Investigate use of subclipse 1.8 in JBDS 5 and JBoss Central

I've been using native svn 1.7 for a while now, Today while reinstalling a new Eclipse installation from scratch, I installed subclipse from JBoss Central.
After installation, I tried to share my existing projects in eclipse but couldn't, since the 1.7 checkout is not supported by subclipse (based on svn 1.6).
Can we update the subclipse version from central to use the 1.8.x stream?
With svn 1.7, you have only have one .svn folder at the root of your checkout, no more .svn folders crawling everywhere making copying and moving folders a breathe.