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CVS 1.9 Released This news release refers to an Unsupported Resources web page and downloads from ftp.cyclic.com; these resources are no longer at those locations. As the news release is intended as a historical document we have made no effort to update it for the current state of our web site.

CVS 1.9 Released

Further enhancing the cross-platform capabilities of the CVS versioning system, Cyclic announces CVS version 1.9.

Enhancements include:

  • The VMS client now supports the "pserver" way of connecting to the CVS server, and has a variety of other important fixes.
  • Many bugfixes ensuring that CVS is correctly insensitive to filename case (upper or lower case) on systems like Windows NT or VMS. Case-insensitivity is not a new feature, but now CVS does it in more contexts than it used to.
  • The local (non-client/server CVS) now runs on Windows NT, and the client and local CVS now run on Windows 95.
  • One can specify whether a file defaults to binary based on its file name; for example one can specify that all files whose names end in .JPG are binary.
  • There is now a Macintosh client. It must be considered somewhat experimental (see the file macintosh/README.MacCVS in the CVS source distribution for details), but it is in regular use by a number of people.
  • Many bugfixes and other new features. See the NEWS file in the CVS source distribution for a more detailed list of new features.

The best way to get a copy of CVS 1.9 depends on your needs. Cyclic customers should download a copy from ftp.cyclic.com, and contact us with any questions, concerns, or problems that they have. If you are not a current customer, but are interesting in having your CVS come with support, contact us concerning our support services. If you get CVS through some channel (for example, Red Hat Linux), ask your supplier when they expect to have CVS 1.9. And last but not least, people with a little bit more time and/or expertise will often prefer to just download CVS and rely on themselves and resources such as mailing lists for support. On our web site there is a page called "Unsupported resources" which includes information on FTP sites carrying CVS and other resources not supported by Cyclic.

Cyclic Software sells support for CVS, a cross-platform, easy to administer client/server configuration management system. For more information on Cyclic and CVS, see our web page at http://www.cyclic.com.

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Derek Price, CVS developer and technical editor of Essential CVS (Essentials line from O'Reilly Press) , and others offer consulting services and training through Ximbiot.