Not looking for any action per se, but I thought I'd highlight again that, apart from "pristines-on-demand" and other nice features and improvements, we'll also be bringing back plaintext password caching support on unix-like systems in 1.15.0 (previously disabled at compile time).
As explained in [1]: "In Subversion 1.12 through 1.14, write access to the Plaintext cache was disabled by default at compile-time. [...] Unfortunately, this has caused a variety of problems for users, especially when using the svn client in unattended processes such as CI systems, or on remote machines through ssh [...] Based on the feedback received, Subversion 1.15 inverts the default. [...] Sites that wish to eliminate this possibility can do [... compile-time disable flag; set up encrypted stores such as GNOME Keyring or KWallet ]" I'm highlighting it because it might be a little contentious / surprising, and perhaps it has been forgotten a bit because the discussions took place years ago [2]. To reiterate, I don't think anything special is needed, but if anyone now gets an eery feeling that we probably should do something more about it (e.g. introduce a simple obfuscator for those plaintext pwd's or whatever), "speak now or forever hold your peace" ;-) [1] https://subversion-staging.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.15.html#plaintext-passwords-supported [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/b6g2hx2m3s117wcmno08opl874ons3q8 https://lists.apache.org/thread/p2vn6foj8qz3lfvdl70bs62vg5krcgr7 https://lists.apache.org/thread/4skymgjtwozjl8gd9m14jnkqq1wf77bo -- Johan
