The first release candidate for RT 3.8.2 is now available. You can
download it from:
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/devel/rt-3.8.2rc1.tar.gz
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/devel/rt-3.8.2rc1.tar.gz.sig
SHA1 sums
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A longer changelog if available at the bottom of this announcement.
Some highlighted changes include:
- Approvals System Overhaul
- Dashboards Overhaul, including the ability to include more
types of portlets and a new subscription type - Upgrades to the mysql schema upgrade script, now named
upgrade-mysql-schema.pl If you’re planning an upgrade from
a version of RT prior to 3.8, please read UPGRADING.mysql - Many localization cleanups
- Fixes to HTML mail generation and the handling of mixed/alternative
messages. The WYSIWYG editor was also upgraded. See
docs/templates.pod for more about generating HTML mail. - complete reimplementation of sbin/rt-validator for checking
integrity of the DB
-kevin
Changelog:
New features:
-
complete reimplementation of sbin/rt-validator for checking integrity
of the DB [ruz] -
add UseSQLForACLChecks option - no more wrong numbers in search
results,
no more missing entries on pages, no more empty pages, but only if
your
DB can handle such queries [ruz] -
add sbin/rt-attributes-viewer that helps sometimes investigate
problems [ruz] -
break out the Logout link into an Element so you can override it
[falcone] -
Allow %ARGS to set custom field values in SelfService [alexmv]
-
A new callback for successful login via WebExternalAuth [sartak]
-
A new callback in Ticket/Create.html [alexmv]
-
show how often user recieves messages on a ticket [ruz]
-
REST improvements - Queue ticket CFs, Queue CFs, Group management,
Attachments [Philip Kime] -
Allow optional # before ticket ID in simple search [alexmv]
-
Add callbacks for the themes’ main stylesheets
-
Allow group charts by users’ Organization and other fields [ruz]
-
Allow change of Requestor in QuickCreate [elacour]
-
revert cleanup from require/our @ISA to use base because it breaks
RT running under fastcgi/mod_perl -
Cleanup Dashboard internals and unify with Saved Searches [sartak]
-
Allow homepage components to be used on Dashboards [sartak]
-
Add support for “every X weeks” Dashboard subscriptions [sunnvy]
-
Cleanup and refactor the localization infrastructure [clkao, elacour]
-
Add new global Config option MessageBoxIncludeSignature to control
whether signatures are included in Replies and Comments [falcone] -
Handle dates and Custom Fields when redirecting to Ticket/
Display.html [sartak] -
Name the Submit button on Ticket modification pages and clean up
[sartak] -
Support for parallel testing (make test-parallel) and fixes for Pg
when running
in parallel [ruz falcone] -
Support for running automated tests on Oracle [ruz]
-
add an Initial callback to the homepage [ruz]
-
New callback on search results to add new tools [elacour]
-
Instructions for starting to port to windows [sunnavy]
-
Add custom Transaction display for Told [sunnavy]
-
Add ShowApprovalsTab right to control who sees the
Approvals links [elacour] -
Approvals System Overhaul [clkao]
-
Allow setting colspan in formats [sartak Olly Stephens]
-
Documentation of Template variables [sartak]
-
New Callback in ParseFormat [sartak Eynat Nir Mishor]
-
for rt-mailgate, if --action correspond --extension action
is specifict, fall back to correspond for emails without an
extension [sartak Jerrad Pierce] -
Command line enhancements [alexmv Wolfgang Friebel]
-
Support HTML for MakeClicky [sunnavy]
Fixes and cleanups
-
Documentation fixes and improvements here and there [all]
-
Set default LogToSysLog to ‘info’ instead of ‘debug’ [sunnavy]
-
Fix file names corruption when attaching files with international
character
via UI [ruz] -
Fix attaching attachments to outgoing mails in RT on Oracle DB [joop]
-
Various improvements in web installer [sunnavy]
-
CSS fixes [sunnavy, elacour]
-
Pg has support for USAGE privilege on sequences only starting
from Pg 8.2.0, improve etc/acl.Pg* [ruz] -
