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-SC-Track Roundup 0.5 beta2 - an issue tracking system
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-
-Note: This is the first of two beta releases of the newest version of Roundup.
-It is strongly recommended that you maintain your existing 0.4 installation if
-you have one, and run 0.5 on a copy of the database. If you are upgrading from
-0.4, you must read doc/upgrading.txt!
-
-Roundup requires python 2.1.1 for correct operation. Support for dumbdbm
-requires python 2.1.2 or 2.2. 2.1.3 and 2.2.1 are recommended.
-
-This beta release fixes the following specific problems:
- . all backends now have a .close() method, and it's used everywhere
- . fixed bug in detectors __init__
- . switched the default issue item display to only show issue summary
- (added instructions to doc to make it display entire content)
- . MANIFEST.in was missing a lot of template files
- . added generic item editing
- . much nicer layout of template rendering errors
- . added context/is_edit_ok and context/is_view_ok convenience methods and
- implemented use of them in the classic template
-
-A lot has been done since 0.4:
-
-- new backend for metakit (thanks Gordon McMillan)
-- new backend for gadfly (it's as done as it's going to get)
-- further split the dbm backends from the core code, allowing easier
- non-dict-like backends (eg metakit, RDB)
-- implemented and used the new access control mechanisms (Permissions, Roles)
-- switched templating to use Zope's PageTemplates (yay!)
-- switched to sessions for web authentication
-- added Boolean and Number types
-- full-text search may also search certain String properties
-- fixed the journal bloat
-- updated design document for new access controls
-- updated customisation document, including more examples
-- entire database export and import (incl files)
-- better mailgw help message (feature request #558562)
-- re-enabled link backrefs from messages (feature request #568714)
-- the page layout is now templatable
-- re-worked cgi interface to abstract out the explicit "issue" interface
-- have index page handle mid-page errors better so header and footer are
- still visible
-- saving of named search queries
-- we handle "not found", access and item page render errors better
-- fixed double-submit by having new-item-submit redirect at end
-- daemonify roundup-server (fork, logfile, pidfile)
-- modify cgitb to display PageTemplate errors better
-- rename to "instance" to "tracker"
-- have roundup.cgi pick up tracker config from the environment
-- revamped look and feel in web interface
-- cleaned up stylesheet usage
-- several bug fixes and documentation fixes
+I'm proud to release version 1.4.19 of Roundup which introduces some
+minor features and, as usual, fixes some bugs:
+Features:
+
+- Xapian indexing improved: Slightly faster and slightly smaller database.
+ Closes issue2550687. Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
+- PostgreSQL backend minor improvement: database creation less likely to fail
+ for PostgreSQL versions >= 8.1 as the table "postgres" is used by default.
+ Closes issue2550543. Thanks to Kai Storbeck for the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
+- Allow HTMLRequest.batch to filter on other permissions than "View"
+ (e.g. on the new "Search" permission") by adding a "permission"
+ parameter. Thanks to Eli Collins for the patch. Closes issue2550699. (Ralf)
+
+Fixed:
+
+- Installation: Fixed an issue that prevented to use EasyInstall
+ and a Python egg. Thanks to Satchidanand Haridas for the patch and
+ John Kristensen for testing it. (Bernhard Reiter)
+- The PostgreSQL backend quotes database names now for CREATE and DROP,
+ enabling more exotic tracker names. Closes issue2550497.
+ Thanks to Sebastian Harl for providing the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
+- Updated the url to point to www.roundup-tracker.org in two places in the
+ docs. (Bernhard Reiter)
+- Do not depend on a CPython implementation detail anymore to make Roundup
+ more compatible with other Python implementations like PyPy.
+ Closes issue2550707. Thanks to Christof Meerwald. (Bernhard Reiter, Richard)
+- Yet another fix to the mail gateway, messages got *all* files of
+ an issue, not just the new ones. Thanks to Rafal Bisingier for
+ reporting and proposing a fix. The regression test was updated.
+ (Ralf)
+- Fix version numbers in upgrade documentation, the file-unlink defect
+ was in 1.4.17 not 1.4.16. Thanks to Rafal Bisingier. (Ralf)
+- Fix encoded email header parsing if multiple encoded and non-encoded
+ parts are present. RFC2047 specifies that spacing is removed only
+ between encoded parts, we always removed the space. Note that this bug
+ was present before mail gateway refactoring :-) Thanks for thorough
+ testing of mail gateway code by Rafal Bisingier. (Ralf)
+- The "Retire" permission was not being registered. (Richard)
+- Fix StringIO issue2550713: io.StringIO in newer versions of python
+ returns unicode strings and expects a unicode string in the
+ constructor. Unfortunately csv doesn't handle unicode (yet). So we
+ need to use a BytesIO which gets the utf-8 string from the
+ web-interface. Compatibility for old versions by using
+ StringIO.StringIO for emulating a io.BytesIO also works.
+ Thanks to Cedric Krier for reporting. Closes issue2550713.
+ Added a regression test for EditCSVAction (Ralf)
+- Fix issue2550691 where a Unix From-Header was sometimes inserted in
+ outgoing emails, thanks to Joseph Myers for the patch. (Ralf)
+
+If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
+the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
+
+Roundup requires python 2.4 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation.
+
+To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
+
+ roundup-demo
+
+Release info and download page:
+ http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup
Source and documentation is available at the website:
- http://roundup.sourceforge.net/
-Release Info (via download page):
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/roundup
+ http://roundup-tracker.org/
Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
About Roundup
=============
-Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
-command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design
+Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
+command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design
from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
-Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project
-is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
+Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this
+project is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
-Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
+Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
"description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
(a) submit new issues,
The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
-is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.1+ installation. It
-doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though a
-disutils-based install script is provided.
+is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.4+ (but not 3+)
+installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational,
+though an install script is provided.
It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
-a help desk) and five database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, metakit and
-gadfly).
+a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql
+and postgresql).