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RT 4.2.6 released
RT 4.2.6 -- 2014-07-16
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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
https://github.com/bestpractical/rt/compare/rt-4.2.5...rt-4.2.6
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