This update includes the latest stable LTS release of Apache Subversion, version 1.14.0.

Python 3 bindings are now supported in this release.

User-visible changes:

Minor new features and improvements:

• Experimental shelving feature is now disabled by default
• Reinstate support for experimental shelving v2 from SVN 1.11
• Introduce 'svnadmin build-repcache' command

Client-side improvements and bugfixes:

• Add 'changelist' option to 'svn info --show-item'
• Allow simultaneous use of 'svn log' --quiet and --diff options
• Fix 'svn info' for file that was inside replaced directory (issue SVN-4837)
• Don't abort if the server redirects to a non-canonical URL
• Fix merge assertion failure in svn_sort__array_insert (issue SVN-4840)
• Escape filenames when invoking $SVN_EDITOR
• Small performance optimization for FSFS rep-cache.db
• Fix a crash seen when using git-svn with kwallet

Server-side improvements and bugfixes:

• Fix 'svnadmin load --normalize-props' for versioned properties
• mailer.py: prevent SMTP errors from impeding later emails (issue SVN-1804)
• mailer.py: Add option to specify the SMTP port to connect to
• Make svn-backup-dump.py work on Python 3
• validate-files.py: Fix handling for non-ASCII characters
• Fix an undefined behavior problem in FSFS caching code

Developer-visible changes:

• Require at least version 1.5 of APR
• Support Python3 in the py-swig bindings; requires py3c
• Support building with SWIG 4 on Python 3.x
• Fix svnserveautocheck for Python 3
• contribulyze.py: Support Python 3 in addition to Python 2
• Fix Proc.new warnings in Ruby bindings with Ruby >= 2.7