ProjectLocker Blog: Tag subversion

Subversion 1.7 upgrade complete

C. G. Brown — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 01:32:00 -0600

At this time, Subversion 1.7.2 is installed on all ProjectLocker production servers. You can upgrade your client to a 1.7 client to obtain the additional performance benefits, or continue using your 1.4 or higher clients if that's what you prefer.

There was an issue with case-sensitivity of email addresses that some customers experienced after the upgrade. The workaround was to use the same case for your email as you used when you entered it into Portal, but we investigated and determined why our customizations to Subversion did not pick up our addition of case-insensitive email address support. The installation was repaired and reinstalled, and your email should work in a case-insensitive way at this time. Trac is still case-sensitive as it has been, but we're working on a solution for that as well.

We hope everyone had a great holiday season and look forward to another year of serving you. Thank you as always for your patience and support as we continue to do our best to offer you the best value in hosted software quality solutions.

Subversion 1.7 Upgrade In Progress

C. G. Brown — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 09:21:00 -0600

We are in the process of upgrading our servers to Subversion 1.7.2. For those of you on Enterprise plans or with server numbers ending in 2 or 5, you have already been upgraded, and you can begin using the features immediately if you have a Subversion 1.7 client. If you do not, you should still be able to use the features that your client version supports.

If you are experiencing issues, please contact us by clicking the New Support Request link in ProjectLocker Portal and post in detail the exact error message you are getting. You can also try upgrading your client to a Subversion 1.7 client and see if you get better results. If this works for you, please notify us which client versions failed and which succeeded so we can do additional testing against those versions.

Update to Server Certificate

C. G. Brown — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:26:00 -0600

On Thursday, December 1, ProjectLocker will be updating our SSL certificates on all servers. If you do not have your Subversion client configured with our intermediate certificate bundle, you may receive warning messages about the certificate not coming from a trusted authority. More detailed instructions on how to do this are provided at https://portal.projectlocker.com/support_faq/tag/subversion#46.

We are using the same certificate authority we have been using, Starfield Technologies, and the certificates are valid and work in all major browser. After inspecting the certificate in your browser, you should feel free to accept the certificate permanently into your client's cache.

As always, just open a support ticket in ProjectLocker Portal if you have any questions.

SSL Certificates Updated

C. G. Brown — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:41:00 -0600

We have just updated the SSL certificates on all servers. Your Subversion clients may present you with a message along the lines of: "The certificate is not issued by a trusted authority. Use the fingerprint to validate the certificate manually!" This is due to the fact that many clients' systems have a separate certificate authority bundle that leaves out a number of legitimate and widespread certificate providers, including our provider, Starfield Technologies.

If you see this message, please select "accept (p)ermanently" to proceed.

You can contact Support via the New Support Request link in ProjectLocker Portal if there are any issues or if you have any questions.

Downloadable Backup Subscriptions are Here

C. G. Brown — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:29:00 -0600

Many of our customers have expressed an interest in backing up their projects on a scheduled basis. We've had an archiving feature to back up customer projects for Enterprise customers for some time now, but we have now released scheduled backups to all of our customers. To access scheduled backups, just go to the Manage Subscriptions link in ProjectLocker Portal, on the left navigation bar under "Backup Links", choose the day of the week or day of the month you'd like and your projects, and confirm.

Monthly backups are just $5/month for unlimited projects. Weekly backups are $15/month for unlimited projects. All backups are kept at least 30 days, so you can download your backups to an off-site location of your choosing for additional peace of mind. If you just need an occasional backup, you can still use the Request Backups link to get your backup for a single project for just $2.50. However, if you find yourself requesting backups regularly, you can save money and time by scheduling a subscription. There's no contract, even if you're an annual or biannual subscriber, and you can cancel at any time.

We absolutely have not changed our policy regarding backups for disaster recovery. We continue to regularly back up all customer data internally to an encrypted, off-site location so that we can get you up and running in the event of a disaster on our side. Downloadable backups are just an additional convenience for customers who prefer to maintain their own copies of project data for historical/archiving reasons, or just as an additional measure of protection. In any case, you can continue to rely on ProjectLocker for the enterprise-grade support and infrastructure you expect at a great price.

