bzr 1.17rc1 released

Written for Bazaar by Jonathan Lange on 2009-07-13

Bazaar continues to blaze a straight and shining path to the 2.0 release and the elevation of the ``2a`` beta format to the full glory of "supported and stable".

Highlights in this release include greatly reduced memory consumption during commits, faster ``ls``, faster ``annotate``, faster network operations if you're specifying a revision number and the final destruction of those
annoying progress bar artifacts.