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diff --git a/docs/rel_notes.txt b/docs/rel_notes.txt index e9302db1f..f6d986073 100644 --- a/docs/rel_notes.txt +++ b/docs/rel_notes.txt @@ -1,22 +1,87 @@ -*************************************** -*** The Bugzilla 2.18 Release Notes *** -*************************************** +***************************************** +*** The Bugzilla 2.18.1 Release Notes *** +***************************************** + +Table of Contents +***************** + +- Introduction +- Important Updates In This Point Release + * Version 2.18.1 +- Requirements + * Dependency Requirements +- What's New? + * Generic Reporting + * Generic Charting + * Request System + * Enterprise Group Support + * User Wildcard Matching + * Support for "Insiders" + * Time Tracking + * Authentication module/LDAP improvements + * Improved localization support + * Patch Viewer + * Comment Reply Links + * Full-Text Search + * Email Address Munging + * Simple Search + * Miscellaneous Improvements + * All Changes +- What's Changed? + * Flag Names + * New Saved Search User Interface + * Rules for changing fields +- Removed Features +- Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations +- Recommended Practice for the Upgrade + * Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables + * Steps for Upgrading +- Outstanding Issues (<======================== IMPORTANT, PLEASE READ) +- Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases +- Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes + Introduction ************ -This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.18. In this document -recently added, changed, and removed features of Bugzilla are described. +This document contains the release notes for Bugzilla 2.18 and +the bugfix releases after 2.18. In this document, recently added, +changed, and removed features of Bugzilla are described. + +The 2.18 release is our current stable series, containing the results +of over two years of hard and dedicated work by volunteers all over +the world under the lead of Dave Miller. + + +Important Updates In This Point Release +*************************************** -The 2.18 release is the first in a new stable series, containing the results -of over two years of hard and dedicated work by volunteers all over the world -under the lead of Dave Miller. +There are usually many other bug fixes than those listed below, +but the below fixes are the ones that we thought System Administrators +would like to specifically know about. -This is a preliminary document detailing how we expect things to be in the -final 2.18 release. The contents of this document are subject to change up -until the final release. Please file bugs in Bugzilla for any additions or -corrections needed in this document. +To see a listing of all changes in this release, you can use the +table available at: +http://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html + +Version 2.18.1 +-------------- + ++ You can now enter a negative time for "Hours Worked" + in the time-tracking area. (Bug 271276) + ++ The BugMail.pm customization required for Windows (as + described in the Bugzilla Guide) now actually works. (Bug 280911) + ++ Users who were using Bugzilla 2.8 can now successfully upgrade + to 2.18.1 (they couldn't upgrade to 2.18). (Bug 283403) + ++ Dependency mails are now properly sent during a mass-change of bugs. + (Bug 178157) + +Requirements +************ Dependency Requirements ----------------------- @@ -71,6 +136,31 @@ way. These views may be more appropriate for particular data types, and are suitable for saving and then putting into presentations or web pages. +Generic Charting +---------------- + +Bugzilla has a new mechanism for generating charts (graphs over time) of any +arbitrary search. This is known as "New Charts." Legacy data from the previous +charting mechanism ("Old Charts") is migrated into the "New Charts" when you +upgrade. The Old Charts mechanism remains, but is deprecated and will be +removed in a future version of Bugzilla. + +Individual users can see/create charts as long as they are a member of the +group specified in the Param 'chartgroup'. Data can be collected for +personal charts every seven days (or a longer period, as set by the user). +Charts created by an administrator can be made public (visible to all). Data +is collected for administrator charts every day (or a longer period, as set +by the admin). + +The data is collected by the collectstats.pl script, which an administrator +will need to arrange to be run once every day (see the manual). Chart data can +be plotted in a number of different ways, and different data sets can be +plotted on the same graph for comparison. + +Please see the Known Bugs section for some important limitations relating to +access controls on charts. + + Request System --------------- @@ -211,11 +301,11 @@ Bugzilla's buglists. This change adds HTML obfuscation of email addresses as they appear in the Bugzilla web pages. -Generic Charting ----------------- +Google-like Bug Search +---------------------- -Bugzilla's new charting feature allows you to display flexible summary charts, -based on configurable data sets (bug 16009). +Bugzilla now includes a very simple, Google-like "Find a Specific Bug" page, +in addition to its advanced search page. Miscellaneous Improvements @@ -260,6 +350,23 @@ Miscellaneous Improvements - Mail handling is now between 125% to 175% faster. +- Guided Bug Entry: You can see a sample enter_bug.cgi template at + enter_bug.cgi?format=guided that "guides" users through the process of + filing a "good" bug. It needs to be modified before use in your organization. + +- There is now a "Give me some help" link on the Advanced Search page that will + enable pop-up help for every field on the page. + +- The Bugzilla administrator can now forbid users from marking bugs RESOLVED + when there are unresolved dependencies. + + +All Changes +----------- + +To see a list of EVERY bug that was fixed between 2.16 and 2.18 (over 1000), +see: http://tinyurl.com/6m3e4 + What's Changed? *************** @@ -279,6 +386,17 @@ running checksetup will attempt to automatically rename them by replacing commas and spaces with underscores. +New Saved Search User Interface +------------------------------- + +In previous Bugzilla versions, you could specify on the search page that you +wanted to save a search and store it as a link in your footer. This option has +now moved to the search results page (buglist.cgi), where you will see a +"Remember search" button with a box next to it to enter the name of the search. + +You