Get Subversion!
Subversion packages exist for a number of different operating systems. Remember, once you have it installed, most of your questions can be answered by reading the Subversion Book.
The best available version of Subversion is: 1.1.3
Read the 1.1.x series Release Notes, or the CHANGES file if you want more details.
There are no "unstable" releases; don't be fooled by the odd version number. Every release is tested and considered stable for production use.
Binary packages are usually available about a week after Subversion source releases. If no binary packages are available for your operating system yet, try building from the the source release.
The 1.0 development line is no longer active.
We are no longer fixing bugs and doing 1.0.x releases. Only the discovery of a horrible data-loss or security bug would prompt us to do another 1.0.x release. If you discover a bug in 1.0, it is likely already fixed in a later development line. If you report the bug, you'll probably be told to upgrade first.
How does one upgrade to the latest release?
There's nothing special to do. Just install "on top of" an older release. Any Subversion 1.X program is forward-compatible with newer 1.Y libraries. No repository dump/load 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.
| Subversion versions up to and including 1.0.7 and 1.1.0-rc3 have a flaw that fails to protect metadata when using mod_authz_svn.. Servers running mod_authz_svn are advised to upgrade to the latest releases in the 1.0.x or 1.1.x lines. |
Source Code
The latest source release can be found in this directory, in the file-sharing area of the Subversion website. 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. If there are any problems with or questions about the different binary packages please send email to the Subversion developers mailing list.
RedHat Linux
Maintainer: David Summers
RPMs for Intel (i386) Redhat 7.X, 8.0, 9.0, Fedora Core 1, Whitebox Enterprise Linux 3 / Redhat Enterprise Linux 3 : http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/ (UK Mirror)
Binary RPM packages for Fedora Core 2 and Fedora Core 3 are already available in those 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.
Debian GNU/Linux
Maintainer: David Kimdon
Information on the latest .deb packages for Debian Unstable ('sid') can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/subversion.
If you are running Debian unstable, just run 'apt-get install subversion'.
Backported .deb packages for Debian Stable ('woody') can be found here: http://people.debian.org/~adconrad/.
SuSE Linux
Maintainer: Olaf Hering
RPM packages for various older SuSE Linux versions: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/poeml/
A list of available mirror sites can be found here: http://www.suse.de/en/private/download/ftp/int_mirrors.html
Mandrake Linux
Maintainer: Ben Reser
RPM packages for various versions of Mandrake Linux: http://mirror.brain.org/linux/breser/mandrake/
Users wanting to use urpmi to install can find instructions for adding that site as a urpmi media here: http://ben.reser.org/mandrake/breser
FreeBSD
Maintainer: Lev Serebryakov
Information about the latest port can be found here:http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/subversion/.
Assuming your ports tree is up-to-date, just 'cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion; make install'.
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 'cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/subversion; make install clean'.
Solaris
Maintainer: Steven M. Christensen
Binary builds of Subversion for Solaris 2.5-9 on SPARC and Solaris 8-9 on x86/Intel are available at: http://www.sunfreeware.com/.
Mac OS X
Maintainer: Christian Schaffner
Information about the latest Fink packages can be found
here: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/search.php?s=svn.
Be sure to read the documentation of the different packages.
Maintainer: Matthew E. Porter
Pre-built binaries that do not require Fink can be found here: http://metissian.com/projects/macosx/subversion/.
Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003
The client runs on Win9x/Me but the server does not, see the FAQ.
Maintainer: Branko Čibej
The latest command-line binaries and libraries for Windows can be found in this directory of the file-sharing area. The packages are ".zip" files.
Maintainer: Jostein Andersen
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.