5.0: 2024-05-23

• Major overhaul of the DSL syntax.
• Make --quiet an effective option when reading repositories.
• Added "view" command for GUI browsing of repositories.
• Fixed a deep bug in the graft and unite commands.
• Add prefix negation operator ~ for pathsets.
• Repaired a bug in CVS reference lifting.
• Removed read --use-uuid option.
• Added Content-Path and Content-Name support to msgin --create.
• Added =E selector for branch root commits.
• Added "clone" command.
• Graceful recovery from transcode errors.
• Macro argument formal change from {0}, {1}, {2}…​ to %{0}, %{1}, %{2}…​
• Move to Go-style match references (${1}) from Python ones (\1).
• repotool initialize becomes repotool initmake.
• Tested support for reading darcs repositories.
• The ignores, add, timequake, and timeoffset commands set Q bits
• Source types of stream dumps can be deduced from ignore file names.
• Fossil import/export from checkouts is supported; --format=fossil is gone.
• Ignore pattern translation is available with "ignores --translate".
• Documentation on working with hg has been much expanded.
• Added --decode option to list and msgout comands.
• Implemented and documented X selector.