We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.7 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.5

We fixed a lot of bugs in TortoiseSVN this time, mostly thanks to the many crash reports that were sent.

To improve TortoiseSVN even further we've also included a new crash reporting tool this time. Please have a look at our post about this new crash handler and how we use it here.

There's also a new version of the CommitMonitor available.

We recommend that you update to this version as soon as possible. You can get it from our download page.

Windows 8 (or whatever its name will be when it's released) will have a new feature where the Aero colors can be automatically adjusted according to the selected wallpaper.

This seems to be a nice feature, and there's even a tool available that offers that feature for Windows 7: Aura.

But there are some things about Aura that bother me, so I hacked together my own tool which offers that feature.

Unlike Aura, AAClr is written in plain C++ and doesn't use the .NET framework. For tools that are supposed to be started automatically on logon, this ensures that the whole startup time doesn't increase by several seconds.

AAClr also detects changes in wallpapers by catching events from the system and doesn't use timers that access the wallpaper file several times a second (like Aura does). That means that AAClr is idle most of the time and only wakes up when necessary.

And about resource usage: AAClr uses less than 2MB of private bytes - I think that's not too much.

The link to the download can be found on the project page.

There's now a book available about TortoiseSVN. Of course, there are books about Subversion which mention TortoiseSVN. But this is (I think) the first book about TortoiseSVN.

Full disclosure: I was asked to review the book, which I did. And I'm mentioned as a reviewer in the book! So I had to write something about it here since I was never mentioned in a book before :).

read my full post about this book.