Updatind docs https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/how-to-use-subversion/ https://thewpx.com/wordpress-svn-repository/ Svn CLI if starting from scratch download the SVN files with svn co https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/kudaniconnect/ Version numbers ant tags(see below) must be updated in the main php file and in readme Updates go in the trunk folder , if new files were added then must be added to svn with svn add trunk/* you need to create a new folder under tags and put a version there of the plugin too then to add this new tag folder you do something like.use corrrect folder name, readme mentions the tag number too svn add tags/6.3 To check status svn stat to commit changes to the svn server svn --username=page12000 ci -m "Add version in tags" Yes, commit also pushes to server Done, no need to ask for WP to manually review.