Don’t do the safe ipc hack for SpeedyCGI [Niko Tyni]
-
rewrite displaying message stanza without recursion to avoid
problems with deep recursion errors and improve performance [ruz] -
fix double BRs in ticket history [ruz]
-
fix minor tags dis-balance [Olly Stephens]
-
partially make Shredder’s pages translatable [ruz]
-
fix issue when schema upgrade script could generate ALTER TABLE …
BLOB CHARACTER SET … [ruz] -
Don’t attach html parts of mixed/alternative messages [alexmv]
-
Fix printing by updating print.css [Ian Goodacre, elacour]
-
Updated sbin/factory [Hans Dieter, sartak]
-
Fixes for localization of RT [elacour, sartak, clkao, falcone]
-
Fix missed “/” that makes header links on RT at a glance unclickable
when
WebPath is non-empty [elacour] -
fix for CustomField’s LoadByName to be backward compatible [sunnavy]
-
fix a nasty copy&paste typo that’s been there for a while
forcing admins to grant CreateTicket right to everyone even if
they want to do that for unprivileged users only [ruz] -
don’t bother checking for data/gpg if the
user explicitly turned gpg off [falcone] -
Handle the case where you enable GPG but haven’t
created the data directory. We should probably just
create the directory for you. [falcone] -
fix AJAX bookmarking in IE [sunnavy]
-
fix REST/CLI when there is a type field [Philip Kime]
-
return error earlier if parsing of a template failed [falcone]
-
Fix for CF matching in the REST interface [Tony Lambiris]
-
allow tags used by the WYSIWYG editor to pass through so that
when you use bold font in a message, you see it in the RT view.
[falcone] -
fix problems with loading of FCKeditor in IE [falcone]
-
Plugin loading fixes for modules such as User [falcone]
-
Pass more information to Ticket/Update.html’s Initial callback [ruz]
-
Better signal handling for gpg [ruz]
-
Fix test’s database username to avoid going over length limits on
mysql [ruz] -
Fix search results RSS feed to show correct Time and Creator [clkao]
-
Refactor maildigest tests [sunnavy]
-
Use information_schema in upgrade-mysql-schema.pl on newer mysqls
[ruz] -
Sort right names using localized values [ruz]
-
Trim leading or trailing whitespace in for simple search [elacour]
-
Add documentation of rt-setup-database --action upgrade [elacour
Trent W Buck] -
Clean up display of Custom Field Values during editing [elacour]
-
Update documentation about upgrade-mysql-schema.pl and give it a
better name [sartak falcone] -
Updated de translation from Torsten Brumm
-
Don’t create empty Deferred Attributes [ruz]
-
Fix grouping by watchers on graphs [ruz]
-
Show EmailAddress not id of requestor when using Quick Create [ruz]
-
Validate mandatory custom fields on SelfService [elacour ruz]
-
Upgrade FCKeditor to version 2.6.3 [falcone]
-
Add configuration variables for size of FCKeditor [falcone]
MessageBoxRightTextHeight MessageBoxRightTextWidth -
Reorder and document adding a new config option to META
in Config.pm [falcone] -
Make config options explicitly sorted [falcone]
-
Switch to using WebPath from WebURL for portlet links [clkao]
-
Cleanup GPG tempfiles [alexmv]
-
Use StashWarnings in tests to clean up lots of warnings [sartak]
-
Remove unused gradient-glossy.png [sunnavy]
-
Use ActiveStatus rather than hardcoded values in more of the
homepage portlets [elacour ruz] -
Stop mason from compiling images [Hans Dieter Percy]
-
Make the default RT font Arial [falcone jesse]
-
Fix gpg passphrase handling to support gpg 1.2 [ruz]
-
Properly downgrade HTML templates to multipart alternative
text/plain and text/html [falcone] -
Warn when a callback exists in two extensions and only one
of them will be run [falcone] -
Avoid “Not LIKE ‘’” on Oracle BLOBs [ruz]
-
Prefer the SERVER_HOST environment variable for generating uris over
HTTP_HOST [sartak Niko Tyni] -
quiet test output [alexmv]
Dependencies:
-
newer Text::Template which claims to have fixed the T:: cleanup,
otherwise
scrips in batch stage may be delayed [sartak] -
Add dependency on Test::HTTP::Server::Simple::StashWarnings [sartak]
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or wa that taken out… I can’t remmeber?