rt-4.2.6

RT 4.2.6 -- 2014-07-16

We are pleased to announce that RT 4.2.6 is now available.

http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.6.tar.gz
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.6.tar.gz.asc

SHA1 sums

3a876015da1330ed58719997979c1346dca2df75  rt-4.2.6.tar.gz
527ad4a5a5918ea29c8fa128c59312239faf35d0  rt-4.2.6.tar.gz.asc

This release is primarily a bugfix release; of particular note is that
it contains schema changes for MySQL. Though the changes are quite
limited, it is especially important to take, and verify you can recover
from, a database backup prior to upgrading.

Also of note, it fixes a regression in 4.2.5 regarding unsetting core
date fields, and now allows HTML tables in ticket history if the
optional HTML::Gumbo module is installed.

General web UI

• Fix a regression introduced in 4.2.4, which caused lack of formatting
  of plain text when responding via the rich text editor.
• Allow tables in HTML mail if the optional HTML::Gumbo dependency is
  installed
• Fix a regression in 4.2.5 which prevented core date fields (Due,
  Starts, etc) from being unset (#30180)
• Hide empty transaction custom fields when they have no value; this
  fixes a regression in 4.2.1 where transaction custom fields began
  displaying on all transactions. (#29757)
• Allow searching on requestor city, state, zip, and country in query
  builder (#26960)
• Don't attempt to parse IP/Date(time) CFs if the value is NULL; this
  prevents warnings.
• Remove border-radius: 0 to allow Firefox to use native text entry
  widgets (#28233)
• Allow Firefox to reflow the data table below the chart on rudder
• Whitelist user search from CSRF restrictions
• Only include closing paren in MakeClicky link if it included an open
  paren (#29064)
• Canonicalize CF values (including dates, IP addresses, and IP ranges)
  before comparing to the database value; this prevents spurious
  "changed from a to a" messages.
• Allow downloading 0-length files if they have a filename (#9050)
• Quick Create now defaults to the lifecycle's default create status,
  instead of hardcoding "new"
• Show Wikitext CFs in bulk update
• Add autocompletion to link boxes on bulk update

Internationalization

• Add localization strings for Articles admin pages
• Add localization strings for user "Create Ticket" user summary portlet
• Add new #loc{key} form, to allow for more concise Lifecyles in config
• Updated German translation

Web administration

• Provide a default Category on External custom fields, for performance
• Provide a new "Notify Owner or AdminCCs" action
• Move search widgets for custom field admin interface to the top of
  the page, to match other admin pages
• Use "LIKE" as the default search operator in the queue admin interface
• Enable searching by Lifecycle and SubjectTag in the queue admin
  interface
• Add SubjectTag to the default AdminSearchResultFormat for queues
• Move Disabled to the last column of the default Queue admin search
  result format, to match Scrips
• Add Disabled column to AdminSearchResultFormat for Classes,
  CustomFields, Groups, and Users
• Add Disabled ColumnMap entry for Classes, Groups, and Users
• Prevent RT from locking up if a too-large image was uploaded for the
  logo (#29929)
• Fix bugs in cascaded CFs of radio buttons and checkboxes when
  categories contained spaces or periods.
• Quiet "No valid Type specified" warnings from queue watcher page for
  user search results that were left blank (#29993)

Server administration

• DBD::Pg 3.3.0 conflicts with RT's UTF-8 handling; for this release,
  it has been blacklisted. If you are using PostgreSQL as your
  database and have DBD::Pg 3.3.0 installed, you will need to download
  and install DBD::Pg 3.2.1 from CPAN.
• Allow the validator to fix incorrect values for Owner (#28403)
• Fix a regression in 4.2.5 which caused errors when calling
  rt-crontool with a numeric --template argument.
• Quiet warnings in the 4.2.2 upgrade step for users upgrading from
  4.0.x
• Add not_member_of restriction for User shredder plugin
• Warnings avoidance for RT::Attachments->Address when run as the
  System User
• Update logo attribute as the current user, to allow auditing of who
  changed it last
• Alter Links table on MySQL to support Unicode URLs (#19338)
• Warn on non-ASCII right names (#19339)
• Support Sphinx builds compiled with --enable-id64
• For compatibility with RT::Extension::MergeUsers, ensure that
  Shredder checks that a user (possibly resolved from a merged user) is
  valid before attempting to shred them
• Correctly detect presence of graphviz binary (dot), instead of
  libgraph.so, for perl dependency calculation
• When merging instances with identical $Organization values, do not
  qualify groups and queues

Developer

• Move AboutThisUser callback back to /Ticket/Elements/ShowGroupMembers
  where it appears to originate, from where RT 4.2.0 accidentally moved
  it, /Elements/ShowPrincipal/AboutThisUser
• Move all runtime module loading to UNIVERSAL::require
• Correct error message from RT::Date->Timezone
• Simplify code to assume Postgres 8.4, as RT 4.2 requires
• Add more class and id attributes to user admin pages and preferences
• Pass right number of arguments to sprintf, for Perl 5.22
  compatibility
• Move sbin/rt-message-catalog into devel/tools and streamline to unify
  with Launchpad import format
• Adjust more tests for RT_TEST_WEB_HANDLER=inline
• Remove dependency checks in t/, as they are covered by required
  developer dependencies

Documentation

• Improved documentation for RT::Date
• Link POD, URLs, and emails in HTML generated from README
• Document "Satisfy any" technique for allowing rt-mailgate to post to
  RT when $WebRemoteUserAuth and Apache authentication is used
• Document explicit steps for adding a new status to a lifecycle

A complete changelog is available from git by running:
git log rt-4.2.5..rt-4.2.6
or visiting
rt-4.2.5...rt-4.2.6