TortoiseSVN 1.5.5 has been released, linked against Subversion 1.5.4.

This is a bugfix/maintenance release only. No new features were added since 1.5.4.

You can get it from our download page.

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.
For example, on Vista the extended menu has a few additional entries. The screenshots below show this: the left menu is the normal, plain menu and the right menu is the extended menu which you get if you hold down the shift key while right clicking:

grepWin version 1.3.0 has been released.
Get it from the download page.

The changes this time:

• Show confirmation dialog when replace is called but the "create backup" option is disabled
• Fixed some resizing problems
• The following issues have been implemented/fixed:
  
  

A new version of the CommitMonitor is out.
It contains some bugfixes and also some new features.

You can get it from our Tools download page. The changelog is also available at the bottom of the download page.

A lot of people asked on our mailing lists how they can "unversion a working copy", "detach/unlink a working copy from the repository", "remove files from version control" or something like that. All those questions lead to the users wanting to remove the hidden .svn folders inside every Subversion working copy.

Hi Folks,

We need people that help to translate the GUI of TortoiseSVN into the following languages:

Macedonian: Srdjan was too busy to do much for the Macedonian translation this year, which is the reason why I'm looking for additional help. The translation is 75% complete, so it's easy to catch up. Volunteers please :)

TortoiseSVN 1.5 allows using plug-ins for specific issue trackers.

Subversion repositories served with Apache have the nice built-in feature: the repositories can be browsed with any webbrowser at no additional cost.

For Subversion repositories served via svnserve, this is not possible because browsers don't understand that protocol.

Until now:

Fetching the log for slow or very big repositories can take quite a while. And of course, it requires you to be connected to the repository. You can't show the log messages if you're not online - very annoying if the network is down or you're in a place where you don't even have network access.

During the last few weeks, I got a lot of crash reports for TortoiseSVN which indicated that a certain date API returned bogus data, which either lead to a crash (hence the crash reports) or garbled date strings in various TortoiseSVN dialogs (these were reported on our mailing lists).