Commit e60a8991 authored by matty%chariot.net.au's avatar matty%chariot.net.au

Release notes update.

parent 8b98fa78
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*** Deprecated Features ***
- This is the last stable release of bugzilla which will support mysql version
3.22. Future releases will require at least version 3.23.x. The exact minimum
version number required has not yet been decided (bug 87958)
- The use of bugzilla to maintain the shadowdb will be removed before the
next stable release. The replacement (using mysql's built in replication) is
not supported in 2.16, but we expect that very few sites use this feature.
If this would cause a problem for you, please comment in bug 124589
- ??? Anything else?
- This is possibly the last stable release that will work with
MySQL version 3.22. Soon Bugzilla will require at least
version 3.23.x. The exact minimum version number required
has not yet been decided.
(bug 87958)
- This is possibly the last stable release to support the
shadow database. The replacement (using MySQL's built in
replication) is not present in 2.16, but we expect that
very few sites use this feature. If this would cause a
problem for you, please comment on the below bug.
(bug 124589)
*** Outstanding Issues Of Note ***
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program. To fix this, you can turn on the "sendmailnow"
parameter on the Edit Parameters page (editparams.cgi).
(bug 50159)
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- Users behind rotating transparent proxies or otherwise having
a dynamic IP will find they need to log in regularly.
(bug 20122)
- If you search on any CC or added comments, as well as at least
one other of CC, added comments, assignee, reporter, etc, then
the search can be very slow. This is because of limitations of
the MySQL optimiser.
(bug 96101)
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14.1 OR EARLIER - 2.16 ISSUES ***
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*** SECURITY ISSUES RESOLVED ***
- The bug reporter could set the priority even when
'letsubmitterchoosepriority' was off.
(bug 63018)
- It was possible for random confidential information to be
divulged, if the shadow database was in use and became
corrupted.
(bug 92263)
- Mass change would set the groupset of every bug to be the
groupset of the first bug.
(bug 107718)
- Most CGIs now run in taint mode. This helps to prevent
failure to validate errors.
(bug 108982)
- queryhelp.cgi no longer shows confidential products to
people it shouldn't.
(bug 126801)
- The bug list sort order could take arbitrary SQL. There
are no known exploits for this problem.
(bug 130821)
- It was possible for a user to bypass the IP check by
setting up a fake reverse DNS, if the Bugzilla web server
was configured to do reverse DNS lookups. Apache is not
configured as such by default. This is not a complete
exploit, as the user's login cookie would also need to
be divulged for this to be a problem.
(bug 129466)
*** IMPORTANT CHANGES ***
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- 2.16 introduces "templatisation", a new feature that allows
administrators to easily customise the HTML output of Bugzilla
without altering Perl code. Bugzilla uses the "Template Toolkit"
for this. ??? See the Bugzilla Guide?
Administrators who ran the 2.15 development version and customised
templates should check the templates are still valid, as file names
and file paths have changed.
Most output is now templatised. This process will be complete next
milestone.
(bug 86168)
- index.html is now configurable, as is now index.cgi. ??? Web server setup ???
(bug 80183)
- Administrators can now configure maximum attachment sizes. These
should remain below the maximum size for MySQL
(bug 91664)
- Perl 5.004 is no longer supported because the Template Toolkit
requires 5.005.
(bug 97721)
- It is now strongly recommended that administrators run
"processmail rescanall" after upgrading to 2.16 or beyond.
This will send out notification emails for changes that were
made but not emailed, due to Bugzilla bugs. All known
causes of this have been fixed (bug 104589 and 99519).
It is also recommended that this be run nightly to avoid
lengthy delays in future if this reoccurs.
(bug 106377)
*** Other changes of note ***
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- The query page has been redesigned for better user friendliness.
(bug 98707)
- Users can now change their email account.
(bug 23067)
- "Dependent Bug Changed" notification emails now contain the
dependent bug's summary.
(bug 28736)
- Bugs with severity "critical", "blocker", and "enhancement" are
visually differentiated on bug lists for recent browsers.
(bug 28884)
- Bugzilla now has a sidebar for the Mozilla browser.
(bug 37339)
- A link to just created attachments now appears in notification
email.
(bug 66651)
- Comments now have numbers and can be referenced with
autohyperlinkifying similar to bugs.
(bug 71840)
- The attachment system has been rewritten, supporting new
"attachment statuses" (like keywords, but for attachments),
the ability to obsolete attachments, and the ability to
edit attachment metadata.
(bugs 84338, 75176)
- syncshadowdb now supports a configurable temp file location,
and properly shuts down Bugzilla.
(bug 75840)
- Dependency tree now lets you exclude resolve bugs and bugs
below a specific depth.
(bugs 83058)
- The "strictvaluechecks" parameter has gone away. These checks
are now always done.
(bug 119715)
- The midair collision page now shows all changes since the bug
page was loaded, not just the last one.
(bug 108312)
- Added support for making dependency graphs with 'dot', which
is better at creating complex graphs than 'webdot'.
(bug 120537)
*** Bug fixes of note ***
- Bugzilla scripts are now usually not terminated when the browser
window they are running in is closed. This caused hard to
reproduce bugs.
(bug 104589)
- On browsers that "reflow" the page, large component / milestone /
version fields were extremely slow to reflow when you altered
the product field.
(bug 96534)
- The selection in the component / milestone / version fields is
no longer lost when you change the selection in the product
field or use the back/forward buttons in your browser to return
to the page.
(bug 97966)
- You could not reverse dependencies in one step.
(bug 82143)
- Mass reassignment of non-open bugs will no longer reopen them.
(bug 30731)
- Attempting to bulk change no bugs will now give a user-friendly
error message.
(bug 90333)
- If you make a change to a bug where you only add yourself to CC,
email notifications are now properly sent out for MySQL 3.23.
(bug 99519)
- Bug entry now properly validates the data it has been sent.
(bug 107743)
- Midair collision checks will now properly work in all situations
where dependencies have changed.
(bug 73502)
- Some browsers were able to corrupt the params file with the wrong
end-of-line markers.
(bug 92500)
- The MySQL port defined in localconfig is now properly honoured.
(bug 98368)
- Apostrophes in component/milestone/version names no longer cause
a problem on the query page.
(bug 30689/42810)
- File attachment comments will now wrap.
(bug 52060)
- Saved queries are no longer mangled if you need to log in again,
for example if you had cookies of.
(bug 38835)
- Bug counts (on reports.cgi) were very slow if you had to
count a lot of bugs.
(bug 63249)
- The new options to let people see a bug when their name
- 2.14 introduced options to let people see a bug when their name
is on it but who aren't in the groups the bug is restricted
to only allow people to view bugs if they know the bug number.
It still will not show up in these people's buglists and
they will not receive email about changes to the bugs.
to. These only allowed the people to view the bugs directly,
and not see them on buglists and receive email about them.
(bugs 95024, 97469)
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- A new 'cookiepath' parameter on editparams.cgi allows multiple
Bugzilla installations to exist on one host without problems.
(bug 19910)
- whineatnews.pl now respects the 'sendmailnow' parameter.
(bug 52782)
- The query page came up even when Bugzilla was shut down.
(bug 121747)
- Quicksearch gave a weird error message when Bugzilla was
shut down.
(bug 121741)
- Querying on CC took too long on big databases, it is quicker
now.
(bug 127200)
??? 109357
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*** USERS UPGRADING FROM 2.14 OR EARLIER - 2.14.1 ISSUES ***
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