Subversion Packages
The best available version of Subversion is: 1.4.6
You can install Subversion by compiling its source code release directly, or you can
install one of the prepackaged binaries
if there is one for your operating system. Unless a release has
"alpha", "beta", or "rc" in its name, it is tested and considered
stable for production use. Once you have Subversion installed, most
of your questions can be answered by reading the Subversion Book and FAQ.
To upgrade to the latest release, just install "on top of" an older
release. Any Subversion 1.x program is forward-compatible with newer
1.y libraries. No repository upgrade is required. As long as a
client and server both have the same major release number (1), an
older client works with a newer server and a newer client works with
an older server. The only caveat is that if the client and server
minor release numbers don't match (e.g 1.0 and 1.1), then not all new
features may not be available.
The 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 development lines are no longer active. We are no
longer fixing bugs in 1.0.x/1.1.x/1.2.x nor making 1.0.x/1.1.x/1.2.x releases.
Only the discovery of a horrible data-loss or security bug would
prompt us to do another 1.0.x/1.1.x/1.2.x release. If you discover a bug in
1.0/1.1/1.2, it is likely already fixed in a later development line. If
you report the bug, you'll probably be told to upgrade first.
Source Code
The latest source release can always be found
in this directory, in the file-sharing area of the Subversion
website.
Windows users should download .zip files.
For all other operating systems, download .tar.gz or
.tar.bz2 files.
Be sure to read the general
instructions for building from the source tarball, and the specific instructions
within the source code itself.
Binary Packages
The Subversion project does not officially endorse or
maintain any binary packages of the Subversion software. However,
volunteers have created binary packages for different distributions
and platforms, and as a convenience, we maintain a list of links to
them here. If there are any problems with or questions about the
different binary packages please send email to the Subversion users mailing
list.
NOTE: Binary packages usually come out about a week after the
corresponding source release. Please don't post to the mailing lists
asking when a binary package for a given platform will be ready. The
packagers already know when new source releases come out, and work as
fast as they can to make binaries available.
Red Hat Linux and Fedora Core
Red Hat 8.0, 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, 5
Maintainer:
David Summers
UK Mirror (fastest) or http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/
(slowest).
WARNING:
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Subversion 1.2 and later RPMs above
(from David Summers) are not compiled with Berkeley DB
support (All other versions are compiled with Berkeley BDB support).
If you need to access Berkeley DB repositories, these RHEL3 RPMs will not
work for you. (See this thread for details.) You may want to try different RPMs
instead.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
Maintainer:
CollabNet, Inc.
CollabNet
Subversion is Subversion compiled and tested by
CollabNet, and deployed with CollabNet's recommended configuration for
the enterprise.
Fedora Core 3 and later
Binary RPM packages of
Subversion are already available in these distributions. If you do
not already have them installed then you may install them from the
installation CD/DVD or use "yum install subversion" to
install them from the internet distribution mirrors.
pkgsrc ({Net,Open,Free}BSD, Linux, Solaris, etc.)
Maintainer:
Eric Gillespie
pkgsrc is the cross-platform package system used by the NetBSD
project, originally derived from FreeBSD ports.
Information about the latest package can be found here: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/subversion/
.
Assuming your pkgsrc tree is up-to-date, just do 'cd
/usr/pkgsrc/devel/subversion; make install clean'.
Mac OS X
Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
The client runs on Win9x/Me but the server does not, see the
FAQ.
If you plan to install the mod_dav_svn Apache module, note
that Apache 2.0 and Apache 2.2 are not binary-compatible. Thus there
are two types of Subversion command-line binary/library packages for
Windows -- ones built to use with Apache 2.0, and ones built to use
Apache 2.2. If you're using Apache as your Subversion server, be sure
to download the correct package.
WARNING: Subversion 1.2 (and later) win32 binaries
use BerkeleyDB 4.3. If you already have BDB 4.2 repositories running
on Windows, then installing these particular binaries will force you
to upgrade your repositories to BDB 4.3. It's not difficult, just be
ready to do so. Read the FAQ.
Maintainers: Branko
Čibej and D.J. Heap
- Win32
packages built against Apache 2.0
- Win32
packages built against Apache 2.2
Maintainer:
Troy Simpson
The same command-line binaries and libraries, but packaged within a
friendly Installer program, are in the same directory of the file-sharing area, but end with
"-setup.exe".
Maintainer:
Steve King
If you want a pretty Win32 GUI, TortoiseSVN integrates nicely
with the Windows Explorer. Note: TortoiseSVN is a
separate project. Please post questions and problems to the TortoiseSVN project's own mailing lists., not Subversion's
mailing lists.
Maintainer:
CollabNet, Inc.
CollabNet
Subversion is Subversion compiled and tested by
CollabNet, and deployed with CollabNet's recommended configuration for
the enterprise. Compatible with Apache 2.0.
Maintainer:
VisualSVN Team
VisualSVN Server is a
standard Windows Installer package that contains everything necessary to
install, configure and manage Subversion server on Windows platform. It
includes latest stable releases of Subversion, Apache plus a management
console to perform most common Subversion administration tasks such as
repository creation and access rights management.
AIX
Maintainer:
Jeremy Whitlock
Subversion binary containing standard repository access
layers, file system backends, Apache Subversion modules, and Python
Subversion language bindings maintained by the Subversion project.
The latest release can be found here: http://downloads.open.collab.net/binaries.html.
IBM i5/OS (OS/400)
Maintainer:
No active maintainer
Binary builds of Subversion for OS/400 V5R1 or higher, as well as
documentation for installing and configuring Subversion are available at:
http://www.softlanding.com/subversion/ .
Debian GNU/Linux
OpenBSD
Solaris
HP-UX