Subversion 1.5.0 Released

Hyrum writes "The Subversion team is proud to announce the release of Subversion 1.5.0, a popular open source version control system. The first new feature release of Subversion in almost 2 years, 1.5.0 contains a number of new improvements and features. A detailed list of changes can be found in the release notes. Among the major new features included in this release is merge tracking—Subversion now keeps track of what changes have been merged where. Source code is available immediately, with various other packages available soon."

Comments

Re:Upgrade breaks working copy compatibility

[Dahan]

There is an important piece that is going to keep me from being able to use it for a while

Subclipse 1.4.0, which works with Subversion 1.5.0 has been released. TortoiseSVN release candidates that are compatible with SVN 1.5 have been out for a while, and the plan is to release TortoiseSVN 1.5.0 this weekend.

Those (along with the SVN commandline client) are probably the most popular clients, so most people won't need to wait "a while".

Re:3, 2, 1

[cduffy]

Subversion stores merge history?

As of 1.5, yes. That's one of the Big Features for this release.

Re:Upgrade breaks working copy compatibility

[Ed Avis]

Only if the different clients operate on the same working copy. If you have a different working copy (checkout) for each client you're fine. The repository is not auto-upgraded.