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Mercurial 7.2.2 released
- 07 mai 2026
Normal bugfix release of Mercurial.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 7.2.1 released
- 01 avril 2026
Normal bugfix release of Mercurial.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial at FOSDEM 2026
- 19 février 2026
FOSDEM 2026 featured three compelling presentations about Mercurial, showcasing its ongoing innovation, performance improvements, and the impact of Rust integration. All talks were delivered by core Mercurial developers Raphaël Gomès and Pierre-Yves David, both from Octobus.
Speakers: Raphaël Gomès, Pierre-Yves David Track: Main Track Video: Watch here
Announcing Mercurial sprint in London, May 27-29th
- 18 février 2026
We are happy to announce that we will be holding a Mercurial sprint in London, UK from May 27th to 29th 2026.
This sprint is intended for a wider audience than the previous Grenoble mini-sprint. It aims for Mercurial and Heptapod users, developers and other actors in the version control field to gather and discuss their needs and help plan for the future.
Mercurial 7.2 released
- 29 janvier 2026
This new major version has been delayed for a good while. We are reworking so much of the internals these days that it felt prudent to delay the final release as much as needed and roll out nightly versions to (consenting) users until we felt comfortable enough about the stability of the release.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 7.1.2 released
- 14 novembre 2025
The last schedule (but late) release of 7.1 cycle. It was pretty uneventful, but was delayed by the exceptionally large upcoming 7.2rc0.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 7.1 released
- 04 août 2025
This release is the first that does not support Python 3.8.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 7.0.3 released
- 15 juillet 2025
Scheduled (late) minor release.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 7.0.1 released
- 07 avril 2025
Out of schedule security minor release to address a vulnerability in zstd.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 6.9.5 released
- 03 avril 2025
Out of schedule security minor release to address a vulnerability in zstd.
Backported from the new stable branch (7.0.x) to make packagers’ work easier.
Mercurial 7.0 released
- 26 mars 2025
Regularly scheduled (but late) major release.
The 7.0 release is the first to be compliant with PEP 517.
Mercurial 6.9.4 released
- 24 mars 2025
Out of schedule security minor release to address CVE-2025-2361.
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 6.9.3 released
- 05 mars 2025
Out of schedule minor release to address a regression introduced in 6.9.2
See the release notes for details.
Mercurial 6.9.2 released
- 19 février 2025
Regularly scheduled minor release. An overview of the bugfixes is available.
Presentations at FOSDEM’25
- 05 février 2025
A few Mercurial contributors attended the FOSDEM conference in Brussels. FOSDEM is a two-day event organized by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software.
Pierre-Yves David presented a lightning talk on “A glimpse into a smoother version control experience”. It’s a perfect short introduction for people curious to discover what is it to work with Mercurial in 2025! The slices are here and one can even watch the presentation.
Mercurial 6.9.1 released
- 16 janvier 2025
Regularly scheduled minor release. An overview of the bugfixes is available.
Mercurial 6.9 released
- 14 novembre 2024
Regularly scheduled (but late) major release. An overview of new features is available.
Building, testing and publishing wheels
- 13 novembre 2024
Starting with this release and hopefully for the foreseeable future, we are now building wheels for most architectures.