CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive

19 June 2008

Product News

Subversion 1.5 Now Available Through CollabNet-Sponsored Subversion Open Source Community

The CollabNet-sponsored Subversion open source community announced the general availability of Subversion® 1.5, a leading Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool for managing software development and maintenance across distributed teams. Subversion 1.5 includes key features and functionality to help drive developer productivity including:

•  Merge tracking for more automated and efficient branch management;

•  Sparse checkouts to enable users to check out only a portion of a source tree to reduce the total footprint on their individual workstations;

•  Repository sharding and partitioning to more efficiently distribute repository storage across filesystem resources and to improve server performance;

•  A proxying system for spreading read-load across multiple repository servers for improved performance.

As the most requested feature, merge tracking and its related functions mark a significant change in the way developers use Subversion for distributed development. Interactive conflict resolution enables users to proactively resolve issues during the merge process. Merge history and annotated logs provide additional information not available in previous Subversion releases, allowing users to query for available changes on different lines of development, and making it easier to back out changes. Subversion 1.5 offers both command line and API access to these operations.

“Measuring by new features alone, Subversion 1.5 is our biggest release since version 1.0 became available in February 2004,” said Karl Fogel, president of the non-profit Subversion Corporation. “In Subversion 1.5, we made a conscious effort to integrate ideas from both individual and corporate users. That process worked quite well, and we will probably continue to use it for future development.”

Available today, Subversion 1.5 can be downloaded at http://subversion.tigris.org.

About the Subversion Open Source Community

Subversion is an open source project that can be used to manage changes to any sort of information. Subversion is available under an Apache/BSD-style license which is fully compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. It runs on all modern flavors of Unix, Win32, BeOS, OS/2, OS/400 and MacOS X. To date, it is estimated that Subversion is used by more 3.2 million developers. Find more information at: http://subversion.tigris.org.

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