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This file tracks the status of releases in the 1.8.x line.

See http://subversion.apache.org/docs/community-guide/releasing.html#release-stabilization
for details on how release lines and voting work, what kinds of bugs can
delay a release, etc.

Status of 1.8.15:

Candidate changes:
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 * r1536854
   Make 'svnadmin verify' detect inconsistencies that will prevent loading
   dump files.
   Justification:
     Some users rely on dump files as a means of repository backup.  Without
     this patch, there is no way except of 'svnadmin load' to know that these
     dump files will load at all.  With this patch, a successful verify run
     should guarantee loadable dump files.
   Branch:
     ^/subversion/branches/1.8.x-r1536854
   Votes:
     +1: stefan2, breser
     -0: julianfoad (test is missing from branch -- how do we know it works?)

 * r1654932, r1654933, r1654934, r1654937
   Fix issue #4554, "0 file length reported in FSFS".
   Justification:
     This causes 'svnadmin dump' to create corrupted output that fails to
     load and we provide no way to detect that problem other than loading
     the respective dump.  We also want to prevent further instances of
     that issue to be added to the repository.
   Notes:
     r1561419 has been removed from this change set and proposed for a
     separate backport because it is not a necessary part of the #4554 fix.
   Branch:
     ^/subversion/branches/1.8.x-issue4554-v2
   Votes:
     +1: rhuijben, stefan2
     +0: danielsh (hard to review all potential causes of expanded_size==0 in
                   7*3*2 cases (1.1…1.8) × (file/dir/prop rep) × (plain/delta))

 * r1687812
   mod_dav_svn: Use LimitXMLRequestBody httpd directive to control maximum
   length of skel-encoded request bodies.
   Justification:
     Allow administrators to setup configurable limits on the size of
     skel-encoded requests.
   Votes:
     +1: ivan, rhuijben

 * r1701488
   Issue #4592 "fix contrib check-mime-type.pl for changes to 'svnlook proplist'
     output", http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4592
   Justification:
     Make this contributed script work again, after 1.7.8 broke it.
   Notes:
     Brett Randall put effort into contributing this fix: see the dev@ email
     thread "[patch][reboot-topic] fix check-mime-type.pl for changes to
     'svnlook proplist' output" started by him on 2015-08-07, archived at
     e.g. <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2015-08/0047.shtml> or
     <http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/201508.mbox/%3CCALeEUB56NVCR0nCZ2rYki6oKQNcVPPLvWTeCoYyrMqitsov0ag@mail.gmail.com%3E>.
   Votes:
     +0: julianfoad (he says it works, but I haven't reviewed or tested)

 * r1702299, r1702300, r1702397, r1702407, r1702565
   Handle merging to local add as error instead of segfault.
   Justification:
     Segfault. User reported.
   Notes:
     r1702299 adds a testcase.
     r1702397 fixes the problem with automatic merge and updates the test.
     r1702565 fixes a quite similar segfault with --reintegrate merge.
     The other revisions are minor cleanup.
   Votes:
     +1 (without r1702565): rhuijben
     -1: julianfoad (the new test fails both without and with the fix, because
                     the 1.8 version of run_and_verify_svn needs an extra arg;
                     so we need a backport branch;
                     with an initial extra 'None' arg in all three calls, +1;
                     also the 'currently segfaults' comment in the test should
                     be updated)

Veto-blocked changes:
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Approved changes:
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