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RT 4.2.4 -- 2014-05-13

We are happy to announce that RT 4.2.4 is now available.

http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.4.tar.gz
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.4.tar.gz.asc

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This release is primarily a bugfix release; notable changes include:

Database changes

• Add the AutoOpenInactive action for upgrades; clean installs of RT
  4.2.0 or higher have this action already
• Force Lifecycle and Disabled properties of the internal __Approvals
  queue to the values RT needs to function correctly

Notable new features

• If indexed full-text searching is enabled, the simple search will
  search in both Content and Subject.
• Align headers of collections to their content, by default. This
  right-aligns the "#" header of ticket collections, for instance.
• Send caching headers for all static content; this fixes a regression
  from RT 4.0, which correctly set caching headers on static images
  (#28640)
• Re-order JS to optimize parallel resource fetching, and decrease load
  times
• Allow LIKE and NOT LIKE with Status limits (#29654)

Regression fixes

• Resolve a regression in 4.2.3 wherein TITLE information was lost
  after parsing on the Advanced page (#29425)
• Fix a regression in 4.2.2, which caused "select" custom fields to not
  pick up their defaults when cloning tickets (#29751)
• Fix a regression in 4.2.2 which caused checkbox CFs to add the same
  value multiple times (#29392)
• Fix a regression in 4.2.2 when categories were set on a CF without
  using the "based on" feature.
• Show reminders without due dates if $OnlyOverdue is set; this fixes a
  regression from RT 4.0

Email

• Use "white-space: pre-wrap" when inserting plain-text into HTML
  templates. This preserves line breaks but allows clients to wrap
  lines if need be.

Localization

• Updated localizations from Launchpad; new Persian translation
• Better cluing of pluralization and quantified terms for translators
• Remove untranslatable locstrings (#29798)
• Fix extra/missing numbers in Czech localization (#29741)
• Remove no longer translated right names from PO files
• Disambiguate "M" for "month" vs "megabyte"

General web UI

• Better splitting of phrases with numbers in ticket link
  autocompletion
• Autocomplete email addresses in Forward page (#28441)
• Allow non-ASCII characters in passwords (#28784)
• Add a "Reset" button to revert homepage portlet formatting to the
  system default
• Remove uninitialized value warnings for upgrades from RT 3.8 (#17505)
• Allow downloading attachments whose filenames contain a leading dot
  (#29700)
• Prevent uninitialized value warning on search result pages with no
  query (#29699)
• Hide user summary links in mobile UI, as there is no user summary
  page for mobile (#28788)
• Always add the trailing delimiter when autocompleting multiple-entry
  objects, such as email addresses
• Compress PNG images to decrease initial page load times
• Avoid "That is already the current value" warning when changing
  between two queues with differing lifecycles but a same-name mapping
• Don't nest tags to User Summaries in queue watcher page
• Require that saved searches have names in order to be created
  (#20210)
• Give a proper error when attempting to merge a ticket into itself
  (#26407)
• Searching for "ip version 6" no longer limits to ticket 6; the 6 is
  instead searched for in the subject. (#22470)
• Give SystemError transactions their own CSS style
• Fix ticket link autocompletion during ticket creation
• Require that one or more addresses be provided to forward (#25308)
• Respect the "color" attribute in HTML mail (#28389)
• Rework the JS that prevented form resubmission; instead of disabling
  the submit button (which interacted poorly with the browser's back
  button), instead use an attribute on the form (#27489)
• Squash warnings triggered by query builder when more than 50
  different users had OwnTicket
• Serve rich text editor JS with the rest of the compressed JS; this
  ensures that it is better cached

Web administration

• Allow external custom fields to have a "based on" category.
• Hide the queue name, lifecycle, and disabled box on the edit page for
  the __Approvals queue; these must remain unchanged for Approvals
  functionality.
• Correctly page user results in User Summary searches
• Prevent warnings on Scrip edit pages if the user did not have global
  ShowTemplate rights

