CollabNet intros TeamForge 5.2

BRISBANE, USA: CollabNet, provider of distributed application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions has introduced CollabNet TeamForge 5.2, the successor to CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise. 

The latest version of the company’s core product contains significant enhancements, including new features for Subversion management, lab management and cloud provisioning capabilities, and an Agile-ready plug-in for the Hudson continuous integration engine. 

Millions of software developers around the world use CollabNet products to reduce costs and risks, to improve productivity, and to accelerate innovation, the release added.

CollabNet separately announced today a relationship with VMware that will deliver an integrated development environment that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) and developers using CollabNet TeamForge and VMware Studio to create applications for deployment in internal or external clouds.

“Re-branding our core product under the ‘TeamForge’ name reflects CollabNet’s unique ability to support software development by agile, collaborative, and distributed project teams,” said Bill Portelli, president and chief executive officer, CollabNet. 

Enhanced Subversion Management

CollabNet is the corporate sponsor of the open source Subversion project, which is used for software configuration management (SCM) by an estimated 5,000,000 developers around the world. 

CollabNet TeamForge 5.2’s role-based access control provides distributed software development teams with increased management visibility, governance, and control of mission-critical software in Subversion repositories.  

Lab Management and Cloud Provisioning

CollabNet TeamForge 5.2 provides development services to support software development in the cloud with its new lab management capabilities. This enables developers to define and modify profiles and software stacks and provision these profiles on both physical and virtual servers from any public or private cloud. 

Users can access servers from CollabNet’s OnDemand Cloud, Amazon EC2, and their own private clouds. 

Agile-Ready Continuous Integration with Hudson

CollabNet TeamForge 5.2 provides enhanced support for the Agile software development methodology by integrating with the Hudson continuous integration engine via a CollabNet plug-in for authentication, permissions, and automatic uploading of build results. 

The new Hudson plug-in increases the speed and flexibility of software development, enabling developers to share build results as part of their workflow.  CollabNet has contributed the plug-in as open source to the Hudson community.