can manage your saved searches on the Preferences page. + + Rules for changing fields ------------------------- @@ -355,6 +473,19 @@ The effective differences in the rules: to the 'everconfirmed' flag. +Removed Features +**************** + +- Please note that Bugzilla no longer supports MySQL 3.22. The minimum required + version is now 3.23.41. + +- The "shadow database" mechanism is no longer used. Instead, use MySQL's + built-in replication feature. + +- If you have placed any comments in the localconfig file, they may be removed + by checksetup.pl. + + Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations ******************************************** @@ -381,32 +512,1169 @@ Code Changes Which May Affect Customizations - Use Bugzilla->user->login in place of $::COOKIE{Bugzilla_login} -- You can tell if there's a user logged in or not by checking if - Bugzilla->user->id != 0 rather than looking for $::userid != 0 +- You can tell if there's a user logged in or not by using + Bugzilla->user rather than looking for $::userid==0. + In new 2.18 code, use defined(Bugzilla->user) && (Bugzilla->user->id) + In 2.20, this will become just (Bugzilla->user->id) + In templates, always test [% IF user.id %] rather than [% IF user %] + +- SendSQL() and related calls are deprecated, and the various $dbh methods + should be used instead, such as $dbh->prepare() and $dbh->execute(). + Bugzilla->dbh is the $dbh handle to use. Recommended Practice for the Upgrade ************************************ -As always, please ensure you have run checksetup.pl after replacing the -files in your installation. +Note About Upgrading From MySQL With ISAM Tables +------------------------------------------------ +As previously noted in the Dependency Requirements MySQL is now required +to be at least version 3.23.41. This implies that all tables of type ISAM will +be converted by the checksetup.pl script to MyISAM. + + +Steps for Upgrading +------------------- + +1) View the Sanity Check (sanitycheck.cgi) page on your installation before + upgrading. + +2) As with any upgrade it is recommended that you make a backup of the + Bugzilla database before you upgrade, perhaps by using mysqldump. + + Example: + + mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup + +3) Replace the files in your installation, or you can try to use CVS to upgrade. + The Bugzilla.org website has instructions on how to do the actual + installation. -It is recommended that you view the sanity check page (sanitycheck.cgi) both -before the upgrade and after running checksetup.pl after the upgrade, to see -if there are any problems with your installation. +4) Make sure that you run checksetup.pl after you install the new version. -It is also recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find -immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work correctly. -Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after an upgrade, -it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your database, as -additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and it is possible -that those errors weren't being checked for in the old version. +5) View the Sanity Check page again after you run checksetup.pl. -As previously noted in the Dependency Requirements MySQL is now required to be -at least version 3.23.41. This implies that all tables of type ISAM will be -converted by the checksetup.pl script to MyISAM. As with any upgrade it is -recommended to make a backup of the database, perhaps by using mysqldump. +6) It is recommended that, if possible, you fix any problems you find + immediately. Failure to do this may mean that Bugzilla will not work + correctly. Be aware that if the sanity check page contains more errors after + an upgrade, it doesn't necessarily mean there are more errors in your + database, as additional tests are added to the sanity check over time, and + it is possible that those errors weren't being checked for in the old + version. + + +Outstanding Issues +****************** + +These are known problems with the release that we think you should know about. +They each have a bug number for http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ + +- If at any time you upgraded from a version of Bugzilla between 2.17.4 - + 2.17.7 to either 2.18rc3 or 2.19.1, you must manually fix your New Charts in + order for them to work. See the following link for instructions on how to do + this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=276237#c18 + If you are using 2.18rc3, but did not upgrade from version 2.17.4 or newer, + then you don't need to do this. + +- bug 37765: If you use an MTA other than sendmail (such as Postfix, Exim, + etc.) you MUST turn on the "sendmailnow" parameter or Bugzilla will not send + e-mail correctly. + +- bug 276230: The support for restricting access to particular Categories of + New Charts is not complete. You should treat the 'chartgroup' Param as the + only access mechanism available. However, additionally, charts migrated from + Old Charts will be restricted to the groups that are marked MANDATORY for + the corresponding Product. There is currently no way to change this + restriction, and the groupings will not be updated if the group configuration + for the Product changes. + +- bug 69621: If you rename or remove a keyword that is in use on bugs, you will + need to rebuild the "keyword cache" by running sanitycheck.cgi and choosing + the option to rebuild the cache when it asks. Otherwise keywords may not show + up properly in search results. + +- (No Bug Number) If you have a lot of non-ASCII data in your Bugzilla (for + example, if you use a translation of Bugzilla), don't enable the XS::Stash + option when you install the Template Toolkit, or your Bugzilla installation + may become slow. This problem is fixed in a not-yet-released version of the + Template Toolkit (after 2.14). + +- bug 266579: Users may be able to circumvent not having "canconfirm" privileges + in some circumstances. This is fixed starting with 2.19.3, but will not + be fixed in any 2.18 release, as the changes require to fix it are quite + large. + +- bug 99215: Attachment changes have no mid-air collision detection, unlike bug + changes. + +- bug 57350: Searching using the "commenter is" option may be VERY slow. Note + that searching for "field: comment, changed by: user@domain.com" is fast, + though. + +- bug 151509: Using the boolean chart option "contains the string" with the + "flag name" field or certain other fields will cause Bugzilla to emit an + error. + +- bug 225042: If sendmail dies while you are marking a bug as a duplicate, + the