The March 15 release included dozens of fixes and design enhancements. If you are Assembla user, here are few things that might help you:

A lot of help pages are filled in.  We are making a lot of progress on both help pages and a user manual. Thank you for your patience. 

We improved the format for the Trac/SVN tool page.  We're making it easier to configure, and easier to bring a new user into a version-controlled proejct.  The big new feature here is a button for  importing Trac tickets into Assembla Tickets.  So, you can import the Trac tickets that are already hosted on Assembla, or you can upload your Trac, and then import.  Soon, we will offer an export to Trac tickets, so you will have a migration path both ways.

If you use Assembla tickets, you can update the tickets with Subversion commit comments.  Use "closes #99" to close ticket 99 (also closed, fixed, and fixes), or "Re #99" or "to append a comment (also references and see), or  "test #99" to move it to test status.  You will also find a much-requested "Group by" option in the reports. And, as mentioned in my last post, we added a Notification list option, so that you can select the people who will be alerted by email about a ticket.

The big new alpha/beta test feature in tickets is the  "drag and drop sorter".  It gives you a grid view of the tickets where you can drag them between milestones, or priorities, or users.  I am looking forward to using it for roadmapping.  Try this new link, above the ticket list near "batch update", and tell us what you think.

We made some improvements in the layout of Milestones, and in integration with the Tickets tool.  Milestones is a bit of an awkward feature  because it spans the gap between Basecamp-style milestones and to-do's, a very simple feature for non-technical users, and the release milestones used by developers in the Tickets tool.  It's worth doing because both constituencies work on the same milestones.  I think we are making it flow more smoothly.

The chat implementation has been tightened up.  It will take a big step forward next week when we add HTTP polling to support users that are behind proxy firewalls.  How many of you think we should add audio and video chat?

I won't mention the two BIG features that we have been working on now.  We will cover them in posts over the next few days.