Last Revision: June 2005
SourceForge Enterprise Edition 4.2 Service Pack 1 features these highlights:
- Project categorization
- This new feature allows site admins to define their own category hierarchy for organizing projects, and allows project admins to place their projects into all appropriate categories. A rich interface for browsing, filtering and searching projects and categories lets users find the projects they are looking for. Project admins can also select certain file releases to be featured in their project categorization listings as instantly available downloads, making it easy to make their software available for reuse.
- Multiple-select date fields and user fields
- New Tracker flex field types: "User" and "Date". Along with single-select,
text entry, and multi-select fields, tracker admins can now add two new field
types to their trackers:
- User: allows the selection of one or more SourceForge users as the value of the field; a convenient User Picker enables searching for users.
- Date: values can be chosen using a convenient pop-up calendar.
- UI customization with velocity templates
- Certain pages and page components can now be customized on a site-wide basis, through the modification of a set of templates written in the Velocity template language. A rich set of APIs allows the easy creation of a rich set of enhancements. Customers can modify the look and feel of the application, and implement feature customizations that were not possible previously.
- Improved SCM security
- The communication between the SF application server and remote SCM servers can now be protected more conveniently via the use of SSL, and shared-secret authentication. This eliminates the need to protect this data through solutions such as ssh tunneling.
- URL document type
- In addition to uploading a document file or creating one through direct text entry, a user can now create a "document" which is simply a URL. This enables one to apply the benefits of the Document Manager (hierarchical organization, associations, document reviews etc.) to any external resource that can be referenced with a URL.