svn commit: r1857377 - /subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html

[st...@apache.org]

Author: stsp
Date: Fri Apr 12 08:32:07 2019
New Revision: 1857377

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1857377&view=rev
Log:
* staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html: Document more client- and server-side
   changes, based on items in the CHANGES file.

Modified:
    subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html

Modified: subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html?rev=1857377&r1=1857376&r2=1857377&view=diff
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--- subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html (original)
+++ subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html Fri Apr 12 08:32:07 2019
@@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ Subversion 1.12 have been backported to
      title="Link to this section">&para;</a>
 </h3>
 
+<div class="h4" id="authz-groups">
+<p>Subversion servers will now ignore empty group definitions in their
+path-based authorization rules. The <tt>svnauthz</tt> command will print
+a warning if it detects empty group definitions.</p>
+</div> <!-- authz-groups -->
+
 </div> <!-- server-side-improvements -->
 
 <div class="h3" id="client-server-improvements">
@@ -325,6 +331,45 @@ Subversion 1.12 have been backported to
      title="Link to this section">&para;</a>
 </h3>
 
+<div class="h4" id="plaintext-passwords-disabled">
+<p>On Unix-like systems, client-side storage of passwords in plaintext on
+disk is now disabled by default <em>at compile-time</em>.
+Password caching mechanisms based on Gnome Keyring, Kwallet, or GPG-Agent,
+are recommended instead.</p>
+
+<p>This change does not affect Windows or Mac OS platforms, where passwords
+have always been stored in an encrypted representation.</p>
+</div> <!-- plaintext-passwords-disabled -->
+
+<div class="h4" id="repos-wc-copy">
+<p>Behaviour of copy operations with a repository source and a working copy
+target has been improved:</p>
+<ul>
+<li>Existing parent directories are now handled correctly.
+<li>Peg and operative revisions are now handled correctly (see
+<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4785">issue #4785</a>
+for details).
+</div> <!-- repos-wc-copy -->
+
+<div class="h4" id="svn-list">
+<p>The <tt>svn list</tt> command now avoids truncation of long author names
+by dynamically adjusting the width of columns displayed.</p>
+<p>The <tt>svn list</tt> command now supports a <tt>--human-readable</tt>
+(<tt>-H</tt>) option which will display sizes in human-readable units
+(Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes and Petabytes).</p>
+</div> <!-- svn-list -->
+
+<div class="h4" id="svn-info">
+<p>The <tt>svn info</tt> command can now display the size of files in the
+repository. The file size is only displayed if the target of <tt>svn info</tt>
+is a file URL.</p>
+</div> <!-- svn-info -->
+
+<div class="h4" id="svn-cleanup">
+<p>The <tt>svn cleanup</tt> command, when asked to remove unversioned or
+ignored items, will now remove directories even if they are write-protected.</p>
+</div> <!-- svn-cleanup -->
+
 </div> <!-- client-server-improvements -->
 
 <div class="h3" id="apis">