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diff --git a/extensions/BMO/template/en/default/pages/upgrade-3.6.html.tmpl b/extensions/BMO/template/en/default/pages/upgrade-3.6.html.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8fa944ae6 --- /dev/null +++ b/extensions/BMO/template/en/default/pages/upgrade-3.6.html.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,304 @@ +[%# The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public + # License Version 1.1 (the "License"); you may not use this file + # except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of + # the License at http://www.mozilla.org/MPL/ + # + # Software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS + # IS" basis, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, either express or + # implied. See the License for the specific language governing + # rights and limitations under the License. + # + # The Original Code is the Bugzilla Bug Tracking System. + # + # The Initial Developer of the Original Code is Netscape Communications + # Corporation. Portions created by Netscape are + # Copyright (C) 1998 Netscape Communications Corporation. All + # Rights Reserved. + # + # Contributor(s): David Miller <justdave@bugzilla.org> + # Reed Loden <reed@reedloden.com> + #%] + +[% PROCESS global/variables.none.tmpl %] +[% INCLUDE global/header.html.tmpl + title = "Bugzilla 3.6 Upgrade" +%] +[% USE date %] + +<p><b>Last Updated:</b> [% date.format(template.modtime, "%d-%b-%Y %H:%M %Z") %]</p> + +<p>On Friday, July 9, 2010, at 11:40pm PDT (0640 UTC), bugzilla.mozilla.org was + <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=558044">upgraded</a> to Bugzilla 3.6.1+. Please + <a href="enter_bug.cgi?product=mozilla.org&component=Bugzilla:+Other+b.m.o+Issues&blocked=bmo-regressions">file + any regressions</a> for tracking purposes.</p> + +<h3>Known Issues</h3> + +<p>The following is a list of issues which are known to be broken or incomplete with this upgrade so far.</p> + +<ul> + +<li>The <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=577801&hide_resolved=1">stuff filed in Bugzilla</a>.</li> + +</ul> + +<h3>What's New</h3> + +<h4>Custom bugzilla.mozilla.org Changes</h4> + +<ul> + <li>Addition of autocomplete support for all user-related fields (assignee, + QA contact, and CC list) and the keywords field.</li> + <li>New attachment details UI.</li> + <li>New icons for the front page.</li> + <li>Removal of unused "Patches" column from buglist.</li> + <li>Initial support for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_Transport_Security">Strict-Transport-Security</a> (STS) header.</li> +</ul> + +<h4>General Usability Improvements</h4> + +<p>A <a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bugzilla:CMU_HCI_Research_2008">scientific + usability study</a> was done on [% terms.Bugzilla %] by researchers + from Carnegie-Mellon University. As a result of this study, + <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=490786&hide_resolved=0">several + usability issues</a> were prioritized to be fixed, based on specific data + from the study.</p> + +<p>As a result, you will see many small improvements in [% terms.Bugzilla %]'s + usability, such as using Javascript to validate certain forms before + they are submitted, standardizing the words that we use in the user interface, + being clearer about what [% terms.Bugzilla %] needs from the user, + and other changes, all of which are also listed individually in this New + Features section.</p> + +<p>Work continues on improving usability for the next release of + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %], but the results of the research have already + had an impact on this 3.6 release.</p> + +<h4>Improved Quicksearch</h4> + +<p>The "quicksearch" box that appears on the front page of + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %] and in the header/footer of every page + is now simplified and made more powerful. There is a + <kbd>[?]</kbd> link next to the box that will take you to + the simplified <a href="page.cgi?id=quicksearch.html">Quicksearch Help</a>, + which describes every single feature of the system in a simple layout, + including new features such as the ability to use partial field names + when searching.</p> + +<p>Quicksearch should also be much faster than it was before, particularly + on large installations.</p> + +<p>Note that in order to implement the new quicksearch, certain old + and rarely-used features had to be removed: + +<ul> + <li><b>+</b> as a prefix to mean "search additional resolutions", and + <b>+</b> as a prefix to mean "search just the summary". You can + instead use <kbd>summary:</kbd> to explicitly search summaries.</li> + <li>Searching the Severity field if you type something that matches + the first few characters of a severity. You can explicitly search + the Severity field if you want to find [% terms.bugs %] by severity.</li> + <li>Searching the Priority field if you typed something that exactly + matched the name of a priority. You can explicitly search the + Priority field if you want to find [% terms.bugs %] by priority.</li> + <li>Searching the Platform and OS fields if you typed in one of a + certain hard-coded list of strings (like "pc", "windows", etc.). + You can explicitly search these fields, instead, if you want to + find [% terms.bugs %] with a specific Platform or OS set.