[Rt-announce] RT 3.6.1 (And Hiveminder!)

[Jesse Vincent]

I know I promised to release RT 3.6.1 on Friday, but I slightly  
overestimated the free-time I'd have on the day we launched
Hiveminder, our new collaborative todo-list system for regular people.

WHY RT 3.6.1 IS LATE


Here's what I told my blog about Hiveminder. (Pretend that everywhere  
I say Hiveminder, it's a hyperlink to http://hiveminder.com

We've just launched Hiveminder, a shared todo list service.  
Hiveminder makes it easy to keep track of everything you need to do  
and to share tasks with the people you love (and those you just need  
to do things for you.) You can assign tasks to anyone who has an  
email address. They don't even have to sign up for an account.

You can defer tasks until tomorrow, next week or next year, with a  
click of your mouse. "But first" and "and then" links on every task  
make it easy to procrastinate...er, to model complex projects.

We wouldn't be Web 2.0™ compliant if we didn't let you tag each task  
with useful keywords.

Groups let you share tasks with a set of friends or coworkers (and  
help keep work out of your way when you're getting stuff done at home).

We'll be rolling out paid premium services later this year, but basic  
accounts will always be free.


RT 3.6.1 IS OUT NOW

You can download RT 3.6.1 from http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/ 
rt/release/ right now. It contains a few new features like the  
ability to get charts of tickets grouped by Custom Field values and a  
quick switch to show ticket history in reverse-chronological order,  
but more importantly, it contains fixes for a number of your favorite  
bugs, including:

	"RT logs me out every time I do anything",
	" Searching for a ticket number broke",
	and "I can't search for merged tickets"

Please enjoy the new release. We look forward to hearing about any  
issues you run into, as well as your thoughts on Hiveminder.

Best,

Jesse Vincent
and the rest of the gang at Best Practical



RT 3.6.1 RELEASE NOTES


Web Interface


* Restore "Go to ticket #" search functionality accidentally removed  
from RT 3.6.0
* Fixed the dreaded "infinite login" bug
* Forward porting a history ordering fix from 3.4
* Removed not-quite-right outdated cachinng header generation
* Backport the ability to chart by custom field from RT 3.7
* Add id's to the TitleBox wrappers so we can easily make them  
invisible from the stylesheet
* Added a few new callbacks
* Allow sites to disable the display of inline ticket images.
* Inline display of which ticket watchers are "squelched"
* Better semantic html for custom field labels from Todd Chapman
* Started generating better caching headers for css, image and js files
* Added "Redirect" and "StaticFileHeaders" methods to  
RT::Interface::Web.
* Switch our redirects to use the new RT::Interface::Web::Redirect  
method
* Redirect is careful to redirect the browser to the same base RT url  
they're coming from
    and to close the user's Apache::Session, lest that module try to  
open two copies
    of the same prepared session database handle at the same time and  
fall over.
* StaticFileHeaders tells the user's browser that the file being served
    was last modified at last server start and should be cached for  
approximately
    a month.  Better would be to use the Heuristics that  
Jifty::View::Static provides.
* Finding disabled groups should actually find them, now
* Reed Loden caught a perltidy error that, somewhat terrifiyingly,
    was still a valid mason page
* In some cases, RT could lose multiple attachments being uploaded on  
ticket reply.
    this is now fixed.


Internationalization

* Updated spanish-language translation


Internals

* cleanup test file, fewer warnings
* @actions -> @$actions to handle parser errors
* don't blame users on CF.{} conditions
    Thanks to Todd and Rolf Grossmann.
* localization bugfixes reported by doogles
* Typo fixed: package is Googleish, we loaded local/vendor Googlish
* simple tests for Attachments manipulation from web interface
* The RT::Condition::Generic docs were wrong... fixed.
* Every RT script that uses the API now uses "local" library paths in  
preference to
    system ones

REST interface

* Added support for spaces in names of custom fields in the REST,
    based on patch from Dmitri Tikhonov.
* If a ticket is created with _RecordTransaction set to
    zero, it's not an error when zero is returned as the
    transaction id. Thanks, Todd.
* crit was being called on the wrong object. Thanks to Todd Chapman
* Added LastUpdated field to the fields returned through the REST  
interface --
     David Schweikert
* Mark Eichin picked up that
    http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/rt-devel/2004-August/006216.html
    had never been applied.  rt ls -l broke because of it, if your RT  
server wasn't at /

Installation

* Added a "RH" RedHat layout option to config.layout  -- Paulo Matos
* better help on dependency install
* Better modperl2 bulletproofing
* removed redundant Calendar::Simple from the dependencies


Configuration

* new config option $OldestTransactionsFirst that allow
    administrator to reverse order of transactions on
    history page


rt-crontool

* add --transaction argument with two possible values: 'first' and  
'last'
* add --transaction-type argument to allow users select type of  
transactions
** these transactions would be passed to scrips for processing, so users
     can use conditions, actions and templates that check or use  
properties of
     transaction
* Some existent actions, conditions and templates require scrip or
    scrip action objects to process normally, as we have no these  
objects
    available we now pass void (not loaded) objects. This change  
would allow
    users to use notify actions with crontool.


Email

* Add Pre hook to mail-gateway
* Initial support for configurable VERP
* Add a Date: header to outbound email messages
* Sending e-mail falls back to the username if a RealName can't be  
found.  We
     shouldn't be sending messages with "From:  via RT" any more.
* Mail gateway refactoring to make added functioanlity a bit easier.


Licensing and copyright

* Set the visible copyright string to 2006
* Ran the copyright tagger, updated for 2006.


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