[rt-users] RT 3.8.8 Released

[Kenneth Crocker]

Ruslan,

In this announcement, I saw a reference to "* Process custom fields in
ModifyDates.html" and I was wondering if this means that we can now create a
CF in DATE format?

Also one other question: When we were in 3.6.4, the *"category"* for a
Custom Field would show in the "Modify Ticket" screen. This allowed a user
to select the *category* from a drop-down tab and thereby *shorten the
list*of available values to choose from for that CF. This hasn't been
working in
3.8.7. Is that now fixed as well?

Thanks a bunch for your time.

Kenn
LBNL


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Ruslan Zakirov <ruz at bestpractical.com>wrote:

> We are happy to announce that RT 3.8.8 is now available. You can
> download it from:
>
> http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-3.8.8.tar.gz
> http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-3.8.8.tar.gz.sig
>
> SHA1 sums
>
> be3ac598dcbf584f9bcd9a49248a9ccd3affb330  rt-3.8.8.tar.gz
> fd2e1c570a7699f3a19c1101764fb5891ed42c17  rt-3.8.8.tar.gz.sig
>
> This release contains several new features as well as a number of
> code quality improvements, bug fixes and new configuration options.
>
> In particular, we'd like to thank Aaron Sigel for security auditing work
> which led directly to a number of security improvements in this release.
>
> Noticeable features and improvements in this release include:
>
>  * Improvements to default Chart fonts and colors
>   New Hourly grouping options
>   Optional support for handling chart timezones in your database
>  * You can now interleave global and queue level custom fields
>   for display
>  * RSS feeds are available using an auth string rather than credentials
>   RT's RSS feeds should now work in significantly more feed readers
>  * RTAddressRegexp improvements to prevent users from adding an RT
>   address as a watcher on a ticket
>  * Admin UI improvements, including the new AdminSearchResultFormat
>   config option
>  * Your current password is now required to change a password via RT's web
>   interface
>  * New web handler: bin/fastcgi_server which allows you to run RT
>   as a FastCGI external server
>  * Refactored Elements/ShowUser so it's easer to add custom
>   formats.
>  * Printed views of RT tickets should now be somewhat more visually
> pleasing
>  * RT now uses less memory when building the First/Prev/Next/Last links
>   for the result of a big ticket search
>  * New config options: AttachmentUnits, AlwaysDownloadAttachments,
>   DefaultMailPrecedence, DefaultErrorMailPrecedence,
>   MessageBoxIncludeSignature*, UseOriginatorHeader and
>   LogoutRefresh.  See RT_Config.pm for more information on these and
>   other configuration options.
>
> A more complete changelog is available below.
>
> Ruslan.
>
> NEW FEATURES AND MAJOR CHANGES
>
> * Aaron Sigel performed a security audit of RT and pointed out
>  a number of potential improvements which have been addressed
>
> * Charts improvements
>
>    * Time-based charts can now show "hourly" goupings.
>    * ChartFont option is now hash with font per language.
>    * Two default fonts are shipped with RT to cover most
>      supported languages.
>    * The table of chart results now contains links to tickets
>      matching a given row.
>    * Timezones support, but protected with config option.
>    * Better scaling of Y axis.
>    * X axis labels are now vertical if there is not enough
>      space to display them horizontally.
>
> * RTAddressRegexp option improvements
>
>    * No default value anymore.
>    * If no value is set then RT will attempt to calculate the right value
>      from the user-defined queue addresses.
>    * On create/update/people pages RT now checks addresses
>      users enter and stop users from entering known
>      addresses for RT queues.
>
> * Admin UI improvements
>
>    * Improved display of the "About this RT" page.
>    * More pages in the Admin UI have been switched to generic
>      code to list objects (like tickets in search results)
>    * Display formats for these objects are now configurable
>      in the config file (%AdminSearchResultFormat)
>    * More columns in column maps for objects other than
>      tickets.
>
> * Custom fields ordering and application improvements
>
>    * Queue specific custom fields now can be placed above
>      global, below or even in the middle. Order of global
>      custom fields stays the same in all queues, but a custom
>      field that is applied to particular queues can be placed
>      differently in each queue.
>    * Make it possible to apply a CF globally from 'Applies To'
>      page.
>    * RT no longer allows you to apply a CF globally and to queues
>      at the same time. When CF is applied globally it is
>      un-applied from specific queues first.
>
> * Refactored simple (googleish) search
>
>    * new options in the config to control defaults
>    * new keywords to search for particular things
>
> * RSS feeds now contain embedded single-query authentication strings
> * We've Introduced a config option to prevent adding the
>  RT-Originator header in outgoing mails.
> * New MessageBoxIncludeSignature* options
> * LogoutRefresh config option to control how long to wait
>  before going back to login
> * New config option for AttachmentUnits
> * New config option for AlwaysDownloadAttachments
> * RT now requires your current password to change any password
> * Improved LinkValueTo and returned back functionality
>
>    * if LinkValueTo starts with __CustomField__ then don't
>      escape it, but make sure it's not a JS link
>    * escape links using HTML escaping
>    * don't wrap into <a> with empty href if link is empty
>
