Subversion Packages

The best available version of Subversion is: 1.4.4

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The 1.0 and 1.1 development line are no longer active. We are no longer fixing bugs in 1.0.x/1.1.x nor making 1.0.x/1.1.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 release. If you discover a bug in 1.0/1.1, 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

Debian GNU/Linux

Just run 'apt-get install subversion'. Information on the latest official packages can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/subversion .

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 do 'cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion; make install'.

OpenBSD

Maintainer: Aleksander Piotrowski

Information about the latest port can be found here: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports/devel/subversion/ .

Assuming your ports tree is up-to-date, just do '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 do 'cd /usr/pkgsrc/devel/subversion; make install clean'.

Solaris

Maintainer: Steven M. Christensen

Binary builds of Subversion for SPARC/Solaris 2.5 – 10 and x86/Solaris 8 – 10 are available at: http://www.sunfreeware.com/ .

Maintainer: CollabNet, Inc.

CollabNet Subversion is Subversion compiled and tested by CollabNet, and deployed with CollabNet's recommended configuration for the enterprise.

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 Subverison 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

  1. Win32 packages built against Apache 2.0
  2. 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.

IBM i5/OS (OS/400)

Maintainer: Mark Phippard

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/ .