Hi all

We are happy to say that the release of Mingle 3.3 is just around the corner and before the GA release is made available in January 2011 we'd like to update you all on what the Mingle team have been working on over the last few months and what you should expect to see in Mingle 3.3.

First of all we are excited to introduce a new feature called User Groups. This feature allows Mingle and project admins to create and manage project user groups, use these groups to manage transition permissions within a project and share groups in project templates. We anticipate that this feature will further improve workflow creation whilst still allowing you to manage your team members in a way that makes sense for your teams.

In keeping with our theme to improve user management across the product we have also given Mingle and project admins the ability to add users to one or more projects at once and assign a user's project permissions when adding them to a project to allow for more efficient project membership management. The ability to see user last login information and the ability to filter out deactivated users has also been added aiding user management at the Mingle instance level.

Beyond the UI we have also added a powerful Event API which provides full, robust access to all events in a Mingle project to users and custom integrations, in the form of an Atom feed. All you budding Mingle integration developers, we look forward to your fun and useful integrations using this feature! Please share them on our Add-Ons and Extras space.

Finally Mingle 3.3 will be a more refined and mature looking Mingle as it heads into its fourth year. We hope you'll like our new style as much as we do.

That's all for now folks, but rest assured we will be providing more information on the release and all Mingle's new features and improvements when the GA is made available.

Thanks
- The Mingle Team