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## CryptSync

Posted on November 2, 2012

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.

## TortoiseSVN and the recycle bin

Posted on September 22, 2012

Subversion's design is made up so that you will never ever lose any data. But there's one command that will do exactly that: Revert.
Reverting means discarding all modifications you've made to one or more files which you haven't committed yet.

But what if you selected the wrong file(s) to revert? Sure, TortoiseSVN always asks you first before it reverts the files. But as we all know, such "Are you sure?" dialogs are too easily dismissed by clicking "Yes".

So what if you reverted files and you then discover that you shouldn't have done that?

read more...

## Save the revision graph as an SVG file

Posted on May 9, 2012

The revision graph is a nice way to get a quick overview of your project. However you can not share the graph with other people unless you save it as an image and pass the image on.

If the revision graph is small, then saving the graph as a PNG image will do just fine. But as with all images, a PNG does not scale very well. And if the revision graph is already big the resulting image file can get quite big as well. It can even get too big to show.

read more...

## Auto Aero Colors

Posted on April 9, 2011 • Full article

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.

## TortoiseSVN 1.7 Beginner's Guide

Posted on January 15, 2011 • Full article

There's now a book [as of 2022-12-23 the book is no longer available on original link, use alternative link] 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.

## TortoiseSVN 1.8.4 released

Posted on November 24, 2013

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.8.4 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.8.5.

This is a bugfix release with no new features.

Note that Subversion 1.8.5 fixes a security vulnerability (CVE-2013-4558). But this only affects Subversion servers, so TortoiseSVN is not affected.

Before upgrading from pre 1.8 versions please read the release notes.

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

We've also updated the SVNProtocolHandler to match the new Subversion release.

BowPad also got updated to version 1.0.6.

## TortoiseSVN 1.8.3 released

Posted on October 28, 2013

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.8.3 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.8.4.

This is a bugfix release with no new features.

Before upgrading from pre 1.8 versions please read the release notes.

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

Together with TortoiseSVN 1.8.3 we also have a new release of the CommitMonitor.

grepWin got updated to version 1.6.3, and BowPad also got updated to version 1.0.4

## TortoiseSVN 1.8.2 released

Posted on August 30, 2013

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.8.2 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.8.3.

This is a bugfix release with no new features.

Before upgrading from pre 1.8 versions please read the release notes.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.8.1 released

Posted on July 23, 2013

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.8.1 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.8.1.

This is a bugfix release with no new features.

Before upgrading from pre 1.8 versions please read the release notes.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.8.0 released

Posted on June 18, 2013

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.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.9 released

Posted on August 30, 2012

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.9 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.6

Well, we messed up the last release: there was a bug that caused other applications to crash. And since we try to play nice we're releasing a new version.

There are a few other minor bugs fixed as well.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.8 released

Posted on August 15, 2012

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.8 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.6

We fixed a lot of bugs in TortoiseSVN this time, mostly thanks to the many crash reports that were sent and the crash report server provided by crash-server.com.

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

## New version of grepWin

Posted on August 11, 2012

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## New version of CommitMonitor

Posted on March 25, 2012

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.6 released

Posted on March 08, 2012

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.6 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.4

This time a lot of bugs have been fixed both in TortoiseSVN and the underlying SVN library.

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

## New version of grepWin

Posted on January 29, 2012

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.4 released

Posted on January 13, 2012

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.4 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.2

Due to a specific in TortoiseSVN 1.7.2 which lead to various different problems we're releasing this version out of sync with SVN releases.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.1 released

Posted on October 22, 2011

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.1 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.1

It's only been a few days since we released 1.7.0, but in this time we've fixed a lot of bugs. Both in TortoiseSVN and the underlying SVN library.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.0 released

Posted on October 11, 2011

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7

It's been two and a half year, 935 days to be exact since version 1.6 was released. The TortoiseSVN repository counts 6213 commits since then, which results in about 6 commits per day.

With that many changes done to TortoiseSVN alone, and much more to the Subversion core itself 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 1.7 to avoid any surprises.

Together with TortoiseSVN 1.7, we also released new versions of CommitMonitor and SVNProtocolHandler.

## T-Shirt poll

Posted on September 26, 2011

The poll for the TortoiseSVN T-Shirt design contest is on. Please visit: http://sodahead.com/poll/2169689/ and vote for your favourite.

