In July 2014, the ITSM team decided to postpone the development work originally scheduled for release April 2014. That work was tracked here:
Later in July 2014, the ITSM team decided to empty DEV instance of all work not created by Fruition as part of the Health Check Remediation work.
As such, we need to archive out large amounts of code. The supporting mechanism for ServiceNow is the XML export of update sets, and the subsequent XML import of those update sets.
http://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Saving_Customizations_in_a_Single_XML_File