Downloads are now directly available from their respective project homepages. They can currently propose screenshots and source code archives. Some work is still necessary on the administration side to ease upload and management, however it should help to spread the software without the extra burden of the CVS access, and the not-so-attractive "not yet" pages.
More generally speaking, DaPortal has had a fair load of fixes since the last news, along with a few optimization attempts, and will certainly experience some code cleanup when given the chance.