How to find my Subversion server version number?

Admin 1
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I want to know if my server is running Subversion 1.5.

How can I find that out?

Also would be nice to know my SVN client version number. svn help hasn't been helpful.

Note: I don't want my project's revision number, etc. This question is about the Subversion software itself.

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15 Answers

To find the version of the subversion REPOSITORY you can:

  1. Look to the repository on the web and on the bottom of the page it will say something like:
    "Powered by Subversion version 1.5.2 (r32768)."
  2. From the command line: <insert curl, grep oneliner here>

If not displayed, view source of the page

<svn version="1.6.13 (r1002816)" href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">

Now for the subversion CLIENT:

svn --version

will suffice

Admin1

On the server: svnserve --version

in case of svnserve-based configuration (svn:// and svn+xxx://).

(For completeness).

user_157850

Here's the simplest way to get the SVN server version. HTTP works even if your SVN repository requires HTTPS.

$ curl -X OPTIONS http://my-svn-domain/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>...</head>
<body>...
<address>Apache/2.2.11 (Debian) DAV/2 SVN/1.5.6 PHP/5.2.9-4 ...</address>
</body>
</html>
user_1407430
PiedPiper_193150

If you use VisualSVN Server, you can find out the version number by several different means.

Use VisualSVN Server Manager

Follow these steps to find out the version via the management console:

  1. Start the VisualSVN Server Manager console.
  2. See the Version at the bottom-right corner of the dashboard.

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If you click Version you will also see the versions of the components.

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Check the README.txt file

Follow these steps to find out the version from the readme.txt file:

  1. Start notepad.exe.
  2. Open the %VISUALSVN_SERVER%README.txt file. The first line shows the version number.

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user_7610950
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