> * Added DefaultMailPrecedence and DefaultErrorMailPrecedence
>  config options
> * Squelch watchers on update. This makes doing silent
>  Updates possible
> * New web handler: bin/fastcgi_server
> * Refactored Elements/ShowUser so it's easy to add custom
>  formats. Several performance improvements in this code.
> * MERGE_CACHE to cache information about merged tickets and
>  lower logs and DB impact on re-checks
> * Made NotifyActor into a User Preference
> * If the MIME entity has header X-RT-Squelch, do not send
>  the message
> * Improved print layouts
> * Serve images in js and css dirs as static files,
>  so browsers cache them more agressively
> * Added HasAttribute and HasNoAttribute to TicketSQL
> * New faster and less memory hungry TicketsMaps - First, Prev,
>  Next and Last links when you view tickets from the current
>  search. Size is now limited by a new config option. Floating
>  window is used to build the links.
>
> CLEANUPS AND SMALL IMPROVEMENTS
>
> * Updated doc/Security with more modern security tips
> * Made the plaintext mono feature work in IE.
> * Better timezone handling in Tools/Reports/ResolvedByDates.html
> * Make sure we don't serve files outside RT's paths
> * Additional checks to make sure that credentials
>  are sent to RT on Login
> * Moved CustomField column map from tickets' to generic
> * Make height, width, href and alt of the logo configurable
> * Load as much as possible when a web-handler with forks
>  is used, this increase memory sharing across processes
> * A link provided for approvals templates to whoever worked
>  the approval
> * Global __WebRequestPath__ and __WebRequestPathDir__
>  column map entries
> * Process custom fields in ModifyDates.html
> * Handle Ccs and AdminCcs of the queue in SkipNotification
>  feature
> * Sort callbacks within a root only, respect plugins
>  order
> * Add some wording to the check boxes on the reply pages
> * Reduce whitespace on bottom of boxes as was earlier
> * Use smaller margin for reminders display to save space
> * Use a reasonable length for scrip descriptions
> * Removed a lie about RT CLI still being "unsupported"
> * User friendlier errors handling thrown by Calendar::Simple
> * Split some CSS from themes into base/xxx.css
> * Googleish search was making incorrect assumptions
>  about RT::User and RT::Group's Load function
>  returning a boolean not a list. This was throwing
>  (harmless, but ugly) errors.
> * Don't apply order on collections if sorting is not
>  allowed
> * Removed the "URL" parameter to 'Logout' as it had no
>  legitimate use.
> * make instal and testdeps tests to avoid some versions
>  of modules that are known to be buggy or incompatible,
>  for example DBD::Oracle 1.23
>
> BUG FIXES
>
> * properly use AND/OR when content is searched and
>  DontSearchFileAttachments option is enabled
> * Make sure Merge only possible when user has Modify
>  right on both tickets
> * Fixes for UseSQLForACLChecks option, it was possible
>  to construct a query and see tickets an user has no
>  right to see. Lots of tests have been added to make
>  sure it wouldn't happen again.
> * SQL used for ACL checks has been refactored to get
>  more effective queries. Especially when list of
>  potential owners is built for the query builder.
> * Unified API for tables with disabled column and
>  fixes when ->Count could return bigger value
>  when some CFs are disabled.
> * I18N was transcoding attachments to UTF-8 one line
>  at a time. This doesn't work at all for UTF-16 and
>  probably other encodings.
> * Fixed encoding problem when loading a dump file
>  produced by rt-dump-database.
> * A closing </li> was missing in PreviewScrips comp
> * Fixed config loading when Fcntl module or other exporting
>  symbols is loaded. Load was failing with "Not a SCALAR
>  reference" error.
> * Returned back effective SQL when searching by CFs with
>  = or != operator
> * Fixed error on login when user make mistake in password
>  and he entered character out of ASCII range.
> * Honor a user's MessageBoxRichTextHeight setting
> * Fixed query builder behaviour with NULLs and '' (empty values)
> * Fixed potential information loose on incorrect GnuPG mails
> * Fixed display-all-rows in Dashboards
> * Fixed JS escaping issues
> * Set context object in OCFV::CustomFieldObj
> * Sessions ended up in /tmp/ in some cases
> * Fixed safe_run_child when code dies between fork and exec,
>  deals with "mysql server has gone away" error
> * fix Jumbo reloading and losing message content
> * Stop infinite looping when you have global custom
>  fields and no Queue restriction
> * Fixed sorting of custom fields in Results.tsv
> * Set of fixes for Unicode characters in emails
>  and tests covering these changes
> * Don't create handles we don't need, we can hit limit
> * Prevent servers using GnuPG from running out of file handles
>
> TRANSLATION
>
> Updates merged from launchpad and two new languages: nn.po
> and pt_PT.po. Thanks to all contributors.
>
> CALLBACKS
>
> * AboutThisUser in ShowPeople box
> * Between the GnuPG and message rows
> * AfterSubject
> * Before and After CustomFields
> * Before and After TransactionCustomFields
> * AfterAddress in PreviewScrips
> * At the top of ticket summary columns
> * For adding links for attachment downloads
> * At the bottom of the logout box
> * Pass more information to the FormStart callback
>  in Ticket/Update.html
> * AfterMessageBox on ticket create page
> * ShowTransaction/AfterAnchor
> * In EditDates and ShowDates
> * Pass a reference to the signature in MessageBox's callback
> * For inserting text after the transaction's description
> * AfterUpdateType in Jumbo.html and Update.html
>
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