On 2/14/14, 11:44 AM, Ben Reser wrote: > So far we have two known issues with this tarball: > > svn-populate-node-origins-index doesn't build with Visual Studio 2010, 2012, > or > 2013 due to the ' in the project's descriptions. Bert found and fixed this in > http://svn.apache.org/r1568180 > > Certificate validation failure. There was a missing initialization that will > make certificates without subjectAltNames randomly fail to validate. > svn.apache.org's certificate just so happens to be such a certificate. The > bug > is such that it will never allow a certificate to be validated that shouldn't > be. Julian reported this here: > https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201402.mbox/%3C1392388334.48607.YahooMailNeo%40web87705.mail.ir2.yahoo.com%3E > and I fixed the problem in http://svn.apache.org/r1568349 > > I wasn't terribly inclined to re-roll 1.9.0-alpha for the first one, but the > second one seems more critical since I'm guessing a lot of people will run > into it. > > I'm not going to immediately run out and produce a new tarball since I suspect > we may find more things, so please continue testing this and let me know if > you > find other things.
In this vein and Bert's comment on IRC about needing 4 patches to make SilkSVN build based on 1.9.0-alpha1 I'm going to kill this one off and build a 1.9.0-alpha2 today. Thanks for the testing everyone it has put us in a better position.

