Hey all,

KForge has been successfully updated to the newest version. This upgrade includes the following features among others:

* Join request e-mails now contain links that allow project administrators to quickly approve or reject a membership request. No more logging in to find the relevant project on your own.

* Lost passwords can be retrieved with an e-mail address. Previously, you'd have to remember your user name.

* KForge now has private project support.

* KForge has much improved Trac integration. Users see all of the tickets they're associated with across all Trac instances hosted on KForge. Also, name, e-mail and permission information is synchronized between KForge and hosted Trac instances.

* SSH access to hg and git repositories has been sped up significantly. Performance over SSH should now be comparable to HTTP.

* Creating a mailing list now sends e-mails to project administrators with the password for that list. This removes the need for a global list password.

* There are no longer unix-like length limits on project or service names. This should, hopefully, make life easier for stacks that have more than 13 characters in their names.

* The UI, in particular the landing page for KForge, has been given a bit of a redesign.

* Trac configuration has been exposed to project administrators. Just click "edit" for a Trac service and you can enable options like sending e-mails from Trac (smtp_enabled = true). Also, all new Trac instances have e-mail notification enabled by default.

* You can now remove yourself from a project without needing a project administrator to do it for you.

Let me know if you have any issues or suggestions for future features, enjoy the new enhancements, happy hacking, and happy holidays,

Eitan