Subversion MultiSite v3.7

Introduction

Welcome to the WANdisco Subversion MultiSite documentation. You'll find lots of information about setting running MultiSite.

If there's something you can't find, check out our online Knowledgebase which may contain updates and extra documentation.

Should you need further help and want to alert us to an error, please contact us by raising a case on our support website.

We'll be using terms like "node" and "replication group" without explaining what we mean. Check out the Glossary for an explanation of these and other WANdisco terms.

For a better understanding about how MultiSite and WANdisco's replication technology works read the Subversion MultiSite Technical Guide.

Release Notes: 3.7 Build: 3926

Issues Addressed

Fixed a bug that stopped Authz settings being saved, either during setup or by making changes from the admin console's Subversion Settings screen.(NA-2126)

Issues Addressed

Fixed an issue reported by a customer with 3.7 Build 3687 that could result in a thread deadlock within the replicator. (NA-2225)

Fixed a bug that stopped locked files from being deleted during garbage collection. (NA-2222)

Fixed an issue that in rare cases could cause a thread deadlock affecting the non-distinguished node. (NA-2139)

When updating a user password, the security menu is no longer displayed. (NA-2210)

Previous passwords are now properly obscured at the end of a user password change. (NA-2153)

Fixed a bug that caused the wrong admin console screen to be displayed after loading, instead of the authentication screen. (NA-2236)

Release Notes: 3.7 Build: 3687

What's New

System alert emails now list details of the node from which they originated to aid in identification, including replication group, node name and address.(NA-1516)

The minimum memory allocated to the java heap ($SERVER_JVM_ARGS in the file /svn-replicator/bin/reputils.pm) has been reduced to 128 Megabytes, from 1 Gigabyte (1024MB). (NA-1790)

Improved the Talkback script's handling of repository and Apache install paths. (NA-1874) (NA-1968)

Improved file transfer based on ordering of pending proposal files. (NA-1970)

Subversion global revisions are now logged for merge operations. (NA-1697)

Improved logging message traceability on Writer threads. (NA-1993)

Added the ability to disable a performance optimisation that has been found to cause problems in environments where clients use connection sharing (such as when load balancers or SVNKit are used).

To disable the optimisation, add the following element to the
element of your prefs.xml file:
```
<WaitEnabled>true</WaitEnabled>
```
When WaitEnabled is set to true, the replicator will wait for agreement before sending a 203-response to 'Activity Delete' requests. (NA-1912)

The prefs.xml element <AlwaysVerifyQuorum> which previously controlled whether bypassable transactions were automatically bypassed has been replaced by new setting in the admin console. To maintain this setting you must now use the "Auto skip bypassable transaction" checkbox in the system settings screen of the admin console. (NA-1475)

Names of Users and Usergroups must now be unique. Names that differed only by character case (usergroup,UserGroup etc) are no longer allowed. (NA-1851)

Users imported into Access Control who don't have an assigned role are now given a default role called "legacy". Administrators can then set permissions for these users individually or in bulk. (NA-1852)

Issues Addressed

Fixed a problem where Spaces in directory names were not being handled properly for locked resources. (NA-2006)

Fixed a problem whereby users imported via the LDAP plug-in who were later removed, were not showing up as being available to import again. (NA-1651)

Documentation for version 3.7.3 of the LDAP Plugin is now available online. (NA-1644) - http://docs.wandisco.com/svn/ldap

Fixed bug that caused replicator to crash while writing audit log. (NA-1840)

Consistency Checker is no longer available if any node in the replication group is unavailable or in read-only mode. (NA-1804)

We now ensure write threads properly stop trying to write when no additional bytes are available to read, fixing a problem that sometimes resulted in very heavy CPU load. (NA-1801)

Fixed problem where pre-replication hook with parentpath was sending an unnecessary forward slash in the path variable, causing problems for users of the jira2svn plug-in. (NA-1838)

Fixed a problem that caused garbage collection to incorrectly reschedule deletions when there were no files to delete. (NA-1791)

Fixed problem that resulted in DFTP stalls. (NA-1834)

Fixed a problem that caused UNLOCK to not work properly, resulting in "400 Bad Request" errors. (NA-1971)

Improvements have been made to the replicator's ability to catch up on very large numbers (100,000+) of delayed transactions. (NA-1828)

Fixed a deadlock that occurred during the premature closure of connections. (NA-1910)

Fixed a problem that caused a system crash due to StreamCorruptedException. (NA-1915)

Fixed problem with the Windows installer that stopped the automatic checking of the Apache config file from working. (NA-1894)

Fixed a problem with scheduled consistency checking that stopped some transactions from being marked complete and a resulted in an error "problem reading 'svn log' output java.io.IOException: Bad file descriptor" (NA-1742)

Fixed a problem with Access Control that prevented the cleanup of files in the /tmp directory after checkouts have completed. (NA-1655)

Fixed a problem that prevented a replication group from being deleted if non-alphanumeric character were used in its name. (NA-1638)

Release Notes: 3.7 Build: 2616

What's New

Issues Addressed

Fixed problem with Authz access when using a davLocation that is a single / (slash).(NA-1774)
Fixed problem where repo access was compromised when using multiple location directives, with DAV locations that started with the same values. (NA-1788)
Enabled access to sub folders on repos when using '/' as the dav location. (NA-1793)
Talkback now provides the option to include previous logs that fall within a date range. (NA-1591)