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1 I'm proud to release version 1.4.19 of Roundup which introduces some
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2 minor features and, as usual, fixes some bugs:
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4 Features:
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6 - Xapian indexing improved: Slightly faster and slightly smaller database.
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7 Closes issue2550687. Thanks to Olly Betts for the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
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8 - PostgreSQL backend minor improvement: database creation less likely to fail
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9 for PostgreSQL versions >= 8.1 as the table "postgres" is used by default.
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10 Closes issue2550543. Thanks to Kai Storbeck for the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
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11 - Allow HTMLRequest.batch to filter on other permissions than "View"
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12 (e.g. on the new "Search" permission") by adding a "permission"
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13 parameter. Thanks to Eli Collins for the patch. Closes issue2550699. (Ralf)
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15 Fixed:
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17 - Installation: Fixed an issue that prevented to use EasyInstall
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18 and a Python egg. Thanks to Satchidanand Haridas for the patch and
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19 John Kristensen for testing it. (Bernhard Reiter)
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20 - The PostgreSQL backend quotes database names now for CREATE and DROP,
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21 enabling more exotic tracker names. Closes issue2550497.
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22 Thanks to Sebastian Harl for providing the patch. (Bernhard Reiter)
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23 - Updated the url to point to www.roundup-tracker.org in two places in the
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24 docs. (Bernhard Reiter)
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25 - Do not depend on a CPython implementation detail anymore to make Roundup
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26 more compatible with other Python implementations like PyPy.
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27 Closes issue2550707. Thanks to Christof Meerwald. (Bernhard Reiter, Richard)
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28 - Yet another fix to the mail gateway, messages got *all* files of
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29 an issue, not just the new ones. Thanks to Rafal Bisingier for
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30 reporting and proposing a fix. The regression test was updated.
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31 (Ralf)
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32 - Fix version numbers in upgrade documentation, the file-unlink defect
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33 was in 1.4.17 not 1.4.16. Thanks to Rafal Bisingier. (Ralf)
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34 - Fix encoded email header parsing if multiple encoded and non-encoded
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35 parts are present. RFC2047 specifies that spacing is removed only
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36 between encoded parts, we always removed the space. Note that this bug
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37 was present before mail gateway refactoring :-) Thanks for thorough
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38 testing of mail gateway code by Rafal Bisingier. (Ralf)
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39 - The "Retire" permission was not being registered. (Richard)
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40 - Fix StringIO issue2550713: io.StringIO in newer versions of python
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41 returns unicode strings and expects a unicode string in the
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42 constructor. Unfortunately csv doesn't handle unicode (yet). So we
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43 need to use a BytesIO which gets the utf-8 string from the
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44 web-interface. Compatibility for old versions by using
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45 StringIO.StringIO for emulating a io.BytesIO also works.
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46 Thanks to Cedric Krier for reporting. Closes issue2550713.
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47 Added a regression test for EditCSVAction (Ralf)
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48 - Fix issue2550691 where a Unix From-Header was sometimes inserted in
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49 outgoing emails, thanks to Joseph Myers for the patch. (Ralf)
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51 If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow
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52 the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation.
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54 Roundup requires python 2.4 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation.
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56 To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run::
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58 roundup-demo
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60 Release info and download page:
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61 http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/roundup
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62 Source and documentation is available at the website:
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63 http://roundup-tracker.org/
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64 Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:
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65 http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577
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68 About Roundup
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69 =============
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71 Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with
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72 command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design
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73 from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition.
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75 Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this
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76 project is richard@users.sourceforge.net.
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78 Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as
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79 "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to:
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81 (a) submit new issues,
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82 (b) find and edit existing issues, and
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83 (c) discuss issues with other participants.
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85 The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing
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86 discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of
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87 the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup
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89 installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational,
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90 though an install script is provided.
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92 It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and
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93 a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql
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94 and postgresql).
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Roundup Issue Tracker: http://roundup-tracker.org/