[rt-announce] RT 4.0.21 released

[Alex Vandiver]

RT 4.0.21 -- 2014-07-16
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We are pleased to announce that RT 4.0.21 is now available.

http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.0.21.tar.gz
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.0.21.tar.gz.sig

SHA1 sums

17ed0ac4aca9772223597f8df54745ad85a86bc5  rt-4.0.21.tar.gz
f3e76559f2f5fd5b7e925b2cfb51011f5b297856  rt-4.0.21.tar.gz.sig

This release is primarily a bugfix release; changes of note include:

General user UI
 * Granting rights to new groups no longer requires clicking in textbox
   twice in firefox (#29911)
 * Canonicalize CF values (including dates, IP addresses, and IP ranges)
   before comparing to the database value; this prevents spurious
   "changed from a to a" messages.
 * Quick Create now defaults to the lifecycle's default create status,
   instead of hardcoding "new"

Admin
 * DBD::Pg 3.3.0 conflicts with RT's UTF-8 handling; for this release,
   it has been blacklisted.  If you are using PostgreSQL as your
   database and have DBD::Pg 3.3.0 installed, you will need to download
   and install DBD::Pg 3.2.1 from CPAN.
 * rt-fulltext-indexer now locks, to prevent more than one instance from
   running at once (#17423)
 * Quiet a warning in the logo auto-color-detection.
 * Bump CGI dependency (under perl 5.20 and above, only) to quash
   warnings about CGI.pm's deprecation in core (#29053)
 * For compatibility with RT::Extension::MergeUsers, ensure that
   Shredder checks that a user (possibly resolved from a merged user) is
   valid before attempting to shred them
 * Correctly detect presence of graphviz binary (`dot`), instead of
   libgraph.so, for perl dependency calculation

Developer
 * Tests now pass again using RT_TEST_WEB_HANDLER=inline
 * ->AddCustomFieldValues no longer allows adding repeated values
   (#4553)

Documentation
 * Updated example plugins used in documentation
 * Documentation for ColumnMap
 * Correct a reference to max_allowed_packet in backup documentation
 * Document explicit steps for adding a new status to a lifecycle


A complete changelog is available from git by running:
    git log rt-4.0.20..rt-4.0.21
or visiting
    https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/rt-4.0.20...rt-4.0.21