duplicates table can become corrupted. + +- bug 234159: Bugzilla may sometimes send multiple notices in one email. + +- bug 237107: If you search for attachment information using the Boolean Charts + at the bottom of the Advanced Query page, bugs without attachments will not + show up in the result list. + + +Security Fixes In 2.18 Releases +******************************* + +Version 2.18 +------------ + +Summary: XSS in Internal Error messages in Bugzilla 2.16.7 and 2.18rc3 +CVE Name: CAN-2004-1061 +Reference: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272620 +Details: + It is possible to send a carefully crafted URL to Bugzilla designed to +trigger an error message. The Internal Error message includes javascript code +which displays the URL the user is visiting. The javascript code does not +escape the URL before displaying it, allowing scripts contained in the URL to +be executed by the browser. Many browsers do not allow unescaped URLs to be +sent to a webserver (thus complying with RFC 2616 section 2.3.1 and RFC 2396 +section 2.4.3), and are thus immune to this issue. + Browsers which are known to be immune: Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.7.5, +Camino 0.8.2, Netscape 7.2, Safari 1.2.4 + Browsers known to be susceptible: Internet Explorer 6 SP2, +Konqueror 3.2 + Browsers not listed here have not been tested. + + +Version 2.18.1 +-------------- + +Two security issues were fixed in Bugzilla 2.18.1, neither of them +critical. + +See http://www.bugzilla.org/security/2.16.8/ for details. + + +Detailed Version-To-Version Release Notes +***************************************** + +********************************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.7 *** +********************************************************* + +*** Security fixes *** + +- It is possible to send a carefully crafted HTTP POST message to + process_bug.cgi which will remove keywords from a bug even if you don't have + permissions to edit all bug fields (the "editbugs" permission). Such changes + are reported in "bug changed" email notifications, so they are easily + detected and reversed if someone abuses it. Users are now prevented from + making changes to keywords if they do not have editbugs privileges. (bug + 252638) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- Enforce a minimum of 10 minutes between attempts to reset a password, so + we don't mailbomb the user if someone submits the form many times in a + row. (bug 250897) + +- Put products in alphabetical order on the create attachment status page. + (bug 251427) + +- Specify MyISAM as the table type when creating new tables. MySQL 4.1 and + up default to InnoDB, which doesn't support some of the indexing methods + that we use. (bug 263165) + +********************************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.6 *** +********************************************************* + +*** Security fixes *** + +- If Bugzilla is configured to hide entire products from some users, both + duplicates.cgi and the form for mass-editing a list of bugs in buglist.cgi + can disclose the names of those hidden products to such users. + (bugs 234825 and 234855) + +- Several administration CGIs echo invalid data back to the user without + escaping it. (bug 235265) + +- A user with privileges to grant membership to any group (i.e. usually an + administrator) can trick editusers.cgi into executing arbitrary SQL. + (bug 244272) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- Allow XML import to function when there are regexp metacharacters in product + names (bug 237591) + +- Allow the bug_email.pl contrib script to work with useqacontact (bug 239912) + +- Improve the error message used by checksetup.pl when the MySQL requirements + are not met (bug 240228) + +- Elimnate the warning in checksetup.pl about the minimum sendmail version (bug + 240060) + +- $webservergroup now defaults to group 'apache' in new installations (bug + 224477) + +- Correct a situation where a bugmail message could be sent twice to a user + being added to the CC list if the address was entered in a different case + than the user registered with. (bug 117297) + +- Various documentation updates + +********************************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.4 *** +********************************************************* + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- Fix a "used only once" warning that ocurred only in perl 5.00503 + (bug 2321691) + +- When a user is creating a new account and enters an invalid email + address, the error page sent the "Content-type" header twice, causing + the second one to be visible at the top of the page. + (bug 137121) + +- An HTML encoding issue which only affected Internet Explorer was + corrected in the "Change several bugs at once" page. + (bug 181106) + +- During initial setup, using invalid characters in the administrator + password would present an error message stating your password was + too long or too short instead of telling you it had invalid + characters. + (bug 166755) + +- When a user reset their own password via an emailed token, the new + password in the first field would be accepted if the second password + field was left blank. + (bug 123077) + +- Reopening bugs from the "change several bugs at once" page now works. + (bug 95430) + +- Fix a regression in xml.cgi caused by the previous bugfix for MySQL + SUM() changes. The original fix didn't work properly either. + (bug 225474) + +- No longer use server push with the "Safari" browser, which claims to + use the Mozilla layout engine but doesn't. + (bug 188712) + +- Creating a shadow database no longer fails with taint mode errors. + (bug 227510) + +- If you change your cookiepath setting at some stage (because you have + moved the directory Bugzilla resides on your webserver), users can + have login cookies with the old cookiepath, and their browsers will + send multiple logincookies. Bugzilla now uses the first rather than + the last in order to get the most specific cookie which will be the + correct one. + (bug 121419) + +- Fixed a regression caused by the previous DBD::mysql fixes, that + caused older versions of DBD::mysql to break due to not supporting + the new DBI syntax. + (bug 224815) + +- Bugzilla no longer sends out invalid dates for cookie expiry. This + bug had no known user visible ramifications. + (bug 228706) + +- Update the shadow database parameters description to tell the user + about permissions requirements for creating a shadow database. + (bug 227513) + +- Various documentation