Subversion 1.5, an open source version control system designed to replace CVS, has been released.
Major new features include:
- Merge Tracking [foundational]
- Sparse checkouts (see new '--depth' option)
- Interactive conflict resolution
- svn:externals handles relative URLs and peg URLs
- Changelist support
- WebDAV transparent write-through proxy
- Better support for large FSFS deployments (via sharding and partitioning)
- Cyrus SASL support for ra_svn and svnserve