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-SC-Track Roundup 0.6.0b1 - an issue tracking system
-===================================================
-
-This is the first release of the new version of Roundup which contains a
-lot of new features. This release may contain bugs, so please run this using
-a backup of your production tracker. Always follow the "Software Upgrade"
-guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. If you're upgrading from
-an older version of Roundup you *must* read doc/upgrading.txt!
-
-Unfortunately, the Zope frontend for Roundup is currently broken, with no
-fix in the forseeable future.
-
-Roundup requires python 2.1.3 or later for correct operation.
-
-This release has all the bugfixes from the latest 0.5 maintnenance release
-plus lots of new goodies including:
-
-- new instant-gratification Demo Mode ("python demo.py" :)
-- added mysql backend (see doc/mysql.txt for details)
-- web interface cleanups including nicer history display, nicer index
- navigation and nicer popup list windows
-- searching of date ranges
-- better international support, including utf-8 email handling and ability
- to display localized dates in web interface.
-- more documentation including revamped design document, unix manual pages
- and some FAQ entries
-- significantly more powerful form handling allowing editing of multiple items
- and creation of multiple items
-- tracker templates can contain subdirectories and static files (e.g. images)
- and we may now distribute templates separately from Roundup. Template
- HTML files now have a .html extension too.
-- user registration is now a two-step process, with confirmation from the email
- address supplied in the registration form, and we also have a password reset
- feature for forgotten password / login
-- Windows Service mode for roundup-server when daemonification is attempted
- on Windows.
-- fixed issues with dumb email or web clients
-- lots more little tweaks and back-end work...
-- email system handles more SMTP and POP features (TLS, APOP, ...)
+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 minimal skeleton) and six database back-ends (anydbm, bsddb, bsddb3, sqlite,
-metakit and gadfly).
+a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql
+and postgresql).