Version 1.8.0
(18 Jun 2013, from /branches/1.8.x)
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.0
User-visible changes:
- General:
* require serf as client-side http library (neon support removed) (r1349694)
* deprecate the Berkeley DB FS backend (libsvn_fs_base) (r1464985 et al)
- Major new features:
* working copy records moves as first-class operation (issue #3631, #4232)
* merge uses reintegrate mode automatically when needed (r1369896 et al)
* FSFS: Packing of revision property shards (issue #3944)
* support inheritable properties (r1395109)
* repository can suggest config for autoprops and ignores (r1401908)
* support gpg-agent for password caching (r1151069)
* authz rules can be stored inside the repository (r1424780)
- Minor new features and improvements (client-side):
* doubled svn:// protocol throughput (r1325899)
* optimize file/dir truename checks on Windows (r1435527)
* new 'commit --include-externals' option (related to issues #1167, #3563)
* new --include-externals option for 'svn list' (issue #4225)
* remove extraneous externals output from 'svn status -q' (issue #1935)
* reject some attempts to merge between unrelated branches (r1215273)
* new --ignore-properties option for 'svn diff' (r1239553, -617)
* new --properties-only option for 'svn diff' (r1336110)
* new --patch-compatible option for 'svn diff' (r1239561)
* new --no-diff-added option for 'svn diff' (r1433958)
* new w/c subtree duplication tool (tools/client-side/detach.py)
* new mergeinfo fixup tool (tools/client-side/mergeinfo-sanitizer.py)
* 'svn diff' can compare arbitrary files and directories (r1310291, et al)
* ra_serf avoids re-downloading content present in pristine store (r1333936)
* 'svn mergeinfo' now honors the --revision (-r) option (issue #4199)
* 'svn mergeinfo' now shows a summary graph by default (issue #4239)
* new --search and --search-and options for 'svn log' (r1354666, -83518)
* 'svn log' reports the node kind even for pre-1.6 revision files (r1242958)
* sort path list generated by "svn log -v --xml" (r1299323)
* new built-in interactive text conflict merge tool (r1357864, et al)
* 'svn --version' shows build system info (r1368662)
* 'svn --version --verbose' shows runtime environment info (r1370813 et al)
* 'svn' is now non-interactive when not run in a terminal device (r1424037)
* 'svn propset' checks spelling of reserved property names (r1470781)
* improve working copy performance on network disks (issue #4176)
* support for custom keyword definitions in svn:keywords (issue #890)
* svn:ignore __pycache__ directories by default (r1150073)
* 'svn diff --git' include copyfrom revision in "copied" headers (r1155279)
* svn:mergeinfo related operations now use much less memory (r1149519 et al)
* get list of supported schemes for RA libraries (r1148134)
* 'svn checkout' skips file externals from other repositories (r1153110)
* 'svn resolve' exits non-zero if conflicts could not be resolved (r1150439)
* let HTTPv2-aware clients fetch v2-style resources (r1161202)
* 'svn status' with better NLS support (r1157537, -682)
* better tracking of shallow-yet-complete merges (issues #4056, #4057)
* make 'svn status --quiet' w/ externals quieter still (issue #1935)
* ensure that conflict paths are shown relative-ized (r1337520)
* improve performance of local multi-target deletions (r1195873)
* various interactive conflict resolver improvements in 'svn' (r1440421 etc)
* improved tree diff implementation for diff and merge (r1440599 et al)
* tree conflicts on directories detected better during merges (issue #3150)
* allow reverting unmodified copies with 'svn remove' (r1442611)
* make 'svn diff' with mixed URL and local path targets work (r1442640)
* make 'svn patch' re-add deleted directories if needed (r1445333)
* make repos-wc diffs fully ancestry-aware (r1445904)
* 'svn diff --git' now implies 'svn diff --show-copies-as-adds' (r1446279)
* 'svn diff --show-copies-as-adds' now implies --notice-ancestry (r1446279)
* improved tree-conflict detection for 'svn switch' (r1449413, r1450582)
* allow up to 8 revision number digits in 'svn status -v' output (r1428637)
