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RT 4.2.7 -- 2014-09-11

We are pleased to announce that RT 4.2.7 is now available.

http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.7.tar.gz
http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-4.2.7.tar.gz.asc

SHA1 sums

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This release is primarily a bugfix release; most notably, it reworks
UTF8 data handling to work with versions of DBD::Pg 3.3.0 and above. On
PostgreSQL, this requires a newer version of DBIx::SearchBuilder.

It also includes a minor database upgrade step; no matter how minor, do
not forget to take (and test) database backups before upgrading.

General user UI

• Fix algorithm for determining which links to display in ticket
  relationship graphs with a MaxDepth
• Use "Correspondence added" or "Comment added" rather than the general
  "Message recorded"
• Loading saved charts should load all of their settings (#29015)
• Stop fixing the width of "New ticket in" button (#27649)
• Record transactions in ticket history when attachments were dropped
  or truncated due to $MaxAttachmentSize
• Still delay transaction loading when "full headers" have been
  requested
• Add an "overdue" class on Due columns, to match DueRelative columns.
• Only show "overdue" class if the ticket status is still active
• Fix styling of "There are unread messages" box in aileron
• Keep date and datetime custom field inputs during failed ticket
  creation
• Silence warnings from emails without Content-Transfer-Encoding
  headers
• Silence warnings on user modify pages for disabled users
• Let custom field grouping boxes link on Display pages link to the
  appropriate anchor on editing pages (#30195)

Localizations

• Localize "Recursive" column title in group memberships page
• Additional missing locstrings for numerous titleboxes
• Stop translating titles piecemeal in SelfService (#14736)
• Updated Catalan, German, Basque, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Brazilian
  Portuguese, and Russian translations

Command-line

• Reduce values queried using "rt ls" to only those displayed; this
  speeds request time significantly when a large number of custom
  fields are applied
• Add -s option to "rt comment", to set status when adding a comment or
  correspondence (#30375)

Admin

• Add %AdminSearchResultRows configuration for altering the number of
  rows per page of object types in the administrative interface
• Add an additional suggested index on Attachments' Creator for
  deleting users with Shredder
• Fix rt-dump-metadata, by removing PrivateKey from _Accessible
  (#22465)
• Rework internals dealing with characters/bytes, for better internal
  consistency, and su support DBD::Pg 3.3.0 and above.
• Provide rt-mailgate version in User-Agent string (#18420)
• Reword errors given for rt-crontool when no valid user is found
  (#18621)
• Show the right error message when rt-crontool fails to load a module
  (#22991)
• Properly detect when rt-server is called without --listen
• Detect auto-generated mail in the presence of multiple Precedence:
  headers
• Strip non-word characters from custom field variable names in Simple
  templates; this allows use of custom fields with spaces (#18446)
• Streamline 3.8 -> 4.0 and 4.0 -> 4.2 upgrade steps by reducing the
  number of ALTER TABLE calls that are run, adding/dropping multiple
  columns at once (#21309)
• Remove LogoImageHeight and LogoImageWidth configuration varables,
  which had no effect (#26827)

Developer

• Add a callback to manipulate which link types are displayed on
  tickets
• Allow Object to be a subref in @Attributes in initialdata, to allow
  for attributes on arbitrary objects
• Ignore vim swap files when testing
• Allow the SuccessfulLogin callback to alter where RT redirects to
• Add a callback to alter arguments to Showhistory
• Consistently use ->_GroupingClass when determining record class for
  grouping lookup.
• Allow ->Deprecated to take a loglevel
• Switch from MIME::Head->set(), deprecated for the last 16 years, to
  ->replace() (#18417)

Documentation

• Correct documentation on where Shredder places sqldump files (#19167)
• Consistently use say 1/0 instead of true/false in RT_Config.pm
  documentation
• Document how ordering in lifecycle transitions controls ordering in
  the status drop-down

A complete changelog is available from git by running:
git log rt-4.2.6..rt-4.2.7
or visiting
rt-4.2.6...rt-4.2.7