Tickets (representing issues and tasks) are the core of our workflow.  Today's release includes a big upgrade to the way people see tickets, and an all-new cardwall / scrum board / Kanban board.  These are fun ajax features that you can shape to fit your team.

The Tickets menu features three views: the default Ticket List view, the new Cardwall view, and the Planner view.

Sidebar reporting: The Ticket List now has a sidebar to create and edit reports.  It's faster and more fun than the old "Filters" page.  Plus, it allows you to search text in the selected tickets.  Any user can list and search, and if are an owner, you can save reports for the team.

Cardwall: This is a clean implementation of a cardwall / taskboard / kanban board.  Set your milestone on top, and see what your team is working on.  The columns are defined  with the new custom statuses.

Agile Planner:  We improved speed and reliability and added a popup view of the complete ticket history.  We found that many users sort tickets into a particular order, so the default order is now "manual".

Pick your view:  What do you want your team to work on?  If you are using a Kanban process, or you like working from a Scrum board, you can set "Cardwall" as the default landing page for tickets.  You can select "Planner", if you want users to land on your sorted list.  Or, you can stay with the default "Ticket List" view, use the sidebar to configure the exact report that you want your team to work from, and set that report as the default.  Look in the Tickets tab, settings subtab, under "Ticket View Settings".

Inline comments on changesets

When we released on-demand Gerrit last month, we got requests for a simpler code review system that would be similar to Rietveld.  So, in this release you can write comments directly onto a changeet.  I works for subversion, git and mercurial.

As you read a changeset, click a line number to type a comment.  After you write your comments, "submit" to the comment thread at the bottom.  Or, write your overall impressions into the comment thread.  The comment will appear in the activity stream where the changeset author and other developers can see it and respond to it.

Portfolio volume discounts and annual packages

We simplified the packaging for Portfolio customers.  You can now get fixed price packages, volume discounts, and annual plans, with two months free.  This provides savings for our best customers, and makes the packages easier to arrange with your accounting person.

In each release we improve Tickets in ways that many users do not notice.  This release lets the light shine, with improvements that every user will appreciate.  We have more on the roadmap.  We also made more than 100 small improvements in other areas.  Thanks for your feedback.