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Subversion 1.5.3 had enough bugs to warrant a new release two weeks later. See notice below.

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I'm happy to announce Subversion 1.5.4, fast on the heels of Subversion 1.5.3.

1.5.3 was discovered to contain a regression in 'svn merge'; see CHANGES for more information.

Subversion 1.5.4 is available from:

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.tar.bz2

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.tar.gz

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.4.zip

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.4.tar.bz2

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.4.tar.gz

http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-deps-1.5.4.zip

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 the list of changes between 1.5.4 and earlier versions at:

http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.4/CHANGES

Download: http://subversion.tigris.org/downloads/subversion-1.5.3.zip

Version 1.5.3
(10 Oct 2008, from /branches/1.5.x)
http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/tags/1.5.3

 User-visible changes:
  * Allow switch to continue after deleting locally modified dirs (issue #2505)
  * Update bash_completion to be compatible with 1.5 (r32900, -11, -12)
  * Improve 'svn merge' execution time by 30% on Windows (r33447)
  * Reuse network sessions during 'svn merge', improving performance (r33476)
  * Improve temp file creation time on Windows (r33464)
  * Greatly improve merge performance (r29969, r32463, r33013, -016, -022, -112)
  * Improve file IO performance on Windows (r33178, -85)
  * fixed: merging files with spaces in name (r33109, -121, -369)
  * fixed: incorrect relative externals expansion (r33109, -121, -369)
  * fixed: 'svn mv' hangs and consumes infinite memory (r33201, -12)
  * fixed: correctness regression in 'svn log -g' (issue #3285)
  * fixed: current early bailout of 'svn log -g' (r32977)

 Developer-visible changes:
  * Allow the tests to run as non-administrator on Windows Vista (r31203)
  * Allow out-of-tree build of bindings on BSD (r32409)
  * Translate messages in svn_fs_util.h (r32771)
  * fixed: bindings test for Perl 5.10 (r31546)
  * fixed: building bindings and C API tests with VS2008 (r32012)
  * fixed: svn_ra_replay API over ra_serf (r33173)

We've been using SVN 1.4 with SVNMerge.exe to manage merges between our branches and trunk. Each developer works in a branch and merge his stuff into the trunk, and also picks up any new stuff from trunk back into his branch. Has worked well for us.

We use a tool called svnmerge.exe. Now that SVN 1.5 is here, and our SCM (CollabNet, formerly known as SourceForge OnDemand) has upgraded, we'd like to migrate our merge history over to the new format.

Fortunately, svnmerge provides a tool for that. Unfortunately, its written in Python. Does anyone have experience with this?

This is what SVNMerge's website states:

The latest and greatest SVN release is here, with merge tracking as the key feature.

More details can be found here.

Many of you know Rob Brooks-Bilson. He just posted about Matt Riley, one his Sr. Engineers at Amkor, releasing a ColdFusion based Deployment Builder. We're always looking for better ways to release code, so this definitely interests me, and maybe you will find it useful to.

What's interesting is his use of tools which include: Mach-II 1.5, ColdSpring, EXT 2.0, Java SE 6, Ant 1.7.0, SVN, SQL Server.

I'll post what I find as soon as I give it a whirl (as soon as time permits!).

Rob's Blog Post

Deployment Builder @ RiaForge