Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc3 Released

[Ben Reser <br...@apache.org>]

I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc3, the
second public release candidate of Subversion 1.8.0 (rc1 was not
publicly released).
Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:

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

The SHA1 checksums are:

    5abfb2add2fb0c4bb576a2b423965a9fcd337778 subversion-1.8.0-rc3.tar.bz2
    9862d38ae6964b3aa87ce1957365a8d0cc8971ca subversion-1.8.0-rc3.tar.gz
    f3ba0e035355356793f87849368325595dba78aa subversion-1.8.0-rc3.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc3.tar.bz2.asc
    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc3.tar.gz.asc
    http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.8.0-rc3.zip.asc

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

   Ben Reser [4096R/16A0DE01] with fingerprint:
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   Branko Čibej [2048R/C8628501] with fingerprint:
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This is a release candidate for what will eventually become Apache
Subversion 1.8.0.  It is thought to be free of blocking issues, and if
none are found will become the final release.  For this reason, we
encourage thorough testing in as many environments as possible.  This
release candidate puts us in the last week of the four-week "soak" period
to allow for further testing, and barring show-stopping bugs, the final 1.8.0
release can be expected on or near June 18th.

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 1.8.x release series may be found at:

    http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.8.html

You can find the list of changes between 1.8.0-rc3 and earlier versions at:

    http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.8.0-rc3/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team

Re: Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc3 Released

[Danil Shopyrin <da...@visualsvn.com>]

On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Ben Reser <br...@apache.org> wrote:
> I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc3, the
> second public release candidate of Subversion 1.8.0 (rc1 was not
> publicly released).
>
> This is a release candidate for what will eventually become Apache
> Subversion 1.8.0.  It is thought to be free of blocking issues, and if
> none are found will become the final release.  For this reason, we
> encourage thorough testing in as many environments as possible.  This
> release candidate puts us in the last week of the four-week "soak" period
> to allow for further testing, and barring show-stopping bugs, the final 1.8.0
> release can be expected on or near June 18th.

I would like to notice that Subversion 1.8.0-rc3 binary packages for
Windows are easily available for download at
http://www.visualsvn.com/downloads/pre-release/

We encourage users to download the current pre-release builds and
check that everything is fine in their use cases. All the current
VisualSVN builds are pretty stable and ready for thorough testing.

On the page you can download the following packages built against
Subversion 1.8.0-rc3:

* Standalone Apache Subversion 1.8.0-rc3 command-line tools for Windows.
   https://www.visualsvn.com/files/beta/Apache-Subversion-1.8.0-rc3.zip

* VisualSVN Server 2.6.0-rc2. Enterprise-grade Subversion server
   package for Windows. Installs in a couple of clicks and works out of
   the box.
   https://www.visualsvn.com/files/beta/VisualSVN-3.5.0-beta2.msi

* VisualSVN 3.5.0-beta2. А professional grade Subversion integration
   plug-in for Microsoft Visual Studio.
   https://www.visualsvn.com/files/beta/VisualSVN-Server-2.6.0-rc2.msi

Submit your questions and bug reports to support@visualsvn.com

-- 
With best regards,
Danil Shopyrin
VisualSVN Team