RT 4.2.4 -- 2014-05-13 ---------------------- We are happy to announce that RT 4.2.4 is now available.
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.4.tar.gz http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.4.tar.gz.asc SHA1 sums bcacf4c7669c05ed3e53ac07195abe16164e22f8 rt-4.2.4.tar.gz b7aed714c51bec81e85d06593ab7a3c859c83c6a rt-4.2.4.tar.gz.asc This release is primarily a bugfix release; notable changes include: Database changes * Add the AutoOpenInactive action for upgrades; clean installs of RT 4.2.0 or higher have this action already * Force Lifecycle and Disabled properties of the internal __Approvals queue to the values RT needs to function correctly Notable new features * If indexed full-text searching is enabled, the simple search will search in both Content and Subject. * Align headers of collections to their content, by default. This right-aligns the "#" header of ticket collections, for instance. * Send caching headers for all static content; this fixes a regression from RT 4.0, which correctly set caching headers on static images (#28640) * Re-order JS to optimize parallel resource fetching, and decrease load times * Allow LIKE and NOT LIKE with Status limits (#29654) Regression fixes * Resolve a regression in 4.2.3 wherein TITLE information was lost after parsing on the Advanced page (#29425) * Fix a regression in 4.2.2, which caused "select" custom fields to not pick up their defaults when cloning tickets (#29751) * Fix a regression in 4.2.2 which caused checkbox CFs to add the same value multiple times (#29392) * Fix a regression in 4.2.2 when categories were set on a CF without using the "based on" feature. * Show reminders without due dates if $OnlyOverdue is set; this fixes a regression from RT 4.0 Email * Use "white-space: pre-wrap" when inserting plain-text into HTML templates. This preserves line breaks but allows clients to wrap lines if need be. Localization * Updated localizations from Launchpad; new Persian translation * Better cluing of pluralization and quantified terms for translators * Remove untranslatable locstrings (#29798) * Fix extra/missing numbers in Czech localization (#29741) * Remove no longer translated right names from PO files * Disambiguate "M" for "month" vs "megabyte" General web UI * Better splitting of phrases with numbers in ticket link autocompletion * Autocomplete email addresses in Forward page (#28441) * Allow non-ASCII characters in passwords (#28784) * Add a "Reset" button to revert homepage portlet formatting to the system default * Remove uninitialized value warnings for upgrades from RT 3.8 (#17505) * Allow downloading attachments whose filenames contain a leading dot (#29700) * Prevent uninitialized value warning on search result pages with no query (#29699) * Hide user summary links in mobile UI, as there is no user summary page for mobile (#28788) * Always add the trailing delimiter when autocompleting multiple-entry objects, such as email addresses * Compress PNG images to decrease initial page load times * Avoid "That is already the current value" warning when changing between two queues with differing lifecycles but a same-name mapping * Don't nest <a> tags to User Summaries in queue watcher page * Require that saved searches have names in order to be created (#20210) * Give a proper error when attempting to merge a ticket into itself (#26407) * Searching for "ip version 6" no longer limits to ticket 6; the 6 is instead searched for in the subject. (#22470) * Give SystemError transactions their own CSS style * Fix ticket link autocompletion during ticket creation * Require that one or more addresses be provided to forward (#25308) * Respect the "color" attribute in HTML mail (#28389) * Rework the JS that prevented form resubmission; instead of disabling the submit button (which interacted poorly with the browser's back button), instead use an attribute on the form (#27489) * Squash warnings triggered by query builder when more than 50 different users had OwnTicket * Serve rich text editor JS with the rest of the compressed JS; this ensures that it is better cached Web administration * Allow external custom fields to have a "based on" category. * Hide the queue name, lifecycle, and disabled box on the edit page for the __Approvals queue; these must remain unchanged for Approvals functionality. * Correctly page user results in User Summary searches * Prevent warnings on Scrip edit pages if the user did not have global ShowTemplate rights Configuration options * Add a new option ($AllowLoginPasswordAutoComplete) to allow the browser