Apache Subversion 1.7.0-alpha3 Released

[Hyrum Wright <hw...@apache.org>]

I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.7.0-alpha3.
Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:

    http://subversion.apache.org/download/#pre-releases

The SHA1 checksums are:

    a13c576ce83758ddd1238ca7dbbdb99ade797d1c subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.tar.gz
    c6e2832167bdce6d10bbb9974dff2c1b9b185701 subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.zip
    886dcc0a98cd37f5c66a2fca11cd53463af68163 subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.tar.bz2

PGP Signatures are available at:

    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.tar.bz2.asc
    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.tar.gz.asc
    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-alpha3.zip.asc

For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures:

   Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint:
    E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C  32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55
   C. Michael Pilato [1024D/1706FD6E] with fingerprint:
    20BF 14DC F02F 2730 7EA4  C7BB A241 06A9 1706 FD6E
   Philip Martin [2048R/ED1A599C] with fingerprint:
    A844 790F B574 3606 EE95  9207 76D7 88E1 ED1A 599C
   Stefan Sperling [1024D/F59D25F0] with fingerprint:
    B1CF 1060 A1E9 34D1 9E86  D6D6 E5D3 0273 F59D 25F0
   Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint:
    3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6  D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C

This is a pre-release for what will eventually become Apache Subversion
1.7.0.  It may contain known issues, a complete list of
1.7.0-blocking issues can be found here:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/buglist.cgi?component=subversion&issue_status=NEW&issue_status=STARTED&issue_status=REOPENED&target_milestone=1.7.0

A pre-release means the Subversion developers feel that this release
is ready for widespread testing by the community.  There are known issues
(and unknown ones!), so please use it at your own risk, though we do
encourage people to test this release thoroughly.  Of particular note, please
remember than persistent data, such as the working copy or repository
formats may change before the final release, and there may not be an
upgrade path from the pre-releases to the final.

As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have this
release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging
and providing to end-users through a distro package system.  Packaging a
release candidate poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets
us break compatibility between the release candidate and the final release, if
we find something serious enough.  Having many users depending on a release
candidate through their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that
we do not want to have to deal with.  However, if your distro has a branch that
is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken software, and
explicitly destined to consenting developers and integrators only, then we're
okay with packaging the release candidate there.  Just don't let it near the
end users please.

Release notes for the 1.7.x release series may be found at:

    http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html

You can find the list of changes between 1.7.0-alpha3 and earlier versions at:

    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.0-alpha3/CHANGES

Questions, comments, and bug reports to users@subversion.apache.org.

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team

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