Heptapod 0.17 released

[Georges Racinet]

Dear Mercurial users and developers,

we're happy to announce the release of Heptapod 0.17.0 last Friday [1].
The flagship instances, https://foss.heptapod.net and
https://heptapod.host were upgraded on the same day.

This version drops support for Python 2 on the server side, is based on
GitLab 13.4, Mercurial 5.5.2 and hg-evolve 10.1.0, and has several
"technology previews", notably:

- Git repositories (don't host production projects yet).

    Of course, the point of Heptapod is to host Mercurial repos, but
that should make life simpler for the many among our users that *also*
have Git repositories.

- Mercurial native mode (very experimental, don't activate at all on
production servers).

    It's what we've always wanted to do. We hope it can be made the
default mode by the end of the year.

Many more details, including some sreenshots are provided by the
0.17.0rc1 announcement [2].

Overall an important release for us, we hope you'll enjoy it.

Best,


[1] https://heptapod.net/heptapod-0.17.0.html#heptapod-0.17.0

[2]
https://heptapod.net/heptapod-0170rc1-released-with-3-tech-previews.html#heptapod-0170rc1-released-with-3-tech-previews



-- 
Georges Racinet
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