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We're planning an update on the morning of Thursday 20th June 2013, from around 10am BST which will involve some downtime while upgrading and testing the update. We expect the site to be offline for around one hour during this time. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause!

This week we've made some improvements to the publications module, including adding support for retrieving BibTeX format records. Take a look at a project with some associated publications in it (like this one) and you'll see a new BibTeX link next to every publication.

We've also added a DOI field for publications, where you can supply the Digital Object Identifier associated with your paper.

Also in this week's updates, we've clarified the "public or private" choice in the "New Project" page -- previously it defaulted to public, which has occasionally caught people out who didn't read the form closely enough! Now there is no default, so you have to make a decision when creating a project. We hope the descriptions are also a little clearer.

Finally, we've made some small visual and typographic updates which we hope give things a friendlier air.

More improvements in the pipeline, particularly in the area of exploring and discovering projects, so watch this space!

We've finished our server move and reconfiguration, and all services should be running again normally now. Please drop us a line if you see any problems. We had around 55 minutes of downtime during the move, which is quite a bit longer than we had intended — our sincere apologies if this has affected your work.

We're planning a server relocation on the morning of Tuesday 23rd of October. This will take place during the period between 9.30 and 11am BST. During this process, the SoundSoftware site and code hosting facility may be unavailable for a short time.

Any outage will include not only the website but also associated services including Mercurial push and pull.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Owing to a necessary network router upgrade, the SoundSoftware site and code hosting facility will be unavailable for a short period starting from 6pm BST (5pm UTC) on Thursday 5th of July 2012.

This outage will include not only the website but also associated services including Mercurial push and pull.

Our apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

The LDAP problem that was causing some users to be unable to log in earlier this afternoon has now been resolved. Our apologies for the inconvenience!

Projects in this site are now taggable. This means you can add any number of tags to your project -- short pieces of text which represent some quality of the project that it might have in common with others.

A tag can be any text you like, but they're most useful if you choose tags that are already being used for the same thing by other projects (where possible).

To add tags, go to the Settings page for your projects -- you can find the tags list near the bottom of the information tab in the settings.

Here are some examples of the kinds of things you might like to tag. All the tags here are linked to the projects using those tags already on this site:

• the sort of thing it is (library, plugin, paper)

• the general area of research the project is in (feature extraction, sonification, beat track, mir)

• the stage of completeness of the work (experimental, alpha, beta, stable)

• the licence you are publishing it under (gpl, bsd, creative commons)

• the language it's written in (c++, java, python)

• whether it's intended for a specific operating system (osx, windows, android)

• any other interesting details of what it does or what sort of data or standards it works with (chroma, rdf, vst, spectral, vamp, qt, midi)

This will help others find your work and put it in context. You can now search by tag or text on the project list page, so this should become very useful over time.

One of today's crop of new features:

The repository page for a project, which shows you the current state and history for the source code of that project (like this for example) now includes a link to download the revision you are currently looking at, directly, as a zip file.

This is a quick way to get a snapshot of the source code from a repository -- unlike a full clone of the repository, you don't need to use a Mercurial tool to do this and you only get the version you asked for, not the whole history.

(Of course if you plan on doing any development work on the code, you'll still want to start by cloning the repository rather than just downloading a snapshot!)

An exciting new feature that has appeared this week is the ability to list paper publications in your project's front page. (See the MATCH project for an example.) This simple feature gives your readers the ability to associate your published work directly with any code used to generate results for it.

To enable this for your project, go to Settings -> Modules tab on your project's home page, select Bibliography, and hit Save. Then just go to your project's home page and click "Add publication to this project".

We are still testing and refining this feature, so expect some more tweaks and new details during the coming weeks. In the mean time, we'd appreciate your feedback.

With this morning's update, each project page now has a Members entry in the navigation bar (next to the project's Overview link).

The Members link shows the list of project members, of course, but it is also where you should go to add or remove any members for projects you manage. The Members tab formerly found in the project settings page has been removed.

This update also brings the site up to the latest stable Redmine release, and fixes a number of other issues.