diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 48a8285f49..c31265ed25 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 <!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
 
-<!ENTITY day          "15">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day          "16">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY month        "12">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
 <!ENTITY year         "2014">
 <!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
 <!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
 <!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 15th, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate  "December 16th, &year;">
 <!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
 <!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
 <!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- x.y|development] -->
diff --git a/general/prog/subversion.xml b/general/prog/subversion.xml
index f15ae8823e..549be3db68 100644
--- a/general/prog/subversion.xml
+++ b/general/prog/subversion.xml
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@
   <!ENTITY subversion-download-http
   "http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-&subversion-version;.tar.bz2">
   <!ENTITY subversion-download-ftp  " ">
-  <!ENTITY subversion-md5sum        "3068256761b40863df96128834d6b71b">
+  <!ENTITY subversion-md5sum        "766a89bbbb388f8eb76166672d3b9e49">
   <!ENTITY subversion-size          "6.6 MB">
-  <!ENTITY subversion-buildsize     "143 MB  (284 MB with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 968 MB for tests)">
-  <!ENTITY subversion-time          "0.9 SBU (2.5 SBU with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 12.6 SBU for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY subversion-buildsize     "123 MB (272 MB with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 694 MB for tests)">
+  <!ENTITY subversion-time          "1.9 SBU (3.6 SBU with all bindings and API documentation built; additional 11 SBU for tests)">
 ]>
 
 <sect1 id="subversion" xreflabel="Subversion-&subversion-version;">
@@ -315,17 +315,14 @@ cp      -v -R       doc/* \
         </seg>
         <seg>
           /usr/include/subversion-1,
-          /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/&lfs-perl-version;/auto/SVN (optional),
-          /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/&lfs-perl-version;/SVN (optional),
-          /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/libsvn (optional),
-          /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/svn (optional),
-          /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/&lt;x.y&gt;/i686-linux/svn (optional),
-          /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/&lt;x.y&gt;/svn (optional),
+          /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/&lfs-perl-version;/{,auto/}SVN,
+          /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{libsvn,svn},
+          /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby//&lt;x.y.z&gt;/{,&lt;arch-linux&gt;-linux/}svn,
+          /usr/lib/svn-javahl, and
+          /usr/share/doc/subversion-&subversion-version;
 <!--      /usr/lib/svn-python/libsvn (optional),
           /usr/lib/svn-python/svn (optional),
 -->
-          /usr/lib/svn-javahl (optional), and
-          /usr/share/doc/subversion-&subversion-version;
         </seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
diff --git a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
index 39addc4091..5ee1381387 100644
--- a/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
+++ b/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,16 @@
 
 -->
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>December 9th, 2014</para>
+      <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[fernando] - Update to subversion-1.8.11. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&blfs-ticket-root;5952">#5952</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </itemizedlist>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>December 15th, 2014</para>
       <itemizedlist>
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 1c31075317..da8ca532aa 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@
 <!ENTITY ruby-patch-version           "0">
 <!ENTITY scons-version                "2.3.4">
 <!ENTITY slang-version                "2.2.4">
-<!ENTITY subversion-version           "1.8.10">
+<!ENTITY subversion-version           "1.8.11">
 <!ENTITY swig-version                 "3.0.2">
 <!ENTITY tcl-version                  "8.6.3">
 <!ENTITY tk-version                   "8.6.3">