October 12th, 2011· This is the most complete Subversion release to date, and we encourage users of Subversion to upgrade as soon as reasonable. This release contains a large number of new features, bug fixes and other improvements.
November 25th, 2010· User-visible changes:
· improve svnsync handling of dir copies (r962377, -8)
· hide unreadable dirs in mod_dav_svn's GET response (r996884)
· make 'svnmucc propsetf' actually work (r1005446)
· limit memory fragmentation in svnserve (r1022675)
· fix 'svn export' regression from 1.6.13 (r1032970)
· fix 'svn export' mistakenly uri-encodes paths (issue #3745)
· fix server-side memory leaks triggered by 'blame -g' (r1032808)
· prevent crash in mod_dav_svn when using SVNParentPath (r1033166)
· allow 'log -g' to continue in the face of invalid mergeinfo (r1028108)
· filter unreadable paths for 'svn ls' and 'svn co' (r997026, -070, -474)
· fix abort in 'svn blame -g' (issue #3666)
· fix file handle leak in ruby bindings (issue #3512)
· remove check for 1.7-style working copies (issue #3729)
· Developer-visible changes:
· improve some swig parameter mapping (r984565, r1035745)
· improve test accuracy over dav (r991534, r877814)
· create fails.log for test runs (r964349)
· improve detection of 'svnversion' when buildling (r877219, et al)
· don't violate API layering in dumpstream logic (issue #3733)
· don't report working copy installs as switched (r1033921)
October 22nd, 2009· Some crashes and other issues have been fixed.
March 20th, 2009· This release includes better filesystem storage mechanisms, authentication data handling improvements, early support for tree conflict detection, and more.
August 31st, 2008· Set correct permissions on created fsfs shards
· Pass client capabilities to start-commit hook
· Disallow creating nested repositories
· Support Neon 0.28.3
· Properly canonicalize URIs with an empty hostname
· Improved merge performance for superfluous ranges
· Better error message for 'Malformed URL for repository'
· Improved svn:externals parsing
· fixed: improper ordering in 'svnlook diff' output
· fixed: mod_dav_svn memory leak with 'SVNPathAuthz short_circuit'
· fixed: duplicate svn:externals targets fail on co/up
· fixed: 'svn merge --depth' inconsistencies
· fixed: ra_serf test failures (1.5.x-ra_serf-backports branch)
· fixed: memory leak and crashes in FS
· fixed: core dump with relative externals
· fixed: 'svn copy' working copy corruption
· fixed: perl bindings errors in non-English locale
· fixed: 'svn merge' incorrectly reverses previous merges
· fixed: 'svn merge' errors with subtree mergeinfo
· make libsvn_ra_neon initialization thread-safe
· respect LDFLAGS in Swig bindings
· fixed: test failures in non-English locales