I did not post any announcements for more then 1 month. But - it doesn't mean EmForge team relaxed for winter holidays. We worked hard providing new features and make our beta at the end of January - and (I think) we did a good progress.

We deploying new versions into production quite often and I do not post announcement for each new deploy, but today I think it need to be done.

Last weeks we improved alot our Task Management tool, and now it:

• Task Ordering - very important feature - now users allowed to change task order by simple Drag & Drop them in the list. It is not affected on priority, but allow to set tasks in order we are going to work on them. Yes, sometimes it happens, even we have some high-priority tasks, some lower priority tasks done first (just for example because we are working on them together with another high-priority task). Now you can simple set order of tasks in the list like you want;
• Displays burndown chart for last 30 days or for release (if Release selected in the filter);
• Task Management simplified in general to make it easy to create and work on specific task;
• Simplified Project planning - we have only releases and releases managed from Tasks Filter (you can plan new release directly from Tasks Page);
• Tasks Permissions - you can assign permissions for tasks for different roles in project. For example you may allow to view some tasks for all project members except "Customer"

Another bug step forward - private and restricted projects. Private  projects visible only for project members (other people is not able even to know what some private project exist). On restricted project only first (home) project page visible for anybody - rest pages and infromation available only for team members. Later we planning to add more flexible permissions management for team, to allow display/hide specific page on project site.

We also started to use EmForge Portal for some commercial projects, what give us good feedback (and bugs).

Many other imoprovements were done, and we are going to release Beta at the end of January. After beta-launch it will be possible to host own projects on www.emforge.net - until then it is only possible to play with emforge on Sandbox: sandbox.emforge.net