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diff --git a/docs/en/rel_notes.txt b/docs/en/rel_notes.txt index 120ee819d..efde41c58 100644 --- a/docs/en/rel_notes.txt +++ b/docs/en/rel_notes.txt @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ Table of Contents * Choice of E-Mail Sending Methods * "User Preferences" * "Large Attachment" Storage + * "User Visibility" Controls * Miscellaneous Improvements * All Changes - Deprecated Features @@ -87,8 +88,8 @@ For MySQL Users For PostgreSQL Users (new in 2.20) -------------------- - PostgreSQL 7.3.x (8.x has not been tested, but may work) - perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 + PostgreSQL 7.3.x (8.x has received less testing) + perl module: DBD::Pg 1.31 (1.41 required for PostgreSQL 8+) Required Perl Modules --------------------- @@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ Required Perl Modules Data::Dumper (any) Date::Format v2.21 DBI v1.38 (changed from 2.18) - File::Spec v0.82 + File::Spec v0.84 (changed from 2.18) File::Temp (any) Template Toolkit v2.08 Text::Wrap v2001.0131 @@ -167,7 +168,14 @@ You can now tell Bugzilla to accept a certain value passed in from Apache as authentication for Bugzilla users. This means that Bugzilla now "supports" any type of authentication that Apache supports. -To use this, FIXME ----- EXPLAIN THIS BEFORE 2.20 RELEASE ----- FIXME +To use this, set the "user_info_class" parameter to "ENV" and, at a +minimum, set the "auth_env_email" parameter to the name of the +Environment variable that passes the authenticated user (usually +"REMOTE_USER"). If your webserver knows users' real names as well, also +set the "auth_env_realname" parameter. If you are using a true +single-signon system that assigns an identifier uniquely to an +individual, even across changes of email address, then set +"auth_env_id" to the name of that variable. User-List Drop-Down Menus @@ -271,6 +279,19 @@ To enable this feature, set the "maxlocalattachmentsize" parameter to a non-zero value, in editparams.cgi. +"User Visibility" Controls +-------------------------- + +It is now possible to prevent users from encountering all other users when +using user-matching or drop-down userlists. To enable this restriction, +enable the "usevisibilitygroups" parameter. Once this is enabled, each +group's permissions will include a new column for "visible." The members +of any group for which the group being edited is visible will be +able to user-match this groups's users or see them in dropdown lists. + +This does not control who a user can CC on a bug, only who they can +see in the user-matching lists or drop-downs. + Miscellaneous Improvements -------------------------- @@ -404,6 +425,11 @@ Outstanding Issues - Bug 285614: importxml.pl may be broken in many different ways. +- (No Bug Number) Note that the email interface (bug_mail.pl) in the + contrib/ directory has not been maintained (as it has no maintainer), + and so may not be working properly. Contributions are welcome, if + anybody would like to work on it. + Upgrading From An Older Bugzilla ************************************ @@ -556,6 +582,12 @@ Other Changes disappear by 2.22. For more information on how to use the $dbh methods, see: http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBI/DBI.pm +- The $::userid variable will be going away. Use Bugzilla->user->id instead. + +- All global variables (any that start with $::, @::, or %::) will + be going away, eventually, hopefully they will be entirely gone + by Bugzilla 2.24. + Release Notes for Previous Versions *********************************** |