Subversion 1.5 Now Available Through CollabNet-Sponsored Subversion Open Source Community

Long-Anticipated SCM Release Zeroes in on Productivity for
Individual and Enterprise Users
BRISBANE, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
The CollabNet-sponsored Subversion open source community today
announced the general availability of Subversion(R) 1.5, the world's
leading Software Configuration Management (SCM) tool for managing
software development and maintenance across distributed teams. Highly
anticipated by both individual and enterprise users, Subversion 1.5
includes key features and functionality to help drive developer
productivity including:

-- Merge tracking for more automated and efficient branch
management;

-- Sparse checkouts to enable users to check out only a portion
of a source tree to reduce the total footprint on their
individual workstations;

-- Repository sharding and partitioning to more efficiently
distribute repository storage across filesystem resources and
to improve server performance;

-- A proxying system for spreading read-load across multiple
repository servers for improved performance.

As the most requested feature, merge tracking and its related
functions mark a significant change in the way developers use
Subversion for distributed development. Interactive conflict
resolution enables users to proactively resolve issues during the
merge process. Merge history and annotated logs provide additional
information not available in previous Subversion releases, allowing
users to query for available changes on different lines of
development, and making it easier to back out changes. Subversion 1.5
offers both command line and API access to these operations.

"Measuring by new features alone, Subversion 1.5 is our biggest
release since version 1.0 became available in February 2004," said
Karl Fogel, president of the non-profit Subversion Corporation. "In
Subversion 1.5, we made a conscious effort to integrate ideas from
both individual and corporate users. That process worked quite well,
and we will probably continue to use it for future development."

Available today, Subversion 1.5 can be downloaded at
http://subversion.tigris.org.

CollabNet's Commitment to Subversion Developers

Marking another significant contribution to the open source
community, CollabNet, the company that started the Subversion open
source project in 2000, also announced plans to open source its
customized merge client that is designed to let users tap into the new
merge-related features through a graphical user interface. The merge
client will be available for both Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio.

"CollabNet is excited to see the breadth and depth of changes that
the community has incorporated into Subversion 1.5," said Tony de la
Lama, vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at CollabNet.
"As the principle sponsor and driver of the Subversion open source
project, CollabNet is proud to be part of this movement and impact how
developers collaborate globally. We congratulate the community for all
its hard work on this significant release, as well as all of
CollabNet's partners who participated in our Subversion 1.5 Early
Adopter Program."

Additionally, CollabNet will provide certified binaries for
Subversion 1.5, enterprise-quality support, educational services and
integrations for HP Quality Center and IBM Rational ClearCase. For
additional information, please visit the CollabNet Subversion 1.5
resource center at http://www.collab.net/subversion15

About the Subversion Open Source Community

Subversion is an open source project that can be used to manage
changes to any sort of information. Subversion has won numerous
industry awards and has become the standard software configuration
management system for development teams that are geographically
distributed. Subversion is available under an Apache/BSD-style license
which is fully compliant with the Debian Free Software Guidelines. It
runs on all modern flavors of Unix, Win32, BeOS, OS/2, OS/400 and
MacOS X. To date, it is estimated that Subversion is used by more 3.2
million developers. Find more information at:
http://subversion.tigris.org.

About CollabNet

With 1.5 million users, CollabNet leads the software industry
towards a new era of collaborative software development. By connecting
remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the
CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces
infrastructure costs by more than 50 percent, and eliminates silos
between isolated teams to speed innovation by 20 percent and more.

CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world's best
version control and Software Configuration Management solution for
distributed teams.

More than 600 industry leading companies use CollabNet's solutions
today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems, Capgemini, and
Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at
http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at
http://www.collab.net/subversion.

Copyright (C) 2008 CollabNet, Inc.

CollabNet and openCollabNet are trademarks of CollabNet, Inc. or
its licensors. All other company and product names are trademarks of
their respective owners.

CollabNet, Inc.
Tony de la Lama, 650-228-2514
tonyd@collab.net
or
Horn Group, Inc. for CollabNet
Anthony Loredo, 646-202-9770
aloredo@horngroup.com

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