updates. + +********************************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.3 *** +********************************************************* + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- A user with 'editproducts' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator) + can select arbitrary SQL to be run by the nightly statistics cron job + (collectstats.pl), by giving a product a special name. + (bug 214290) + +- A user with 'editkeywords' privileges (i.e. usually an administrator) + can inject arbitrary SQL via the URL used to edit an existing keyword. + (bug 219044) + +- When deleting products and the 'usebuggroups' parameter is on, the + privilege which allows someone to add people to the group which is + being deleted does not get removed, allowing people with that + privilege to get that privilege for the next group that is created + which reuses that group ID. Note that this only allows someone who + had been granted privileges in the past to retain them. + (bug 219690) + +- If you know the email address of someone who has voted on a secure + bug, you can access the summary of that bug even if you do not have + sufficient permissions to view the bug itself. + (bug 209376) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +Perl 5.8.0 Compatibility fixes: + +- Two taint errors were fixed, one in process_bug.cgi, and + another in post_bug.cgi. + (bugs 220332 and 177828) + +MySQL 4.0 Compatibility fixes: + +- A cosmetic fix was applied to votes.cgi (if there were no + votes, the "0" was not displayed) due to a change in semantics + in SUM() in MySQL 4.0. + (bug 217422) + +DBD::mysql > 2.1026 Compatibility fixes: + +- DBD::mysql versions after 2.1026 return the table list quoted, which + broke the existing "table exists" check in checksetup.pl, which caused + the second and subsequent attempts to run checksetup.pl to fail. + (bug 212095) + +Miscellaneous bug fixes: + +- A Mozilla-specific reference was removed from one of the report + templates. + (bug 221626) + +- It was possible to enter a situation where you were unable to get to + editparams.cgi to turn the shutdownhtml param back off after you + turned it on when Apache was configured to run Bugzilla in suexec + mode. + (bug 213384) + +- The processmail rescanall task would not send e-mails about more than + one bug to the same address. + (bug 219508) + +- If Bugzilla hadn't been accessed in the last hour when the + collectstats.pl or whineatnews.pl cron jobs ran, the versioncache + would get recreated with the file owner being the user the cron job + was running as (usually not the webserver user), causing subsequent + access to Bugzilla by the webserver to fail until the permissions were + fixed. Now if versioncache isn't readable when accessing from the + webserver, we pretend it doesn't exist and recreate it again. + (bug 160422) + +- The 'sendmailnow' param is now on by default in new installations + (this does not affect existing installations). + (bug 146087) + +- The 008filter.t test would fail if you had multiple language packs + installed. It now properly tests all of the installed language packs. + (bug 203318) + +- A few minor documentation changes were committed. + +********************************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM ALL VERSIONS PRIOR TO 2.16.2 *** +********************************************************* + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- A cross site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was fixed in which bug + summaries were not properly filtered when a user viewed a dependency graph + allowing JavaScript to be embedded on that page. + (bug 192661) + +- Several XSS vulnerabilities were fixed in which user + input was not escaped when being displayed. A new + test has been added to warn about unfiltered data in template + files (t/008filter.t). + (bug 192677) + +- An issue was fixed in which the QA contact was still treated as the QA + contact even after the 'useqacontact' setting was turned off. This also + allowed the QA contact to edit the security groups and view secured bugs that + he/she was allowed to access prior to the 'useqacontact' setting being + deactivated. + (bug 194394) + +- Fixed a situation where an attacker (with local access to the webserver) + could overwrite any file on the webserver to which the webserver user + has write access by creating appropriately named symbolic links in the + data and webdot directories (world-writable in many configurations). + Bugzilla now uses File::Temp to create secure temporary files. File::Temp + is part of the Perl distribution for Perl 5.6.1 and later, but if you're + using an older version of Perl you'll need to install it with CPAN. + (bug 197153) + +** IMPORTANT CHANGES *** + +- New module requirement: File::Temp, as mentioned above. + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- An issue was fixed in which administrator rights could be removed from an + administrator who deleted a product while the 'usebuggroups' setting is + activated. + (bug 157704) + +- Fixed an issue in which importxml.pl would fail the test suite when running + under perl 5.8.0 with the optional XML::Parse module. + (bug 172331) + +- There was previously a bug in CGI.pl in which the following warning + would be given under certain conditions: + "Character in "c" format wrapped at CGI.pl..." + This is now fixed. In some cases the warning was filling up web server log + files. + (bug 194125) + +- Fixed a bug in which long component names (in excess of 50 characters) would + be accepted when creating the component but would cause problems when trying + to use that component on a bug because it would get truncated. It is now no + longer possible to create components with names in excess of 50 characters. + (bug 197180) + +- Fixed a bug in checksetup.pl in which permissions were not being fixed + on the 'data/comments' file, the quip file. + (bug 160279) + +***************************************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.1 OR EARLIER, 2.14.4 OR EARLIER *** +***************************************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- Fixed a cross site scriptability issue in quips. This is only a problem + if quips with HTML could have been inserted into your quips files. Bugzilla + has not allowed this since 2.12. + (bug 179329) +- checksetup.pl will now attempt to prevent access to "editor backups" of + localconfig. + (bug 186383) +- collectstats.pl no longer makes data/mining (which contains graphing + information) world writeable. + (bug 183188) + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- Apostrophes