to remember user passwords on RT's login screen (#29071) * Add new $DefaultSearchResultOrderBy and $DefaultSearchResultOrder options to control the global default ordering of tickets * When the stylesheet is set to an unknown style, default to rudder, not aileron (#29132) Server administration * Use one fewer database connections per rt-server process; this is most notable on FastCGI deployments, which spawn a number of rt-server processes * Default to connecting to sphinx via 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost on MySQL 5.5, due to http://sphinxsearch.com/bugs/view.php?id=1815 * rt-validator can now detect and fix links to Articles with the wrong $Organization set * Check that the version in sbin/rt-server matches the version in lib/RT/Generated.pm during server startup * Follow up to 3 HTTP redirects when POSTing to the mail gateway. This covers the common case of http: redirecting to https:, but the mail gateway referencing http: (#14114) * Return a status code 503 if we cannot connect to the database (#23332) Installation * When configuring, pull the primary group of the current user using perl, instead of `groups`, which may not list the primary group first. * Ensure that rt-test-dependencies re-execs itself using its full path, as module installations may have changed the directory (#29024) * Properly detect an existing database but missing schema in the web installer * On perl 5.19.3 and above, a more recent version of Symbol::Global::Name is required, due to core perl changes Upgrades * Bulletproof 4.0 Articles upgrade steps by dropping tables before attempting to create them * Correct documentation path in upgrade warning * In database upgrades, skip the "BACK UP BEFORE THIS STEP" warning if the --force option was provided, which gives no change to stop at that point. * Remove a warning in the optional time-worked-history.pl upgrade step REST * Allow arbitrary Content-Disposition in REST uploads (#19770) Developer * Add a comment warning about the use of the SetFieldsOnce callback in BuildFormatString; it will be removed in RT 4.4. * Fix behavior of RT::Date->AddDays when passed 0 days * Check POD of all files * Allow RT::Users->WhoBelongToGroups to optionally return unprivileged users * Provide hooks to implement a cache on MakeClicky * Document ExtractTicketId and ParseTicketId, as useful methods for local overrides * Update RT::CustomField->LoadByName, when called with a Queue argument, to return only ticket CFs; in 4.2, it also began finding queue CFs. This reverts to the behavior from 4.0. * The Articles URI implementation is now consistent with Ticket URIs; ->LocalURIPrefix does not contain /article/ * Allow @JSFiles to include files not under /static/js/ if they have a leading / * Add a generic style for reverse-color ticket titlebox tabs * Allow plugins to wrap the PSGI application in its entirety * Bulletproof role resolution for single-user roles * Win32 and IIS are not a supported platform; remove all lingering references to them * Allow ModifyAll.html's Default callback to change @results, like Modify.html * Make Widgets/Form/Select honor the Multiple flag (#12447) * Remove extraneous direct uses of Time::ParseDate (#24498) * Add a callback after Attachments on ticket display * Fix SetDisabled's return message on failure (#29802) * Refactor CSV export to allow its use by non-ticket collections Documentation * Updated parts of RT::StyleGuide * Document the --no-users and --no-groups options to rt-serializer more clearly * Add documentation for rt-validate-aliases * Remove misleading comment about "an rt-mailgate user" from rt-mailgate documentation * Remove ambiguity of direction of $CanonicalizeEmailAddressMatch and $CanonicalizeEmailAddressReplace * Update schema.dot for the ObjectScrips table, new in 4.2 * List SQLite in documentation as a possible database backend, for non-production use. * Update suggested backup strategy on MySQL to no longer require LOCK TABLES privileges (#22893) * Note that changing queue subject tags may require altering $EmailSubjectTagRegex * Suggest /etc/cron.d instead of root's crontab, for discoverability A complete changelog is available from git by running: git log rt-4.2.3..rt-4.2.4 or visiting https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/rt-4.2.3...rt-4.2.4 _______________________________________________ rt-announce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.bestpractical.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rt-announce -- RT Training - Dallas May 20-21 http://bestpractical.com/training
