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Subversion 0.14.4 released

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel_at_newton.ch.collab.net>
Date: 2002-10-29 23:10:46 CET

This is just a bugfix release on the way to Subversion Beta. Grab the
tarball from:

   http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=260

Thanks to everyone who worked on this -- including the many who wrote
careful bug reports, which (as is apparent from the logs and issues
database) were essential to fixing a lot of the problems.

For more details, run

   $ svn log -r3553:3200 http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk

...or see the CHANGES file below :-).

-Karl

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Version 0.14.4 [Alpha Interim 4] (released 29 Oct 2002, revision r3553)

 User-visible changes:
 * new working-copy entry-caching: speeds many ops up to 5x (#749)
 * new 'svnadmin recover', instead of db_recover
 * client can now view & change server-side revision props (e.g. log messages)
 * new --non-interactive switch for commandline client
 * new --incremental option to 'svn log'
 * new -r {date} syntax for specifying dated revs; works over network too.
 * automatically set svn:executable prop when adding or importing (#870)
 * initial $EDITOR text now ignores all log data below special token
 * consistify behavior of text & prop columns in 'svn status' output.
 * .svn/auth/* files now chmod 700, to stop scaring people. :-)
 * improved labels in 'svn diff' output (#936)
 * run-time adjustable neon timeout in newly renamed 'servers' config file
 * big improvements to cvs2svn script: bugfixes and basic branch/tag support
 * new python access-control hook script
 * no more implicit dot-target for 'svn propedit' or 'svn propset' (#924)
 * Win32 improvements:
    - use system-wide config-file/registry
    - run-time configurable diff/diff3 binary locations (#668)
 * remove obsolete --xml-file support
 * Handbook is now ported to Docbook, 2 new chapters.

 Developer-visible changes:
 * abstracted option/help-parsing code, now shared between svn and svnadmin
 * require apache 2.0.42
 * use neon 0.23.5: fix XML entity derefs, SSL server certs, HP-UX build, etc.
 * support Berkeley DB 4.0 *or* 4.1
 * many SWIG binding improvements:
    - better overall coverage of apr and libsvn_* library symbols
    - new 'make swig-py-ext' and 'make install-swig-py-ext' targets
 * finish conversion of all editor/drivers to "new" style (#737)
 * removed xml-delta editors and editor drivers and related tests
 * new predicate-logic system added to automated-test system ("skip" support)
 * more work on mailer.py
 * no more lost commit messages (#761)
 * eradication of misused stringbufs, obsolete code removal (#909)
 * mem-leak fixes in libsvn_fs (#860)
 * improved atomicity of working-file translations (#914)
 * improve ./configure --help output (#949)
 * MANY bugfixes, especially for entry-locks (#931, #932, #847, #938),
   merges (#880, ), auth storage (#934); also #921 (svnadmin
   segfault), #907 (xml quoting), #918 (post-commit processing), #935
   (path canonicalization), #779 (diff errors)

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