The darcs team would like to announce the immediate availability of darcs 2.5 release candidate 1 (also known as darcs 2.4.99.1 due to Cabal restrictions). If no blocking issues are found in the coming week, we will finally releease darcs 2.5. 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 Changes since the last beta release are: * Fix a bug that let users add files outside the working copy directory * Fix excessive network usage when pulling from an old-fashioned repository * Make sure darcs builds on Windows with Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 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-2.4.99.1.tar.gz and build it by hand as explained in the README file. Kind Regards, the darcs release manager, Reinier Lamers