Subversion 1.5.0 Release Candidate 8 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-rc8, available from:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.zip
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

     4c898e07f42ecf5195b8ce7a03246e5b subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     b62df04b3d36745f58f0ddcb879005af subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     30b5f54a12284c3fb0cae59f9cd19498 subversion-1.5.0-rc8.zip
     f71f93e9ca2e4349e92207b9df85354c subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     6b0c72c77facbfa9706e0927cee47ea5 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     afa1e37a2b0d32e4385743bb8d22e99f subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

     5b0c5a195420f63b36bbdc7c1ae7a5ebf3e346db subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     4ff4d1a3ecb9556bf64bdd6af671b312eb11652b subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     83faf31f404a70a73a5ed4d4ad544ffbeffec66b subversion-1.5.0-rc8.zip
     5122945fd38c6e5d837ad54755e6547325919256 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2
     7fd96b26a4865993e56ee5a4a760aee46e2304db subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz
     02bdc4e803486075dce12ad5697e8026b0301ea6 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-rc8.zip.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc8.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
    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
    Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis [1024D/3EBC9C03] with fingerprint:
     B17B 0508 3D02 62DD B38C 7F2E F998 9E71 3EBC 9C03
    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
translation updates and one bugfix since the release of 1.5.0-rc7, and
does not restart the soak for 1.5.0-final. Pending a lack of
showstopper bugs, it is anticipated that this will become the final
release within 1-2 weeks.

The term 'release candidate' means the Subversion developers feel
that this release is stable and ready to be tested in production use.
If this testing confirms its readiness, this candidate version will
become the final released version. Therefore, 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-rc8
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-rc8 and earlier versions at:

     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-rc8/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team