Rehsack. apr1 is no longer an option; that's just the way it is.
Version 1.6.2
(09 May 2009, from /branches/1.6.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.6.2
User-visible changes:
* vastly improve memory usage with 'svn merge' (issue #3393)
* make default depth for merge 'infinity' (r37156)
* make 'status --quiet' show tree conflicts (issue #3396)
* allow '--set-depth infinity' to expand shallow subtrees (r37169)
* return an error if attempting to reintegrate from/to the repo root (r37385)
* don't store bogus mergeinfo for '--ignore-ancestry', foreign merges (r37333)
* don't allow merge of difference between two repos (r37519)
* avoid potential segfault with subtree mergeinfo (r36613, -15, -31, -41)
* recommend sqlite 3.6.13 (r37245)
* avoid unnecessary server query for implicit mergeinfo (r36509)
* avoid unnecessary server query during reverse merges (r36527)
* set depth=infinity on 'svn add' items with restricted depth (r37607)
* fixed: commit log message template missing paths (issue #3399)
* fixed: segfault on merge with servers < 1.6 (r37363, -67, -68, -79)
* fixed: repeat merge failures with non-inheritable mergeinfo (issue #3392)
* fixed: another memory leak when performing mergeinfo-aware merges (r37398)
* fixed: incorrect mergeinfo on children of shallow merges (issue #3407)
* fixed: pool lifetime issues in the BDB backend (r37137)
Developer-visible changes:
* don't fail if an embedding app has already initialized SQLite (issue #3387)
* resolve naming collisions with static stat() function in svnserve (r37527)
* fix an expectation for a failing dirent windows test (r37121)
Version 1.6.1
(10 Apr 2009, from /branches/1.6.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.6.1
User-visible changes:
* recommend Neon 0.28.4. (r36388)
* improve performance of 'svn merge --ignore-ancestry' (r36256)
* improve 'svn merge' performance with subtree mergeinfo (r36444)
* correctly proxy LOCK and UNLOCK requests (r36159)
* prevent a crash when updating old working copies (r36751)
* don't let svnmerge.py delete a nonexistent property (r36086, -767, -769)
* don't fail when upgrading pre-1.2 repositories (r36851, -7)
* allow escaping of separator characters in autoprops (r36763, -84)
* improve tempfile creation robustness on Windows (r36442, -3)
* fix change-svn-wc-format.py for 1.6.x working copies (r36874, -5)
* improve configure's detection of Berkeley DB (r36741, -2)
* don't allow foreign merges to add foreign mergeinfo (issue #3383)
* improve performance of 'svn update' on large files (r36389, et. al.)
* fixed: error leak and potential crash (r36860)
* fixed: parent directory handling on Windows (r36049, -50, -51, -131)
* fixed: unintialized memory errors (r36252, -3)
* fixed: potential working copy corruption (r36714)
* fixed: working copy upgrade error (r36302)
* fixed: pointer dereference error (r36783)
* fixed: error diff'ing large data with ignored whitespace (r36816)
* fixed: potential hang in ra_serf (r36913)
* fixed: problem with merge and non-inheritable mergeinfo (r36879)
* fixed: repeated merging of conflicted properties fails (issue #3250)
* fixed: excluding an absent directory segfaults (issue #3391)
Developer-visible changes:
* ensure svn_subst_translate_cstring2() properly flushes data (r36747)
* make serf report a base checksum to apply_textdelta (r36890)
* syntax updates for strict C89 compilers (r36799)
* update RPM scripts for RHEL4 (r36834)
* allow tests to be run with Python 2.6.1 on Windows (r36149, -50, -51, -56)
* allow building JavaHL with Visual Studio 2008 (r36954)
* stop setting default translation domain in JavaHL (r36955)
* fixed: warning with Python 2.6 and ctypes bindings (r36559)
* fixed: undefined references to svn_fs_path_change2_create() (r36823)
Version 1.6.0
(20 Mar 2009, from /branches/1.6.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.6.0
User-visible changes:
- General:
* Now require Windows 2000 or newer on Windows (r33170)
- Major new features:
* identical files share storage space in repository (issue #2286)
* file-externals support for intra-repository files (issue #937)
* "tree" conflicts now handled more gracefully (issue #2282, #2908)
* repository root relative URL support on most commands (issue #3193)
- Minor new features and improvements:
* pre-lock hook can now specify lock tokens via stdout (r32778)
* svnmucc: support '--with-revprop' (r29492)
* merge: log include-descendants in operational log (r30426, r30428)
* improved operational logging for 'svn switch' (r30517)
