diff --git a/release/metrics/ProjectReleaseMetricNewReleases.class.php b/release/metrics/ProjectReleaseMetricNewReleases.class.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7e883dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/metrics/ProjectReleaseMetricNewReleases.class.php
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Class for new_releases metric.
+ */
+
+class ProjectReleaseMetricNewReleases extends SamplerMetric {
+
+  /**
+   * Counts new releases made for each project during any given sample period.
+   *
+   * @return
+   *   An associative array keyed by project nid, where the value is an array
+   *   containing the number of new releases created for that project in the
+   *   current sample period.
+   */
+  public function computeSample() {
+
+    $sample = $this->currentSample;
+    $options = $sample->options;
+
+    $args = array($sample->sample_startstamp, $sample->sample_endstamp);
+
+    // Restrict to only the passed project nids.
+    if (!empty($options['object_ids'])) {
+      $where = " WHERE prn.pid IN (". db_placeholders($options['object_ids']) .")";
+      $args = array_merge($args, $options['object_ids']);
+    }
+    else {
+      $where = '';
+    }
+
+    // We pull all project nodes from {node}, LEFT JOIN with release nodes
+    // from {project_release_nodes} to get releases per project, LEFT JOIN
+    // with {node} each release node to filter by release node creation date,
+    // and then GROUP by the project nid so we can get release counts.
+    $nodes = db_query("SELECT np.nid, COUNT(nr.nid) AS count FROM {node} np LEFT JOIN {project_release_nodes} prn ON np.nid = prn.pid LEFT JOIN {node} nr ON prn.nid = nr.nid AND nr.created > %d AND nr.created < %d$where GROUP BY np.nid ORDER BY NULL", $args);
+    while ($node = db_fetch_object($nodes)) {
+      $this->currentSample->values[$node->nid]['releases'] = $node->count;
+    }
+  }
+}
+
diff --git a/release/metrics/new_releases.inc b/release/metrics/new_releases.inc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..693c375
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/metrics/new_releases.inc
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+<?php
+
+/**
+ * @file
+ * Metric plugin for counting the number of new releases per project.
+ */
+$plugin = array(
+  'title' => t('New releases per project'),
+  'description' => t("Counts how many new releases were created for each project during each sample period."),
+  'data_type' => array(
+    'releases' => 'int',
+  ),
+  'handler' => array(
+    'class' => 'ProjectReleaseMetricNewReleases',
+  ),
+);
+
diff --git a/release/project_release.module b/release/project_release.module
index 27bda0f..f94d8af 100644
--- a/release/project_release.module
+++ b/release/project_release.module
@@ -2286,3 +2286,14 @@ function project_release_views_default_views_alter(&$views) {
   _project_release_views_default_views_alter($views);
 }
 
+/**
+ * Implementation of hook_ctools_plugin_directory().
