Three months ago we were thrilled to announce the introduction of our front end to GitHub Issues. Since then we have worked on specific bugs in the applications and added small features here and there.

Today we are excited to announce the first major revision to our GitHub Issues! Below is a list of all the new features Nick Small and Randy Luecke have worked hard to introduce.

• Editable Issues
• Swap orientation button in the browser version
• Additional keyboard shortcuts
• Additional columns with the ability to show and hide them by right clicking the table header
• Additional search filters
• Additional improvements for keyboard
• Support for previewing issues before you submit them
• Bulk operations on multiple issues at once
• Notifications for unsaved comments and issues
• OAuth
• Full support for tagging

…and of course various bug fixes!

You can view the application by visiting githubissues.heroku.com, or you can download the updated desktop version (read more about how we make this work with NativeHost).

In addition to this new version of the application Randy has worked hard on a browser extension to automatically convert GitHub URLs to use our Cappuccino app.

You can customize it to do any of the following:

• Automatically redirect you from GitHub.com issues to our application
• Prompt you each time you enter an issues page to redirect you to our application
• Click the button in the toolbar to redirect you to our application.

If you are looking at a GitHub repository and click the button in the toolbar you will be redirected to that repository’s issues. If you’re not viewing a repository and click the button in the toolbar you will be redirected to the Issues application where you can select a repository and issue from there.

This plugin has been open source and is available on GitHub, but if you just want to install it you can download it here.

We hope you are as excited about this revision as we are, and we hope this update will make our application even more useful to you!

Thomas Balthazar has begun a weekly series of posts describing the latest development in Cappuccino. Be sure to check it out to find out what’s going on.

I’m pleased to announce the release of the second update to Cappuccino since it was made available last month, version 0.5.5.

Even more exciting is the fact that this release includes our first user contributions. We’re glad these individuals were able to help out the project, and we hope more people continue to do so in the future. You can keep up with those contributing to Cappuccino on Github.

Version 0.5.5 includes over 60 fixes, and several key new features, including:

• New build tools, including press
• Key-Value-Observing
• CPSplitView, CPWebView, and CPDate
• Additional Editor Support
• Major performance gains

Full list of resolved bugs since 0.5.1.

Download the update directly: Starter, Tools.

It’s been an exciting first week for the Cappuccino Open Source project. We’ve gotten over 10,000 downloads of the frameworks so far and counting. We’ve already been getting bug reports, patches, and even additional documentation from the community. There’s still a tremendous amount of work left to be done and its really great to start getting help from you guys.

We’ve also been doing our best to keep up with your requests. We heard you loud and clear that you want more documentation and we are stepping it up in this regard. We’ve already posted another tutorial this week on starting to build a full scale web application using Cappuccino. If you haven’t had a chance to see it, you should check it out.  We’ll be doing several more of these in the coming weeks, so you should let us know in the comments what you’d like to see explained the most!

What’s really surprised us is the wide spectrum of people trying out Cappuccino. From seasoned JavaScript developers, to Cocoa programmers that have never tried web development before, to hackers who have done neither and just think this is a really cool idea. We’re hoping this will mean great things as far as adoption goes, but more importantly, we think this will create an influx of fresh new ideas in this space.

We also have a new release out today, 0.5.1. This includes a number of fixes that people have been requesting, as well as including updated Documentation:

• Improved handling of command keys
• Improved CPView graphics performance
• Improved TextMate mode and vim syntax highlighting
• Updated Documentation is now included in both download packages
• And much more!  See them all here