Subversion 1.5.5 Universal for OS X is out

By jcscoobyrs on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 17:54

Subversion 1.5.5 has come out and so has the new Subversion 1.5.5 Universal binary. You can download it here: http://www.collab.net/downloads/community/. Here are the Subversion 1.5.5 release notes:

  1. Version 1.5.5
  2. (22 Dec 2008, from /branches/1.5.x)
  3. <a href="http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.5</p>
  4. <p>">http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.5</a></p>
  5. <p> User-visible changes:
  6.   * allow prop commits on dirs with modified children (r34487, -92, -94)
  7.   * make Cyrus auth implementation always prefer EXTERNAL to ANONYMOUS (r33866)
  8.   * do not create mergeinfo for wc-wc moves or copies (r34184, -585)
  9.   * do not autoupgrade old BDB filesystems to 1.5 or 1.4 format (r34653, -6)
  10.   * return mergeinfo to prior state during reverse merges (r30257, r33024, -6)
  11.   * remove mergeinfo deleted by merge (issue #3323)
  12.   * make proxy slaves pass through txn GET and PROPFIND requests (issue #3275)
  13.   * merge can now use targets with inconsistent newlines (issue #3262)
  14.   * don't allow empty-string changelists (issue #3344)
  15.   * remove false positive ra_neon mergeinfo errors (r34822)
  16.   * improve performance of 'svn merge --reintegrate' (r34091, -4, and others)
  17.   * fixed: foreign merges keep UUID of foreign repository (r34050, -1, -3)
  18.   * fixed: properly encode diff headers used in conflict resolution (r34171)
  19.   * fixed: segfault in 'svn cp --parents' (r31311, -4)
  20.   * fixed: mergeinfo for '...' maps to empty revision range (issue #3312)
  21.   * fixed: segfault in BDB backend node-origins cache (r34506)
  22.   * fixed: broken merge if target's history includes resurrections (r34385, -93)
  23.   * fixed: invalid mergeinfo created on a subtree during merge (r34560, -2)
  24.  
  25.  Developer-visible changes:
  26.   * fixed: svn_repos_get_logs() chokes on some revision arguments (r33873, -4)

The installer has also undergone some changes. This new version of the installer includes better backup procedures and the preflight/postflight scripts were updated to make fewer environment assumptions, which in some rare cases have lead to some weird installer failures. As usual, let me know what you think about the binary.

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