The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), the all-volunteer developers, stewards, and incubators of nearly 150 Open Source projects and initiatives, today announced that Apache Bloodhound has graduated from the Apache Incubator to become a Top-Level Project (TLP), signifying that the Project's community and products have been well-governed under the ASF's meritocratic process and principles. Apache Bloodhound is a world-class software development collaboration tool, including issue tracking, wiki and repository browsing based on Trac, the Open Source, Web-based project management and bug tracking system.

SmartBear Software released AQtime Pro 8.0, a major enhancement of its application runtime analysis and performance profiling tool. This latest version is available as an integrated IDE plugin for all editions of the latest Microsoft development platforms and Visual Studio 2012. In addition, it supports .NET Framework 4.5 and runs on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012, further reducing performance profiling work from hours to minutes.

Organizations of all sizes are tasked with overcoming the challenge of delivering more products, on more platforms, in less time and with fewer resources. In response to this, Borland, a Micro Focus company today launched the Borland Silk Portfolio, a comprehensive set of test automation tools for cloud, web and mobile platforms. Working with existing development and testing frameworks, the Silk product family delivers more capabilities to significantly improve application quality and reliability, while drastically reducing application deployment risk with significant time and cost savings.

Typemock has announced the launch of Typemock Isolator V7.3 for .NET developers. Isolator V7.3 is faster and stronger with enhanced mocking capabilities, a much smaller memory footprint and the broadest abilities to integrate with other IDE tools available for .NET. The new Typemock Isolator improves on Isolator's legacy code testing, making it possible to test even the most hard-to-test code, (all this without the need to change the production code).

XebiaLabs, the leading provider of Application Release Automation for the continuous delivery of enterprise software, released the results of a survey conducted over a four-month period to assess Application Release Automation trends among a key global group of DevOps professionals and C-level executives representing financial services, insurance, healthcare and technology companies with more than 1,000 employees.

Atlassian announced a major addition to its popular Git solutions: SourceTree, a free desktop client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems (DVCS) is now available for download on the Microsoft Windows platform (previously only available for Mac). SourceTree for Windows allows developers to interface with distributed Git source repositories through a simple desktop client. SourceTree integrates with Bitbucket, a cloud-based hosting service for software development projects using DVCS, and Stash, an on-premise DVCS solution for enterprise teams managing their code on-site. SourceTree can also connect with other code-hosting services, including GitHub, Kiln, Microsoft Team Foundation Server and proprietary DVCS servers.

auce Labs Inc, the leading provider of cloud-based web application testing solutions for software developers and designers, today announced it's preparing for an influx of new users referred by Adobe. Adobe announced it has shut down its BrowserLab web application testing service and began pointing users to Sauce Labs.

Codice Software, which makes agile development tools for small and large teams of gaming, mobile and enterprise software developers, today launched GitSync for Plastic SCM. The new GitSync for Plastic SCM software release integrates with Git repositories and provides the world's first native Windows distributed versioning control system (DVCS) that connects to GitHub, the best place to share code with more than three million users. Software development teams can now benefit from the full power of Plastic SCM's ability to locally push and pull code changes to GitHub, Codeplex, BitBucket or any Git server using native Git network protocols.

ZeroTurnaround, the company that’s improving the way the world develops, tests and runs software, announced today the availability of LiveRebel 2.6, its software release automation tool that helps operations and QA teams get software to users quickly, easily and safely.

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