Subversion Packages

The best available version of Subversion is: 1.4.3

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The 1.0 and 1.1 development line are no longer active.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.

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

Maintainer: David Summers

UK Mirror (fastest) or http://summersoft.fay.ar.us/pub/subversion/latest/ (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 open-source 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.

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/ .

Mac OS X

Installation using Fink

Maintainer: Christian Schaffner

Information about the latest Fink packages can be found here: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/svn .

Be sure to read the documentation of the different packages.
Installation from a .dmg

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.

Note that the Apache modules included in this package was compiled against Apache HTTP Server 2.0, and thus will not work with Apache HTTP Server 2.2.

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.

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

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/ .