The GForge Group Inc. has released a new version of their collaboration software tool. The new GForge “Dark Night” includes features that makes the collaboration software much easier to use.

Service desk: Projects can now manage their own groups by using the GForge ticketing system as a service desk solution. Customers who already use GForge for managing projects will be able to leverage GForge to Source: GForge Group Inc.Source: GForge Group Inc.manage support tickets as well.

Better analytics: Users can now create arbitrary reports so they have better visibility within or across projects. GForge administrators now have a new "Summary" report giving them insights into the users and projects within GForge. A Summary report added to projects gives them the same analytics but at the project level.

Release tracking and management: Once a release is completed and is ready to publish, the project lead can now import the release notes with a click of a button (until now, this was a manual process).

Dark Mode: Users may now change GForge to use Dark Mode. For users using gmail or Twitter, this feature works the same way.

In addition, the new GForge Dark Night release includes a handful of other useful improvements requested by users:

  1. Menu: Improved how users can navigate within the system and added more options and possible paths.
  2. Document management: GForge’s document management system now allows users to tag documents for improved organization and searching. Users can now easily also restore a document to a prior version. Also, clicking on videos or images will now preview the image or video inside the project before you decide whether or not to download the file.
  3. Bug fixes: A number of bug fixes which will be enumerated on the official 19.2 Release Notes.
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