were not properly handled in email addresses. This was a + regression introduced in 2.16. It is not known whether this was + exploitable. + (bug 165221) + +See also next major section. + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- The VERSION cookie which allowed the previously entered version of a product + to be remembered was not correctly set. It was only set as a session + cookie, and under some circumstances could interfere with other cookies + (such as the login information) send at the same time. + (bug 160227) + +- importxml.pl would fail if the versioncache needed to be updated. + (bug 164464) + +- Bug changes going through intermediate pages would munge fields with + multiple fields, such as CCs. + (bug 161203) + +- On failure in template->new, Bugzilla will now die rather than futilely + attempt to use an error template. + (bug 166023) + +- Fixed a problem where checksetup had problems converting old installations + that didn't have a duplicates table. + (bug 151619) + +- Fixed a problem that caused taint errors when viewing or editing user + preferences with Perl 5.005 and Template 2.08. + (bug 160710) + +See also next section. + +****************************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.16.0, 2.14.3 OR EARLIER *** +****************************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- When a new product is added to an installation with 47 groups or more and + "usebuggroups" is enabled, the new group will be assigned a groupset bit + using Perl math that is not exact beyond 2^48. This results in the new + group being defined with a "bit" that has several bits set. As users are + given access to the new group, those users will also gain access to + spurious lower group privileges. Also, group bits were not always reused + when groups were deleted. + (bug 167485) + +- The email interface had another insecure single parameter system call. This + could potentially allow arbitrary shell commands to be run. This file is + not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we + couldn't overlook it. + (bug 163024) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- The email interface was broken. This was a 2.14.3 regression. This file + is not supported at this time, but as long as we knew about the problem, we + couldn't overlook it. + (bug 160631) + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.5 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- The bug reporter could set the priority even when + 'letsubmitterchoosepriority' was off. + (bug 63018) + +- Most CGIs are now templatised. This helps to make it + easier to remember to HTML filter values and easier to spot + when they are not, preventing cross site scripting attacks. + (bug 86168) + +- Most CGIs now run in taint mode. This helps to prevent + failure to validate errors. + (bug 108982) + +*** IMPORTANT CHANGES *** + +- 2.16 introduces "templatisation", a new feature that allows + administrators to easily customise the HTML output (the "look and feel") + of Bugzilla without altering Perl code. Bugzilla uses the + "Template Toolkit" for this. Please see the "Template Customisation" + section of the Bugzilla Guide for more details. + + Administrators who ran the 2.15 development version and customised + templates should check the templates are still valid, as file names + and file paths have changed. + + Most output is now templatised. This process will be complete next + milestone. + + For speed, compiled templates are cached on disk. If you modify the + templates, the toolkit will normally detect the changes, and recompile the + changed templates. + + Adding new directories anywhere inside the template directory may cause + permission errors if you don't have a webservergroup specified in + localconfig. If you see these, rerun checksetup.pl as root. If you do not + have root access, or cannot get someone who does to do this for you, you can + rename the data/template directory to data/template.old (or any other name + Bugzilla doesn't use). Then rerun checksetup.pl to regenerate the compiled + templates. + (bug 86168, 97832) + +- Administrators can now configure maximum attachment sizes. These + should remain below the maximum size for your MySQL server, or you + will get obscure MySQL errors if you attach a bigger attachment. + + To find out the current size attachment that MySQL can accept, type + the command 'mysqladmin variables' and find out the value of the + 'max_allowed_packet' varible in bytes. + + To change the maximum size that MySQL can accept you can alter this + variable in your 'my.cnf' file. + (bug 91664) + +- Perl 5.004 is no longer supported because the Template Toolkit + requires 5.005. + (bug 97721) + +- New module requirements: Text::Wrap, Template [requires AppConfig], + File::Spec. + (bugs 97784, 84338, 103778) + +- The index page is now a CGI instead of an HTML page. You should remove + any existing index.html file and make sure your web server allows index.cgi + to be the default page in a directory. If you are not able to do that you + can instead set index_html in the 'localconfig' file to 1 and checksetup.pl + will create a redirect page for you. + (bug 80183) + +- It is now recommended that administrators run "processmail rescanall" + after upgrading to 2.16 or beyond. + + This will send out notification emails for changes that were + made but not emailed, due to Bugzilla bugs. All known + causes of this have been fixed in this version (bug 104589 and 99519). + + It is also recommended that this be run nightly to avoid + lengthy delays in future if this problem reoccurs. + (bug 106377) + +- In parallel with templatisation, a lot of changes have been made to the HTML + output of the Bugzilla CGIs. This could break code that attempts to parse + such code. For example, this breaks mozbot. + (no bug number) + +- The "HTML template" parameters (headerhtml, bodyhtml, footerhtml, + errorhtml, bannerhtml, blurbhtml, mostfreqhtml, entryheaderhtml) have now + been moved to Template Toolkit templates. If you have modified these + parameters you will need to make corresponding changes to the corresponding + templates. Your old parameter values will be moved to a file called + old-params.txt by checksetup.pl. + + The old parameters correspond to files in template/en/default as follows: + + headerhtml: global/header.html.tmpl + footerhtml: global/footer.html.tmpl + bannerhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl + blurbhtml: global/banner.html.tmpl + mostfreqhtml: reports/duplicates*.html.tmpl + entryheaderhtml: bug/create/user-message.html.tmpl + + (bug 140437) + +*** Other changes of note *** + +- The query page has been redesigned for better user friendliness. + (bug 98707) +- Users can now change their email account. + (bug 23067) +- "Dependent Bug Changed" notification emails now contain the + dependent bug's summary and URL. + (bug 28736, 113383) +- Bugs with severity "critical", "blocker", and "enhancement" are + visually differentiated on bug lists for browsers with sufficient + CSS support. + (bug 28884) +- Bugzilla now has a sidebar for the Mozilla browser. + (bug 37339) +- A link to just created attachments now appears in notification + email. + (bug 66651) +- Comments now have numbers and can be referenced with + autohyperlinkifying similar to bugs. + (bug 71840) +- The attachment system has been rewritten, supporting new + "attachment statuses" (like keywords, but for attachments), + the ability to obsolete attachments, edit attachment MIME type, + and edit whether the attachment is a patch. + (bugs 84338, 75176) +- syncshadowdb now supports a configurable temp file location, + and properly shuts down Bugzilla while running. + (bug 75840) +- Dependency tree now lets you exclude resolved bugs and bugs + below a specified depth. + (bugs 83058) +- The "strictvaluechecks" parameter has gone away. These checks + are now always done. + (bug 119715) +- The midair collision page now shows all changes since the bug + page was loaded, not just the last one. + (bug 108312) +- Added support for making dependency graphs with 'dot', which + is better at creating complex graphs than 'webdot'. + (bug 120537) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- Bugzilla scripts are now usually not terminated when the browser + window they are running in is closed. This caused hard to + reproduce bugs. + (bug 104589) +- On browsers that "reflow" the page, large component / milestone / + version fields were extremely slow to reflow when you altered + the product field. + (bug 96534) +- The selection in the component / milestone / version fields is + no longer lost when you change the selection in the product + field or use the back/forward buttons in your browser to return + to the page. + (bug 97966) +- You could not reverse dependencies in one step. + (bug 82143) +- Mass reassignment of non-open bugs will no longer reopen them. + (bug 30731) +- Attempting to bulk change no bugs will now give a user-friendly + error message. + (bug 90333) +- If you make a change to a bug where you only add yourself to CC, + email notifications are now properly sent out for MySQL 3.23. + (bug 99519) +- Bug entry now properly validates the data it has been sent. + (bug 107743) +- Midair collision checks will now properly work in all situations + where dependencies have changed. + (bug 73502) +- Browsers can no longer corrupt the params file if they use the "wrong" + end-of-line markers. + (bug 92500) +- The MySQL port defined in localconfig is now properly honoured. + (bug 98368) +- Apostrophes in component/milestone/version names no longer cause + a problem on the query page. + (bug 30689/42810) +- File attachment comments will now wrap. + (bug 52060) +- Saved queries are no longer mangled if you need to log in again, + for example if you had cookies off. + (bug 38835) +- Bug counts (on reports.cgi) were very slow if you had to + count a lot of bugs. + (bug 63249) +- 2.14 introduced options to let people see a bug when their name + is on it but who aren't in the groups the bug is restricted + to. These only allowed the people to view the bugs directly, + and not see them on buglists and receive email about them. + (bugs 95024, 97469) +- A new 'cookiepath' parameter on editparams.cgi allows multiple + Bugzilla installations to exist on one host without problems. + (bug 19910) +- whineatnews.pl now respects the 'sendmailnow' parameter. + (bug 52782) +- The query page came up even when Bugzilla was shut down. + (bug 121747) +- Quicksearch gave a weird error message when Bugzilla was + shut down. + (bug 121741) +- Operating system detection fixes. + (bugs 92763, 135666) +- QA contacts now receive emails when a new bug is created and + their only email preference was being added or removed from QA. + (bug 143091) + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.4 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.1 or earlier, +2.14.4 or earlier. + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.3 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +See section above about users upgrading from 2.16.0 or earlier. + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.2 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- Basic maintenance on contrib/bug_email.pl and + contrib/bugzilla_email_append.pl which also fixes a + possible security hole with a misuse of a system() call. + These files are not supported at this time, but as long + as we knew about the problem, we couldn't overlook it. + (bug 154008) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- The fix for bug 130821 in 2.14.2 broke being able to sort + bug lists on more than one field. buglist.cgi now allows + you to sort on more than one field again. + (bug 152138) + +*********************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.1 OR EARLIER *** +*********************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- queryhelp.cgi no longer shows confidential products to + people it shouldn't. + (bug 126801) + +- It was possible for a user to bypass the IP check by + setting up a fake reverse DNS, if the Bugzilla web server + was configured to do reverse DNS lookups. Apache is not + configured as such by default. This is not a complete + exploit, as the user's login cookie would also need to + be divulged for this to be a problem. + (bug 129466) + +- In some situations the data directory became world writeable. + (bug 134575) + +- Any user with access to editusers.cgi could delete a user + regardless of whether 'allowuserdeletion' is on. + (bug 141557) + +- Real names were not HTML filtered, causing possible cross + site scripting attacks. + (bug 146447, 147486) + +- Mass change would set the groupset of every bug to be the + groupset of the first bug. + (bug 107718) + +- Some browsers (eg NetPositive) interacted with Bugzilla + badly and could have various form problems, including + removing group restrictions on bugs. + (bug 148674) + +- It was possible for random confidential information to be + divulged, if the shadow database was in use and became + corrupted. + (bug 92263) + +- The bug list sort order is now stricter about the SQL it will accept, + ensuring you use correct column name