* show node kind (file or dir) in tree conflict descriptions (r1429907)
* restore deleted switched paths upon next update (issue #4295)
* add support for copying paths from foreign repositories (issue #3590)
* fix merge -cA,B with --accept option aborts if rA conflicts (issue #4238)
* 'svn resolve' interactive support; no longer requires --accept (r1336929)
* notify when removing externals leaves behind modified files (r1366021)
* new 'http-max-connections' configuration option for serf (r1421559)
* new 'http-bulk-updates' configuration option for serf (r1421490)
* 'svn cleanup' now runs SQLite "vacuum" to reclaim space (r1418459)
* 'svn info' displays repository-relative URL (r1415365)
* fix serf memory leak on checkout (issue #4194)
* detect duplicate paths setting svn:externals (issue #4227)
* make ra_serf work over HTTP/1.0 proxies (issue #3979)
* make ra_serf accept gzip compression for all responses (r1407454)
* double ra_serf performance for checkout and export (r1407545)
* improve network and disk i/o interleaving in ra_serf (r1407934)
* avoid assert in ra_serf when REPORT response was truncated (r1407935)
* rewrite ra_serf XML parser (r1409259 et al)
* ra_serf can create transaction with inline txnprops (r1375167)
* partially fix replace+propset of locked file fails over DAV (issue #3674)
* fix ra_serf doesn't handle bad baseline error from server (issue #4127)
* decreased default http timeout for ra_serf (issue #3968)
* prevent ra_serf from corrupting the working copy (issue #3993)
* ra_serf transmits property changes inline to reduce requests (r1378927)
* allow client to avoid SSL certificate prompts (issue #2410)
* improve interactive resolution of property conflicts (r1387678 et al)
* make ra_serf raise an error upon delta-base mismatch (issue #4235)
* tune ra_svn transmit buffer handling (r1391788)
* make 'svnrdump' work with serf (issue #4116)
* fix 'svnrdump' on path below repository root (issue #4101)
* support ipv6 in URLs (e.g. http://[::1]/svn/repos) (r1454047)
* conflict resolver now iterates paths in a sorted order (r1461820)
* mod_dav_svn does keyword expansion with 'kw=1' query arg (r1466055)
* add support for custom keyword definitions (issue #890)
- Minor new features and improvements (server-side):
* improve performance of config file parsing (r1344347 et al)
* new 'svnadmin load --revision' load filtering support (issue #3734)
* new 'svnadmin hotcopy --incremental' support for FSFS (issue #3815)
* new 'svnadmin lock' / 'svnadmin unlock' subcommands (issue #3942, #4092)
* new SVNUseUTF8 configuration option for mod_dav_svn (issue #2487)
* new SVNHooksEnv configuration option for mod_dav_svn (r1239966)
* new SvnPubSub distributed commit hooks (tools/server-side/svnpubsub)
* new light-weight benchmarking client (tools/client-side/svn-bench)
* svndumpfilter dependency analysis (tools/server-side/svnpredumpfilter.py)
* new automatic working copy updater (tools/server-side/svnpubsub)
* new 'svnadmin freeze' subcommand (r1376228)
* 'svndumpfilter' now supports --delta dumpfiles (r1351009, -3745)
* new --drop-all-emtpy-revs option for 'svndumpfilter' (issue #3681)
* client version info now reported to commit hooks (issue #4124)
* txn name now reported to post-commit hooks (r1240856)
* support for server-side keyword expansion in mod_dav_svn (r1466055)
* FSFS now able to cache revision properties (r1326307)
* FSFS cache for changed-paths increases 'svn log' performance (r1378358)
* FSFS cache mergeinfo requested during 'log -g' (r1395439)
* many FSFS caching improvements (r1390435, r1390447)
* directory and property deltification option in FSFS (issue #4084)
* fine-grained control deltification behavior via fsfs.conf (r1311476)
* FSFS de-duplication ("rep sharing") now works within a revision (r1397773)
* FSFS de-duplication now works for properties as well (r1243312)
* read FSFS data using fewer fopen calls (issue #3372)
* 'svnadmin verify' will now check meta data (issues #3956, #4211)
* 'svnadmin verify' now checks for issue #4129 style corruption (r1304656)
* new --client-speed option for svnserve (r1391788)
* new --single-threaded option in svnserve (r1296018)
