Version 2.4.0 (originally released 22 September 2012)

New features:

• Store CVS file descriptions in a Subversion property cvs:description.
• SVN: Optionally include empty directories from the CVS repository.
• Much faster cvs2git conversions possible via --use-external-blob-generator.
• Use file properties for more flexibility over keyword and EOL handling.
• Add a ConditionalPropertySetter.
• Allow CVS repository paths to be excluded from the conversion.
• Normalize EOLs in CVS log messages to LF.
• Ignore vendor branch declarations that refer to non-existent branches.

Bugs fixed:

• Issue #31: cvs2svn does not convert empty directories.
• Issue #127: Dead "file X added on branch Y" revisions not always dropped.
• Fix --dry-run for cvs2git and cvs2bzr.

Improvements and output changes:

• More aggressively omit unnecessary dead revisions.
• Consider it a failure if cvs or co writes something to stderr.
• Add concept of "file properties", which are only computed once per file.
• Refuse to accept a default branch that is not a top-level branch.
• Make check of illegal filename characters dependent on the target VCS.
• Improve error reporting for invalid date strings in CVS.
• Many documentation improvements.
• Allow grafting a branch onto a parent that has itself been grafted.
• Slightly improve choice of parent branch for vendor branches.
• Only import "database" if used, to avoid error if no DB module installed.
• Ignore newphrases in RCS files more robustly.
• Fix the expansion of the $Source$ keyword for Attic files.
• Various other minor improvements and fixes.

Miscellaneous:

• Sort large files using Python to avoid dependency on GNU sort.