[9929bab702]
- Added warnings when a merge operation overwrites local copies
(UNDO is available, but previously this condition normally went
silently unnoticed). [39f979b08c]
- Improved performance when adding many files. [a369dc7721]
- Improve merges which contain many file renames. [0b93b0f958]
- Added protection against timing attacks. [d4a341b49d]
- Firefox now remembers filled fields when returning to forms. [3fac77d7b0]
- Added the --stats option to the rebuild command. [f25e5e53c4]
- RSS feed now passes validation. [ce354d0a9f]
- Show overridden user when entering commit comment. [ce354d0a9f]
- Made rebuilding from web interface silent. [ce354d0a9f]
- Now works on MSVC with repos >2GB. [6092935ff2]
- A number of code cleanups to resolve warnings from various compilers.
- Update the built-in SQLite to version 3.7.9 beta.
Changes For Version 1.19 (2011-09-02)
- Added a ./configure script based on autosetup.
- Added the "fossil winsrv" command
for creating a Fossil service on windows systems.
- Added "versionable settings" where settings that affect
the local tree can be stored in versioned files in the
.fossil-settings directory.
- Background colors for branches are choosen automatically if no
color is specified by the user.
- The status, changes and extras commands now show
pathnames relative to the current working directory,
unless overridden by command line options or the
"relative-paths" setting.
WARNING: This
change will break scripts which rely on the current
output when the current working directory is not the
repository root.
- Added "empty-dirs" versionable setting.
- Added support for client-side SSL certificates with "ssl-identity"
setting and --ssl-identity option.
- Added "ssl-ca-location" setting to specify trusted root
SSL certificates.
- Added the --case-sensitive BOOLEAN command-line option to many commands.
Default to true for unix and false for windows.
- Added the "Color-Test" submenu button on the branch list web page.
- Compatibility improvements to the git-export feature.
- Performance improvements on SHA1 checksums
- Update to the latest SQLite version 3.7.8 alpha.
- Fix the tarball generator to work with very log pathnames
Changes For Version 1.18 (2011-07-14)
- Added this Change Log
- Added sequential version numbering
- Added a optional configure script - the Makefile still works for most
systems.
- Improvements to the "annotate" algorithm: only search primary
ancestors and ignore branches.
- Update the "scrub" command to remove traces of login-groups and
subrepositories.
- Added the --type option to the "fossil tag find" command.
- In contexts where only a check-in makes sense, resolve branch and
tag names to checkins only, never events or other artifacts.
- Improved display of file renames on a diff. A rebuild is required
to take full advantage of this change.
- Update the built-in SQLite to version 3.7.7.