The best way is the CHANGES file (the one you link to). We aren't very vigilant about backdating the 'milestone' field in the issue tracker (from 1.8.0 to 1.7.*) when we backport a fix to an earlier release.
Anne Moroney wrote on Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 11:53:26 -0500: > Hi, how can I find out all tickets that were released with a given shipment? > I have a terrible time finding out specific details of changes. > Thank you so much! > Anne > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-announce/201212.mbox/%3CCADkdwvR7+MSca9ci8CX6EMML3vMV0EmGKhcssJuCTw=ubkf...@mail.gmail.com%3E > Release notes for the 1.7.x release series may be found at: > > http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html > > You can find the list of changes between 1.7.8 and earlier versions at: > > http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.8/CHANGES > > Questions, comments, and bug reports to users@subversion.apache.org. >