RT: Request Tracker

RT 4.2.7 -- 2014-09-11
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We are pleased to announce that RT 4.2.7 is now available.

https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.7.tar.gz
https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.7.tar.gz.asc

SHA1 sums

bcb0f4c049be68c3cd95fefeea80afc701cb4ff9  rt-4.2.7.tar.gz
d855b2a91055eecd0caf89d78f429d53ff567425  rt-4.2.7.tar.gz.asc

This release is primarily a bugfix release; most notably, it reworks
UTF8 data handling to work with versions of DBD::Pg 3.3.0 and above.  On
PostgreSQL, this requires a newer version of DBIx::SearchBuilder.

It also includes a minor database upgrade step; no matter how minor, do
not forget to take (and test) database backups before upgrading.


General user UI
 * Fix algorithm for determining which links to display in ticket
   relationship graphs with a MaxDepth
 * Use "Correspondence added" or "Comment added" rather than the general
   "Message recorded"
 * Loading saved charts should load all of their settings (#29015)
 * Stop fixing the width of "New ticket in" button (#27649)
 * Record transactions in ticket history when attachments were dropped
   or truncated due to $MaxAttachmentSize
 * Still delay transaction loading when "full headers" have been
   requested
 * Add an "overdue" class on Due columns, to match DueRelative columns.
 * Only show "overdue" class if the ticket status is still active
 * Fix styling of "There are unread messages" box in aileron
 * Keep date and datetime custom field inputs during failed ticket
   creation
 * Silence warnings from emails without Content-Transfer-Encoding
   headers
 * Silence warnings on user modify pages for disabled users
 * Let custom field grouping boxes link on Display pages link to the
   appropriate anchor on editing pages (#30195)

Localizations
 * Localize "Recursive" column title in group memberships page
 * Additional missing locstrings for numerous titleboxes
 * Stop translating titles piecemeal in SelfService (#14736)
 * Updated Catalan, German, Basque, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian
   Portuguese, and Russian translations

Command-line
 * Reduce values queried using "rt ls" to only those displayed; this
   speeds request time significantly when a large number of custom
   fields are applied
 * Add -s option to "rt comment", to set status when adding a comment or
   correspondence (#30375)

Admin
 * Add %AdminSearchResultRows configuration for altering the number of
   rows per page of object types in the administrative interface
 * Add an additional suggested index on Attachments' Creator for
   deleting users with Shredder
 * Fix rt-dump-metadata, by removing PrivateKey from _Accessible
   (#22465)
 * Rework internals dealing with characters/bytes, for better internal
   consistency, and su support DBD::Pg 3.3.0 and above.
 * Provide rt-mailgate version in User-Agent string (#18420)
 * Reword errors given for rt-crontool when no valid user is found
   (#18621)
 * Show the right error message when rt-crontool fails to load a module
   (#22991)
 * Properly detect when rt-server is called without --listen
 * Detect auto-generated mail in the presence of multiple Precedence:
   headers
 * Strip non-word characters from custom field variable names in Simple
   templates; this allows use of custom fields with spaces (#18446)
 * Streamline 3.8 -> 4.0 and 4.0 -> 4.2 upgrade steps by reducing the
   number of ALTER TABLE calls that are run, adding/dropping multiple
   columns at once (#21309)
 * Remove LogoImageHeight and LogoImageWidth configuration varables,
   which had no effect (#26827)

Developer
 * Add a callback to manipulate which link types are displayed on
   tickets
 * Allow Object to be a subref in @Attributes in initialdata, to allow
   for attributes on arbitrary objects
 * Ignore vim swap files when testing
 * Allow the SuccessfulLogin callback to alter where RT redirects to
 * Add a callback to alter arguments to Showhistory
 * Consistently use ->_GroupingClass when determining record class for
   grouping lookup.
 * Allow ->Deprecated to take a loglevel
 * Switch from MIME::Head->set(), deprecated for the last 16 years, to
   ->replace() (#18417)

Documentation
 * Correct documentation on where Shredder places sqldump files (#19167)
 * Consistently use say 1/0 instead of true/false in RT_Config.pm
   documentation
 * Document how ordering in lifecycle transitions controls ordering in
   the status drop-down


A complete changelog is available from git by running:
    git log rt-4.2.6..rt-4.2.7
or visiting
    https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/rt-4.2.6...rt-4.2.7