Atlassian Newsletter
FEBRUARY 2012 EDITION
JIRA 5 goes social
We're proud to announce the next major release of JIRA! JIRA 5 is the developer's platform for collaboration, connecting the people, activity and applications you work with every day.
JIRA 5
Software development involves your entire organization, and good software becomes great when you bring everyone into your development process. JIRA 5 is here, connecting the dots between the development process and the rest of your business. Read more »
Register for Summit 2012!
Registration for our fourth annual user conference, Atlassian Summit 2012, is now open! Our most anticipated event of the year will feature blow-your-socks-off talks from Atlassian experts, as well as some Atlassian style fun and surprises. Register by March 15th for $200 off, but don't wait too long... last year's event sold out before the early bird ended. Read more »
Summit
SourceTree 1.3 Released
We peeled back the covers on SourceTree – Atlassian's Mac Client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems and are announcing a fresh new logo, a redesigned website, and a new set of useful features to support your DVCS workflow. Plus, SourceTree is now FREE for users, forever. Read more » SourceTree
Team Calendars 1.9 released
If you hadn't heard, JIRA 5 is here. Naturally, the Team Calendars development team wanted to get in on the action before the BIG release. Without further ado, we're excited to announce our next major release, Team Calendars 1.9. Read more »
Team Calendars
GreenHopper 5.9 available today
We've been listening to your feedback on the Rapid Board for Scrum over the past few weeks and it has been constructive feedback, so please keep it coming. While Scrum for Rapid Board is still in Labs, we are encouraging you and your teams to try it out and provide feedback. With the release of GreenHopper 5.9, we bring more great features for Scrum teams. Read more »
What is version control? Centralized vs DVCS
This is part of an Atlassian series focusing on teams switching to distributed version control systems (DVCS) like Git or Mercurial (Hg). In our first entry, we explored some of the basics of any version control system – diffs and patches. This round we will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of centralized vs distributed version control systems. Whether you've used Subversion, CVS, and Perforce or are considering Git and Mercurial, there is something in here for you. Read more »
Moving Confluence from Subversion to Git
A few months ago, the Confluence team switched from Subversion to git, just in time for our 4.1 release. In a past article, we talked about the problems we encountered with merges across branches that had lots of renames. In this post, we take a look at the tools we used in order to migrate the Confluence source code from Subversion to Git. Read more »
Mercurial vs Git: Why Mercurial?
There are two major distributed version control systems in widespread use today: Mercurial (Hg) and Git. There are many reasons (and opinions) why one would choose Git or Hg. The aim of this post is to explain some of these whys. Read more »
Our decision to abandon the Mac App Store
Apple will be changing the rules of the Mac App Store to require all applications to run inside of a 'sandbox'. Unfortunately, this will disallow important SourceTree functionality that was acceptable under the previous store rules. We've decided to no longer submit SourceTree updates to the Mac App Store but instead make them available for free, directly from SourceTree's site or in-app. Read more »
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Win this shirt
We are launching a fun new customer testimonials page on our website soon and would love you to be included. So much so, we'll enter you in a drawing to win a shirt (pictured right) if you participate.
Fill out this form to be among the first customers featured on the page, before the public launch. Start the last question with 'NEWSLETTER' and we'll include you in the drawing.
Shirt
Our reading list
Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office:
Game Developer Gives 7-Year-Old Best Birthday Present Ever
The Beginners Guide to Coding for SEO
Anonymous plans to take down the servers that power the internet
Chrome Team releases field guide to web applications
White House releases a Privacy Bill of Rights
Thanks for reading
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Until next month!
Cheers,
The Atlassians
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