Gunnar Dalsnes wrote on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 00:59:38 +0200: > BTW: Someone mentioned using svn 1.7 beta1 and some said it was not > released yet. Collabnet disagree as beta1 is listed here: > https://ctf.open.collab.net/sf/frs/do/viewRelease/projects.csvn/frs.svn_binaries.windows
It /has/ not been released. (as it happens, it won't be released at all.) We don't consider anything as officially released (meaning: comes with stability, production-quality, and compatibility guarantees) until we announce it --- which we do by emailing announce@ and updating http://subversion.apache.org/download/. The "has been released" distinction makes little difference for pre-releases (which come with little promises in the first place), but for non-pre releases http://subversion.apache.org/prerelease-caveats applies. Now, the collabnet page put the beta1 binaries on the same page as nightly snapshots. If it somehow left the impression that beta1 is stable, or has been blessed as a release (as opposed to being a tarball that was tagged and presented for devs to test and approve), that should be clarified. Daniel