</li> +</ul> + +<h4>Simple "Browse" Interface</h4> + +<p>There is now a "Browse" link in the header of each [% terms.Bugzilla %] + page that presents a very basic interface that allows users to simply + browse through all open [% terms.bugs %] in particular components.</p> + +<h4>JSON-RPC Interface</h4> + +<p>[% terms.Bugzilla %] now has support for the + <a href="http://json-rpc.org/">JSON-RPC</a> WebServices protocol via + <a href="[% docs_urlbase FILTER html %]api/Bugzilla/WebService/Server/JSONRPC.html">jsonrpc.cgi</a>. + The JSON-RPC interface is experimental in this release--if you want any + fundamental changes in how it works, + <a href="http://www.bugzilla.org/developers/reporting_bugs.html">let us + know</a>, for the next release of [% terms.Bugzilla %].</p> + +<h3>New Features</h3> + +<h4>Enhancements for Users</h4> + +<ul> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Filing:</b> When filing [% terms.abug %], + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %] now visually indicates which fields are + mandatory.</li> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Filing:</b> "Bookmarkable templates" now + support the "alias" and "estimated hours" fields.</li> + + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Editing:</b> In previous versions of + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %], if you added a private comment to [% terms.abug %], + then <em>none</em> of the changes that you made at that time were + sent to users who couldn't see the private comment. Now, for users + who can't see private comments, public changes are sent, but the private + comment is excluded from their email notification.</li> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Editing:</b> The controls for groups now + appear to the right of the attachment and time-tracking tables, + when editing [% terms.abug %].</li> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Editing:</b> The "Collapse All Comments" + and "Expand All Comments" links now appear to the right of the + comment list instead of above it.</li> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Editing:</b> The See Also field now supports + URLs for Google Code Issues and the Debian B[% %]ug-Tracking System.</li> + <li><b>[% terms.Bug %] Editing:</b> There have been significant performance + improvements in <kbd>show_bug.cgi</kbd> (the script that displays the + [% terms.bug %]-editing form), particularly for [% terms.bugs %] that + have lots of comments or attachments.</li> + + <li><b>Attachments:</b> The "Details" page of an attachment + now displays itself as uneditable if you can't edit the fields + there.</li> + <li><b>Attachments:</b> We now make sure that there is + a Description specified for an attachment, using JavaScript, before + the form is submitted.</li> + <li><b>Attachments:</b> There is now a link back to the [% terms.bug %] + at the bottom of the "Details" page for an attachment.</li> + <li><b>Attachments:</b> When you click on an "attachment 12345" link + in a comment, if the attachment is a patch, you will now see the + formatted "Diff" view instead of the raw patch.</li> + <li><b>Attachments</b>: For text attachments, we now let the browser + auto-detect the character encoding, instead of forcing the browser to + always assume the attachment is in UTF-8.</li> + + <li><b>Search:</b> You can now display [% terms.bug %] flags as a column + in search results.</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> When viewing search results, you can see which columns are + being sorted on, and which direction the sort is on, as indicated + by arrows next to the column headers.</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> You can now search the Deadline field using relative + dates (like "1d", "2w", etc.).</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> The iCalendar format of search results now includes + a PRIORITY field.</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> It is no longer an error to enter an invalid search + order in a search URL--[% terms.Bugzilla %] will simply warn you that + some of your order options are invalid.</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> When there are no search results, some helpful + links are displayed, offering actions you might want to take.</li> + <li><b>Search:</b> For those who like to make their own + <kbd>buglist.cgi</kbd> URLs (and for people working on customizations), + <kbd>buglist.cgi</kbd> now accepts nearly every valid field in + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %] as a direct URL parameter, like + <kbd>&field=value</kbd>.</li> + + <li><b>Requests:</b> When viewing the "My Requests" page, you can now + see the lists as a normal search result by clicking a link at the + bottom of each table.</li> + <li><b>Requests:</b> When viewing the "My Requests" page, if you are + using Classifications, the Product drop-down will be grouped by + Classification.</li> + + <li>If there are multiple languages available for your + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %], you can now select what language you want + [%+ terms.Bugzilla %] displayed in using links at the top of every + page.</li> + <li>When creating a new account, you will be automatically logged in + after setting your password.