Apache Subversion

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Apache Subversion

Original author(s)	CollabNet
Developer(s)	Apache Software Foundation
Initial release	20 October 2000; 23 years ago (2000-10-20)
Stable release(s)
1.14.3[1]  / 28 December 2023; 6 months ago (28 December 2023)
Repository	svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/
Written in	C
Operating system	Centos Debian Fedora FreeBSD HP-UX NetBSD OpenBSD openSUSE OpenVMS macOS Red Hat Linux Solaris SUSE Linux Ubuntu Windows
Type	Revision control
License	Apache-2.0[a]
Website	subversion.apache.org

Apache Subversion (often abbreviated SVN, after its command name svn) is a version control system distributed as open source under the Apache License.^[2] Software developers use Subversion to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).

The open source community has used Subversion widely: for example, in projects such as Apache Software Foundation, FreeBSD, SourceForge, and from 2006 to 2019, GCC. CodePlex was previously a common host for Subversion repositories.

Subversion was created by CollabNet Inc. in 2000, and is now a top-level Apache project being built and used by a global community of contributors.^[3]

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