Microsoft CodePlex was designed to streamline the building of an open source project community by offering free hosting and the adjacent sharing and collaboration infrastructure, enjoyed a consistent growth in terms of traffic over the past year. With the exception of registered users, which grew only by 72% to 66,553, all the other metrics for the software giant's open source project-hosting website have increased over 100% the past year, compared to 2007. Over 2008, we had 12 new releases of the CodePlex software, with the following top 9 features.