A number of new features have been released today:

1. Rally Integration
2. Pivotal Tracker Integration
3. Better Trac Plugin Support
4. Avatars
5. Clean-up of Source Control Page
6. Other Features (smaller, but note worthy)
   1. Force SSL for Project Page Views
   2. Repository Only Projects
   3. Custom Date & Date+Time format

Rally Integration

If you use Rally as your choice of project tracking tool, you can now link your XP-Dev.com Subversion, Git and Mercurial repositories and commits to your Rally projects.

To try this out, just head to your project’s Source Control tab, followed by the Rally sub-tab:

Full details & instructions including screenshots are documented below:

http://docs.xp-dev.com/user-guide/rally.html

Pivotal Tracker Integration

If you use Pivotal Tracker as your choice of project tracking tool, you can link your XP-Dev.com repositories with your stories in Pivotal Tracker.

To enable this, just head over to your project’s Source Control tab, followed by the Pivotal Tracker sub-tab:

Full details & instructions including screenshots are documented below:

http://docs.xp-dev.com/user-guide/pivotal-tracker.html

Better Trac Plugin Support

Previously, all Trac projects hosted here on XP-Dev.com had a static list of plugins installed, and it was near impossible to remove them (except if you raised a support ticket to remove them).

With today’s release, you can pick and choose which plugins go into your Trac installation. You get complete control on which plugins go into your Trac project.

Additionally, four new plugins have been added in: Agilo, Announcer, Never Notify Updater and Breadcrumbs

This brings the total number of plugins enabled on XP-Dev.com to ten:

If you’d like to see your favourite plugin added to the list, just raise a support ticket - adding these plugins are pretty straight forward – this release made it easier to perform these types of additions.

Avatars

XP-Dev.com avatars for users (the picture that pops up next to your username) have always been sourced from Gravatar. With today’s release, you can upload your own avatar directly into your profile.

You can access this from your settings page

Clean-up of Source Control Page

As XP-Dev.com repositories now support eight different external tools/integrations, the main repository page was getting a little bit cluttered.

Each integration option is now separated into tabs:

Other Features (smaller, but note worthy)

Force SSL for Project Page Views

If you’re a paid user, you can ensure that everyone accessing your project does it over SSL i.e. HTTPS. You can set this in your project’s Settings tab:

Repository Only Projects

You can now create lightweight projects that only have repositories and do not have any project/bug tracking enabled. This is useful for teams that do not want the additional clutter in their projects (and may cause some confusion to team members).

The new project type is called Repository Only:

Custom Date & Date+Time format

Each person has their own natural way of reading dates and timestamps. You can now specify your own formatting, which will then be applied to all dates that you see across projects.

This can be accessed from your settings page. To change it, click on Edit Attributes:

Hope you enjoy these new features, and if you have any problems, please do raise a support ticket