AnkhSVN 1.0 RC4 released

In the time since RC3, it became obvious from the error reports we received that renames and deletes were very buggy. Deleting a file and then committing it would often result in an error message saying "ProjectItem not available". It was obvious that we could not release it as 1.0 as it was, and another release candidate would be necessary. We also received several reports of other problems that turned out to be rather critical to some people, or so trivial to fix that we considered it worth the risk.

It took some time to rework the handling of deletes and renames to avoid this error (it’s a very tricky problem, I might write about it some day), thus the long delay in producing RC4. However, it is now available at http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=7315.

Problems that have been fixed include:

• The very common "ProjectItem not available" error.
• Templates for performing merge and diff using TortoiseMerge no longer has quotes.
• Reporting Services (and other Business Intelligence projects) now work.
• New icons (from DamienG).
• Solution load timeout in VS 2005 is increased from ten seconds to fifteen minutes.
• Various embarrassing NullReferenceExceptions.
• New lines entered for the log message in the configuration dialog are now treated properly.
• Handle an edge-case which prevented deletes from working with F# projects.
• Work around a NotImplementedException thrown in certain cases by certain third party project types.
• Various bug fixes in the support for database projects.
• Message box now shown if one or more items could not be Locked (previously this information was shown only in the output pane, and easily missed).
• Avoid a weird race condition in the repository explorer which might throw an exception in certain edge cases.