Subversion 1.5.0 Beta 1 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-beta1, available from:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.zip
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

     b1a0283edde9b50b70cda4527102586c subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     6c0af1ae7f75175b1f5b32ab299d4480 subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     d230ac3e5f51474f3ad9c52e6d189e45 subversion-1.5.0-beta1.zip
     1842de9c370b01ef12205b50db0d8b7d subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     62645d039a3c5b80600c77fe268a32ac subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     0ea24c6b1c10eed85407d94b73f8176d subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

     d2f937082a27d7faff089dae1791c4f8bba61b27 subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     d2866e2b77c443b44148e2d6b3224d85c6485399 subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     1621a80fd87dccfb505c7dbb61484cac846fe7b6 subversion-1.5.0-beta1.zip
     8d1a6220444ac11e4d2d11bd2a75c8f63c808fc1 subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2
     aee6318cad0e7e3c987186eb6fc25f46465e863f subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz
     7d512c062168346c97fab609e3a482ce71bbb370 subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-beta1.zip.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-beta1.zip.asc

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

    Kamesh Jayachandran [1024D/ED184C2C] with fingerprint:
     3E5B 5C1D 1CA6 A611 2787 9B4B DD61 EFC8 ED18 4C2C
    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 release is functionally complete, but contains known issues including:
  * Various bindings test failures

The term 'beta' means the Subversion developers feel that this release
is feature-complete and ready for widespread testing by the community.
There may still be issues, so please use it at your own risk, though we
do encourage people to test this release thoroughly. We do not anticipate
interface or API changes between the beta and the final release.

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 beta 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-beta1
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-beta1 and earlier versions at:

     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-beta1/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team