* new 'Header' keyword, similar to 'Id' but with full URL (r35386)
* warn/disallow when storing plain-text passwords (r31046)
* support KWallet and GNOME keyring for password storage (r31241, -337)
* client now caches SSL client cert passphrases (issue #2489)
* add '--prefix-file' option to 'svndumpfilter' (issue #2697)
* add '--ignore-externals' option to 'svn cp' (issue #3365)
* add '--with-no-revprops' to 'svn log' (issue #3286)
* new 'svnadmin pack' command to compress FSFS filesystems
* new SVNAllowBulkUpdates mod_dav_svn directive (issue #3121)
* new public mod_dav_svn URI syntax: path?[p=PEG][&r=REV] (r34076)
* new 'svnsync info' command to show synchronization information (r35053)
* conflict resolver supports display-conflict, mine-conflict and theirs-conflict
- Client-side bugfixes:
* faulty reflexive merges (issue #2897)
* buffer overflow on a 0 byte string buffer (r35968, -74)
* conflict resolver needed more useful 'diff' option (issue #3048)
* disable username assumption (issue #2324)
* more accurate usage message for 'svn log' (r30449)
* do not repeat merge if target has explicit mergeinfo (issue #2821)
* corruption when filtering self-referential mergeinfo (r30467)
* filter empty mergeinfo with self-referential mergeinfo (r30510)
* pay attention to partial replay from the server in svnsync (r30440)
* improved property name handling in svnsync (r30480)
* properly recognize the file:/// in repository with svnsync (r30482)
* svn+ssh SIGKILLs ssh processes (issue #2580)
* 'svn up'/'svn co' early abort with svn:externals (issue #3148)
* improve tempfile names for conflict resolver (issue #3166)
* ra_serf: 'svn merge' aborts (issue #3212)
* 'svn cleanup' failed on non-ASCII characters (issue #3313)
* 'svn update' fails on moved, modified file with local mods (issue #3354)
* easier use of NTLM for proxy with ra_neon (r29874)
* 2-url merge from DAV-accessed foreign repo makes bad wcprops (issue #3118)
* can't add .svn (and children) to your wc via '--parents' (r35819)
* improved performance removing unversioned directories (r36111)
* 'svn cp --parents' had path URL encoding issues (issue #3374)
* support shell quoting rules in externals definitions (issue #2461)
* new SVN_LOCALE_DIR environment variable for localization (issue #2879)
* scheme and domain name in urls handled case insensitive (issue #2475)
* merge: pick default revisions with peg revision in single url (r30455)
* many other minor bugfixes, optimizations, plugs of memory leaks, etc
- Server-side bugfixes:
* mod_dav_svn runs pre-revprop-change twice (issue #3085)
* mod_dav_svn ignores pre-revprop-change failure on delete (issue #3086)
* mod_dav_svn prevented lock breaks from being propagated to client (r29914)
* non-UTF8 filenames could enter repository (issue #2748)
* 'svnlook proplist' xml output (issue #2809)
* don't let mod_dav_svn hide errors from client (issue #3102)
* ra_serf failure during update (issue #3113)
* ra_serf comply with RFC 2617 in handling authentication headers (r35981)
* use both SHA1 and MD5 in the FS backends (r34388)
* many other minor bugfixes too numerous to list here
- Contributed tools improvements and bugfixes:
* commit-email.pl: Deprecated; use mailer.py instead (r31755, -67)
* svnmerge.py migration tool munged svn:mergeinfo ordering (issue #3302)
* And other random sundry stuff
Developer-visible changes:
- General:
* serf 0.3.0 required, when building with serf (r35586)
* require SQLite 3.4.0 or newer (r33520)
* allow the use of an in-tree SQLite amalgamation (r35263)
* svn_log_changed_path_t now includes a 'kind' field (issue #1967)
* BDB `changes' table inconsistency when APIs are misused (issue #3349)
* configure should prefer apr-1 over apr-0 if both are present (issue #2671)
* make 'Not Found' errors consistent between RA layers (issue #3137)
* fix a potential buffer overrun (r34374)
* many bug fixes and improvements to the test suite
- API changes:
* notification system for properties and revision properties (issue #783)
* make ra_svn's merge commit-revprops public (r30462, r30453)
* mod_dav_svn operational logging compatible with svnserve logging (r30518)
* improve speed of svn_client__get_copy_source() (issue #3356)
* if fsfs commit fails return SVN_INVALID_REVNUM (r35950)
- Bindings:
* new: ctypes python bindings
* many improvements to all bindings (Java, Perl, Python, and Ruby)
* respect CFLAGS in SWIG bindings (r35879)
* fix building Ruby bindings with Ruby 1.9 (r35852, r35883)
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