subversion 1.9.6

[Pierre Labastie]

New point version:

 User-visible changes:
  - Client-side bugfixes:
    * cp/mv: improve error message when target is an unversioned dir (r1779948)
    * merge: reduce memory usage with large amounts of mergeinfo (issue #4667)

  - Server-side bugfixes:
    * 'svnadmin freeze': document the purpose more clearly (r1774109)
    * dump: fix segfault when a revision has no revprops (r1781507)
    * fsfs: improve error message upon failure to open rep-cache (r1781655)
    * fsfs: never attempt to share directory representations (r1785053)
    * fsfs: make consistency independent of hash algorithms (r1785737 et al)
        This change makes Subversion resilient to collision attacks, including
        SHA-1 collision attacks such as <http://shattered.io/>.  See also our
        documentation at <https://subversion.apache.org/faq#shattered-sha1> and
        <https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9#shattered-sha1>.

  - Client-side and server-side bugfixes:
    * work around an APR bug related to file truncation (r1759116)

  - Bindings bugfixes:
    * javahl: follow redirects when opening a connection (r1667738, r1796720)

 Developer-visible changes:
  - General:
    * win_tests.py: make the --bin option work, rather than abort (r1706432)
      (regression introduced in 1.9.2)
    * windows: support building with 'zlibstat.lib' in install-layout (r1783704)

  - API changes:
    (none)

[Pierre Labastie]

Fixed at r18923