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diff website/www/index.txt @ 6456:cbc18a8bc61f 2.1.0
Changes for release of version 2.1.0.
Updates specified in RELEASE.txt.
| author | John Rouillard <rouilj@ieee.org> |
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| date | Mon, 12 Jul 2021 23:21:12 -0400 |
| parents | 5296d27ac97c |
| children | aa52c5e114b2 |
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--- a/website/www/index.txt Sun Jul 11 17:10:03 2021 -0400 +++ b/website/www/index.txt Mon Jul 12 23:21:12 2021 -0400 @@ -11,26 +11,44 @@ design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. -The current stable version of Roundup is 2.0.0 which has quite a -comprehensive :doc:`feature set <docs/features>` compared to the last -stable release (v1.6.1). These features include: +The current stable version of Roundup is 2.1.0. It is a bug fix +and minor feature release for the major 2.0.0 release which +added: * Python 2 and Python 3 support * a new REST interface * updates to jinja2 templates including security improvements -The current latest release is 2.1.0beta1. +Fixes and features in the 2.1.0 release include: -For more information see the :doc:`design overview <docs/design>`, and -all the other :doc:`documentation <docs>`. Roundup has been deployed -for: + * Installation uses setuptools and not distutils. + * Mysql backend now uses an index to make sure that key values are + not duplicated when two roundup processes run in parallel. + * Postgres back end now uses a server side cursor, so large queries + won't consume huge amounts of memory. + * Security fixes for jQuery, markdown handling, + * Valid class names are documented and enforced. All class names now + match ``[A-z][A-z0-9_]+[A-z_]``. + * Fixes/improvements to jinja2 templates + * Fixes for python3 compatibility. + * Fix sorting of multilinks in templating code. + * Password reset documented in user guide. - * bug tracking and TODO list management (the classic installation) - * customer help desk support (with a wizard for the phone answerers, linking to networking, - system and development issue trackers) +More info on the 58 changes can be found in the `change note`_. + +For more information on Roundup see the :doc:`design overview +<docs/design>`, and all the other :doc:`documentation <docs>`. Roundup +has been deployed for: + + * bug tracking and TODO list management (the classic + installation) + * customer help desk support (with a wizard for the phone + answerers, linking to networking, system and development + issue trackers) * issue management for IETF working groups * sales lead tracking - * conference paper submission and double-blind referee management + * conference paper submission and double-blind referee + management * weblogging (well, almost :) ...and so on. It's been designed with :doc:`flexibility @@ -39,7 +57,8 @@ you've unpacked the source, just run "python demo.py" and load up the URL it prints out! -Roundup was originally released as version 0.1.1 in late August, 2001. The first `change note`_ I wrote says: +Roundup was originally released as version 0.1.1 in late August, 2001. +The first `change note`_ written said: Needed a bug tracking system. Looked around. Tried to install many Perl-based systems, to no avail. Got tired of waiting for Roundup to be released. Had just finished major product project, so needed