* hook script templates are now marked as executable (r1153414)
* error out on non-canonical fspaths in the authz file (r1166111)
* improve path lookup performance in FSFS (r1442088)
* svnserve now logs explicit path and reason for authz failures (r1446542)
* validate offsets from rep-cache to prevent FSFS corruption (issue #4277)
* new AuthzSVNGroupsFile option to store authz groups separately (r1438407)
* new 'SVNAllowBulkUpdates prefer' option for mod_dav_svn (r1417642, et al)
* new 'SVNMasterVersion' option for mod_dav_svn (r1398962)
* added virtual-host support to 'svnserve' (r1401296)
* new fsfs-stats tool which prints FSFS repository stats (r1410995)
* new fsfs-reorg tool to optimize FSFS packing (r1383214, r1385395)
* new --compatible-version option for 'svnadmin create' (r1407279 )
* new --ignore-properties option for 'svnlook diff' (r1407905)
* new --properties-only option for 'svnlook diff' (r1407905)
* new --diff-cmd option for 'svnlook diff' (r1413449)
* allow leading "r"'s in http: ?p= and ?r= query parameters (r1221463)
* faster 'svn ls' for large directories (r1296627)
* mod_dav_svn now advertises supported POST types (r1375123)
* mod_dav_svn can create transaction with inline txnprops (r1375167)
* run start-commit hook after transaction creation (r1376201)
* avoid byte-for-byte comparison where it can be avoided (r1390641)
* various server-side performance improvements for 'log -g' (r1395442 et al)
* allow up to 10Gbit throughput with svnserve (r1391788)
* install mod_dontdothat correctly (r1454450)
* svnadmin verify can now verify transactions (r1462353)
* FSFS verifies revisions as they are added (r1462409)
- Client-side bugfixes:
* fix inconsistent 'svn log' output for empty revisions (issue #3964)
* fix mis-ordered text output of 'svn log --diff' on Windows (r1220783)
* fix 'svn log --diff' on moved file (issue #4153).
* fix 'svn revert' of 'svn move' (issue #876)
* fix file externals wrongly "resurrecting" a deleted file (#4017)
* fix reporting of corrupted 1.6 w/cs by 'svn upgrade' (r1182904, -9)
* fix bug caused by URI-decoding local merge source paths (r1210539)
* fix properties out of sync with repos after merge and revert (issue #4305)
* fix merge of replacement on local delete fails (issue #4011)
* fix replacements on deletes produce wrong tree conflicts (issue #3806)
* made ra_serf handle location headers that are not RFC-compliant (r1443906)
* merge no longer errors out after resolving all conflicts (issue #4316)
* fix svn blame mis-categorizing file type as binary (issue #2089)
* fix externals not removed when working copy is made shallow (issue #3741)
* fix update under add with not-present parent (issue #4111)
* fix revert of files with svn:needs-lock under copied dirs (r1343168)
* fix repos->wc diff of local copied/moved-here directories (r1341927)
* fix repos->wc diff of local copied/moved-here files (r1341544)
* fix "svn diff -cN PATH" where PATH was deleted in rN (r1338708)
* fix dependency on APR hash order in several logic paths (r1338350 et al)
* fix path inconsistencies in 'svn diff' output (r1338291)
* fix misleading error message printed by 'svn switch' (issue #2337)
* fix bug in mergeinfo recording during foreign-repos merge (r1430310)
* fix spurious merge conflicts for binary files with keywords (issue #4221)
* fix patching symlinks with 'svn patch' (issue #4273)
* make 'svn switch' refresh lock information (issue #3376)
* fix 'svn diff' output doesn't apply as patch without fuzz (issue #3362)
* fix mergeinfo recording for multiple-revision-range merge (issue #4306)
* fix diffs shown by 'show-diff' conflict prompt option (r1438879)
* don't print an update summary header with no content (r1439480)
* make 'svn rm' remove externals registrations below its targets (r1361256)
* fix crashes in ra_serf where AVG 2012 Surf-Shield is in use (issue #4175)
* don't raise conflicts on identical binary files (issue #4128)
* improve error messages when wc.db missing (issue #4118)
* fix 'svn diff' showing wrong text change (issue #4270)
* fix 'svn diff -rN' failing to show local replace (issue #3797)
* fix 'svn diff' showing wrong revision (issue #4010)
* fix 'svn merge' showing spurious notifications (issue #2910)
