From 738591be1e58b664146eb12b61fa4294d56b534e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gordon P. Hemsley" You may also want to read up on the Advanced
Features. You can specify any of these fields like field:value
in the search box, to search on them. You can also abbreviate
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@
In addition to using field names to search
specific fields, there are certain characters or words that you can
diff --git a/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl b/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
index 4156ce03b..7699047c5 100644
--- a/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
+++ b/template/en/default/pages/release-notes.html.tmpl
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
This is [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.4! [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.4 brings a lot
of great enhancements for [% terms.Bugzilla %] over previous versions,
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
San Jose State University
Foundation.
-
-
@@ -266,7 +264,7 @@
[% NEXT IF skip_fields.contains(field) %]
-
-
+
- [% field_descs.bug_status FILTER upper FILTER html %]
-
+
[% field_descs.resolution FILTER upper FILTER html %]
Fields You Can Search On
+Fields You Can Search On
Advanced Features
+Advanced Features
-Advanced Shortcuts
+Advanced Shortcuts
Introduction
+Introduction
Updates In This 3.4.x Release
+Updates In This 3.4.x Release
3.4.5
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@
Security Advisory
for details.
Any requirements that are new since 3.2.3 will look like this.
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@Perl v5.8.1
@@ -218,14 +218,14 @@ [% INCLUDE db_req db='oracle' %] -The following perl modules, if installed, enable various features of [% terms.Bugzilla %]:
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ updated = [] include_feature = 1 %] -When entering a new [% terms.bug %], the vast majority of fields are now hidden by default, which enormously simplifies the bug-filing form. @@ -267,15 +267,14 @@ or "Simple" version of the [% terms.bug %]-entry form, and will display the same version to you again next time you file [% terms.abug %].
-[% terms.Bugzilla %]'s front page has been redesigned to be better at guiding new users into the activities that they most commonly want to do. Further enhancements to the home page are coming in future versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %].
-To help prevent spam to [% terms.Bugzilla %] users, all email addresses stored in [% terms.Bugzilla %] are now displayed only if you are logged in. @@ -288,12 +287,12 @@ The WebService still returns full email addresses, even if you are logged out.
-When submitting a search, all the unused fields are now stripped from the URL, so search URLs are much more meaningful, and much shorter.
-The largest performance problem in former versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %] was that when updating [% terms.bugs %], email would be sent immediately @@ -312,16 +311,15 @@ should result in a very large speed-up for updating [% terms.bugs %], particularly on larger installations.
-Users can now select what time zone they are in and [% terms.Bugzilla %] will adjust displayed times to be correct for their time zone. However, times the user inputs are unfortunately still in [% terms.Bugzilla %]'s time zone.
-When creating a new custom field (or updating the definition of an existing custom field), you can now say that "this field only @@ -335,8 +333,8 @@
This is a good way of making Product-specific fields.
-When creating a drop-down or multiple-selection custom field, you can now specify that another field "controls the values" of this field. @@ -355,14 +353,13 @@ the user interface. [% terms.Bugzilla %] itself will still accept any combination of values as valid, in the backend.
-You can now create a custom field that holds a reference to a single valid [% terms.bug %] ID. In the future this will be enhanced to allow [%+ terms.bugs %] to refer to each other via this field.
-We have added a new standard field called "See Also" to [% terms.Bugzilla %]. In this field, you can put URLs to multiple @@ -380,19 +377,19 @@ the use_see_also parameter.
-There is a new interface for choosing what columns appear in search results, which allows you to change the order in which columns appear from left to right when viewing the [% terms.bug %] list.
-When displaying search results, [% terms.Bugzilla %] will now show a brief description of what you searched for, at the top of the [%+ terms.bug %] list.
-When upgrading to 3.4, checksetup.pl will create foreign keys for many columns in the database. Before doing this, it will check the @@ -565,8 +561,7 @@
Remember that you should always back up your database before doing an upgrade.
-Welcome to [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2! This is our first major feature release since [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.0, and it brings a lot of great @@ -646,7 +641,7 @@ and this one, particularly the "Notes For Upgraders" section of each version's release notes.
-This section describes what's changed in the most recent bug-fix releases of [% terms.Bugzilla %] after 3.2. We only list the @@ -725,7 +720,7 @@ ([% terms.Bug %] 469136) -
Any requirements that are new since 3.0.5 will look like this.
