Subversion Packages

The best available version of Subversion is: 1.2.1

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The 1.0 development line is no longer active. We are no longer fixing bugs in 1.0.x nor making 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.

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

Maintainer: David Kimdon

If you are running Debian testing ('sarge') or unstable ('sid') just run 'apt-get install subversion'. Information on the latest official packages can be found here: http://packages.debian.org/subversion.

Backported packages for Debian stable ('woody') can be found here, but are of Subversion 1.0.x only: http://people.debian.org/~adconrad/.

SuSE Linux

Maintainer: Olaf Hering

SuSE Linux 9.2 and earlier do not ship with any (up to date) version of Subversion. However, unofficial packages exist in the projects/apache/subversion directory of SuSE mirrors.

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'.

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 '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?summary=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.

WARNING: the latest subversion 1.2 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.

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.

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/index.htm.