I'm proud to release version 1.4.21 of Roundup which has been possible due to the help of several contributors. This release introduces some minor features and, as usual, fixes some bugs: Features: - issue2550782: Added a new irker detector to send notifications on IRC when an issue is created or messages are added. (Ezio Melotti) - Beta version of responsive templates using devel schema and Twitter Bootstrap for styling (Pradip Caulagi) - pywin32 is not longer required to run on Windows (anatoly techtonik) - Rewritten portalocker.py logic in ctypes for Windows (anatoly techtonik) - Add an interface to register clearCache callbacks in roundupdb. Sometimes complicated computations may require an application cache. This application can now register a callback to clear the application cache, because roundup knows better when to clear it (usually when a transaction ends, either with rollback or with commit). The interface for this is currently considered experimental. The current interface is registerClearCacheCallback(self, method, param) where method is called with param as the only parameter. (Ralf Schlatterbeck) - Add a script to remove file-spam from a tracker, see scripts/spam-remover. (Ralf Schlatterbeck) Fixed: - issue2550765: Don't show links in calendar that will fail. Found and fixed by Cedric Krier. (Bernhard) - issue2550765: use <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> in the _generic.calendar.html to prevent robots to follow all the links in the calendar. (Ezio Melotti) - "BaseException.with_traceback" is not available on Python 2, so use "raise E, V, T" instead of "raise E(V).with_traceback(T)". This change was originally introduced in 74476eaac38a. (Ezio Melotti) - issue2550759: Trailing punctuation is no longer included when URLs are converted to links. (Ezio Melotti) - issue2550574: Restore sample detectors removed in roundup 1.4.9 (Thomas Arendsen Hein) - Prevent AttributeError when removing all roles of a user (Thomas Arendsen Hein) - issue2550762 Minor Documentation fix in doc/developers.txt, thanks to W. Trevor King. (Bernhard Reiter) - issue2550766: Minor formatting issues in the docs for date properties, thanks John Kristensen. (Bernhard Reiter) - issue2550738: Fixes for various documentation typoes, thanks Nathan Russell. (John Kristensen) - issue2550756: Fix `oder' typo in mailer.Mailer.bounce_message docstring, thanks W. Trevor King (John Kristensen) - Fix basic authentication: instatiating the login action would fail if the user is not set. We now first set the user to anonymous and then try basic authentication if enabled. (Ralf Schlatterbeck) - Fix xmlrpc permissions for lookup method: Allow if the key attribute is either searchable or viewable, don't check id attribute (Ralf Schlatterbeck) - Fix installation documentation (section Prerequisites) to require at least python 2.5, thanks to John P. Rouillard for discovering this. (committed by Ralf Schlatterbeck) - Fix version_check.py to require at least python 2.5 (anatoly techtonik) - Fixing the download button re-activating the cheeseshop plugin in the sphinx config. Thanks to Richard for the hint. (Bernhard Reiter) - issue2550783 devel template's schema.py permissions referenced the organization property for the user, but the property is called organisation. Thanks to Pradip Caulagi. (committed by John Rouillard) - issue2550749 - the xmlrpc interface is invoked on content type and not url path. Sending any text/xml data to roundup results in invoking the xml-rpc interface, but a REST or other interface could also consume xml data and do something different. So require the use of 'http(s)://.../xmlrpc' uri to trigger the xmlrpc interface. (John Rouillard) - issue2550774: Remove generating documentation with rst2html, and update the README.txt with how to create the html docs using sphinx, thanks Kai Storbeck (John Kristensen) - issue2550774: Include doc/conf.py in the release tarball, so people can build their own documentation in html, thanks Kai Storbeck (John Kristensen) - issue2550774: Update website/www/Makefile to symlink COPYING.txt so "make" works again, thanks Kai Storbeck (John Kristensen) - issue2550760: Several improvements to the manpages thanks Kai Storbeck & Bastian Kleineidam (John Kristensen) If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you *must* follow the "Software Upgrade" guidelines given in the maintenance documentation. Roundup requires python 2.5 or later (but not 3+) for correct operation. To give Roundup a try, just download (see below), unpack and run:: python demo.py Release info and download page: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/roundup Source and documentation is available at the website: http://roundup-tracker.org/ Mailing lists - the place to ask questions: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=31577 About Roundup ============= Roundup is a simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track" design competition. Note: Ping is not responsible for this project. The contact for this project is richard@users.sourceforge.net. Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability to: (a) submit new issues, (b) find and edit existing issues, and (c) discuss issues with other participants. The system will facilitate communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box" with any python 2.5+ (but not 3+) installation. It doesn't even need to be "installed" to be operational, though an install script is provided. It comes with two issue tracker templates (a classic bug/feature tracker and a minimal skeleton) and four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql). -- Dr. Ralf Schlatterbeck Tel: +43/2243/26465-16 Open Source Consulting www: http://www.runtux.com Reichergasse 131, A-3411 Weidling email: office@runtux.com osAlliance member email: rsc@osalliance.com