The bug tracking system used on drupal.org just got a major upgrade. There are a lot of changes, but the biggest change is contributed modules and themes getting their own project area. The individual project areas include separate bug trackers, making it easier to find and keep track of projects..

Issues—bug reports, feature requests, support requests, tasks—can be subscribed to on an individual basis, without having to subscribe to any of the Drupal mailing lists. To subscribe to a project:

• Log into your account.
• Find the project page you want to subscribe to.
• Toggle the subscription options and save your new settings.

Module and theme owners can leave a comment to this post to request ownership of their projects. Being the owner of a project grants you the permission add a description, enter links and create release notes for the different versions. This, combined with the new versioning/tagging/branching policy of the contributions repository will help improve the quality of modules and themes provided on the download page.

To see a complete list of changes, check out the CHANGELOG.