Larger versions of the submissions or black/white colour alternatives are visible in the gallery

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.5 released

Posted on February 13, 2012

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.5 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.3

This time a lot of bugs have been fixed both in TortoiseSVN and the underlying SVN library.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.3 released

Posted on December 16, 2011

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.3 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.2

Due to some nasty bugs in TortoiseSVN 1.7.2 which in some specific situations could make it crash, we're releasing this version out of sync with SVN releases.

TortoisePlink was also updated to Plink 0.62 which had a security issue fixed.

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

## TortoiseSVN 1.7.2 released

Posted on December 5, 2011

We're proud to announce that TortoiseSVN 1.7.2 has been released. It is linked against Subversion 1.7.2

Again a lot of bugs have been fixed, both in TortoiseSVN itself and the underlying Subversion library.

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

## New version of grepWin

Posted on November 20, 2011

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## New version of Auto Aero Color

Posted on June 24, 2011

A new version of the Auto Aero Color (AAClr) is available.

This new version contains a fix for a bug which extracted the color for Aero the wrong way, so that red and blue were exchanged.

Download from here

## New version of StExBar and SKTimeStamp

Posted on June 6, 2011

A new version of the StExBar and SKTimeStamp is available. These new versions contain new features, and a few bugfixes.

List of completed StExBar issues
Download from here

## TortoiseSVN 1.6.16 released

Posted on June 1, 2011

TortoiseSVN 1.6.16 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, linked with Subversion 1.6.17.

Subversion 1.6.17 also contains a few security related fixes:

- CVE-2011-1752
- CVE-2011-1783
- CVE-2011-1921

Note: these vulnerabilities only refer to Subversion servers, not clients. Which means TortoiseSVN is not affected by those.

We still recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

Also note that if you upgrade from a version before 1.6.10, you have to run a repair install after the upgrade. To do that, run the installer again and click the "Repair" button. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

## New version of grepWin

Posted on September 4, 2011

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## Release candidate of TortoiseSVN 1.7

Posted on September 1, 2011

We're happy to announce the first and most likely only release candidate of TortoiseSVN 1.7. It is linked with the latest RC2 of Apache Subversion 1.7.

Don't forget to read the release notes before you install the beta version.

Please download correct version for your OS below

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-RC1-win32-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi.

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-RC1-x64-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi

## T-Shirt contest

Posted on August 22, 2011

A few weeks ago, we received a sponsorship from ooShirts, which will allow us to create and order some custom designed T-Shirts for TortoiseSVN.

Since we are never short on coding ideas, but on design ideas, we decided to put up a T-Shirt contest.

The contest will start today and run for four weeks. The final date for your submission is Monday, 19th September, 2011.

We will set up an image gallery with the submissions and allow users to vote on them. Voting will be up for ten days

The winner of the contest, as well as the two runners-up will receive a free T-Shirt :)

We have only two requirements for the T-Shirt:

- The T-Shirt must show a Tortoise, an SVG logo to start with can be found in our repository)
- The T-Shirt must display the text "TortoiseSVN"

You can design your Shirt directly on the ooShirts web site. The design will be saved there and you'll receive a link which will allow you to edit the design later.

For the submission, please save your design as a max. 800x800 PNG image and send it to luebbe.tortoisesvn@googlemail.com.

## Call for translators

Posted on July 14, 2011

in a few weeks, Subversion 1.7 will be officially released. This means that TortoiseSVN 1.7 will be released only a few days later. Now it's high time to polish up our translations and finish as many of them as possible. In most cases the biggest item on the to-do list is the TortoiseSVN manual.

There are five translations where the GUI translation is almost finished and the manual is more than 90% done. These are: Dutch, French, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. If at least two volunteers help, we should be able to deliver a 100% complete translation for these languages.

Close behind are: Chinese and Slovenian. Their manuals are > 70% finished, but this is going to be a tough job to get it done.

Then we have the Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and Slovak manuals, which are between 40% and 60% done. It would be cool to get close to 100%, but a lot of work to achieve this goal. The Polish translator is currently very active and would surely appreciate any help.

Finally there are several languages where no manual exists, but the GUI translation is >70% complete. See the GUI translation statistics. These are the easiest jobs to finish, because the GUI translation doesn't have long paragraphs, but many single words or short sentences to translate.

Please come and help. We need *you* :) Some information on how to join the translation team is available on our translation page.

## New version of grepWin

Posted on May 15, 2011

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

List of completed issues
Download from here

## New version of CommitMonitor

Posted on April 26, 2011

A new version of the CommitMonitor is available. This new version contains a few bugfixes.

List of completed issues
Download from here

## Useful tips for administrators

Posted on February 16, 2011

At the Subversion live event in London yesterday one of the users asked me whether TortoiseSVN 1.7 would provide a way to customize the context menu entries, so that he could remove certain entries/commands for certain users.

