Release Notes

When we sat down and started planning for the next release after 1.1 we wanted to keep it short and sweet. Things didn’t turn out that way.

Many Cornerstone users have written to us over the last 6 months asking what happened to 1.2 and whether we were still working on the application. Hopefully the release of 1.5 today will prove beyond any measure of doubt that Cornerstone development continues faster than ever.

But we still wanted to take a couple of minutes (paragraphs?) to describe what happened to 1.2 and how it turned into today’s 1.5.

Several big and important things have happened: babies have been born, the team has grown, Zennaware’s incorporation is underway and we’re about to move into our new offices.

But we’ve nonetheless remained utterly focused on improving Cornerstone, so much so that we couldn’t resist adding great new features.

And so the scope of 1.2 grew until it no longer felt like 1.2 any more, so we decided to can the March release in the interest of a bigger version, including Subversion 1.6 support, and releasing in June as 1.5.

But it took far longer than we originally thought. As June became July and the Snow Leopard release drew closer we realized that we’d have to include that too. And with our biggest beta program yet taking twice as long as we had expected, September arrived very quickly.

We know it’s been painful for some of our users, particularly those who have been waiting for Subversion 1.6 support. We realize that we should have have done a better job incorporating 1.6 in a timely fashion and will plan future releases to better coincide with major Subversion updates.

Ultimately we feel that 1.5 has been worth the wait. We hope you do too.