Subversion 1.7.8 was released last month. The diff to update the port is trivial.
Version 1.7.8 (17 Dec 2012, from /branches/1.7.x) http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.8 User-visible changes - Client- and server-side bugfixes: * Fix typos in pt_BR, es and zh_TW translations (r1402417, r1402421) - Client-side bugfixes: * fix crash with --username option on Windows (r1396285) * add missing attributes to "svn log -v --xml" output (r1398100) * fix svn patch ignoring hunks after no trailing newline (r139917) * fix hang with ra_serf during error processing (r1403583) * ignore file externals with mergeinfo when merging (r1401915) * fix SEGV with "svnmucc cp rev arg" during argv processing (issue #4079) * fix conflict handling on symlinks (issue #4091) - Server-side bugfixes: * properly detect threading availability (r1398325) * fix "svnadmin load --bypass-prop-validation" (r1237779) * fix parsing of [groupsfoo] sections in authz file (issue #3531) * add Vary: header to GET responses to improve cacheability (r1390653) * fix fs_fs to cleanup after failed rep transmission (r1403964, et al) * fix mod_dav_svn to complain about revisions > HEAD (r1403588) Developer-visible changes: - General: * fix incorrect status returned by 1.6 API (r1403258) * fix compilation with g++ 4.7 (r1345740) * fix svn_uri_get_file_url_from_dirent on Windows (r1409146) Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/subversion/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.115 diff -u -p -r1.115 Makefile --- Makefile 29 Oct 2012 14:30:55 -0000 1.115 +++ Makefile 4 Jan 2013 23:01:41 -0000 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ COMMENT-ruby= ruby interface to subvers COMMENT-ap2= apache2 subversion modules COMMENT-gnome-keyring= GNOME keyring support for subversion -VERSION= 1.7.7 +VERSION= 1.7.8 DISTNAME= subversion-${VERSION} PKGNAME-main= ${DISTNAME} FULLPKGNAME-perl= p5-SVN-${VERSION} Index: distinfo =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/devel/subversion/distinfo,v retrieving revision 1.36 diff -u -p -r1.36 distinfo --- distinfo 29 Oct 2012 14:30:55 -0000 1.36 +++ distinfo 4 Jan 2013 23:01:59 -0000 @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ -SHA256 (subversion-1.7.7.tar.bz2) = /IWpNB0dwnWyeeRwd2AUsCMooCjkinrHhorAfUpAoyE= -SIZE (subversion-1.7.7.tar.bz2) = 6023686 +SHA256 (subversion-1.7.8.tar.bz2) = /IPU2YzOqLe/qPXCD/9UXIuqfQNduTCXdVDFHGyiNoY= +SIZE (subversion-1.7.8.tar.bz2) = 6023912