We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.8.0 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.8.0

A lot has been done in both TortoiseSVN and the Subversion library since version 1.7 came out almost two years ago. You can expect a lot of improvements. We've listed the most obvious and visible improvements in the release notes.

Please read those thoroughly before you upgrade to TortoiseSVN 1.8 to avoid any surprises.

You can get it from our download page.

Together with TortoiseSVN 1.8, we also released a new version of CommitMonitor.

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.13 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.10

This release got a few bugs fixed both in TortoiseSVN and the svn library.

The release also contains fixes for the following security issue:

• CVE-2013-2112

The security advisories are also listed on the Subversion security page.

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

A new version of GrepWin is available. This new version contains a few bugfixes and enhancements.

List of completed issues
Download from here

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.12 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.9

This release got a few bugs fixed both in TortoiseSVN and the svn library.

The release also contains fixes for the following security issues:

• CVE-2013-1845
• CVE-2013-1846
• CVE-2013-1847
• CVE-2013-1849
• CVE-2013-1884

The security advisories are also listed on the Subversion security page.

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

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.11 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.8

This release got a few bugs fixed both in TortoiseSVN and the svn library.

There's also a new release of the CommitMonitor available, also linked with Subversion 1.7.8.

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

If you're using Visual Studio, you can integrate TortoiseSVN commands to various context menus. Of course, there are Subversion plugins for Visual Studio, but if you're using one of the free versions of Visual Studio, you can not use those plugins. And sometimes it's still nice to have some of the TortoiseSVN commands available from Visual Studio directly, even if you have such a plugin installed.

A lot of my tools got new versions:

• grepWin 1.6.0 got a few bugfixes
• CryptSync 1.0.2 got bugfixes and a few new features
• SendMessage 1.1.1 remembers the last selected window handle
• tabspace 1.1.0 can ignore whitespaces in C/C++ type strings

All these tools and a lot more are available on my tools page.

So I made another tool: CryptSync.

CryptSync is a small utility that synchronizes two folders while encrypting the contents in one folder. That means one of the two folders has all files unencrypted (the files you work with) and the other folder has all the files encrypted.

The synchronization works both ways: a change in one folder gets synchronized to the other folder. If a file is added or modified in the unencrypted folder, it gets encrypted. If a file is added or modified in the encrypted folder, it get decrypted to the other folder.

More information here about CryptSync.

Windows 8 has 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.