Fedora 21 Security Update: subversion-1.8.11-1.fc21

Resolved Bugs
1174521 – CVE-2014-8108 CVE-2014-3580 subversion: various flaws [fedora-all]
1155670 – svn fails to start with libserf 1.2.1 requires: libserf 1.3.4
1174054 – CVE-2014-3580 subversion: NULL pointer dereference flaw in mod_dav_svn when handling REPORT requests
1174057 – CVE-2014-8108 subversion: NULL pointer dereference flaw in mod_dav_svn when handling URIs for virtual transaction names<br
This update includes the latest stable release of **Apache Subversion**, version **1.8.11**. Two security issues in mod_dav_svn are addressed in this release (CVE-2014-8108, CVE-2014-3580). For more details, see:
http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-8108-advisory.txt
http://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2014-3580-advisory.txt
**Client-side bugfixes:**
* checkout/update: fix file externals failing to follow history and subsequently silently failing http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4185
* patch: don’t skip targets in valid –git difs
* diff: make property output in diffs stable
* diff: fix diff of local copied directory with props
* diff: fix changelist filter for repos-WC and WC-WC
* remove broken conflict resolver menu options that always error out
* improve gpg-agent support
* fix crash in eclipse IDE with GNOME Keyring http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3498
* fix externals shadowing a versioned directory http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4085
* fix problems working on unix file systems that don’t support permissions
* upgrade: keep external registrations http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4519
* cleanup: iprove performance of recorded timestamp fixups
* translation updates for German
**Server-side bugfixes:**
* disable revprop caching feature due to cache invalidation problems
* skip generating uniquifiers if rep-sharing is not supported
* mod_dav_svn: reject requests with missing repository paths
* mod_dav_svn: reject requests with invalid virtual transaction names
* mod_dav_svn: avoid unneeded memory growth in resource walking http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4531

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