* parse '.@HEAD' correctly (issue #3606)
* fix 'svn revert' after conflict in sparse working copy (issue #4168)
* fix bug in global/per-server config handling in serf (r1421516)
* properly display errors from serf (r1398742)
* fix crash in ra_serf (r1408291)
* fixed svnmucc propset and propdel on repository root (issue #3663)
* fix 'svn info' output with ancient svnserve servers (pre-1.2) (r1409732)
* ra_serf shows error message for 408 Request Timeout response (r1410983)
* fix handling of "\ No newline ..." in diff/patch (r1411723, r1412382)
* allow infinite http timeout in ra_serf (r1411976)
* using unknown svn: property names now requires --force (issue #4261)
* fix handling of case insensitive configuration files (r1215089)
* properly handle errors during password caching (r1380695)
* fix svnversion output not always a number (issue #4226)
* fix conflict resolver losing executable bit of a file (r1391019)
* fix redundant notifications when merging with ra_serf (issue #3802)
* fix 'svn add --force /path/to/wcroot' should work (issue #4241)
* fix file permissions changed after commit (issue #4331)
* improve handling of http errors in ra_serf (1452792, 1452870)
* include checksum of missing pristines in error message (r1452800)
* fix an assert when merging against a replaced source (issue #4132)
* fix replacement in merge source has incorrect notification (issue #4138)
* improve performance of checkout (r1453791)
* fixed documentation regarding merge source (issue #3247)
* fix merge errors out after resolving conflicts (issue #4316)
* fix delete/move with file external in unversioned dir (issue #4293)
* fix resolving tree conflict with local node missing (r1461848)
* fix invalid read during diff suffix scanning (issue #4339)
* fix assertion when running 'svn log <SOME_URL>@PREV' (r1462134)
* optimize enumerating configuration options (r1464478)
* revert will now sleep for timestamps if using commit times (r1464769)
* don't allow externals to be deleted with 'svn rm' (r1464992)
* improved memory usage in ra_serf and ra_local (r1465280)
* replace some assertions with more helpful error messages (r1465975)
* fixed long keyword expansion truncated (issue #4349)
- Server-side bugfixes:
* SVNParentPath / repository listing now authz-filtered (r1408184)
* user/group names in the authz config file are case-sensitive (r1475772)
* limit commit runtime for nodes with very deep histories (r1224836)
* 'svnadmin recover' truncates rep-cache at the right point (issue #4077)
* fix crashes in dumpstream loading with skipped revs (r1214202, r1214216)
* fix 'svn log -g' incorrectly treating rename as merge (issue #4022)
* fix bug where fsfs file-hinting fails (issue #4320)
* don't leak path of repository on server's disk to clients (r1330906)
* remove spurious is-fresh-txn-root from empty revision files (issue #4031)
* fix a stdout handling problem in 'svnlook diff' (r1411971)
* fix erratic behaviour in 'svnlook diff' showing property diffs (r1412224)
* fix inconsistent authz error messages in 'svn log' in svnserve (r1292462)
* fix svndumpfilter for empty paths in included or excluded lists (r1294583)
* make fsfs packing threadsafe (r1376011)
* don't error out on intermittent memcached failures (r1394470)
* fix a ra_svn deadlock with zero-copy server option (r1465622)
- Other tool improvements and bugfixes:
* 'svnmucc' promoted to first-class supported utility (issue #3308, #4279)
* make 'svnmucc' prompt for log messages (issue #3418)
* rename 'svnauthz-validate' to 'svnauthz' (issue #4284)
* make 'svnauthz' optionally validate user/path access (r1197588)
* fix mailer.py test suite problems (r1449582)
* fix mailer.py not showing dirs with property deletions (r1449582)
* make mailer.py generate Date and Message-ID headers (r1449592)
* new '-?' option support for 'svnmucc' (r1339428)
* provide the repository name to mailer.py (r1439592)
* add '--force-interactive' to svnmucc (r1457789)
* add '--trust-server-cert' to svnmucc (r1458995)
Developer-visible changes:
- General:
* now require Python 2.5 for tests and dev tools (r1243627)
* now require bzip2 for tests and dev tools (r1148512)
