Subversion 1.5.0 Release Candidate 5 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-rc5, available from:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.zip
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

     0e87b4f9fa8551a2a71b539564c3bf8f subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     0137bd860b593bff3614bc9b80e62f4f subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     b239b95adbeac8c3964627e62768dc3e subversion-1.5.0-rc5.zip
     383025c2544c6744b137f2555545da73 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     405a6e3089f728bc648fc47d361cae59 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     5be51d4d860dc1112502d820a35c0017 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

     f1f52ef0c8b6801216a6093934ca982b5469c6af subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     62ccc4477184fcabf8d7efcd1fa3cff8da59d16c subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     b7905f91494bb491ed6499b1c54c0e1568cfec48 subversion-1.5.0-rc5.zip
     2052704a1845aadfbf8ddf854985fc1bb3390c0d subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2
     a8ce9e668ec3bef6d1e50292ab0e33c467e26fb4 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz
     badc1044f1d08ae337d14ac5d0489dd189a8ac2d subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc5.zip.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc5.zip.asc

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

    Blair Zajac [1024D/DA561D91] with fingerprint:
     3FAE C7E1 ADE8 572F 613C F086 C572 2326 DA56 1D91
    Karl Fogel [1024D/DB00A248] with fingerprint:
     B77E 8FB2 112F 9637 2E3E 3F08 BC9D BB13 DB00 A248
    Ivan Zhakov [1024D/C4F3A281] with fingerprint:
     9D3C 5860 6A64 74BF 591D F3A1 F60D 1980 C4F3 A281
    Branko Čibej [2048R/C8628501] with fingerprint:
     8769 28CD 4954 EA74 87B6 B96C 29B8 92D0 C862 8501
    Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis [1024D/3EBC9C03] with fingerprint:
     B17B 0508 3D02 62DD B38C 7F2E F998 9E71 3EBC 9C03
    Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint:
     3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6 D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C
    Kamesh Jayachandran [1024D/ED184C2C] with fingerprint:
     3E5B 5C1D 1CA6 A611 2787 9B4B DD61 EFC8 ED18 4C2C
    Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint:
     E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C 32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55
    Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint:
     D315 89DB E1C1 E9BA D218 39FD 265D F8A0 035A 96A9

This is a public Release Candidate for Subversion 1.5.0. Due to
changes made since the previous release candidate (rc4), this release
restarts the soak period for 1.5.0-final. (See
http://subversion.tigris.org/hacking.html#release-stabilization for
details about soak periods and the release process.)

The term 'release candidate' means the Subversion developers feel that
this release is stable and ready for production use, so we encourage
people to test this release thoroughly.

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.

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-rc5 and earlier versions at:

     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-rc5/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team