The Kiln client is now available for Mac OS X. If you’re on Mac OS X, you can now use Tortoise, complete with full auto-update capabilities, drag-and-drop install, and more.
Mercurial for licensed customers onlynow has beta support for largefiles. Note that we don’t have largefiles working 100%, so you will encounter bugs, but if you’re an early adopter, you can start using largefiles today.
Reviews are now live. If you edit a review, everyone else in the review sees it immediately, automatically. No more hitting “Reload” every few seconds.
Reviews now have consensus events. That means that when everyone in a review is in agreement, then Kiln will take responsibility for marking the review on the whole as approved, rather than ascribing it to the last person to perform an action.
You can now create a review at push time by using the new push --review command.
You can use revsets to filter history views (the control’s on the upper-right of the history browser). This is a great way to filter down to specific changesets. The Electric DAG has full support for ranges, too, so feel free to find everything you just shipped by doing things likeKiln_Release_2.4.61..Kiln_Release_2.7.22.
Problems with diff timeouts have largely been fixed. This is a tough one; a lot of you like to make absolutely massive changesets, which pose interesting problems for us. We’re not all the way there, but the situation’s a lot better.
Problems with non-ASCII file encodings causing source code content indexing to hang have been fixed. Note that non-ASCII file names may not be properly indexed, but it shouldn’t hang your Kiln Storage Service, either. (We’re working on a new elasticsearch-based code search solution that’ll be available son and will solve this problem completely.)
Problems with IE8 and IE9 have been fixed. As a reminder, IE7 is no longer supported.
Firefox 10 (its current beta, anyway) works again with Kiln.
Some bugs with proxied requests to Kiln (i.e., there’s a proxy between you and Kiln for Your Server) have been fixed. Those of you with extremely nasty anti-virus or firewalling solutions may still have issues. We’re continuing to work on it.
Background tasks in Kiln have been changed from a polling mechanism to a queuing mechanism (this has no user-visible impact except for lower server load)
We’ve landed numerous performance improvements, especially for very large Kiln installations and their activity feeds.
