(21 May 2005, from /branches/1.2.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.2.0
See the 1.2 release notes for a more verbose overview of the changes since
the 1.1 release: http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.2_releasenotes.html
User-visible-changes:
- Client:
* add peg-rev syntax to co/blame/cat/ls/pget/plist/export (issue #1093)
* 'svn info' now works on URLs (r13123, 13144)
* 'svn* --version' now shows available repository back-ends (r13761)
* new fixed-length keywords (for placement in binary files) (issue #2095)
* on Windows, disk-cached passwords are now encrypted (r13888)
* performance improvements:
- 'svn status' does much less disk parsing (r11677, 11704)
- 'svn st -u' no longer asks server to generate textdeltas (issue #2259)
- 'svn revert -R' doing much less work (r13883)
- utf8<->native conversions are faster now (issue #2016)
* new switches added:
- 'svn log --limit N' - show only first N log messages
- 'svn info --revision' - show info on older object (r13265)
- 'svn list --xml' - output listing in XML
- 'svn propset --force' - allow unusual propsets (#2065)
- 'svn diff --force' - show diffs on binary files (#2099)
- 'svn co/up/st --ignore-externals' - skip over externals (#2189)
- 'svn export --non-recursive' - don't export subdirs (issue #2228)
- 'svnversion --help' - show help (r13128)
* fixed: 'svn merge' fails to add symlinks or expand keywords (issue #2064)
* fixed: 'svn merge --dry-run' shows spurious 'skip' messages (issue #1943)
* fixed: 'svn merge' file-not-found' error (issue #1673)
* fixed: 'svn merge' of propchanges into deleted file (issue #2132)
* fixed: 'svn merge' on implicit target with space (r13010)
* fixed: 'svn merge/diff URL URL' can cause httpd timeout (issue #2048)
* fixed: 'svn switch/update' failure might corrupt wc (issue #1825)
* fixed: 'svn up' should rm before add, helps case-insensitivity (r12616)
* fixed: 'svn up -rX' causes file to be unrestorable (issue #2250)
* fixed: 'svn copy wc wc' should keep .svn/ hidden (issue #1739)
* fixed: 'svn copy wc wc' of deleted=true doesn't delete (issue #2101)
* fixed: 'svn copy' shouldn't copy into schedule-delete area (issue #2020)
* fixed: 'svn copy dir dir' infinite recursion (issue #2224)
* fixed: 'svn log' throws error on unversioned target (issue #1551)
* fixed: 'svn log' in r0 working copy shows r1 log msg (issue #1950)
* fixed: 'svn export' bugs on deleted dirs or nonexistents (#2226, r13226)
* fixed: 'svn export' on single file from working copy (issue #1708)
* fixed: 'svn import' creating an empty revision (r14293)
* fixed: 'svn commit' ignores --encoding when editing externally (#2244)
* fixed: 'svn commit' log message lost if utf8-conversion failure (r13230)
* fixed: 'svn diff' output encoding bug (r11461)
* fixed: 'svn diff' showing prop-diffs on repos root dir (r13381-2)
* fixed: 'svn diff' label reversal (issue #2033)
* fixed: 'svn propget' prints extra newline in --strict mode (r14505)
* fixed: 'svn propset' should skip unversioned files (#2030)
* fixed: 'svn rm URL1 URL2 URL3...' huge memory usage (issue #2218)
* fixed: 'svn mkdir' cleanup after failure (r11883)
* fixed: 'svn status -u' crash in non-recursive wc's (issue #2122)
* fixed: 'svn revert' should skip unversioned items (issues #2030, 2133)
* fixed: 'svn revert' should suggest --recursive (issue #2114)
* fixed: 'svn add/import' better detects invalid paths (issue #1954)
* fixed: 'svn cleanup' should repair timestamps (r12012)
* fixed: 'svn cat -rBASE' contacts repository (issue #1361)
* fixed: fuzzily escape control-characters when sending over dav (#2147)
* fixed: prevent client from manipulating svn🚾* properties (r12523)
* fixed: xml-escaping bugs over dav (r11090)
* fixed: store symlinks as utf8, always work in non-utf8 locale (r11358-9)
* fixed: bug in special-file detranslation (r11441)
* fixed: show paths in local-style where we weren't (issue #1538)
* fixed: detect invalid propnames better (issue #1832)
* fixed: entire error stack not being printed (issue #1822)
* fixed: improper utf8 conversion of revision strings (issue #1999)
* fixed: use-commit-times timestamp bug (r12906)
* fixed: don't comment out section-names in default config file (r11771)
