You're assuming that the svn running on the source control server is always the top of tree. I would assume that they use the latest stable release, not the lat

You're assuming that the svn running on the source control server is always the top of tree. I would assume that they use the latest stable release, not the latest checkin. And even if they did run into a problem like this, they could always downgrade the version of svn on the server, so long as it doesn't include a breaking repository format change.