As always, open a ticket in ProjectLocker Portal if you have any questions or issues with this or any other feature.

Direct Import to ProjectLocker

Runako Godfrey — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:20:00 -0600

ProjectLocker Subversion hosting recently got a new feature that makes it even easier to import your Subversion repositories.

We've long offered automated imports of Subversion dumps via FTP, SFTP, or HTTP. However, some users have indicated that they don't have the access on their existing Subversion server necessary to secure a complete dump of their existing repositories. As a result, we've built an importer that can help in some of those cases. Simply provide the URL and authentication credentials of your existing repository, and our importer will directly import your repository into ProjectLocker. All with no command-line expertise required. You don't even need a separate server to host the dump file! What could be easier?

Direct Subversion Imports are available now via ProjectLocker Portal.

Automatic Deployments

Runako Godfrey — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:11:00 -0600

One of the most frequently-requested features at ProjectLocker is the ability to automatically deploy code from your repository to another server. While we've had manual deployments for a while, this wasn't scratching the deployment itch for all of our users. So today we're announcing the availability of automatic deployments for Subversion.

Automatic deployments allow you to tell ProjectLocker to automatically kick off a deployment of your choosing on each commit to your repository. Simply configure your Remote Deployment settings for your project and indicate that you'd like per-commit deployments for a given deployment environment, and you're ready to go. And since you can create as many deployment environments as you like, you can still choose to configure some of those for manual deployment. So you could configure your project to deploy to your staging server on every commit, but wait for manual intervention before deploying to your production server.

Automatic deployments are available immediately to all ProjectLocker Venture and Equity accounts.

WebHooks Land at ProjectLocker

Runako Godfrey — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:00:00 -0600

ProjectLocker recently introduced WebHooks for our Git hosting and Subversion hosting services, which allow you to configure ProjectLocker to notify one of your servers anytime a push (Git) or commit (Subversion) happens. The notification isn't just a 'ping', but provides all the relevant information about the event -- files changed, author, timestamp, etc. (The full JSON format is described in detail in the ProjectLocker FAQ.) That means you can use WebHooks for whatever you want -- integrating with your continuous integration server, sending out custom notifications, or anything else that could benefit from real-time updates from your repository.

WebHooks are available immediately for all paid ProjectLocker accounts.

ProjectLocker Now Supports Restriction By IP Address and Domain

C. G. Brown — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:46:00 -0500

A number of our customers have requested the ability to restrict access to services by IP address or domain, so that employees can only access Subversion or Trac from specific computers or locations. We now provide restriction by IP address or IP range. Access restriction is included at no additional cost for Venture, Equity, and Enterprise accounts. We will soon be providing it for Seed and Angel accounts for an additional charge.

We support four types of addresses:

Domains - e.g. "somedomain.com" or "my.domain.com"
IP Addresses or portions - e.g. "1.2.3.4" for a specific IP or "1.2" for any address beginning with "1.2."
IP Address ranges with Netmasks - e.g. "10.1.0.0/255.255.0.0"
IP Address ranges with CIDR Netmasks - e.g. "10.1.0.0/16

To configure your account, just go to the Account Information link and check the "Restrict Access by IP" checkbox, then save your changes. Then, for the project you wish to restrict access to, click the "Restrict Project Access by IP" link and follow the instructions.

Once IP restriction is set up, users will still be able to access ProjectLocker Portal from anywhere with their authentication credentials, but will not be able to use Subversion or Trac unless they are coming from an authorized location.

With IP restrictions, you can rest easy, knowing you have an added measure of security and Enterprise-grade protection, all at the lowest prices in the industry.

ProjectLocker Maintenance - Saturday June 27

C. G. Brown — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:02:00 -0500

We will be performing maintenance on the ProjectLocker servers from Saturday, June 27 at 9 AM EDT (1:00 PM GMT) to 12 PM EDT (4:00 PM GMT). We will be executing some performance enhancing changes to configuration and installing Subversion 1.6.3.

During this time, you may experience brief interruptions of service. Please e-mail support [-at-] projectlocker.com if you have any questions.