@@ -763,11 +758,11 @@ Modules -Perl v5.8.1
-Module | Version |
---|
The following perl modules, if installed, enable various features of [% terms.Bugzilla %]:
@@ -920,7 +915,7 @@ -[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2 has had some UI assistance from the NASA Human-Computer Interaction department and the new @@ -944,7 +939,7 @@
In particular, you will notice a massively redesigned [% terms.bug %] editing form, in addition to our new skin.
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2 now ships with a skin called "Dusk" that is a bit more colorful than old default "Classic" skin.
@@ -959,14 +954,14 @@ Addons page for additional skins, or try making your own! -You can now customize the list of statuses in [% terms.Bugzilla %], and transitions between them.
You can also specify that a comment must be made on certain transitions.
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2 has support for three new types of custom fields:
@@ -979,7 +974,7 @@ calendar popup to make picking a date easier. -[% terms.Bugzilla %] now comes with a script called install-module.pl that can automatically download @@ -992,7 +987,7 @@ install-module.pl, or you can read its documentation.
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2 contains experimental support for using Oracle as its database. Some features of [% terms.Bugzilla %] are known @@ -1008,7 +1003,7 @@ development contributions to [% terms.Bugzilla %] which allowed this to happen!
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.2 now has advanced UTF-8 support in its code, including correct handling for truncating and wrapping multi-byte @@ -1017,14 +1012,14 @@ by users in every country with little (or at least much less) customization.
-Administrators can now specify that users who are in certain groups should have an icon appear next to their name whenever they comment. This is particularly useful for distinguishing developers from [%+ terms.bug %] reporters.
-These are either minor enhancements, or enhancements that have very short descriptions. Some of these are very useful, though!
@@ -1201,7 +1196,7 @@ be localized. See template/en/default/setup/strings.txt.pl. -There are more code hooks in 3.2 than there were in 3.0. See the documentation of Bugzilla::Hook for more details.
-Bugzilla/Search.pm has been heavily modified, to be much easier to read and use. It contains mostly the same code as it did in 3.0, but it has been moved around and reorganized significantly.
-As part of implementing install-module.pl, [%+ terms.Bugzilla %] was given a local lib directory which @@ -1294,7 +1288,7 @@
This means that all [% terms.Bugzilla %] scripts now start with
use lib qw(. lib);
as one of the first lines.
get_status('NEW')
instead of
@@ -1303,7 +1297,7 @@
template file has been removed.Welcome to [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.0! It's been over eight years since we released [% terms.Bugzilla %] 2.0, and everything has changed since @@ -1334,7 +1328,7 @@ previous versions in between your version and this one.
-This section describes what's changed in the most recent bug-fix releases of [% terms.Bugzilla %] after 3.0. We only list the @@ -1552,7 +1546,7 @@ ([% terms.Bug %] 335354) -
Any requirements that are new since 2.22 will look like this.
@@ -1567,7 +1561,7 @@ -The following perl modules, if installed, enable various features of [% terms.Bugzilla %]:
@@ -1726,7 +1720,7 @@ -[% terms.Bugzilla %] now includes very basic support for custom fields.
@@ -1768,7 +1762,7 @@ after a few weeks of using [% terms.Bugzilla %], only then should you start your custom fields. -[% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.0 supports mod_perl, which allows for extremely enhanced page-load performance. mod_perl trades memory usage for performance, @@ -1782,7 +1776,7 @@ Apache, [% terms.Bugzilla %] still runs perfectly as a normal CGI application, as well.
-Users can now choose to "share" their saved searches with a certain group. That group will then be able to @@ -1802,8 +1796,7 @@
Users can control their shared and subscribed queries from the "Preferences" screen.
-You can now add an attachment while you are filing a new [% terms.bug %].
@@ -1811,7 +1804,7 @@You can also set flags on the [% terms.bug %] and on attachments, while filing a new [% terms.bug %].
-You can now customize the list of resolutions available in [% terms.Bugzilla %], including renaming the default resolutions.
@@ -1820,7 +1813,7 @@ andMOVED
have a special meaning to [% terms.Bugzilla %],
though, and cannot be renamed or deleted.
-You can now grant users editbugs and canconfirm for only certain products. You can also grant users editcomponents @@ -1828,7 +1821,7 @@ including adding/removing components and other product-specific controls.
-There has been some work on the user interface for [% terms.Bugzilla %] 3.0, including:
@@ -1842,7 +1835,7 @@ page) has been changed, and the attachment table has been redesigned. -[% terms.Bugzilla %] now has a Web Services interface using the XML-RPC protocol. It can be accessed by external applications by going @@ -1852,7 +1845,7 @@ [% terms.Bugzilla %] API Docs, in the various Bugzilla::WebService modules.
