RT 4.4.4 Beta 1 Now Available

RT Developers
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RT 4.4.4beta1 is now available for testing. The list of changes
included with this release is below.

https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/devel/rt-4.4.4beta1.tar.gz
https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/devel/rt-4.4.4beta1.tar.gz.asc

SHA-256 sums

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EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Several new features were added to support GDPR compliance and are summarized here.
See the new GDPR documentation for details on the new features.

  • Provide ways to download user data to format-neutral tsv files.
  • Provide ways to anonymize or remove users.
  • Provide a tool to remove PII from transaction history.
  • Allow self service users to optionally view and edit their personal data.

General user UI

  • Don’t skip sending mail if there are attached tickets.
  • Handle legacy PGP Partitioned format for Outlook-style messages.
  • Improve visuals of self service “Go to Ticket” box (I#31794).
  • Add SLA to query builder options.
  • Improve message when applying/removing custom roles from queues (I#32695).
  • Wipe out related transactions on custom field shred.
  • Add option to disable escaping HTML in articles (I#32374).
  • Add keyboard shortcuts for reply and comment on ticket display page.
  • Improve message for adding/deleting a new custom field value (I#32695).
  • Make each transaction in history display below previous transactions (CSS bug fix).
  • Avoid overflowing ticket subject in “Recently Viewed” menu on ballard theme.
  • Better align input boxes and login button.
  • Omit disabled users and groups from dashboard subscription page.
  • Don’t return search results for disabled custom fields (I#33972).
  • Add some style to web UI shredder pages.
  • Render charts properly when searching with queue custom fields (#I32564).
  • On user prefs page, show system default values for Timezone and Lang when unset.

Administration

  • Templatize and install rt-search-attributes utility.
  • Allow rt-setup-fulltext-index to prompt for dba password.
  • Allow rt-validator to delete txns of reminder changes if reminders don’t exist.
  • Allow rt-validator to delete txns of custom field changes if CFs don’t exist.
  • Let rt-validator check more owner change txns.
  • Add default CSS in theme editor for heading font colors.
  • Pass UTF-8 decoded data to Create method for rt-importer on Pg.
  • Check SeeGroup on individual group admin pages.
  • Standardize error message for failed dashboard load.
  • Clarify email recipients in dryrun debug message for dashboard email.
  • Skip disabled users when sending dashboard subscriptions.
  • Allow multiple search criteria on group and user admin pages.
  • Fix cursor url for #logo-color-picker on theme editor page.
  • Fix logo color picker setup for Chrome.
  • Use full path for processing index files on upgrades.
  • Update rt-dump-metadata for the AppliedTo => AddedTo method name change.
  • Filter out expired SMIME keys.
  • Add script to automatically update DB sequences to the next available value.
    Useful when using serializer/importer to clone from one DB type to another.

Internals

  • Include only ticket lifecycles for Status = ‘__Active__’.
  • Update article postfix loops from using $_ to a named variable.
  • Avoid duplicated items in index.html when generating online docs.
  • Don’t endlessly try to terminate apache processes in tests.
  • Provide a results array to pass messages to ListActions for asset create.
  • Copy lifecycle array before iterating and possibly modifying.
  • Load RT::ObjectCustomFieldValues to prevent web installer errors.
  • Add a class based on custom field name to allow for easier custom styling.
  • Test lifecycle rights with optional context object to allow for role rights.
  • Remove signature feature from SelfService prefs since self service users can’t have a sig.
  • Don’t search empty attribute values in CanonicalizeUserInfoFromExternalAuth.
  • Add column to transaction column map for content.
  • Update AddTicket to force multipart/mixed email when attaching tickets to email.
  • Require Encode::HanExtra in RT::Attachment::EncodedHeaders when necessary.
  • Add caching to the queue list portlet to improve performance on RT at a glance.
  • Update session testing method when testing on Oracle to avoid hanging tests

Developer

  • Add callbacks for modifying custom role lists.
  • Add ARGSRef parameter to the IncludeArticle callback.
  • Add callback ‘BeforeTitle’ to change history titlebox.
  • Add BeforeCreate callback for user admin page.
  • Apply dynamic tr classes on NEWLINE in Row callback (thanks to Michael Friedrich).
  • Add BeforeDeleteLink callback for AddAttachments.

Documentation

  • Add GDPR documentation.
  • Add custom roles documentation.
  • Update query builder docs to explain NOT NULL in CF searches.
  • Update database version notes in README.
  • Add and display a Synopsis for the user shredder plugin.
  • Clarify failed resolver error message for user shredder plugin.

A complete changelog is available from git by running:
git log rt-4.4.3…rt-4.4.4beta1
or visiting
Comparing rt-4.4.3...rt-4.4.4beta1 · bestpractical/rt · GitHub