September 29, 2010 10:25 PM - San Francisco, CA and Sydney, NSW, Australia -- Today Atlassian, makers of JIRA, FishEye and other software development collaboration tools, announced it has acquired Bitbucket.org. With over 60,000 accounts, Bitbucket is the premier hosted code collaboration provider for the Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS). The acquisition signals expanded and accelerated development of the Bitbucket service, as well as increased support for DVCS in Atlassian's products.

The Sonar team is pleased to announce the release of the Flex / ActionScript Plugin version 0.3.

The new version v5.05 of free tool Sprintometer for SCRUM and XP management is released on September 23, 2010.

The team is announce announce the release of JBehave Web 3.0. JBehave is a framework for Behaviour-Driven Development.

VANCOUVER, Sept. 20, 2010 Tasktop Technologies and Polarion Software today announced a partnership and a bundled product offering to provide software development teams with a full-featured issue tracking and wiki solution with full Eclipse IDE integration, a rich desktop client interface and offline access to issues and tasks. The Polarion Mylyn Connector will help streamline development, improve visibility and drive software productivity by providing direct access to Polarion Track & Wiki and Polarion Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) from within the Eclipse IDE. The bundled product offering will combine Polarion Track & Wiki with Tasktop Pro to provide development teams with a full-featured issue tracking and wiki solution.

Prague, Czech Republic, September 14, 2010 — JetBrains®, creators of intelligent, productivity-enhancing development tools, announced today a joint release of dotCover, a brand new code coverage tool for .NET developers, and dotTrace 4 Performance, a totally reworked version of their simple yet powerful .NET profiling tool.

MONROVIA, CA- September 20, 2010 - Parasoft Corporation, leading provider of automated solutions and infrastructure services that improve software quality and the development process, today announced Parasoft Concerto for Agile Development and Management.

The Scrum Alliance has selected Donna Farmer as its new Managing Director. Beginning October 1, 2010, Farmer will lead the non-profit organization, working with the staff and Board of Directors to realize the organization’s vision and mission.

Sterling Barton announces AgileEVM, a value-focused, decision-support tool, that enables organizations to evaluate a portfolio’s financial return of Agile projects, and more quickly identify cost, schedule, scope and quality issues.

Sonar is an open source platform, used to manage quality of java source code. The release 1.6 of Sonar has just come out. This release represents a major evolution of the platform : from a quality metric reporting tool, Sonar becomes now a code quality management platform.