Its that time again. 1.5 was a relatively small release that was rolled out the door from the test environment to live this morning. This release consisted of some fixes and back end improvements along with a couple of new features.  As always, these changes reflect the feedback we continue to receive so good on you and have at it!

What’s new

• As previously gushed about, Spudaroo.com uses the magnificent MadMimi to deliver all of Spuds transactional and marketing email via their API. But what happens if RackSpace coughs up a virtual lung and we go offline (can anyone say ‘no available nodes’) or Mimi gets her stuff in a twist? So, Spudaroo has wrapped a log file/cron job into a solution to combat downtime and make sure our transactional emails aren’t lost in the ether.
• RPX did a great job with their new flashy sign in widget which unfortunately didn’t work within our UI. Adjustments have been made to accomodate the new, full figured RPX widget.
• Projects can now be extended to your hearts content on Spudaroo.com. You can get up to 72 hours on us and after that, we charge a nominal fee when you choose to extend.
• File upload status is now displayed during the Submit Entry process. We’ll be adding a progress icon for the actual submit process (and replace our buttons too) in the 1.7 release.

What’s fixed

• Ongoing fixes to IE to resolve the following -

1. Users couldn’t post comments to a project or the Material Handover section. Now they can.
2. Users were unable to send messages through the private message system – doh!. Now they can.

• Material Handover time display was on Spud Time – 2 hours ahead of PST. Spud time has since been kicked to the curb and PST is now accurately displayed.

As usual, please feel free to shoot us any feedback by clicking the feedback tab on the site!