* more support for user-cancellation (r13083-4, 13086)
* improved error messages (r12920, 11392, 11599, 11913, #2154, #2214)
- Server:
* mod_dav_svn autoversioning feature now complete (see release notes)
* 'svnadmin create' now creates FSFS repositories by default (r13624)
* new pre/post-revprop hook argument to describe propchange (r12162)
* mod_authz_svn groups can now contain other groups (issue #2085)
* 'svnadmin recover' now creates default svnserve passwd file (r11589)
* increase default BDB cache size in DB_CONFIG (r13030)
* new switches added:
- 'svnlook diff --no-diff-added' - suppress added files (#2180)
- 'svnlook propget/proplist --revprop' - show revision props (#2181)
- 'svnadmin load --use-pre-commit-hook'
'svnadmin load --use-post-commit-hook'- invoke hooks when loading
* fixed: FSFS race condition on posix platforms (issue #2265)
* fixed: change FSFS revprops atomically and safely (issue #2193)
* fixed: FSFS should verify checksums (issue #2253)
* fixed: 'svnadmin create' should clean up when it fails (r13200)
* fixed: 'svnadmin load' compatibility on pre-0.14 dumpfiles (r12075)
* fixed: 'svnadmin load' crashes on contentful rev 0 (issue #1674)
* fixed: 'svnadmin dump' should write in console encoding (issue #1997)
* fixed: check for null-streams in dump/load code (r10510)
* fixed: hook script ignored when symlink is broken (issue #1700)
* fixed: hook script may inherit server's stdin stream (r12155)
* fixed: potential svnserve segfault (r13199)
* fixed: svnserve handling mutually-exclusive options (issue #2251)
* fixed: mod_authz_svn should log errors to httpd errorlog (issue #2182)
* fixed: 'svnadmin hotcopy' failed to copy format files (r14678, r14683)
* mailer.py: add win32 compatibility, plus other bugfixes
- Both:
* new 'locking' feature (issue #1478, see release notes for details):
- new: 'svn lock/unlock', 'svnadmin lslocks/rmlocks', 'svnlook lock'
- new: 'svn:needs-lock' property to enable communication
- 'svn st [-u]' shows local or remote lock overview
- 'svn info wc | URL' shows local or remote lock details
- 'svn commit' sends locks, 'svn up' removes stale locks
- new hook scripts: pre-lock, pre-unlock, post-lock, post-unlock
* speedups for 'svn blame' and other commands (see xdelta in release notes)
* fixed: make both svnserve and svn:// urls work with IPv6 (r13235-6)
* continued improvement of localized message translations:
- German, Spanish, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Norwegian Bokmål,
Swedish, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese
- more localized messages in all svn-related binaries
Developer-visible changes:
* binary diff algorithm now defaults to xdelta instead of vdelta
* huge number of new APIs:
- new locking APIs in svn_client.h, svn_ra.h, svn_repos.h, svn_fs.h
- new 'flattened' svn_ra.h API, which imitates svn_fs.h (issue #1931)
- new notification API in svn_client.h, svn_wc.h
- http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2005-04/0319.shtml has all API changes
* fs now has its own 'format' file, independent of repos 'format' (r13387)
* improve efficiency of delta combining algorithm (r13016, r13063)
* make all BDB apis take explicit pool parameters (r13198, r13205)
* remove libsvn_fs_base caching of node revisions (r13299)
* libsvn_repos commit editor can now take incoming txn (r13733)
* fixed: mod_dav_svn sending illegal editor-drive (issue #2258)
* pool usage improvements (r12954, 12852, r13386, issue #1310)
* SWIG bindings: better API coverage overall.
- new ruby bindings!
- remove bitrotting swig-java bindings
- perl and python bindings: numerous improvements, see their own logs.
- bindings tests now within svntest framework
* javahl bindings: numerous improvements, see its own logs.
* many improvements to mailer.py and commit-email.pl
* rewrite/improvements to gen-make build system, including VS.NET support
* many improvements to the automated python testsuite (issue #2257)
* book moved to separate repository (http://svn.red-bean.com/svnbook)
pkgsrc changes:
* New package devel/ruby-subversion.
* Switch to devel/swig13, which we no longer need at runtime.
* Provide TEST_TARGET for p5-subversion.
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