General:
* greatly improved merge tool configuration, see "hgrc.5.txt" for details
* improved copy/rename handling in diffs, status, and merge
* files in .hg inherit permissions from .hg/store
* infer --repository when possible, so commands may be run from anywhere.
* easy-installable
* new "droplet" logo
Extensions:
* churn: promoted to an official extension (previously in contrib)
* color: new extension coloring "status" and "qseries" command outputs
* convert:
- allow synthetic history to be spliced in with --splicemap
- support GNU Arch and Monotone sources
- svn: allow shallow conversions of single branches with
convert.svn.startrev option.
- svn: make trunk/branches/tags layout detection more flexible by allowing
either of them to be skipped.
- svn: preliminary support as a conversion target
* hgk: configuration file changed from .gitk to .hgk
* highlight: new extension enabling syntax highlighting in hgweb file
view (requires pygments)
* inotify: new extension using Linux 2.6 inotify API for instant status
checking
* keyword: new extension for filewise RCS-keyword expansion in working
directory
* mq: new --currentdate, --date, --currentuser, and --user options
* record: add "qrecord" command when used with mq
* win32mbcs: new extension dealing with problematic MBCS behavior on Windows
Web interface:
* improved WSGI integration and compatibility
* follow symlinks in hgwebdir collections
* show branches in most of gitweb templates
* add line anchors to annotate, changeset, diff and file views
* support web.baseurl in hgwebdir, overriding SCRIPT_NAME