Hi all,

BSAG is quite busy currently, so in this case I'm going to do the
announcement: I'm pleased to announce that Tracks 1.7RC2 has been released. 

We have many improvements based on the feedback on RC1. We felt we should
first do a RC2 to make sure all improvements did not introduce new
regressions. 

To download the this pre-release of version 1.7, please use github. (As soon
as BSAG finds some time, she will post it on the getontracks.org home page
and update the manual there.)

http://github.com/bsag/tracks/downloads/v1.7RC2

An updated manual can be found in
http://github.com/bsag/tracks_manual/tree/master 

Please help out to test this second pre-release to find any bugs before we
release 1.7 in a few weeks

What was new in RC1:
    * The included Rails version is updated to 2.2.2
    * Tracks now supports recurring/repeating todos
    * Cleanup of feed page and add feed for starred actions
    * Initial importer of yaml files (still very EXPERIMENTAL; please send
feedback on whether to include this; make backups while testing it)
    * New interface to import an email / sms messages into Tracks (needs an
email server on the same server as Tracks)
    * New buttons to quickly defer an action 1 or 7 days
    * Calendar view to review upcoming due actions, includes iCal feed to
use in your calendar app (tested with Google Calendar, Evolution, Outlook
2007)
    * You can now sort projects on number of active todos
    * Support for OpenSearch. This means you can add a Tracks as a search
provider in your webbrowser (tested on FF3 and IE7)
    * Bugfixes, including fixing OpenID

New in RC2:
    * We now allow users again to stay logged in on two devices at the same
time
    * Move site specific configuration out of environment.rb into site.yml
for easier updating
    * Bugfixes, including the upgrade of has_many_polymorphs which will fix
the problem of not being able to migrate from 1.6 because of non-existing
recurring_todos table.

There are changes to the database (even between RC1 and RC2), and changes to
the way you configure Tracks, so please migrate your database and redo your
Tracks configuration. 

In Tracks 1.7RC2 the site specific configuration is moved from
environment.rb into the new site.yml. This makes updating environment.rb
much easier without you needing to set your site specific settings after
each update. After you install/upgrade Tracks 1.7RC2 there will be no
environment.rb.tmpl anymore. You will find an environment.rb which you can
leave untouched. Just fill in your settings from your old environment.rb in
the new site.yml. If you have made any other customizations to
environment.rb in the past, you can put them in your own configuration file
(for example, in my-config.rb) in config/initializers. Please let us know it
you think they should be in site.yml.tmpl. 

WARNING: if you update to RC2 using git, your environment.rb will be
overwritten. SO PLEASE MAKE BACKUPS

This release of 1.7 will include enhancements made by a lot new contributers
(Jakub, Hans, Piotr, MHarris, Piglop, Farzy, Vitaliel, McVeat and Simon; I
hope I didn't forget anyone...). Thank you all for helping Tracks getting
better every release. As ever particular thanks to Luke (for updating Tracks
to 2.2.2) and to Eric Allen for lots of work on a many fronts, including the
site.yml improvements! And since BSAG isn't doing the announcement, I can
thank BSAG for her work on Tracks and her work on the manual! :-)

Reinier

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