Subversion 1.5.0 Release Candidate 7 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-rc7, available from:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.zip
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

     3145186e3c1a60fbb4dc360da490b841 subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     2615406adfc1615544e519981f18fc13 subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     b9474f8c246da2164b29aae96f7787a0 subversion-1.5.0-rc7.zip
     7ece6df4250bf4f0b963e8eb2b49eafc subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     68ca048d29f1f75549e0b9ecb706a52e subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     95b21a5e8d249a56d454e619f921db8f subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

     a2e99662d4f68e37d20171c5bd1cc618cce0f991 subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     e8380ebd493fa82bc015d55bf0b8aaf51ffea108 subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     9409ad2180c65f490a4e80ce30a0f8e5bb3a406c subversion-1.5.0-rc7.zip
     6ba6c61a64920ad91e92c8ec5b82ef67f7104b6a subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2
     f6c55f5b3675db159e58b6925637e219ba93b69e subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz
     a78cb7569f7186fa21b5d99dc641bbcfeda9fff2 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc7.zip.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc7.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
    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
    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 a public Release Candidate for Subversion 1.5.0. It contains
minor documentation and bug fixes discovered since the release of
1.5.0-rc5, and does not restart the soak for 1.5.0-final.

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-rc7
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-rc7 and earlier versions at:

     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-rc7/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team