diff --git a/serf.be0 b/serf.be0
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b713d9635
--- /dev/null
+++ b/serf.be0
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env beesh
+
+# BEE_VERSION serf-1.3.9-0
+
+# more info: https://serf.apache.org
+
+SRCURL[0]="https://www.apache.org/dist/serf/serf-${PKGVERSION}.tar.bz2"
+
+# requires SCons build system (available from PyPi)
+# but this specific package requires python2, because
+# the SContruct file (which is SCons' Makefile in python
+# lanuage) uses python2 syntax.
+#
+# SCons strictly doesn't require build_in_sourcedir (scons -Y), but
+# I don't see the point of separate sources anyway, when we start
+# each build from scratch.
+
+# I recommend to run this bee file with
+#     unshare -U -r ./serf.be0
+# instead of
+#     sudo ./serf.be0
+# Well, I think that is better for ANY bee file, but here we
+# invoke a downloaded PyPi package.
+
+# PATCHURL+=()
+
+build_in_sourcedir
+
+# sourcesubdir_append src
+
+#mee_extract() {
+#    bee_extract "${@}"
+#}
+
+#mee_patch() {
+#    bee_patch "${@}"
+#}
+
+#mee_configure() {
+#    bee_configure
+#}
+
+mee_build() {
+    start_cmd virtualenv2 venv0
+    . venv0/bin/activate
+    start_cmd pip install scons
+    start_cmd scons PREFIX=$PREFIX
+    # start_cmd scons check
+}
+
+mee_install() {
+    start_cmd scons install  --install-sandbox=$D
+}
+
+#mee_install_post() {
+#    exit
+#}
diff --git a/subversion.be0 b/subversion.be0
index 21fb541a4..36e3f9021 100755
--- a/subversion.be0
+++ b/subversion.be0
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env beesh
 
-# BEE_VERSION subversion-1.10.6-0
+# BEE_VERSION subversion-1.14.0-0
 
 # more info: https://subversion.apache.org
 
-SRCURL[0]="http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/apache/subversion/subversion-${PKGVERSION}.tar.bz2"
+SRCURL[0]="https://downloads.apache.org/subversion/subversion-${PKGVERSION}.tar.bz2"
 
 # PATCHURL+=()
 
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ mee_configure() {
     bee_configure \
         --disable-nls \
         --with-lz4=internal \
-        --with-utf8proc=internal
+        --with-utf8proc=internal \
+        --with-serf
 }
 
 #mee_build() {