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Added DEFAULT_TIMEZONE. Fixed up some missing info from What's New.
| author | Richard Jones <richard@users.sourceforge.net> |
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| date | Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:45:34 +0000 |
| parents | d9bdd08d5c5a |
| children | cd42c3c7173a |
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--- a/doc/whatsnew-0.7.txt Fri Mar 26 18:18:31 2004 +0000 +++ b/doc/whatsnew-0.7.txt Fri Mar 26 23:45:34 2004 +0000 @@ -110,6 +110,15 @@ 4. You might also wish to remove the redundant query editing section from the ``user.item.html`` page. +ZRoundup reinstated +------------------- + +The Zope interface, ZRoundup, lives again! + +See the `upgrading documentation`__ if you wish to use it. + +__ upgrading.html#zroundup-changes + Simple support for collision detection -------------------------------------- @@ -185,6 +194,11 @@ This removes the need for the template to perform those checks, which was just plain messy. +Some new permissions will need to be created in your trackers to cope with +this change, as outlined in the `upgrading documentation`__. + +__ upgrading.html#permission-assignments + Standards changes ----------------- @@ -270,20 +284,26 @@ and are expecting many users. -Other improvements ------------------- +API change +---------- -All RDBMS backends now have indexes automatically created on critical -table columns. +The Database.curuserid attribute was removed. Any code referencing this +attribute should be replaced with a call to Database.getuid(). + + +New configuration options +------------------------- -Additionally, the RDBMS backends also implement their own session, -one-time-key and full-text indexing stores. These were previously external -dbm stores. This change allows control of locking the database to be -completely handed over to the RDBMS. +- Added DEFAULT_TIMEZONE which allows the tracker to have a different + default to UTC when users don't specify their own preference. -Date values capture fractions of seconds now. Note that the MySQL backend -is not capable of storing this precision though, so it will be lost for -users of that backend. +- Added EMAIL_CHARSET (in 0.6.6, but worth mentioning here) which hard-codes + the character set to be used when sending email from Roundup. This works + around some email clients' inability to cope well with UTF-8 (the + default). + +- ERROR_MESSAGES_TO and DISPATCHER_EMAIL as described above in `Dispatcher + configuration`_. Typed columns in RDBMS backends @@ -380,4 +400,21 @@ which copies users 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 16. +Other improvements +------------------ + +- All RDBMS backends now have indexes automatically created on critical + table columns. + +- Additionally, the RDBMS backends also implement their own session, + one-time-key and full-text indexing stores. These were previously external + dbm stores. This change allows control of locking the database to be + completely handed over to the RDBMS. + +- Date values capture fractions of seconds now. Note that the MySQL backend + is not capable of storing this precision though, so it will be lost for + users of that backend. + + + .. _`customisation documentation`: customizing.html
