Topic

Updated subversion packages that upgrade Subversion to upstream version 1.6.11
and provide two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Subversion (SVN) is a concurrent version control system which enables one or
more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and
directories while keeping a history of all changes.

These updated subversion packages add the following enhancements:

• The Subversion package has been upgraded to version 1.6.11 and supports now

merge tracking and interactive conflict resolution. (BZ#497036, BZ#488810)

• A SysV init script for the svnserve command is now available. (BZ#564073)

Users of subversion are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add
these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 521900 - Fix instances of #!/usr/bin/env python in subversion

CVEs

(none)

References

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