Author: stsp Date: Fri Apr 12 08:32:07 2019 New Revision: 1857377 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1857377&view=rev Log: * staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html: Document more client- and server-side changes, based on items in the CHANGES file.
Modified: subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html Modified: subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html?rev=1857377&r1=1857376&r2=1857377&view=diff ============================================================================== --- subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html (original) +++ subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.12.html Fri Apr 12 08:32:07 2019 @@ -317,6 +317,12 @@ Subversion 1.12 have been backported to title="Link to this section">¶</a> </h3> +<div class="h4" id="authz-groups"> +<p>Subversion servers will now ignore empty group definitions in their +path-based authorization rules. The <tt>svnauthz</tt> command will print +a warning if it detects empty group definitions.</p> +</div> <!-- authz-groups --> + </div> <!-- server-side-improvements --> <div class="h3" id="client-server-improvements"> @@ -325,6 +331,45 @@ Subversion 1.12 have been backported to title="Link to this section">¶</a> </h3> +<div class="h4" id="plaintext-passwords-disabled"> +<p>On Unix-like systems, client-side storage of passwords in plaintext on +disk is now disabled by default <em>at compile-time</em>. +Password caching mechanisms based on Gnome Keyring, Kwallet, or GPG-Agent, +are recommended instead.</p> + +<p>This change does not affect Windows or Mac OS platforms, where passwords +have always been stored in an encrypted representation.</p> +</div> <!-- plaintext-passwords-disabled --> + +<div class="h4" id="repos-wc-copy"> +<p>Behaviour of copy operations with a repository source and a working copy +target has been improved:</p> +<ul> +<li>Existing parent directories are now handled correctly. +<li>Peg and operative revisions are now handled correctly (see +<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SVN-4785">issue #4785</a> +for details). +</div> <!-- repos-wc-copy --> + +<div class="h4" id="svn-list"> +<p>The <tt>svn list</tt> command now avoids truncation of long author names +by dynamically adjusting the width of columns displayed.</p> +<p>The <tt>svn list</tt> command now supports a <tt>--human-readable</tt> +(<tt>-H</tt>) option which will display sizes in human-readable units +(Bytes, Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes, Terabytes and Petabytes).</p> +</div> <!-- svn-list --> + +<div class="h4" id="svn-info"> +<p>The <tt>svn info</tt> command can now display the size of files in the +repository. The file size is only displayed if the target of <tt>svn info</tt> +is a file URL.</p> +</div> <!-- svn-info --> + +<div class="h4" id="svn-cleanup"> +<p>The <tt>svn cleanup</tt> command, when asked to remove unversioned or +ignored items, will now remove directories even if they are write-protected.</p> +</div> <!-- svn-cleanup --> + </div> <!-- client-server-improvements --> <div class="h3" id="apis">