Subversion 1.5.0 Alpha 2 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-alpha2, the first public pre-release
of the 1.5.x series, available from:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.zip
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

    75c92ce8af3f12045a767b07ca08f858 subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    635c825aed1142569b1c386cfaf879ea subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    04d5674c5fffdd9d0435f3f9a9b7996b subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.zip
    2065786c38b02dbfef2bffe5dc1dfc33 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    90766d041dc685c9f613ebbd75cba3c0 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    ce070a405f69eee3fe194fd8e417bd37 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

    f1711affe87f18f69f655a8da771f98fc2470ec9 subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    bf292507b7372000d59eec484f912f0215b2ed9f subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    a81eaef6192c031fe4aff993e1ab76688560483a subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.zip
    6f759d4ed939aa99b3b959c1e896e11bd9d33cd2 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2
    ebbca40ec0561167cba1d309fc7f76037dc98411 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz
    a39b96af04154e64ef4606dfd79a0f210505ac67 subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2.asc
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz.asc
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-alpha2.zip.asc
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.bz2.asc
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.tar.gz.asc
    http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-alpha2.zip.asc

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

   Karl Fogel [1024D/DB00A248] with fingerprint:
    B77E 8FB2 112F 9637 2E3E 3F08 BC9D BB13 DB00 A248
   C. Michael Pilato [1024D/1706FD6E] with fingerprint:
    20BF 14DC F02F 2730 7EA4 C7BB A241 06A9 1706 FD6E
   Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint:
    E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C 32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55
   Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint:
    3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6 D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C
   Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint:
    D315 89DB E1C1 E9BA D218 39FD 265D F8A0 035A 96A9

This is the first public pre-release in the 1.5.x series. It is
functionally complete, but contains known issues including:
 * Perl bindings test failures
 * merge test 23 failure due to test expectation error
 * 'svnsync' copy-revprops segfaults

The term 'alpha' means the Subversion developers feel that this release
is feature-complete and ready for widespread testing by the community.
There are a couple of known issues (and plenty of unknown ones!), so
please use it at your own risk, though we do encourage people to test
this release thoroughly.

As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have
this alpha widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging
and providing to end-users through a distro package system. Packaging an
alpha poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets us
break compatibility between the alpha and the final release, if we find
something serious enough. Having many users depending on an alpha 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 alpha there. Just
don't let it near the end users please.

Please note that due to various improvements made to the working copy
library, the working copy format has changed. Using Subversion 1.5.0-alpha2
on any working copy created by previous versions of Subversion will
TRANSPARENTLY upgrade your working copy, which means that production-ready
versions of Subversion will no longer be able to read it! Please be careful,
if you have two versions of Subversion running on your machine, to not use
the wrong version on a production working copy. If you inadvertently do
upgrade your working copy, you can use the new
tools/client-side/change-svn-wc-format.py script to restore working copy
compatibility with previous versions of Subversion.

Release notes for the 1.5.x release series may be found at:

    http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html

You can find list of changes between 1.5.0-alpha2 and earlier versions at:

    http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-alpha2/CHANGES

These documents are currently incomplete, but will be completed as we
move toward a final release.

Questions, comments, and bug reports to users_at_subversion.tigris.org.

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team