git-annex/doc/devblog/day_128__release_prep.mdwn
Joey Hess e213ef310f git-annex (5.20140717) unstable; urgency=high
* Fix minor FD leak in journal code. Closes: #754608
  * direct: Fix handling of case where a work tree subdirectory cannot
    be written to due to permissions.
  * migrate: Avoid re-checksumming when migrating from hashE to hash backend.
  * uninit: Avoid failing final removal in some direct mode repositories
    due to file modes.
  * S3: Deal with AWS ACL configurations that do not allow creating or
    checking the location of a bucket, but only reading and writing content to
    it.
  * resolvemerge: New plumbing command that runs the automatic merge conflict
    resolver.
  * Deal with change in git 2.0 that made indirect mode merge conflict
    resolution leave behind old files.
  * sync: Fix git sync with local git remotes even when they don't have an
    annex.uuid set. (The assistant already did so.)
  * Set gcrypt-publish-participants when setting up a gcrypt repository,
    to avoid unncessary passphrase prompts.
    This is a security/usability tradeoff. To avoid exposing the gpg key
    ids who can decrypt the repository, users can unset
    gcrypt-publish-participants.
  * Install nautilus hooks even when ~/.local/share/nautilus/ does not yet
    exist, since it is not automatically created for Gnome 3 users.
  * Windows: Move .vbs files out of git\bin, to avoid that being in the
    PATH, which caused some weird breakage. (Thanks, divB)
  * Windows: Fix locking issue that prevented the webapp starting
    (since 5.20140707).

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Preparing for a release (probably tomorrow or Friday).
Part of that was updating the autobuilders. Had to deal with the gnutls
security hole fix, and upgrading that on the OSX autobuilder turned out to
be quite complicated due to library version skew. Also, I switched the
linux autobuilders over to building from Debian unstable, rather than
stable. That should be ok to do now that the standalone build bundles all
the libraries it needs... And the arm build has always used unstable, and
has been reported working on a lot of systems. So I think this will be
safe, but have backed up the old autobuilder chroots just in case.
Also been catching up on bug reports and traffic and
and dealt with quite a lot of things today. Smarter log file
rotation for the assistant, better webapp behavior when git is not
installed, and a fix for the webdav 5 second timeout problem.
Perhaps the most interesting change is a new `annex.startupscan` setting,
which can be disabled to prevent the assistant from doing the expensive
startup scan. This means it misses noticing any files that changed since it
last run, but this should be useful for those really big repositories.
(Last night, did more work on the test suite, including even more checking
of merge conflict resolution.)
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Today's work was sponsored by Michael Alan Dorman.