darcs weekly news #56

News and discussions

1. Darcs 2.4 was released! Reinier wrote a comprehensive announcement at:

   • http://darcs.net/announce.html

2. Petr explained the difference of performance between darcs 2.3.1 and 2.4 on optimised pristine repositories:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-February/023155.html

3. Max Battcher released musdex, a tool enabling darcs to version compressed files formats such as docx or odt:

   • http://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/darcs-users/2010-March/023171.html

Issues resolved in the last week (3)

issue1731 Reinier Lamers

• bump the hashed-storage dependency once more
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1731

issue1749 Reinier Lamers

• refuse to remove nonempty directories in makeRemovePatch
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1749

issue1755 Eric Kow

• fix apparent hard line break in homepage.
• http://bugs.darcs.net/issue1755

Patches applied in the last week (27)

See darcs wiki entry for details.