syntax. Before this, there were + some syntax checks, so it is not known whether this problem was + exploitable. + (bug 130821) + +******************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14 OR EARLIER *** +******************************************** + +The 2.14.1 release fixes several security issues that became +known to us after the Bugzilla 2.14 release. + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- If LDAP Authentication was being used, Bugzilla would allow + you to log in as anyone if you left the password blank. + (bug 54901) + +- It was possible to add comments or file a bug as someone else + by editing the HTML on the appropriate submission page before + submitting the form. User identity is checked now, and the + form values suggesting the user are now ignored. + (bug 108385, 108516) + +- The Product popup menu on the show_bug form listed all + products, even if the user didn't have access to all of them. + It now only shows products the user has access to (and the + product the bug is in, if the user is viewing it because of + some other override). + (bug 102141) + +- If a user had any blessgroupset privileges (the ability to + change only specific privileges for other users), it was + possible to change your own groupset (privileges) by + altering the page HTML before submitting on editusers.cgi. + (bug 108821) + +- An untrusted variable was echoed back to user in the HTML + output if there was a login error while editing votes. + (bug 98146) + +- buglist.cgi had an undocumented parameter that allowed you + to pass arbitrary SQL for the "WHERE" part of a query. + This has been disabled. + (bug 108812) + +- It was possible for a user to send arbitrary SQL by inserting + single quotes in the "mybugslink" field in the user + preferences. + (bug 108822) + +- buglist.cgi was not validating that the field names being + passed from the "boolean chart" query form were valid field + names, thus allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted if you + edited the HTML by hand before submitting the form. + (bug 109679) + +- long_list.cgi was not validating that the bug ID parameter + was actually a number, allowing arbitrary SQL to be inserted + if you edited the HTML by hand. + (bug 109690) + +******************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.12 OR EARLIER *** +******************************************** + +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- Multiple instances of unauthorised access to confidential + bugs has been fixed. + (bug 39524, 39526, 39527, 39531, 39533, 70189, 82781) + +- Multiple instances of untrusted parameters not being + checked/escaped was fixed. These included definite security + holes. + (bug 38854, 38855, 38859, 39536, 87701, 95235) + +- After logging in passwords no longer appear in the URL. + (bug 15980) + +- Procedures to prevent unauthorised access to confidential + files are now simpler. In particular the shadow directory + no longer exists and the data/comments file no longer needs + to be directly accessible, so the entire data directory can + be blocked. However, no changes are required here if you + have a properly secured 2.12 installation as no new files + must be protected. + (bug 71552, 73191) + +- If they do not already exist, checksetup.pl will attempt to + write Apache .htaccess files by default, to prevent + unauthorised access to confidential files. You can turn this + off in the localconfig file. + (bug 76154) + +- Sanity check can now only be run by people in the 'editbugs' + group. Although it would be better to have a separate + group, this is not possible until the limitation on the + number of groups allowed has been removed. + (bug 54556) + +- The password is no longer stored in plaintext form. It will + be eradicated next time you run checksetup.pl. A user must + now change their password via a password change request that + gets validated at their e-mail account, rather than have it + mailed to them. + (bug 74032) + +- When you are using product groups and you move a bug between + products (single or mass change), the bug will no longer be + restricted to the old product's group (if it was) and will + be restricted to the new product's group. + (bug 66235) + +- There are now options on a bug to choose whether the + reporter, and CCs can access a bug even if they aren't in + groups the bug it is restricted to. + (bug 39816) + +- You can no longer mark a bug as a duplicate of a bug you + can't see, and if you mark a bug a duplicate of a bug + the reporter cannot see you will be given options as to + what to do regarding adding the reporter of the resolved + bug to the CC of the open bug. + (bug 96085) + +*** IMPORTANT CHANGES *** + +- Bugzilla 2.14 no longer supports old email tech. Upon + upgrading, all users will be moved over to new email tech. + This should speed up upgrading for installations with + a large number of bugs. + (bug 71552) + +- There is new functionality for people to see why they are + receiving notification mails. + + Previously, some people filtered old email tech + notifications depending on whether they were in the To or the + CC header, in order to get a limited way of determining why + they were receiving the notification for filtering purposes. + + Existing installations will need to make changes to support + this feature. The receive reasons can be added to the + notifications as a header and/or in the body. To add these + you will need to modify your newchangedmail parameter on + editparams.cgi, either by resetting it or appropriately + modifying it. The header value is specified by + %reasonsheader% and the body by %reasonsbody%. For example, + the new default parameter is: + + -------------------------------------------------- + From: bugzilla-daemon + To: %to% + Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary% + X-Bugzilla-Reason: %reasonsheader% + + %urlbase%show_bug.cgi?id=%bugid% + + %diffs% + + + + %reasonsbody% + -------------------------------------------------- + + (bug 26194) + +- Very long fields (especially multi-valued fields like keywords, + CCs, dependencies) on bug activity and notifications previously + could get truncated, resulting in useless notifications and data + loss on bug activity. Now the multi-valued fields only show + changes, and very big changes are split into multiple lines. + Where data loss has already occurred on bug activity, it is + indicated using question marks. + (bug 55161, 92266) + +- Previously, when a product's voting preferences changed all + votes were removed from all the bugs in the product. Also, + when a bug was