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Fortress : release 1.1b2

SourceGear is proud to announce the availability of the second beta for Vault 4.1 and Fortress 1.1. You can download it here.

Vault Changes since Beta 1:

• VS.Net Context Menus. The VS.Net Client's context menus were rearranged in order to provide easier access to commonly used operations.
• Better progress indicators In the VS.Net client. The Add Solution and Check In commands now give status as to what is occurring.
  
• Refresh Source Control Status. In the VS.Net client, there's a new menu item in the File->Fortress submenu to refresh all source control statuses to update file icons in the Solution Explorer.
  
• New Look. After 5 years with the same icons, Vault now has a new icon set.
  
• 64 bit support. We've corrected the installer issue that was preventing server installs on a 64 bit OS. IIS will still need to be put into 32 bit mode.
  
• Project Rename. Projects can now be renamed in the Visual Studio client.
  
• Fix for an unregistered dll. Numerous people upgrading from the 4.0 client to the first 4.1 beta noted exceptions caused by an unregistered dll. This beta should fix those issues.
  
• Fixed Eclipse 3.3 thread access errors. Eclipse 3.3 caused some problems on startup, giving a thread access error.
  
• Other bug fixes. Lots of other minor tweaks and fixes to issues reported in Beta 1.

Fortress Changes since Beta 1:

• New GUI based work item tracking window. The new work item tracking window allows you to query, add, edit, and browse work items without leaving the Fortress Client. Also, the new work item tracking window provides all of that capability while browsing for bugs to update with a source control check in.
  
• Image Paste and Edit. The Image paste and edit functionality which was only available in the Eclipse client for the first beta is now available in the Fortress Visual Studio client and the standalone GUI. In addition, work item attachments can be added by dragging files onto the attachment control.

Beta 1 Release Notes:

During the development of the 4.1 Vault release and the 1.1 release of Fortress, we're trying to find new ways of keeping our customers informed about the changes that are coming. The Vault Blog is the first step on improving our communication. The next step of that effort is more beta periods to give users a chance to offer input. We're happy to announce the availability of the first of two planned beta periods for the 4.1/1.1 release. To ensure that more people can try this beta, the client portion of the beta will be able to connect to a 4.0/1.0 server. If you have questions, or just want to find out what people think of the beta, you can do so at our support forum. To see the web client portion of Fortress 1.1 in action, go to http://fortressbeta.sourcegear.com.

Here are some highlights of the new Beta:

Fortress Changes

• Tag Clouds. This new feature will help you to track work items by marking related bugs with keywords. For example, it would be possible to mark all bugs where words are misspelled with the "grammar" tag, regardless of which part of your system they occur. There are also views that help you look at a work item query and see at a glance, the relative weights of Assignees, Priorities, Categories, etc... For more details on this new feature, see: http://vaultblog.sourcegear.com/articles/2007/08/30/tag-clouds
  
• New Query Page / Saved Queries. The saved query feature, which was formerly only available in the Fortress Visual Studio client is now in the Web Client. Also, there is a new Work Item Query page.
  
• Paste and Edit images on the clipboard. This beta will introduce a new streamlined way to put images into work items. For this beta, this feature will only be available in the Fortress Eclipse plugin, but support for the Visual Studio plugin and the Windows GUI client will be added in the future.
  

Visual Studio Changes

• Visual Studio 2008 Support. This beta is the first release to support Visual Studio 2008.
  
• Legacy Options. Many users requested that some of the source control options that were supported in the 2003 compatible client be implemented in the 2005 client. The first two options supported are: Get Latest when a solution is opened and Check In when a solution is closed.
  

Java Clients

• Ant Tasks. This beta introduces support for Ant tasks.
  
• Java CLC. For users on non-Windows platforms, there is now a Java based command line client.