The First Subversion 1.7 Alpha Release is Available Now and The Community Needs Your Feedback

The long awaited and highly anticipated release of Subversion 1.7 is almost upon us. Like any successful open source project, Subversion needs active participation and feedback from its user community. This is especially true in the case of 1.7, given its emphasis on client-side performance and new client tools. That's why Subversion 1.7.0 alpha-1 has now been made available for user testing. Major 1.7 enhancements include:

• HTTPv2- a protocol rewrite designed to enhance performance by reducing the number of round trips between the client and the server with every request.
• WC-NG - a rewrite of the working copy library that enhances performance by centralizing metadata storage and provides a foundation for supporting features such as shelving and offline commits in future releases.
• svnrdump - a new client tool that provides the same functionality as svnadmin dump and svnadmin load, but on remote repositories. There's no need for administrator access to the source or target repository on on the remote server's filesystem.

A complete list of what's new is available at http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html. Download 1.7 now at: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download/1_7-alpha. Contribute to the success of this major new release by providing your feedback at: http://www.svnforum.org/forums/56-Apache-Subversion-1.7.0-Alpha-Support . This is your chance to make a positive impact on the world's most popular version control system and its more than five million users.




Support for Mac OS X Added to the World’s Most Comprehensive Set of Fully Tested Free Subversion Binaries

Certified Subversion 1.6.17 binaries are now available for the Mac OS X platform. These binaries work with Mac OS X versions 10.5.x and 10.6.x on PPC and Intel 32 and 64 bit architectures. This software provides a complete, fully tested version of Subversion based on the most recent stable release, including the latest fixes.

To upgrade to the newest release of Subversion on Mac OS X and take advantage of the fixes and enhancements that it offers go to: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download. You can register for free community support for the software at: www.svnforum.org. Professional support is also available if you require secure, high quality online, phone and email support with guaranteed response times and automated access to the latest fixes and updates.

Subversion 1.6.17 Now Available

Subversion 1.6.17 was just released today. This newest version provides several key enhancements as well as bug fixes. Most notably, 1.6.17 includes major improvements in checkout performance for large working copies on Windows, greater efficiency of ‘blame – g’ for users dealing with a large amount of mergeinfo and improved error handling on Windows. A detailed list of the changes included in this new release is available at: Subversion 1.6.17 Changes.

Release notes for the entire 1.6.x series can be found at: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html.

To upgrade to this latest release of Subversion and take advantage of the fixes and enhancements that it offers go to: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download

The Next Frontier of Enterprise Software Development: Social Coding For Subversion

WANdisco recently unveiled uberSVN - a major new product available free of charge that transforms Subversion into an open, extensible platform for application lifecycle management (ALM) . In addition to plug-and-play flexibility and rich system and user administration capabilities, uberSVN provides the first-ever social coding environment for Subversion, taking enterprise software development beyond the limits of email, wikis, defect trackers, peer-code-review-tools and other applications typically used to manage projects.

uberSVN’s social coding environment reflects the convergence of social networking paradigms represented by Facebook and Twitter that foster instant communication and the collaborative development models of open source communities where software with features similar to these social networking sites was first used. And it’s having the same positive impact on software quality and developer productivity behind corporate firewalls that it’s had in the open source communities that deliver such market-dominating software as the Apache web server, Linux operating system and even Subversion itself.

uberSVN is organized around development teams and their activities. Each team has a home page that profiles the team members, lists the projects they’re working on, repositories they’re using and their latest activity and status. Team members can see each other’s real-time progress by simply subscribing to Twitter-like feeds that managers can also monitor.

With uberSVN, just like developers in an open source community, software engineers in corporate IT environments can rapidly exchange information and continually learn from one another. The overall skill level of the development team goes up and the all-too-common pitfall of reinventing the wheel is avoided. The end result is higher quality software delivered in far less time.

uberSVN is free. Download it now at: http://www.ubersvn.com/download.