moved to another product, all of its votes + were removed. This no longer occurs. + + Instead, if the action would leave one or more bugs with + greater than the maximum number of votes per person per bug, + the number of votes will be reduced to the maximum. The + person will still be notified of this as before. + + If the action would leave a user with more votes in a product + than is allowed, the limit will be breached so as to not lose + votes. However the user will not be able to update their + votes except to fix this situation. No further action is taken + in this version to make sure that the user does this. + (bug 28882, 92593) + +*** Other changes of note *** + +- Groups can now be marked inactive, so you can't add a new + restriction on that group to a bug, while leaving bugs that + were previously restricted on that group alone. + (bug 75482) +- backdoor.cgi has been removed from the installation. It was + old code that was Netscape-specific and its name was scaring + people. + (bug 87983) +- You can now add or remove from CC on the bulk change page. + (bug 12819) +- New users created by administrators are now automatically + inserted into groups according to the group's regular + expression. Administrators must edit the user in a second + step to override these choices. Previously the + administrator specified these explicitly which could lead + to incorrect settings. + (bug 45164) +- The userregexp of system groups can now be edited without + resorting to direct database access. + (bug 65290) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- The bug list page was sometimes bringing up a not logged in + footer when the user was logged in and the installation was + using a shadow database. + (bug 47914) +- You can now view the bug summary in your browser title for + a group-restricted bug if you have proper permissions. + (bug 71767) +- Quick search for search terms did not work in IE5. + This has been worked around. + (bug 77699) +- Quick search for search terms crashed NN4.76/4.77 for Unix. + This has been worked around. + (bug 83619) +- Queries on bugs you have commented on using the "added + comment" feature should be a lot faster and not time out + on large installations due to the addition of an index. + (bug 57350) +- You can now alter group settings on bulk change for groups + that aren't on for all bugs or off for all bugs. + (bug 84714) +- New bug notifications now include the CC and QA fields. + (bug 28458) +- Bugzilla is now more Windows friendly, although it is still + not an official platform. + (bug 88179, 29064) +- Passwords are now encrypted using Perl's encrypt function. + This makes Bugzilla more portable to more operating systems. + (bug 77473) +- Bugzilla didn't properly shut down when told to - some + queries could still be sent to the database. + (bug 95082) + +******************************************** +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.10 OR EARLIER *** +******************************************** -Example: +*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED *** + +- Some security holes have been fixed where shell escape characters + could be passed to Bugzilla, allowing remote users to execute + system commands on the web server. + +*** IMPORTANT CHANGES *** + +- There is now a facility for users to choose the sort of + notifications they wish to receive. This facility will + probably be improved in future versions. + (bug 17464) + +- "Changed" will no longer appear on the subject line of + change notification emails. Because of this, you should + change the subject line in your 'changedmail' and + 'newchangedmail' params on editparams.cgi. The subject + line needs to be changed from + + Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged% - %summary% + + to: + + Subject: [Bug %bugid%] %neworchanged%%summary% + + or whatever is appropriate for the subject you are using + on your system. Note the removal of the " - " in the + middle. + (bug 29820) + +*** Other changes of note *** + +- Bug titles now appear in the page title, and will hence + display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history. + (bug 22041) +- Edit groups functionality (editgroups.cgi). + (bug 25010) +- Support for moving bugs to other Bugzilla databases. + (bug 36133) +- Bugzilla now can generate a frequently reported bugs list + based on what duplicates you receive. + (bug 25693) +- When installing Bugzilla fresh, the administrator account is + now created in checksetup.pl. + (bug 17773) +- Stored queries now show their name above the bug list, which + helps the user when they have multiple bug lists in multiple + browser windows. It also appears in the page title, and will + hence display in the user's browser's bookmarks and history. + (bug 52228) +- All states and resolutions can now be collected for charting. + (bug 6682) +- A new search-engine-like "quick search" feature appears on + the front page to try and making searching easier. + (bug 69793) +- Querying on dependencies now works in the advanced query + section of the query page. + (bug 30823) +- When a bug is marked as a duplicate, the reporter of the + resolved bug is automatically added to the CC list of the + open bug. + (bug 28676) + +*** Bug fixes of note *** + +- Notification emails will now always be sent to QA contacts. + Previously they wouldn't if you were using new email tech. + (bug 30826) +- When marking a bug as a duplicate, the duplicate stamp marked + on the open bug will no longer be written too early (such as + on mid-air collisions). + (bug 7873) +- Various bug fixes were made to the initial assignee and QA + of a component. It is no longer possible to enter an + invalid address. They will also now properly update when + a user's email address is changed. Sanity check will now + check these. + (bug 66876) +- Administrators can no longer create an email accounts that do + not match the global email regular expression parameter. + Previously this could occur and would cause sanity check + errors. + (bug 32971) +- The resolution field can no longer become empty when the + bug is resolved. This occurred because of midair collisions. + (bug 49306) + +******************************************* +*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.8 OR EARLIER *** +******************************************* + +Release notes were not compiled for versions of Bugzilla before +2.12. + +The file 'UPGRADING-pre-2.8' contains instructions you may +need to perform in addition to running 'checksetup.pl' if you +are running a pre 2.8 version. - mysqldump -u root -p --databases bugs > bugs.db.backup |