</li> + <li>There is no longer a maximum password length for accounts.</li> + <li>In the Dusk skin, it's now easier to see links.</li> + <li>In the Whining system, you can now choose to receive emails even + if there are no [% terms.bugs %] that match your searches.</li> + <li>The arrows in dependency graphs now point the other way, so that + [%+ terms.bugs %] point at their dependencies.</li> + + <li><b>New Charts:</b> You can now convert an existing Saved Search + into a data series for New Charts.</li> + <li><b>New Charts:</b> There is now an interface that allows you to + delete data series.</li> + <li><b>New Charts:</b> When deleting a product, you now have the option + to delete the data series that are associated with that product.</li> +</ul> + +<h4>Enhancements for Administrators and Developers</h4> + +<ul> + <li>Depending on how your workflow is set up, it is now possible to + have both UNCONFIRMED and REOPENED show up as status choices for + a closed [% terms.bug %]. If you only want one or the other to + show up, you should edit your status workflow appropriately + (possibly by removing or disabling the REOPENED status).</li> + <li>You can now "disable" field values so that they don't show + up as choices on [% terms.abug %] unless they are already set as + the value for that [% terms.bug %]. This doesn't work for the + per-product field values (component, target_milestone, and version) + yet, though.</li> + <li>Users are now locked out of their accounts for 30 minutes after + trying five bad passwords in a row during login. Every time a + user is locked out like this, the user in the "maintainer" parameter + will get an email.</li> + <li>The minimum length allowed for a password is now 6 characters.</li> + <li>The <kbd>UNCONFIRMED</kbd> status being enabled in a product + is now unrelated to the voting parameters. Instead, there is a checkbox + to enable the <kbd>UNCONFIRMED</kbd> status in a product.</li> + <li>Information about duplicates is now stored in the database instead + of being stored in the <kbd>data/</kbd> directory. On large installations + this could save several hundred megabytes of disk space.</li> + + <li>When editing a group, you can now specify that members of a group + are allowed to grant others membership in that group itself.</li> + <li>The ability to compress BMP attachments to PNGs is now an Extension. + To enable the feature, remove the file + <kbd>extensions/BmpConvert/disabled</kbd> and then run checksetup.pl.</li> + <li>The default list of values for the Priority field are now clear English + words instead of P1, P2, etc.</li> + <li><kbd>config.cgi</kbd> now returns an ETag header and understands + the If-None-Match header in HTTP requests.</li> + <li>The XML format of <kbd>show_bug.cgi</kbd> now returns more information: + the numeric id of each comment, whether an attachment is a URL, + the modification time of an attachment, the numeric id of a flag, + and the numeric id of a flag's type.</li> +</ul> + +<h4>WebService Changes</h4> + +<ul> + <li>The WebService now returns all dates and times in the UTC timezone. + <kbd>B[% %]ugzilla.time</kbd> now acts as though the [% terms.Bugzilla %] + server were in the UTC timezone, always. If you want to write clients + that are compatible across all [% terms.Bugzilla %] versions, + check the timezone from <kbd>B[% %]ugzilla.timezone</kbd> or + <kbd>B[% %]ugzilla.time</kbd>, and always input times in that timezone + and expect times to be returned in that format.</li> + <li>You can now log in by passing <kbd>Bugzilla_login</kbd> and + <kbd>Bugzilla_password</kbd> as arguments to any WebService function. + See the + <a href="[% docs_urlbase FILTER html %]api/Bugzilla/WebService.html#LOGGING_IN">Bugzilla::WebService</a> + documentation for details.</li> + <li>New Method: + <a href="[% docs_urlbase FILTER html %]api/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.html#attachments">B[% %]ug.attachments</a> + which allows getting information about attachments.</li> + <li>New Method: + <a href="[% docs_urlbase FILTER html %]api/Bugzilla/WebService/Bug.html#fields">B[% %]ug.fields</a>, + which gets information about all the fields that [% terms.abug %] can have + in [% terms.Bugzilla %], include custom fields and legal values for + all fields. The <kbd>B[% %]ug.legal_values</kbd> method is now deprecated.</li> + <li>In the <kbd>B[% %]ug.add_comment</kbd> method, the "private" parameter + has been renamed to "is_private" (for consistency with other methods). + You can still use "private", though, for backwards-compatibility.</li> + <li>The WebService now has Perl's "taint mode" turned on. This means that + it validates all data passed in before sending it to the database. + Also, all parameter names are validated, and if you pass in a parameter + whose name contains anything other than letters, numbers, or underscores, + that parameter will be ignored. Mostly this just affects + customizers--[% terms.Bugzilla %]'s WebService is not functionally + affected by these changes.</li> + <li>In previous versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %], error messages were + sent word-wrapped to the client, from the WebService. Error messages + are now sent as one unbroken line.</li> +</ul> + +<h3>Last Ten Commits</h3> + +<pre>[% bzr_history.join('') FILTER html %]</pre> + +<br> + +[% INCLUDE global/footer.html.tmpl %] |