diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
index af736591d2..429f304972 100644
--- a/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/1.7.11.txt
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ UI, Workflows & Features
    variables with REMOTE_USER and REMOTE_ADDR, but these variables are
    now preserved when set.
 
+ * "include.path" mechanism of the configuration files learned to
+   understand "~/path" and "~user/path".
+
  * "git am" learned the "--include" option, which is an opposite of
    existing the "--exclude" option.
 
@@ -47,12 +50,19 @@ Foreign Interface
  * "git svn" used to die with unwanted SIGPIPE when talking with HTTP
    server that uses keep-alive.
 
+ * "git svn" learned to use platform specific authentication
+   providers, e.g. gnome-keyring, kwallet, etc.
+
  * "git p4" has been moved out of contrib/ area.
 
 Performance
 
  * "git apply" had some memory leaks plugged.
 
+ * "git repack" used to write out unreachable objects as loose objects
+   when repacking, even if such loose objects will immediately pruned
+   due to its age.
+
  * Setting up a revision traversal with many starting points was
    inefficient as these were placed in a date-order priority queue
    one-by-one.  Now they are collected in the queue unordered first,
@@ -86,6 +96,12 @@ Unless otherwise noted, all the fixes since v1.7.10 in the maintenance
 releases are contained in this release (see release notes to them for
 details).
 
+ * The test scaffolding for git-daemon was flaky.
+   (merge 46e3581 js/daemon-test-race-fix later to maint).
+
+ * The test scaffolding for fast-import was flaky.
+   (merge 7fb8e16 pw/t5800-import-race-fix later to maint).
+
  * Octopus merge strategy did not reduce heads that are recorded in the
    final commit correctly.
    (merge 5802f81 jc/merge-reduce-parents-early later to maint).
diff --git a/git-svn.perl b/git-svn.perl
index f8e9ef0ea6..427da9e7a1 100755
--- a/git-svn.perl
+++ b/git-svn.perl
@@ -5444,7 +5444,7 @@ BEGIN {
 }
 
 sub _auth_providers () {
-	[
+	my @rv = (
 	  SVN::Client::get_simple_provider(),
 	  SVN::Client::get_ssl_server_trust_file_provider(),
 	  SVN::Client::get_simple_prompt_provider(
@@ -5460,7 +5460,23 @@ sub _auth_providers () {
 	    \&Git::SVN::Prompt::ssl_server_trust),
 	  SVN::Client::get_username_prompt_provider(
 	    \&Git::SVN::Prompt::username, 2)
-	]
+	);
+
+	# earlier 1.6.x versions would segfault, and <= 1.5.x didn't have
+	# this function
+	if ($SVN::Core::VERSION gt '1.6.12') {
+		my $config = SVN::Core::config_get_config($config_dir);
+		my ($p, @a);
+		# config_get_config returns all config files from
+		# ~/.subversion, auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers
+		# just wants the config "file".
+		@a = ($config->{'config'}, undef);
+		$p = SVN::Core::auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers(@a);
+		# Insert the return value from
+		# auth_get_platform_specific_providers
+		unshift @rv, @$p;
+	}
+	\@rv;
 }
 
 sub escape_uri_only {