Hi everybody, I am very pleased to announce the first pre-release of darcs 2.0.3, available at http://www.darcs.net/darcs-2.0.3pre1.tar.gz This pre-release includes a few major bug fixes and a handful of interesting features. I expect darcs 2.0.3 to be more reliable than its predecessors. We have better HTTP support, safer handling of the pending patch and a more solid implementation of common flags (for example, darcs get --to-match or darcs diff --patch). For more details, see the attached list. So what are we working on to get darcs 2.0.3 out the door? Aside from the usual testing, I hope that we can round out our improved reliability with a few small user interface enhancements, mostly to help users avoid some common pitfalls of real world version control: - issue53: detection of Windows reserved device names - issue971: hashed darcs check - issue1003: more tolerant darcs-transfer mode - issue1039: detection of seemingly unrelated repositories (see http://bugs.darcs.net for details) In the meantime, please give darcs 2.0.3pre1 a try and let us know how things go! Thanks, -- Eric Kow http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9