Download Subversion 1.6.16

Subversion is a program for software and project developers, among others, with which management and version control of source code and data can be performed. The program can be seen as a direct competitor to the well-known cvs. The developers of Subversion have released version 1.6.16. The corresponding list of customizations looks like this:

User-visible changes:

• more improvement to the ‘blame -g’ memory leak from 1.6.15
• avoid a crash in mod_dav_svn when using locks. See CVE-2011-0715, and descriptive advisory at
• avoid unnecessary globbing for performance
• don’t add tree conflicts when one already exists
• fix potential crash when requesting merge info
• don’t attempt to resolve prop conflicts in ‘merge –dry-run’
• more fixes for issue #3270.

Developer-visible changes:

• ensure report_info_t is properly initialized by ra_serf
• locate errors properly on a malfunction
• fix output param timing of svn_fs_commit_txn() on fsfs
• for svn_fs_commit_txn(), set invalid rev on failed commit
• fix sporadic Ruby binding test failures
• fix JavaHL JVM object leak when dumping large revisions
• use Perl to resolve symlinks when building swig-pl
• allow Perl bindings to build within a symlinked working copy
• don’t overwrite the LD_LIBRARY_PATH during make check-swig-pl
• improve unit tests for some fs functions