I was a little bit surprised, because that can already be done using TortoiseSVn 1.6.x.

full post...

## New version of StExBar

Posted on January 31, 2011

A new version of the StExBar is available. This new version contains new features, and a few bugfixes.

List of completed issues
Download from here

## Second Beta of TortoiseSVN 1.7

Posted on July 28, 2011

We're happy to announce the second beta of TortoiseSVN 1.7. It is linked with the latest beta of Apache Subversion 1.7.

Because the first beta revealed a subtle bug which made TortoiseSVN crash on some systems whenever a dialog was closed, we release a second beta which has that bug fixed.

Don't forget to read the release notes before you install the beta version.

Please download correct version for your OS below

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-beta2-win32-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi.

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-beta2-x64-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi

## First Beta of TortoiseSVN 1.7

Posted on July 23, 2011

We're happy to announce the first beta of TortoiseSVN 1.7. It is linked with the latest beta of Apache Subversion 1.7.

Please give this beta a thorough test drive and help us find and fix all bugs and glitches before the final release. Especially if you're using TortoiseSVN in your company, you should test this version on at least one workstation to make sure that the final release will work for you.

Don't forget to read the release notes before you install the beta version.

Please download correct version for your OS below

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-beta-win32-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi.

TortoiseSVN-1.7.0-beta-x64-svn-1.7.0-dev.msi

## TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 released

Posted on March 23, 2011

TortoiseSVN 1.6.15 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, linked with Subversion 1.6.16. The release contains a fix for a first-chance exception in the file open/save dialogs. This only affects applications which are run under a debugger which must also be configured to catch first-chance exceptions. But since TortoiseSVN is mostly used by developers, this is annoying so that's why we made this release only a few days after the last release. Sorry about that.

We recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

Also note that if you upgrade from a version before 1.6.10, you have to run a repair install after the upgrade. To do that, run the installer again and click the "Repair" button. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

## New version of grepWin

Posted on January 2, 2011

A new version of GrepWin is available. This new version contains new features, a slightly reworked UI and a few bugfixes.

There's now also a 64-bit version available for 64-bit OS. Please install the correct version for your OS or you won't get the full explorer context menu in the result list.

List of completed issues
Download from here

## New tool: EvImSync

Tuesday, 28 December 2010, 11:40 am

EvImSync is a new tool that allows you to sync notes from Evernote with emails in a GMail account and vice-versa.

See the homepage for more details.

## TortoiseSVN 1.6.14 released

Posted on March 18, 2011

TortoiseSVN 1.6.14 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, linked with Subversion 1.6.16. The release contains a fix for a handle leak in the shell extension and solves a problem with side-by-side assemblies on some machines.

We recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

Also note that if you upgrade from a version before 1.6.10, you have to run a repair install after the upgrade. To do that, run the installer again and click the "Repair" button. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

## TortoiseSVN 1.6.13 released

Posted on March 03, 2011

TortoiseSVN 1.6.13 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, linked with Subversion 1.6.16.

Note: Subversion 1.6.16 contains a security fix CVE-2011-0715, but the issue only applies to servers. TortoiseSVN is not affected by that issue.

We recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

## TortoiseSVN 1.6.12 released

Posted on November 27, 2010

TortoiseSVN 1.6.12 has been released.

This is a bugfix release/maintenance release, linked with Subversion 1.6.15.

We recommend that you update your TortoiseSVN client to this latest version. You can get it from our download page.

Also note that if you upgrade from a version before 1.6.10, you have to run a repair install after the upgrade. To do that, run the installer again and click the "Repair" button. I'm sorry about the inconvenience.

## Updates for StExBar, GrepWin and CommitMonitor

Posted on August 1, 2010

There are updates available for StExBar, GrepWin and CommitMonitor. The updates include not just bug fixes but also some new features.

You can check out what's new in the issue trackers for each project:

StExBar
GrepWin
CommitMonitor

To download the new versions, please go to the download pages:

StExBar
GrepWin
CommitMonitor

## Doc translators needed!!!

Posted on April 27, 2010

We need people that help to finish translating the documentation of TortoiseSVN. The following languages haven't been updated for a while, which means the previous translator doesn't have the time to work on TortoiseSVN at the moment.

- Indonesian (52% complete)
- Croatian (67% complete, only TortoiseMerge)
- Slovak (30% complete)
- Slovenian (80% complete)

Check the Doc translation status at our Translation status page.