Part 1 of 3 major upgrades to the Code Spaces software and infrastructure has now been completed.

This upgrade includes much of the v2.0 functionality and some of the hardware upgrades to support it, we will be doing the second part of this upgrade in two weeks.

So What’s New?

Project Portals

Each project can now have a project portal, which can be public (anyone can see it) or private (only users you create can see it) – Portals consist of several pages from you project wiki and can include pages to submit bugs and view public work items.

Email Notifications

You can now subscribe to events such as Subversion Commits via email, simply go to your profile admin and select the notifications you wish to receive – Make sure you check you registered email address is correct?

Document Module

You can now upload documents to Code Spaces.

Anonymous SVN access

We now allow anonymous SVN read access, to enable this go to the project admin section and modify the repository settings.

Wiki

We have improved the wiki syntax and rendering to support the project portals.

Dashboard

We have included a new Subversion Stats module to the dashboard which gives a visual representation of your teams activity.

Caching

Many elements of Code Spaces have been re-written to make better use of caching, which means you should see some performance improvements.

For the last 3 months we have been working on a major update to Code Spaces and as we are now getting to the end of the development phase, I though I would share with you some of the features that will be included in the new Version.

Document Module

This is a basic document management module that allows you to store documents outside of your Subversion Repositories which can be linked to Work Items, Wiki pages or forums. The idea is that you can store specs and requirement documents here and link them to particular work items. These documents can also be marked as public which means they can be accessed by non Code Spaces user via the project portal.

Project Portal

Each Project can have a Project Portal which is a public facing view of your project. Elements of your project like Work Items, Wiki Pages, Subversion Repositories, Forum Threads and Documents can be marked as marked as public adding them to your project portal. Your customers and users can access the project portal at any time to raise issues, download files, Participate in the Forums, etc… The project portal look and feel can be changed by selecting on of the many themes. Project Portals are optional and can be switched off for any project that does not require public access.

Email Notifications

Code Spaces already exposes notificatoins through RSS, however each user now has the option to recieve notifications via Email.

Twitter Notifications

Each project can send notifications like Subversion Commits, Work Item status changes, Milestone completion/creation, etc to a desigbated Twitter account.

Project Email Addresses

Each project now has an email address which you can use to send messages into the project, messages recieved via this address will be turned into work items. Project Admins can specifiy white lists to avoid spam.

Anonymous Subverison Access

Each Subversion repository can be set to allow anonymous read access enabling you to give out a repository url to your customers or colleagues.

Fragment Caching

Code Spaces heavily uses fragment caching to speed up page requests, Dashboard and Work Item pages are now on average 20x faster, other pages also show impressive improvements.

Bug Fixes

All know issues have been resolved.

RELEASE DATE We are planning to release v2.0 into the production environment at the end of this month (Feb 2008).

NOTE This version was origionally scheduled to be released as v1.1 but due to the amount of new features in this release we have decided to jump to v2.0

UPGRADES All customer will recieve this version for FREE and will get access to ALL the new features, except for FREE users who will not get the Project Portal functoinality.

STAND ALONE VERSION The Code Spaces Stand Alone version (currently not released) will be based on the v2.0 code base, and is scheduled for a Beta release in March-April 2008.