A new version of TortoiseSVN is available: version 1.6.3, linked against Subversion 1.6.3.
This is a bugfix/maintenance release only and includes many bugfixes in both TortoiseSVN and the svn library.

All files are now digitally signed, make sure you verify your downloads.

The new version is available from our download page.

We need people that help to finish translating the documentation of TortoiseSVN into the following languages:

Chinese (67% complete)
Croatian (67% complete, only TortoiseMerge)
Dutch (27% complete)
French (75% complete)
Indonesian (53% complete)
Japanese (87% complete)
Persian (2% complete, new project, Problems with right-to-left printing)
Portuguese (4% complete, new project)
Slovak (28% complete)
Slovenian (85% complete)
Spanish (96% complete)

Check the Doc translation status at our DOC translation status page.

and rank 33 in the all time downloads chart. Notepad++ catching up on us and will probably pass us in a few weeks :)

Source: http://sourceforge.net/top/topalltime.php and http://sourceforge.net/top/toplist.php?type=downloads_week

Gurtle is an IBugTraqProvider plugin for TortoiseSVN, dealing with the issue tracker of Google Project Hosting (also sometimes referred to as Google Code).

Gurtle just released a new version 0.4, and this time it comes with a nice installer so you don't have to build it yourself anymore.

In case you don't know whether you need this tool, ask yourself two questions:

• Are you using TortoiseSVN?
• Are you hosting one or more projects on Google Project Hosting?

If you answered both questions with yes, then you need Gurtle! And according to some unofficial statistics, quite a few of you will.

Once you've installed Gurtle, the TortoiseSVN commit dialog will show you a button at the top right from where you can start Gurtle. A new dialog shows you then all open issues of your project from where you can select the issue your commit is referring to. This makes it much easier to write commit messages.

For help on how to configure your projects with Gurtle, please refer to the wiki page which explains this.

grepWin is now at version 1.3.3.
The following changes were implemented:

• issue #47 : Presets don't preserve whitespaces
• issue #49 : All files through network folder were skipped
• issue #58 : Move About menu item in system dialog above Close
• issue #45 : Show total number of matches
• issue #54 : Save the name of file/ folder being searched in

StExBar is now at version 1.6.1.
The following changes were implemented:

• issue #39 : Uninstaller is in German
• issue #45 : Removing Options does not work properly
• issue #42 : Multiple filenames after switching Windows theme with an active filter
• issue #49 : Rename window to remember the latest search/rename expressions
• issue #53 : Filename Filter Explorer "Not Responding"
• issue #25 : RFE: Generate UNC Path for Folders, too, not only files
• issue #41 : Small issues with XP theme

There are two new tools available from our tools page: trafficWatcher and MailNoter.

Maybe you find those useful.

TortoiseSVN allows you to specify your own tool for showing diffs and/or merges. For example, a lot of people prefer WinMerge over TortoiseMerge (even though I can't see why :-) ).

But sometimes you might want to prefer TortoiseMerge over your custom diff tool. Changing the settings would be way too complicated to just use TortoiseMerge once, for this particular situation.

TortoiseSVN allows you to use TortoiseMerge easily, without changing your custom diff tool setup: just hold down the shift-key when you click on the context menu to do the diff. If the shift key is pressed when doing a diff, TortoiseSVN always uses TortoiseMerge. If the shift key is not pressed, the diff/merge tool specified in your settings is used.

Moving and renaming versioned files inside a working copy must always be done with the corresponding Subversion/TortoiseSVN commands. A move/rename without those (e.g., with the Windows Explorer) leads to problems since Subversion doesn't know that you have moved/renamed the files.

Many people don't know that the Windows shell provides an extended context menu if the shift key is pressed when the menu is shown.