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Version 1.4.0 of COllaborative DEvelopment SHell

Changes: This is the starting point for a new development cycle. The Web server hosting codesh has migrated to new hardware.

Changes: The test suite was streamlined to produce shorter and more focused output, making it easier to scan the results from each test. The code for the various backends was cleaned up. A problem when extracting flex sessions (the log-modify-and-replay mechanism of CODESH) from remote CVS backends was fixed.

Changes: The focus of this version is the distributed computing (remote) aspects of CODESH. A new subdirectory "remote" is introduced. It contains sample scripts showing how to set up remote (client/server based) Subversion, CVS, and ASCII backends, along with detailed documentation. The scripts can be used not only to set up CODESH backends, but general purpose remote Subversion or CVS pserver repositories as well. As usual, extreme caution and studying the documentation in advance is recommended before setting up servers.

Changes: This version improves the user experience by hardening the frontend and the Subversion, CVS, and ASCII backends. The checks on user input are extended, and now users are warned in basically all situations if they try to run commands with wrong number of parameters. The verifications if the backend repositories are up and running when the users try to access them are extended with dynamic checks, approaching complete coverage.

Changes: This version takes full advantage of the improved user interface for handling tags. The test suite has been simplified substantially and made more elegant by using the new feature of supplying on the command line not only full tag names, but shorter substrings as long as they are unique.