Configuration options

• Add a new option ($AllowLoginPasswordAutoComplete) to allow the
  browser to remember user passwords on RT's login screen (#29071)
• Add new $DefaultSearchResultOrderBy and $DefaultSearchResultOrder
  options to control the global default ordering of tickets
• When the stylesheet is set to an unknown style, default to rudder,
  not aileron (#29132)

Server administration

• Use one fewer database connections per rt-server process; this is
  most notable on FastCGI deployments, which spawn a number of
  rt-server processes
• Default to connecting to sphinx via 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost on
  MySQL 5.5, due to http://sphinxsearch.com/bugs/view.php?id=1815
• rt-validator can now detect and fix links to Articles with the wrong
  $Organization set
• Check that the version in sbin/rt-server matches the version in
  lib/RT/Generated.pm during server startup
• Follow up to 3 HTTP redirects when POSTing to the mail gateway. This
  covers the common case of http: redirecting to https:, but the mail
  gateway referencing http: (#14114)
• Return a status code 503 if we cannot connect to the database
  (#23332)

Installation

• When configuring, pull the primary group of the current user using
  perl, instead of groups, which may not list the primary group
  first.
• Ensure that rt-test-dependencies re-execs itself using its full path,
  as module installations may have changed the directory (#29024)
• Properly detect an existing database but missing schema in the web
  installer
• On perl 5.19.3 and above, a more recent version of
  Symbol::Global::Name is required, due to core perl changes

Upgrades

• Bulletproof 4.0 Articles upgrade steps by dropping tables before
  attempting to create them
• Correct documentation path in upgrade warning
• In database upgrades, skip the "BACK UP BEFORE THIS STEP" warning if
  the --force option was provided, which gives no change to stop at
  that point.
• Remove a warning in the optional time-worked-history.pl upgrade step

REST

• Allow arbitrary Content-Disposition in REST uploads (#19770)

Developer

• Add a comment warning about the use of the SetFieldsOnce callback in
  BuildFormatString; it will be removed in RT 4.4.
• Fix behavior of RT::Date->AddDays when passed 0 days
• Check POD of all files
• Allow RT::Users->WhoBelongToGroups to optionally return unprivileged
  users
• Provide hooks to implement a cache on MakeClicky
• Document ExtractTicketId and ParseTicketId, as useful methods for
  local overrides
• Update RT::CustomField->LoadByName, when called with a Queue
  argument, to return only ticket CFs; in 4.2, it also began finding
  queue CFs. This reverts to the behavior from 4.0.
• The Articles URI implementation is now consistent with Ticket URIs;
  ->LocalURIPrefix does not contain /article/
• Allow @jsfiles to include files not under /static/js/ if they have a
  leading /
• Add a generic style for reverse-color ticket titlebox tabs
• Allow plugins to wrap the PSGI application in its entirety
• Bulletproof role resolution for single-user roles
• Win32 and IIS are not a supported platform; remove all lingering
  references to them
• Allow ModifyAll.html's Default callback to change @results, like
  Modify.html
• Make Widgets/Form/Select honor the Multiple flag (#12447)
• Remove extraneous direct uses of Time::ParseDate (#24498)
• Add a callback after Attachments on ticket display
• Fix SetDisabled's return message on failure (#29802)
• Refactor CSV export to allow its use by non-ticket collections

Documentation

• Updated parts of RT::StyleGuide
• Document the --no-users and --no-groups options to rt-serializer more
  clearly
• Add documentation for rt-validate-aliases
• Remove misleading comment about "an rt-mailgate user" from
  rt-mailgate documentation
• Remove ambiguity of direction of $CanonicalizeEmailAddressMatch and
  $CanonicalizeEmailAddressReplace
• Update schema.dot for the ObjectScrips table, new in 4.2
• List SQLite in documentation as a possible database backend, for
  non-production use.
• Update suggested backup strategy on MySQL to no longer require LOCK
  TABLES privileges (#22893)
• Note that changing queue subject tags may require altering
  $EmailSubjectTagRegex
• Suggest /etc/cron.d instead of root's crontab, for discoverability

A complete changelog is available from git by running:
git log rt-4.2.3..rt-4.2.4
or visiting
rt-4.2.3...rt-4.2.4