New in v2.6.1.dev55+g1d98584 (2025-07-20)

Changes

• CHG: the compatibility plug --no-compression-regexp for
  --not-compressed-regexp has been removed
• DOC: Add development note for MacOS, Closes #995
• DOC: Fixes some asciidoc bad formatting, closes #1057
• DOC: add API v300 document
• DOC: update info on FAQ about regress that now is an official
  command, closes #1054
• FIX: Try to avoid seldom deadlocks by making repo unlocking non
  blocking
• FIX: command line completion failed on TypeError unsupported operand
  type for nargs
• FIX: copy file when Cross-Device link error is wrongly raised during
  move/rename e.g. on ZFS, closes #1024
• FIX: corrected comparaison of sub-directories under Windows
  (regression due to Windows ACL implementation)
• FIX: inefficient regular expression, could slightly improve
  performance and address potential vulnerability
• FIX: issue with OSError.errno discrepancies when the source and
  destination are on different platforms, closes #1027
• FIX: issue with OSError.errno discrepancies when the source and
  destination are on different platforms, closes #1027
• FIX: the info action wasn't returning the parsed values
• FIX: use python3 instead of python in all scripts, as it seems more
  common, closes #973
• NEW: --include & --exclude may start with "*:/" to replace windows
  disk letter, Closes #1031
• NEW: add sample script to back-up user's dir to script's location
  under Windows
• NEW: add virtualenv creation script for Windows
  tools/win_create_venv.bat
• NEW: improve I/O performance by excluding files by name before
  gathering metadata
• NEW: log messages are now kept on one line if parsable output is set,
  closes #987

Authors

• Allan Daemon
• Eric L
• Eric L.
• Patrik Dufresne
• dependabot[bot]