+ */
+function project_release_ctools_plugin_directory($module, $plugin) {
+  if ($module == 'sampler') {
+    switch ($plugin) {
+      case 'metric':
+        return 'metrics';
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/release/views/default_views/project_release_new_releases.view.php b/release/views/default_views/project_release_new_releases.view.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8a9897a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/release/views/default_views/project_release_new_releases.view.php
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+<?php
+
+if (module_exists('sampler')) {
+$view = new view;
+$view->name = 'project_release_new_releases';
+$view->description = 'Sparkline showing count of new releases over time for a given project';
+$view->tag = 'Metrics';
+$view->view_php = '';
+$view->base_table = 'sampler_project_release_new_releases';
+$view->is_cacheable = FALSE;
+$view->api_version = 2;
+$view->disabled = FALSE; /* Edit this to true to make a default view disabled initially */
+$handler = $view->new_display('default', 'Defaults', 'default');
+$handler->override_option('fields', array(
+  'timestamp' => array(
+    'label' => 'Timestamp',
+    'alter' => array(
+      'alter_text' => 0,
+      'text' => '',
+      'make_link' => 0,
+      'path' => '',
+      'link_class' => '',
+      'alt' => '',
+      'prefix' => '',
+      'suffix' => '',
+      'target' => '',
+      'help' => '',
+      'trim' => 0,
+      'max_length' => '',
+      'word_boundary' => 1,
+      'ellipsis' => 1,
+      'html' => 0,
+      'strip_tags' => 0,
+    ),
+    'empty' => '',
+    'hide_empty' => 0,
+    'empty_zero' => 0,
+    'date_format' => 'small',
+    'custom_date_format' => '',
+    'exclude' => 0,
+    'id' => 'timestamp',
+    'table' => 'sampler_project_release_new_releases',
+    'field' => 'timestamp',
+    'relationship' => 'none',
+  ),
+  'value_0' => array(
+    'label' => 'New release count',
+    'alter' => array(
+      'alter_text' => 0,
+      'text' => '',
+      'make_link' => 0,
+      'path' => '',
+      'link_class' => '',
+      'alt' => '',
+      'prefix' => '',
+      'suffix' => '',
+      'target' => '',
+      'help' => '',
+      'trim' => 0,
+      'max_length' => '',
+      'word_boundary' => 1,
+      'ellipsis' => 1,
+      'html' => 0,
+      'strip_tags' => 0,
+    ),
+    'empty' => '',
+    'hide_empty' => 0,
+    'empty_zero' => 0,
+    'set_precision' => FALSE,
+    'precision' => 0,
+    'decimal' => '.',
+    'separator' => ',',
+    'prefix' => '',
+    'suffix' => '',
+    'exclude' => 0,
+    'id' => 'value_0',
+    'table' => 'sampler_project_release_new_releases',
+    'field' => 'value_0',
+    'relationship' => 'none',
+  ),
+));
+$handler->override_option('sorts', array(
+  'timestamp' => array(
+    'order' => 'ASC',
+    'granularity' => 'second',
+    'id' => 'timestamp',
+    'table' => 'sampler_project_release_new_releases',
+    'field' => 'timestamp',
+    'relationship' => 'none',
+  ),
+));
+$handler->override_option('arguments', array(
+  'object_id' => array(
+    'default_action' => 'not found',
+    'style_plugin' => 'default_summary',
+    'style_options' => array(),
+    'wildcard' => 'all',
+    'wildcard_substitution' => 'All',
+    'title' => 'New releases for %1',
+    'breadcrumb' => '',
+    'default_argument_type' => 'node',
+    'default_argument' => '',
+    'validate_type' => 'project_nid',
+    'validate_fail' => 'not found',
+    'break_phrase' => 0,
+    'not' => 0,
+    'id' => 'object_id',
+    'table' => 'sampler_project_release_new_releases',
+    'field' => 'object_id',
+    'relationship' => 'none',
+  ),
+));
+$handler->override_option('filters', array(
+  'timestamp' => array(
+    'operator' => 'between',
+    'value' => array(
+      'type' => 'offset',
+      'value' => '',
+      'min' => '-1 year',
+      'max' => 'today',
+    ),
+    'group' => '0',
+    'exposed' => FALSE,
+    'expose' => array(
+      'operator' => FALSE,
+      'label' => '',
+    ),
+    'id' => 'timestamp',
+    'table' => 'sampler_project_release_new_releases',
+    'field' => 'timestamp',
+    'relationship' => 'none',
+  ),
+));
+$handler->override_option('access', array(
+  'type' => 'none',
+));
+$handler->override_option('cache', array(
+  'type' => 'none',
+));
+$handler->override_option('items_per_page', 0);
+$handler->override_option('style_plugin', 'views_sparkline');
+$handler->override_option('style_options', array(
+  'grouping' => '',
+  'x_field' => 'timestamp',
+  'y_field' => 'value_0',
+  'width' => '300px',
+  'height' => '30px',
+  'color' => '#336699',
+));
+} // module_exists('sampler')
