todd at chaka
Apr 14, 2008, 7:23 AM
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Re: RT 3.7.80 - First RT 3.8 beta release
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Jesse,
What is " ** Summary rows" under per-user options?
Also, deleting custom field values (not object custom field values) is not
working for me under 3.7 HEAD with SQLite.
Thanks!
2008/3/6 Jesse Vincent <jesse[at]bestpractical.com>:
> Ruslan has rolled the tarball for the first Beta release of RT 3.8. The
> changelog appears below.
>
> Most of the infrastructure-level changes we expect to make for RT 3.8 have
> been rolled in. Right now, we're fixing bugs, cleaning things up and
> starting to integrate a number of RT extensions into the core release.
>
> RT 3.7.80 isn't recommended for production use, but feedback is
> appreciated.
>
> Best,
> Jesse
>
>
> Config:
> * IMPORTANT: New way to defined hash and array options using Set()
> function, old style "@XXX = (...) unless @XXX;" may result in bugs
> higly
> undesireble, read also UPGRADING
> * New RT::Config class to interact with configs, load additional files
> and
> access metadata
> * new API to get and set config options
> * old read access is backward comaptible
> * now we search for configs in local/etc
> * added base code to allow users to change vairous options via the web
> UI,
> there is already some per user options available and more will be
> added
> later.
>
> General UI:
> * Messages forwarding from ticket history to external persons.
> * Per-user options:
> ** UI layout
> ** hight of message boxes
> ** Date/Time display format
> ** Summary rows
> * Show user entry using /Elements/ShowUser component so it's easier
> to customize and make things consistent everywhere in the UI
> ** switch to Mail::Address for formatting, so result would be a correct
> email string to copy and paste into other places.
> ** show as "Real Name" <email[at]address> (login) by default
> ** drop some parts if those are duplications
> * Allow to add/delete users to/from groups right from user's admin
> pages
> * Add a 404 page to RT
>
> Tickets:
> * Users may choose order of transactions in tickets' history
> * new link that allow users to download attachmentes
> with MIME headers
> * add Forward action
> * Inline any size of text if $MaxInlineBody option is undefined or 0
> * on ticket create if status not equal to new and started date
> is not defined then we set it to now to be consistent with
> logic in SetStatus
>
> Date/Time:
> * new config option $DateTimeFormat
> * multiple output formats, available as per-user option
> * better support for timezones, available as per-user option
> * many new tests of the RT::Date API
> * fix time units handling, '1/8' didn't work
>
> Custom fields:
> * Run-time generated custom field values.
> * New type of CustomFields with autocompletion
> * Pattern column is now longer as some regular expressions
> can be really lenght.
> * Admin UI: allow to search disabled fields
> * Admin UI: type selector save states between calls
> * Fix a bug in CustomField->Create where assigned Queue is not properly
> associated with the newly created CF
> * merged duplicated CF handling code
>
> Query Builder:
> * Fixed "is not linked to ticket #N" search
> * Added the following TicketSQL fields: Linked, LinkedTo and
> LinkedFrom.
> No integration into web UI, however these mainly required in scrips
> and/or custom code.
> * Allow __WebPath__,__WebBaseURL__ and __WebURL__ in format strings
> * Embedable Query Builder.
> * html/Search/Elements/ConditionRow - component that outputs one
> criteria
> row, so it's possible to disable some options or add new one.
> * Generic TicketSQL parser, so we have it in one place instead
> of several places.
> * Many fixes in corner cases of building query tree
>
> Scrips:
> * New conditions: CloseTicket and ReopenTicket
> * Stage field didn't work during creation of a scrip in the WebUI
> * Fix scrips in TransactionBatch stage
> * Run scrips on both ends of a link by default
>
> Shredder:
> * The shredder is in core with new features. Read UPGRADING.
> * New option 'no_tickets' in RT::Shredder::Plugin::Users
> * Several ways to dump deleted objects
> * add support for %t template in file names
> * Allow user to download dump via browser right after deletion
> * ::Plugin::Tickets
> ** replace old search options with 'query' so you can use TicketSQL
> ** add 'with_linked' option
> ** add 'apply_query_to_linked' option
>
> GnuPG integration:
> * verification, decryption, signing and encrypting
> * per queue options
> * transparent support of keyservers
> * re-verifivation after importing public key
> * integration with gpg-agent to avoid passphraseless keys or
> passphrases in the config
> * per user private keys
> * read also `perldoc lib/RT/Crypt/GnuPG.pm`
>
> Extending RT and local customization:
> * Generilized listing of collections, /Elements/CollectionList is
> a replacement for TicketList that add similar features we could use
> for tickets for other collections, like Queues, Users, Scrips, etc.
