CollabNet and UC4 Software have announced the availability of CollabNet Deploy with UC4. CollabNet Deploy with UC4 is integrated within the TeamForge project workspace for centralized access to the extended toolset, and is offered as a priced option. Elements pertaining to automating release and deployment are available for TeamForge associations, providing end-to-end traceability.

VersionOne, recognized by agile practitioners as the leader in agile project management tools, today announced the availability of its Spring 2013 release. With the introduction of a new Portfolio Timeline and enhanced Conversations, the new release extends VersionOne's enterprise agile offering to help customers improve organizational visibility and collaboration and simplify coordination of their agile portfolio management (APM) initiatives.

XebiaLabs, the leading provider of Enterprise Continuous Delivery Automation, today announced version 3.9 of its Application Release Automation solution Deployit. The new release adds out-of-the-box support for additional middleware stacks and automates the self-service creation of on-demand cloud environments with a single click, accelerating development and testing and freeing up Operations resources.

IBM today announced it has acquired UrbanCode Inc. Based in Cleveland, Ohio, UrbanCode automates the delivery of software, helping businesses quickly release and update mobile, social, big data, cloud applications.

AccuRev announced the latest version of GitCentric (formally known as Kando), bridging the Git revision control system with AccuRev’s intelligent stream approach to enterprise software development.

Codice Software, creators of the enterprise oriented Distributed Version Control System (DVCS) called Plastic SCM, today launched Semantic Merge, the world's first language-aware source code merge tool. Using advanced merge technology built into Codice Software's signature product, Plastic SCM, Semantic Merge lets software developers easily consolidate files that are heavily refactored in parallel by different developers, regardless of the code programming language.

WANdisco, a provider of high-availability software for global enterprises to meet the challenges of Big Data and distributed software development, today announced that fully tested and certified binaries for open source Apache Subversion releases 1.6.21 and 1.7.9, are now available from its website. Subversion release 1.7.9 is the most complete Subversion release to date, and Subversion 1.6.21 is the most complete release for the Subversion 1.6 series. Users are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible.

Sauce Labs Inc, the provider of cloud-based web application testing solutions for software developers, today announced a pivotal new partnership with Travis CI, a hosted Continuous Integration service for open source developers. The partnership enables Travis CI to offer Continuous Integration services in the cloud for Mac and iOS builds while providing integrated access to the Sauce Labs testing tools. As a result, these developers for Mac OS X and iOS apps can begin employing the same Continuous Integration practices already used for Linux in the Travis cloud that support Agile and rapid deployment methodologies.

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.

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.