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] can have multiple "skins" installed, and users can pick between them. To write a skin, you just have to @@ -1863,14 +1856,13 @@ [% terms.Bugzilla %]. If you write an alternate skin, please let us know!
-As long as you are logged in, when viewing [% terms.abug %], if you cannot change a field, it will not look like you can change it. That is, the value will just appear as plain text.
-All outbound emails are now controlled by the templating system.
What used to be the passwordmail
, whinemail
,
@@ -1885,7 +1877,7 @@
who shows up in the From
field on all emails that
[%+ terms.Bugzilla %] sends.
Users of [% terms.Bugzilla %] will sometimes accidentally submit [% terms.abug %] twice, either by going back in their web browser, @@ -1898,12 +1890,12 @@ you about what you're doing, before it actually submits the duplicate [%+ terms.bug %].
-You can specify a list of users who will always be added to the CC list of new [% terms.bugs %] in a component.
-You can now file or modify [% terms.bugs %] via email. Previous versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %] included this feature only as an @@ -1913,8 +1905,7 @@
For more details see the documentation for email_in.pl.
-There is now a parameter called globalwatchers. This is a comma-separated list of [% terms.Bugzilla %] users who will @@ -1923,7 +1914,7 @@
Group controls still apply, though, so users who can't see [% terms.abug %] still won't get notifications about that [% terms.bug %].
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] users running MySQL should now have excellent UTF-8 support if they turn on the utf8 parameter. (New @@ -1931,7 +1922,7 @@ now correctly supports searching and sorting in non-English languages, including multi-bytes languages such as Chinese.
-If you belong to the admin group, you will be notified when you log in if there is a new release of [% terms.Bugzilla %] @@ -1944,20 +1935,20 @@ through a proxy to access the web, you may also have to set the proxy_url parameter.
-When you log in for the first time on a brand-new [% terms.Bugzilla %] installation, you will be presented with a page that describes where you should go from here, and what parameters you should set.
-Firefox 2 users and Internet Explorer 7 users will be presented with the option to add [% terms.Bugzilla %] to their search bar. This uses the QuickSearch syntax.
-These are either minor enhancements, or enhancements that have very short descriptions. Some of these are very useful, though!
@@ -2065,7 +2056,7 @@ installation. -In previous versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %], Bugzilla::Config held all the paths for different things, such as the path to localconfig @@ -2210,7 +2200,7 @@ absolute (not relative) paths. There is already code in that subroutine to help you with this.
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] now supports a code hook mechanism. See the documentation for @@ -2226,7 +2216,7 @@
If you need more hooks, please File a bug!
-[% terms.Bugzilla %] now ships with all of its perldoc built as HTML. Go ahead and read the @@ -2234,7 +2224,7 @@ for all of the [% terms.Bugzilla %] modules now! Even scripts like checksetup.pl have HTML documentation.
-The old file globals.pl has been eliminated. Its code is now in various modules. Each function went to the module @@ -2246,7 +2236,7 @@ the function, and that should get you the information about what it's called now and where it lives.
-In normal perl, you can have code like this:
my $var = 0; @@ -2256,7 +2246,7 @@ sub y { $var++ }longer "shared" with subroutines--instead all variables that a subroutine needs must be declared inside the subroutine itself. -
The old SendSQL function and all of its companions are gone. Instead, we now use DBI for all database @@ -2268,7 +2258,7 @@ sub y { $var++ } Developer's Guide Section About DBI
-The Bugzilla::Auth family of modules have been completely re-written. For details on how the new structure of authentication, @@ -2278,14 +2268,14 @@ sub y { $var++ }
It should be very easy to write new authentication plugins, now.
-There is a new base class for most of our objects, Bugzilla::Object. It makes it really easy to create new objects based on things that are in the database.
-Bugzilla.pm used to cache things like the database
connection in package-global variables (like $_dbh).
@@ -2300,7 +2290,7 @@ sub y { $var++ }
that they cache, so to reset the template object, you'd do:
delete Bugzilla->request_cache->{template};
.
checksetup.pl
has been completely re-written, and most
@@ -2336,7 +2326,7 @@ sub y { $var++ }
still exists, but the file is empty.Release notes for versions of [% terms.Bugzilla %] for versions prior to 3.0 are only available in text format: @@ -2347,8 +2337,7 @@ sub y { $var++ } [% BLOCK db_req %] [% SET m = DB_MODULE.$db %] -