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title: Release notes for 1.9
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<div class="post" id="news">
    <h2>What's New in TortoiseSVN 1.9</h2>

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    <ul>
        <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements</a></li>
        <li><a href="#projectmonitor">Project Monitor</a></li>
        <li><a href="#sync">Sync/Export/Import settings</a></li>
        <li><a href="#shellmenu">Explorer menu in status dialogs</a></li>
        <li><a href="#subwcrevignore">Ignore option for SubWCRev</a></li>
        <li><a href="#imgconflicts">Conflict resolving for images</a></li>
        <li><a href="#repobookmarks">Bookmarks in the repository browser</a></li>
        <li><a href="#dragexternals">Add <code>svn:externals</code> property by right-dragging</a></li>
        <li><a href="#checkcommit">Check-Commit hook</a></li>
    </ul>

    <p>TortoiseSVN 1.9 is a superset of all previous TortoiseSVN releases,
    and is considered the current stable and "best" release. Anything in
    earlier versions is also in 1.9, but 1.9 contains features and
    bugfixes not present in any earlier release.</p>

    <p>This page describes only major changes. For a complete list
    of changes, you can check our
    <a href="https://osdn.net/projects/tortoisesvn/scm/svn/">commit logs</a>
    and the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/tortoisesvn/tickets/milestone/1.9.0/">list of issues</a> for 1.9</p>

    <p>Don't forget to check out all the changes in the Subversion
    library that also is now at version 1.9: all those changes
    are of course in TortoiseSVN as well. See the full list
    of changes in the <a href="http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.9.html">Subversion 1.9 release notes</a>.</p>
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<div class="post" id="requirements">
    <h2>Requirements</h2>

    <p>TortoiseSVN 1.9 and later requires at least Windows Vista
    or later. It won't run on Windows XP anymore.</p>
    <p>If you're still need to use Windows XP, you have to keep
    using TortoiseSVN 1.8.</p>
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<div class="post" id="projectmonitor">
    <h2>Project Monitor</h2>

    <p>
      The project monitor is a helpful tool that monitors repositories and
      notifies you in case there are new commits.
      If you already know the
      <a href="https://tools.stefankueng.com/CommitMonitor.html">Commit Monitor</a>,
      then you're immediately familiar with the project monitor. The
      project monitor is however more powerful since it can use the
      full features of TortoiseSVN.
    </p>
    <p>
      The projects can be monitored via a working copy path or directly via
      their repository URLs.
    </p>
    <p>
      The project monitor scans each project in a configurable interval, and
      every time new commits are detected a notification popup is shown.
      Also the icon that is added to the system tray changes to indicate that
      there are new commits.
    </p>
    <a href="/assets/img/ProjectMonitor.png" title="Project Monitor">
        <img src="/assets/img/ProjectMonitor-small.png" alt="Project Monitor" width="240" height="180">
    </a>
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<div class="post" id="sync">
    <h2>Sync/Export/Import settings</h2>

    <p>All settings that are configurable in the settings dialog
    can be synchronized to a specific file, or manually exported/imported.
    This allows to set up new workstations much easier and quicker.</p>
    <p>If the specified path for the sync feature is on a cloud drive
    like Onedrive/GDrive/Dropbx/..., then changes made to settings
    are automatically synchronized to all other workstations
    that use the same cloud drive and have set their sync paths
    accordingly.</p>
    <p>More information about which settings and which data is
    synchronized can be found in the <a href="/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-settings.html#tsvn-dug-settings-export">documentation</a>.</p>
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<div class="post" id="shellmenu">
    <h2>Explorer menu in status dialogs</h2>

    <p>All dialogs that show status information like the commit
    dialog, check-for-modifications dialog, revert dialog, ... now
    have an entry in the context menu named <code>Shell</code>.
    This entry expands to the same context menu the Windows
    explorer shows for that path. This avoids having to go back
    and forth between TortoiseSVN and the Windows explorer to
    do certain tasks.</p>
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<div class="post" id="subwcrevignore">
    <h2>Ignore option for SubWCRev</h2>
    <p>SubWCRev, the command line tool to gather information about a working
    copy, has now an option to ignore files or whole paths. The ignored
    paths/patterns need to be written to a text file named <code>.subwcrevignore</code>
    in the working copy.</p>
    <p>A more detailed description of this new feature can be found
    in the <a href="/docs/release/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-subwcrev.html#tsvn-subwcrev-cli">documentation</a>.</p>
</div> <!-- subwcrevignore -->

<div class="post" id="imgconflicts">
    <h2>Conflict resolving for images</h2>
    <p>The image diff tool TortoiseIDiff can now help resolving
    conflicts of images as well. In a conflict situation, it will
    show all three images that take part in a conflict, and lets
    you chose which one to keep/use.</p>
    <a href="/assets/img/ImageConflictResolve.png" title="Conflict resolving for images">
        <img src="/assets/img/ImageConflictResolve-small.png" alt="Conflict resolving for images" width="364" height="187">
    </a>
</div> <!-- imgconflicts -->

<div class="post" id="repobookmarks">
    <h2>Bookmarks in the repository browser</h2>
    <p>The repository browser can now show a list of
    bookmarked repository URLs. This allows to faster browse
    often used repositories, without having to first enter
    the URL manually or find the corresponding working copy.</p>
    <a href="/assets/img/RepoBookmarks.png" title="Bookmarks in the repository browser">
        <img src="/assets/img/RepoBookmarks-small.png" alt="Bookmarks in the repository browser" width="364" height="187">
    </a>
</div> <!-- repobookmarks -->

<div class="post" id="dragexternals">
    <h2>Add <code>svn:externals</code> property by right-dragging</h2>
    <p>Files and folders that are dragged from one working
    copy to another with the right mouse button down can be
    automatically added as externals to the dropped working copy.</p>
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<div class="post" id="checkcommit">
    <h2>Check-Commit hook</h2>
    <p>A new hook is available that is called right before
    the commit dialog is closed. If the hook script returns an error,
    the commit dialog is kept open so users can fix the problems
    right there, before the commit is tried.</p>
    <p>This is useful in case a hook script has to ensure a certain
    format of the commit message, or scan all files that are to be committed
    first.</p>
    <p>Another hook is available that if set, shows a button in the commit dialog which when
    clicked runs that hook script.</p>
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