Hi all, The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of darcs 2.5 beta 3 (also known as darcs 2.4.98.3 due to Cabal restrictions). Important changes since darcs 2.4.4 are: * trackdown can now do binary search with the --bisect option * darcs always stores patch metadata encoded with UTF-8 * diff now supports the --index option * amend-record now supports the --ask-deps option * apply now supports the --match option * amend-record has a new --keep-date option * inventory-changing commands (like record and pull) now operate in constant time with respect to the number of patches in the repository * the push, pull, send and fetch commands no longer set the default repository by default * the --edit-description option is now on by default for the send command You may notice that a line "obliterate has a -o flag to save obliterated patch" was removed from this list of changes since the darcs 2.5 beta 2 announcement. We have postponed this feature because we discovered some problems with it, and we want to take the time to fix them adequately. On the other hand, a line "diff now supports the --index option" was added since the last beta :) If you have installed the Haskell Platform or cabal-install, you can install this beta release by doing: $ cabal update $ cabal install darcs-beta Alternatively, you can download the tarball from http://darcs.net/releases/darcs-2.4.98.3.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file. (You may notice that the Unix permissions in this tarball are weird - all files are 0600. That is because of Cabal bug #627: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/627. It will be fixed in the final release.) Kind Regards, the darcs release manager, Reinier Lamers