[Rt-devel] RT 3.7.80 - First RT 3.8 beta release

[Todd Chapman]

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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