* configure defaults to --without-apache-libexecdir (r1469862)
* support builds with APR pool debugging (r1176894)
* 'make extraclean' is more thorough now (r1149460)
* support for Serf 2 (r1147538)
* introduction of editor v2 (via private APIs only) (r1166332 et al)
* improve SQLite setup for compatibility with OS X 10.7. (r1181666)
* rework switch statement to accomodate OWC compiler limitations (r1204407)
* new --enable-sqlite-compatibility-version configure option (r1201421)
* make test suite LD_LIBRARY_PATH include just-built auth plugins (r1200474)
* packages/ directory removed, contents were outdated and unused (r1442167)
* rename 'makefile.ezt' to 'build-outputs.mk.ezt' (r1444822)
* use expensive compiler optimizations with --enable-optimize (r1445063)
* in Visual C++ builds, move temp files to different directory (r1446416)
* remove --with-ssl and --with-gssapi configure options (r1449023)
* require at least serf 1.2.0 as build dependency (issue #4296)
* fix error tracing to record file/line properly (r1331242)
* add --log-level argument to win-tests.py (r1335461)
* improve GDB pretty-printing of svn types (r1351336, r1364750, r1365035)
* load third-party FS modules (if --enable-runtime-module-search) (r1362434)
* enable running the regression tests over https (r1349699)
* support 'make davautocheck' on OS X (r1421583)
* new '--enable-gcov' configure option (r1416646)
* fix build with Apache HTTPD 2.5 (r1408985)
* allow running the test suite through a http proxy (r1410195)
* don't use non-constant initializers in struct variables (r1412911)
* allow generation of Visual Studio 2012 compatible projects (r1245152)
* nicer pretty-printing of Subversion data types in gdb (r1367262 et al)
* teach serf build on Windows to use static APR/Util and OpenSSL (r1371338)
* add --ssl-cert option to win-tests.py to run tests over https (r1372760)
* don't strip Content-Type header form .po files on Windows (r1380056)
* configure now script auto-detects GNOME keyring (r1387230)
* allow configure to detect BDB on Debian-based Linux distros (r1390633)
* auto-detect serf via pkg-config (r1391662)
* improve queries for compatability with SQLite 3.7.16 (r1455239)
* remove support for in-tree apr, apr-util and apr-memcache (r1456924)
* FSFS caching supports prefixes now (r1462436)
* maintainer mode now prints symbolic error codes (r1465157)
* don't require NLS support for kwallet support (r1466445)
* make Julian happy (r1413030)
- API changes:
* fix inconsistent handling of log revs without changed paths (issue #3694)
* deprecated SVN_ERR_SQLITE_UNSUPPORTED_SCHEMA (r1173240)
* provide API to clear cached auth credentials (issue #2775)
* improve repository location information in various APIs (issue #4170)
* major rewrite of conflict storage and handling APIs (r1354973 et al)
* hide (deprecate) svn_wc APIs that use editors (r1243339)
* svn_stringbuf_ensure() allocates an extra byte for terminator (r1308966)
* switch and update apis are now more consistent (r1465292)
* deprecated svn_client_merge_reintegrate (r1466742)
* deprecated low level ra_svn apis (r1466907)
- Bindings:
* star-imports in swig-py only import 'svn_*' symbols (r1303375)
* fix compilation of Perl bindings on Mandriva 2007 (issue #2617)
* new JavaHL testing targets (r1182983)
* enable returning an error on malfunctions for JavaHL (r1366215)
* MacOS X build fix to cope with missing GNOME keyring (r1397844)
* fix swig bindings tests on MacOS X (r1397846)
* fix assertion failure in JavaHL error reporting (r1405922)
* support ruby 1.9 (r1407206)
* JavaHL: Include OSGI Manifest information in svn-javahl.jar (r1234864)
* new svn_auth_set_gnome_keyring_unlock_prompt_func function (r1241554)
* fix svn_txdelta window ops for python bindings (r1389054)
* fix build of Perl bindings with newer versions of SWIG (r1389658)
* add missing API functions to Perl bindings (issue #2646)
* add missing API functions to Python bindings (r1392038 et al)
* add missing API functions to JavaHL bindings (issue #4326)
* fix some reference counting bugs in swig-py bindings (r1464899, r1466524)
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