Is subversion 1.7 ok on CentOS 5.9 ? Or is 1.6 the latest stable?

Question

My friend just asserted to me that:

version 1.6.13 of subversion is the latest stable one for CentOS 5.9

What do you experts think? Does subversion 1.7 run fine on CentOS 5.9?

Answer 1

Subversion 1.6/1.7/1.8 run fine and can be installed as clients/run via svnserve/run as mod_dav_svn on Redhat 5/6 or Centos 5/6.

If you are running a server, compile and run 1.8 latest for most features, least disk space and network usage. Client wise, it generally doesn't matter which version, although 1.7 clients have better merge capabilities connecting to 1.7+ servers.