Subversion 1.3 was released a few days ago with a number of enhancements. The biggest news for me is the official support for the Windows _svn hack. In a nutshell, Subversion used to create working directories that started with a dot, but some versions of ASP.NET didn’t work with those directories. The “hack” was to start those directories with an underscore instead. You can read more about the hack here. Any utilities will need to call the new Subversion API in order to work with the hack. TortoiseSVN (popular Windows explorer shell plugin for Subversion) has a release candidate that works with the new version — I’d suggest waiting a week or two for a final version of TortoiseSVN.

What this all means is it will soon be much easier to use Subversion for all .NET development. Which is good, since everyone is trying to dump VSS. 🙂

* When I say “supports” I mean it officially supports the hack that lets Subversion handle ASP.NET projects and let ASP.NET keep working.

Update: TortoiseSVN 1.3.1 is now released and supports Subversion 1.3.