As of 29 June 2010, web2project v2.0 is officially released! You can download it from SourceForge now.

Although this release had lots of bug fixes, the primary focus was on a few specific new features and major pieces of functionality. You can read the full v2.0 Release Notes, but in my opinion, the six most important items are:

A Project Importer update is available for web2project from the downloads page.

Version 4.0 marks a major update in the Project Importer module. While many changes are minor, there are some significant updates to performance and general reliability:

Release Notes:

Late last month, I received some bad news about web2project...

It turns out that web2project was vulnerable to a handful of select Cross Site Scripting (XSS: definition) vulnerabilities. While the attack vector was pretty specific to being an already authenticated user, it had the potential to be a major problem in a poorly configured system.

On the positive side, I say "was" because within 10 days of being notified of the problem - and the same day the vulnerability became public - we had a patched release out the door and available to users. We've spent the past month since encouraging them to upgrade. Of course, we further benefit from the fact that although the vulnerability does affect us, we're not named in the report.

It's been a while since the last update, so I thought I should let everyone know what's going on towards the v1.2 release (eta December '09).  As of this week, we're approximately halfway there.

The Project Importer is available for web2project!

Update: Unfortunately, the v3.1 release was a bit botched. As a result, this update is out of the normal ~6 month release cycle.

A v3.2 release has already been prepared on the downloads page.

Release Notes:

• Simplified the permissions checking to only check for "project add" privileges;
• Fixed a major bug in import where it simply wasn't importing Projects unless you had some odd combination of permissions... now it's be simplified to
  just requiring the Project:Add permission;
• Updated the data types to make better (not perfect) use of the validation check that happens on the Projects and Tasks objects;

This release can be downloaded here: Project Importer v3.2