Improved authentication data management (saving authentication data to KWallet or Gnome Keyring, saving keys to SSL certificates, asking for confirmation before storing passwords in an unencrypted form)
New URL format - support relative root paths (root relative URLs)
Svn: externals extension: support for svn: externals files
Definition of tree conflicts - conflicts at the directory structure level
Improvements in the way data is stored - the repository will take up less disk space
New Python-bindings
Improved online conflict resolution in command-line client
The --set parameter of the update command supports the new exclude value, which allows you to exclude certain branches from the working copy.
Svnserve logging support
The new HTTP URI syntax allows you to access specific revisions: