Heptapod Blog

With the release yesterday of Heptapod 1.0.0rc1, the close future of Heptapod development has become clearer.

The release candidate was installed on foss.heptapod.net. The final version is due next week.

Read this to know more about what we will be up to in the first half …

Heptapod 0.40.0 (final) was released today. This release saw us reaching an important milestone, as we stopped mirroring Mercurial repositories to Git by default. More about this below.

We're also jumping from GitLab 15.11 to 16.2 and bumping Mercurial to 6.5.

The release candidate was …

We are calling out for beta testing of the data migration that makes Projects eventually not need the auxiliary conversions to Git.

This article is intended for our early adopters. If your Heptapod instance was created at version 0.25 or later, it is unlikely that you have any concerned …

Heptapod 0.30.0 (final) was released today. This is a fairly simple release, focusing on GitLab and Mercurial version bumps.

This time we're jumping from GitLab 14.6 to 14.8, in order to get more time for Heptapod-specific development in the next cycles.

The update from Mercurial 6 …

The release last week of Heptapod 0.29.0 provides a good opportunity to look back at what happened since the previous of these announcements and point out the subjects that we will focus on in the next development cycles. Since then we also released Heptapod 0.29.1 to …

The release today of Heptapod 0.26.0rc1 brings in ground work for the fully native Mercurial support and the new "Mercurial Publisher" role. Read below for more details about these.

As we announced earlier, this new series does not include an upstream GitLab version change. Instead we boosted Python …

We're glad to announce the release of Heptapod 0.25.0, based on GitLab 14.2 and making Mercurial native projects the default for creations.

As previously explained, to upgrade an existing instance to 0.25, one needs to start from a Heptapod 0.24 instance whose background migrations have …

We're glad to announce the release of Heptapod 0.24.0rc1, the first to feature GitLab 14. It should be followed in a few days by the final 0.24.0 version.

As all major GitLab version changes, this is a pivotal version for upgrading existing instances. Please read below …

We're glad to announce that Heptapod Runner 0.4.0 was released this week, built for many more operating systems and architectures. We're calling out to our users for testing of some of them.

Download links are available on the Heptapod download page

Thanks to all the people involved in …

What are native Mercurial projects? What does this "fully native" qualifier you've seen here or there in our issues and merge requests mean? How will Heptapod get there?

This is about getting rid of the side conversions to Git that Heptapod performs under the hood, and the Heptapod 1.0 …

Heptapod 0.20.0rc1 was released today, featuring GitLab 13.9 and aiming for a final version on March 2nd. Many thanks to all our contributors, of any kind. Please give it a try, and tell us about it!

The release candidate was installed shortly afterwards on foss.heptapod.net …

Heptapod 0.19.0rc2 was released today, featuring GitLab 13.7. The final version will be released on January 20th. Many thanks to all our contributors, of any kind.

The release candidate was installed immediately on foss.heptapod.net.

Heptapod 0.19.0rc2 can be installed as a Docker image …

We're very glad to announce the release of Heptapod 0.18.0rc, featuring GitLab 13.5 and Mercurial 5.6.1 built with Rust. Thanks to all those that helped during this development cycle.

It is specially heartening to see Heptapod and the Rust reimplementation of some parts of Mercurial …

Another exciting development cycle is coming to an end with the release of Heptapod 0.17.0rc1 today, featuring GitLab 13.4 and three different technology previews. Many thanks to our contributors!

Heads up: all projects get migrated to the hashed storage. Major changes in installation from source, see INSTALL_HEPTAPOD …

Many things happened this summer since the end of the Bitbucket era and the Heptapod 0.15.0 release, so it's well worth an account.

We'll begin with a recap of advances from July on developer tools, then report on the first Heptapod sprint and end with current progress towards …

Last week, Bitbucket updated their "sunsetting" announcement with the new July 1st, 2020 deadline. Here we explore some implications of this piece of good news, for Heptapod and the Mercurial ecosystem.

Following the launch of our public instance for FOSS projects, we've presented it at FOSDEM, started to onboard projects, released version 0.8.2 and been provided CI resources by the OSU OSL.