v231118

This is a maintenance release incorporating various cleanups with no
user-visible changes. This will be the last release supporting Python
2.7.

Changes include:

• A Shareness-based CI-test suite contributed by Felipe Contreras.

• Various code and documentation cleanups by Felipe Contreras.

• Typo fix in README by dennisfreitag@gmail.com.

v221024

Fast-export now handles escaped characters in the mapping files
properly. Fix contributed by Chris J Billington.

v220921

There is more than a year since the last release and we have
accumulated some documentation fixes and an improved example
(contributed by Nicolas Vanhoren).

v210917

New features in the v210917 release:

• Plugin support for the 'extra' field, contributed by
  @SirIntellegence.

Bug fixes:

• Don't crash if fast-export was asked to export a Mercurial branch to
  Git and a branch of the same name already existed in the Git repo
  but it was not created by fast export. Thanks to Shun-ichi Goto for
  discovering the crash.

• Don't starting incremental conversions from scratch. Tomas Kolda
  discovered that incremental conversions would always start over from
  scratch due to an oversight in the conversion to Python 3.

Documentation fixes:

• Document the --ignore-unnamed-heads option. Contributed by Jason
  Winnebeck.

• Avoid confusion about which file is the main entry point to
  fast-export. Contributed by Ray Luo.

v201029

New features in the v201029 release:

• Support for Python 3 contributed by Chris J Billington
  chrisjbillington@gmail.com. Thanks to Max Fuqua
  madmaxreach@gmail.com, Toni Sissala toni.sissala@tuni.fi for
  reporting bugs and in some cases contributing fixes.

• Support for repositories with git and hg subrepos. Patch contributed
  by Ondrej Stanek ostan89@gmail.com.

Plugins:

• The Mercurial revision and commit hash is now available in the
  commit_data dict. Patches contributed by Ethan Furman
  ethan@stoneleaf.us and Ondrej Stanek ostan89@gmail.com.

• The head2branch plugin now works on hashes and not revision
  numbers. Patch contributed by Ondrej Stanek ostan89@gmail.com.

• Plugins can now modify the committer.

• A new plugin, drop, which allows commits to be removed on the
  fly. Contributed by Henrik Tunedal henrik.tunedal@leftisright.se.

Bug fixes:

• More robust Mercurial version detection contributed by Steven Peters
  scpeters@openrobotics.org.

• Documentation fix by Pi Delport pjdelport@gmail.com.

• Mapping files now correctly handles UTF-8. Patch contributed by
  Chris J Billington chrisjbillington@gmail.com.

v200213

This is (probably) going to be the last Python2-only release.

Various fixes and new features:

• Tag maps now uses the same syntax as branch and author maps.

• Fast export now ignores obsolete changesets in the source
  repository, contributed by Dave Townsend.

• Support for native git submodules, contributed by Dave Townsend.

• Various submodule handling fixes by Mokhamed Dakhraui.

• Plugins to overwrite null messages and prefix an issue number with a
  user-defined string, by James Douglass.

• Extended functionality in the branch_name_in_commit plugin, by Chris
  J Billington.

• Print a warning and ignore files which cannot be tracked by git, by
  Chris J Billington.

• Backwards compatible adaptation to Mercurial 5.3, by Matthijs van
  der Burgh.

• Documentation of the default branch behavior, by Justin Murray.

v190913

Various fixes and new features:

• Remove removed submodules (#156)
  Contributed by MokhamedDakhraui

• Be more tolerant of non-PEP349 systems (#143, #160)

• Fix broken Markdown links in README (#164)
  Contributed by Jonathan Paugh

• Allow (in many cases) broken name sanitizer to be disabled (#155)

v190107

• Fast-export now adheres to PEP 394

• Support for Mercurial >4.7, contributed by Daniel Small

• A plugin system for mangling commit messages and file contents,
  contributed by Johan Henkens

• Support for mercurial subrepos, contributed by Johannes Carlsson

v180610

• Fast-export now requires Mercurial 4.6

• Add a section in the readme about system requirements, researched by
  @rinu and contributed by @gcb.

v180317

• Expand code comment warning contributors from doing name mangling patches which will not be accepted

• Update usage examples (Contributed by qiceforuni@gmail.com)

• Start signing releases and commits with the following key:

  rsa4096/F575A4AF4A07A5AC 2018-03-17 Frej Drejhammar <frej.drejhammar@gmail.com>
  Primary key fingerprint: 3F1D 354E 764A F4E2 27C5 B433 F575 A4AF 4A07 A5AC

  (Available from at least sks-keyservers.net and pgp.mit.edu)