> So it's possible to use the following things:
> ** display formats
> ** paging
> ** sorting
> ** column maps
> * Several error messages we send to users converted into templates.
> * Make clicky feature (read docs/extending_clickable_links.pod).
> * It's possible pass any set of arguments into templates.
> * Generic API to send emails related to tickets and not.
> * New generic UI widgets for selects, input and booleans.
> * Column maps are availble for all objects.
> * Generic support of __key.{subkey}__ in format strings.
> * Support of __CheckBox.{Name}__ and __RadioButton.{Name}__
>
> 3.7+ extensions:
> * Tickets advisory locking
> * Tickets aging
>
> Sessions handling:
> * RT::Interface::Web::Session - generic object to handle all
> session backends.
> * new AutoLogoff system-wide option
> * new sbin/rt-clean-sessions script to cleanup unused sessions
>
> Database:
> * IMPORTANT: MySQL has new schema for versions higher or equal to 4.1.0
> * Pattern column for custom fields is now longer as some regular
> expressions
> can be really lenghty.
> * New indexes that proved its effectivness
>
> rt-setup-database
> * Complete rewrite.
> * All functions have been moved into RT::Handle class, so it's possible
> to
> use features of this util from custom code
> * It's possible to define different schemas for different versions of
> the same RDBMS. Read also UPGRADING.mysql
> * print information about DB we're going to act on
> * allow users and/or extension to override DB properties via ENV
> * Many extensions to format of data files:
> ** allow to defin @Initial/@Final list of sub references
> ** allow to create groups and add them as members to other groups
> ** allow to add users into groups
> ** allow to create scrips on multiple queues at once
> ** enable custom fields by default
> ** allow to define ACLs for CFs
> ** allow to apply a CF to queue(s) instead of global
>
> rt-mailgate
> * don't die when --url is not specified, but print error and exit,
> user is not interested in information about line of the code.
> * add value of $ENV{EXTENSION} to message header
> in the 'X-RT-Mail-Extension' field. And pass through non standard
> --extension values in this field too.
> * better errors handling
>
> Performance and memory footprint:
> * Constant memory usage in rt-mailgate.
> * Lower memory footprint when images are proccessed by mason.
> * don't copy text in EncodeUTF8
> * /Elements/Callback has been replaced with $m->callback call.
> The element still works, but issue a warning. New function is
> much faster then calling a component.
> * add CallbackOnce option, to allow run callbacks only once
> * init html scrubber object only once
> * run column map component only once for the first
> row of the collection
> * Record::LoadByCols: don't create local copy of arguments unles
> DB is case sensetive even if it's sensetive create only one
> copy and change inplace
> * Replaced in many places repeated heavy calls in one block
> with one call
> * run callbacks and output text once per paragraph
> instead of per line, speed up displaying of tickets greatly
> with many text parts
> * Pass IDs of objects where it's possible instead of other unique
> fields to hit chache more often and/or avoid request to DB
>
> HTML cleanups, XHTML compatibility, layout chnages:
> * many missing closing tags have been returned to its place
> * added quotes around attributes for all tags
> * closed tags br, img and input tags with ' />' syntax
> * downcase tags and attributes names
>
> Java Script:
> * deleted duplicate .js files
> * new classes management utilities
> * reviewed visibility utilities, now we use CSS to hide/show things
> instead
> playing games with DOM what is wrong
> * Set/clear all checkboxes features now work for one group. In
> previouse
> versions it's been applied to all checkboxes on the page.
>
> Other changes and code cleanups:
> * Deprecated API have been dropped.
> * don't return empty strings instead of undef so NULL can be
> distinguished from empty strings
> * Cleand up a lot of errorless uninit warnings
> * no more perl 5.6.x compatible code
> * converted all named functions in mason components into
> anon functions, as the former is incorrect and may result
> in problems when different components define the same function
> * never call 'exit', because it may hide errors
> * log errors and rollback transactions only when it's possible
> * RT::Transaction: refactored rights checks into CurrentUserCanSee
> * fixed and reworked sending email via SMTP server
> * don't add empty $args{'Body'} to MIME as ->make_singlepart method
> doesn't
> catch this case and we create useless empty attachments and too
> nested
> entities. Now we do the right thing in all cases: text body, file
> upload,
> body+upload or none of those at all.
> * add support for $LogStackTraces = 'error' and other levels,
> so it possible to log stack traces only starting from some
> level
> * log stacktraces into syslog too as many users use default
> setup which doesn't log to file and for production uses syslog
> is prefered.
>
> Test suite:
> * Reworked test suite, no more tests inlined in the code
> and other improvements.
> * initial parallel test support for RT::Test.
> * test syntax of comps with a mason compiler
>
>
>
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