Subversion 1.5.0 Release Candidate 9 Released

I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.0-cr9, available from:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.zip
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.tar.bz2
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.tar.gz
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.zip

The MD5 checksums are:

     9b16d352ffabfd070f2e3e9d8e5fcffd subversion-1.5.0-rc9.tar.bz2
     f858d1ce8ebb479e9cc2aa3d5d103c58 subversion-1.5.0-rc9.tar.gz
     ce19c12ea5b341e1627ad92f5b00762b subversion-1.5.0-rc9.zip
     994f27f761a56b3cb02ebb565ce26809 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.tar.bz2
     dd15f78551ea532c33ed31f6d9e01a3d subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.tar.gz
     c4f93f4b6afb7315b6423aebca52a235 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.zip

The SHA1 checksums are:

     0ae1fa5a05fde2e696fe33fe1902f4647aa2d762 subversion-1.5.0-rc9.tar.bz2
     a489062188a1879a983612f243e9e5366a3d21ac subversion-1.5.0-rc9.tar.gz
     c74d827ced39b0ee3d44cc087df6f9fb113d16e9 subversion-1.5.0-rc9.zip
     2bcbbc5f810c1b9f7eab26debaf2140a67e22476 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.tar.bz2
     544b1fc42406eec7cef2b3b1064751b76e3c962c subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.tar.gz
     3cc672f6cf8f7520615bf8c0006edb37d16f0203 subversion-deps-1.5.0-rc9.zip

PGP Signatures are available at:

     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.0-cr9.zip.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.tar.bz2.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.tar.gz.asc
     http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.0-cr9.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
    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
    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
    Eric Gillespie [2048R/A025C702] with fingerprint:
     92E4 5A4B 639C 8187 7421 E7FD 0353 0DAA A025 C702

This is a public Release Candidate for Subversion 1.5.0. It contains
one API bugfix since the release of 1.5.0-rc8, 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-rc9
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-cr9 and earlier versions at:

     http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.0-cr9/CHANGES

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

Thanks,
- The Subversion Team