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+= Mercurial 7.0rc0 =
+
+/!\ These are the release notes for a tentative version of Mercurial, anything
+/!\ and everything is subject to change.
+
+== Packaging Changes ==
+
+The 7.0 release is the first to be compliant with `PEP 517`.
+
+This required an overhaul of the Mercurial packaging: packagers should pay extra
+attention to this release and report any issues they might encounter with the
+new system.
+
+In practice, this means that Mercurial's `setup.py` can no longer be called
+directly.
+Instead, one should build the Mercurial package using PyPA's `build` package
+(https://github.com/pypa/build).
+
+In the general case, this will take care of the build dependencies, but
+packagers might want to explicitly manage them. Currently the build depends on:
+
+- `wheel`
+- `setuptools>=64`
+- `setuptools_scm>=8.1.0`
+- `docutils`
+
+The `Makefile` no longer offers a `build` target.
+We now use `BuildTools 2022` when building Windows packages.
+
+== Other Backwards Compatibility Changes ==
+
+- sslutil: bump the default minimum TLS version of the client to 1.2 (BC) (085cc409847d)
+- setup: require TLS 1.2 support from the Python interpreter (BC) (a820a7a1fce0)
+
+== New Features ==
+
+- It is now possible to store inline clone bundle outside of .hg (48572371d478)
+- Added a generic `storage.all-slow-path` option to control the default
+  behavior regarding degraded support for some repository format. (bbbb12632607)
+- Added a `--to` flag to `hg graft` that allows graft in memory (68dc6cecca32)
+- Added a `fix.extra-bin-paths` configuration for the `fix` extension (1330278b9029)
+
+== New Experimental Features ==
+
+- add a --ignore-changes-from-ancestors option (688665425496)
+- stream-clone: use dedicated threads to write the data on disk (7f848cfc4286, 58baa86c7a02, aee193b1c784)
+- the experimental `git` extension now supports more commands
+
+== Bug Fixes ==
+
+- subrepo: fix calling outgoing with multiple paths (85c095c1f8bc)
+- stream clone: fix a race condition around volatile files (46574e588017, 3f0cf7bb3086)
+- rhg: set the expected dirstate permissions (0o666 minus umask) (a48c688d3e80)
+- rhg: fix matcher issue (136e74c2bf8f)
+- rhg files correctly implements `--rev` (it instead provided `--revision`)
+
+== Rust ==
+
+- the Rust code is now exposed to Python though PyO3 instead of `rust-cpython` (6673cec8605c)¹
+- rhg: support `status --change`, including `--copies` (bde718849153)
+- Rust implementation for the internal part of revlogs
+- Rust implementation for `hg annotate` (6183949219b2)
+- Rust implementation for `hg update` from a completely empty working copy
+
+[1] Both `rust-cpython` and `PyO3` bridges are present in this release in case users need to switch back (by changing every `importrust` call) in case something went really wrong in the translation. The `rust-cpython` code will be removed entirely in Mercurial 7.1.
+
+== Miscellaneous ==
+
+- help: modernize the help text for `hostsecurity.minimumprotocol` (b65085c6d6ff)
+- run-tests: add a 4th `HGPORT` value (7f8d0c2c3692)
+- rust-ignore: make `debugignorerhg` command show a full regex, with exact files (e2e49069eeb6)
+- tests: fix `filtertraceback.py` to handle contiguous `File` lines (8431296a93e8)
+- typing: moved `interface` logic from `zope` interfaces to `typing.Protocol` (a1c0f19e7cb4)
+- format: add pattern filtering to debugformat (8dede0df9de9)
+- run-tests: add a `--tail-report` argument to analyze run parallelism (a814534aaedd)