On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 14:13, Todd Gleason <todd.glea...@elekta.com> wrote: >> 1.6.x is very stable now, with some interesting additional fixes >> proposed >> for 1.6.17: >> https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/branches/1.6.x/STATUS >> It's unlikely that 1.7.0 will initialy be as stable as 1.6.x. >> So I would recommend staying with 1.6.x for up to 6 months even after >> 1.7.0 >> is released. Unless you really need one of the new 1.7.x features right >> away. > > To be frank, we have been unable to find a compelling reason to upgrade our > server from 1.5, though on the client end we use 1.6 versions. The > unfortunate thing is that the various improvements made since early 1.5 have > almost never said (in the release notes) whether they were on the client or > on the server, and we cannot justify the cost/risk of an upgrade without > knowing more specifics.
The release notes at http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.6.html indicate client vs. server on quite a few of the changes, and at least a few of the ones that aren't marked are pretty clear from the description which they affect.
