RT 5.0.1 -- 2021-01-29

We're pleased to announce the general availability RT 5.0.1.
The list of changes included with this release is below. This is
mostly a bugfix release but it also includes some additional
improvements that were not ready in time for the previous release.

https://download.bestpractical.com/pub/rt/release/rt-5.0.1.tar.gz
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General Updates and Fixes

• Don't display a dropdown in transaction history header if it is empty
• Fix width/max-width for .width-md/.max-width-md
• Switch to the correct *width-lg for existing *width-md elements
• Add the OwnerNameEdit column as an option in the format dropdown in the query builder
• Fix alignment for ticket creation on the group summary page
• Fix radio/checkbox inputs for "click" panel behavior of inline edit
• Preserve message quoting levels when converting HTML to plain text on comment/reply
• In the lifecycle editor, confirm the actions config array value exists
• Fix dark theme pagenum background color overlap
• Fix dark theme action-private color in RichText editor
• Show group tickets on self service closed tickets page
• Restore Total Time Worked to previous position on Ticket Display page
• Search group itself for SelfService "My group's tickets"
• Fix the input name to delete group members on group admin page
• On date selectors, fix the wrongly quoted date input id
• Add RT::Extension::FormattedTransaction to core
• Update HTML in transaction display to remove table-based layout
• Set diff text style rules more specifically
• In ticket search results, don't generate inline editing HTML if inline edit is disabled
• Fix TimeUnits overlap for dark-theme
• Fix dropdown toggle for dark-theme
• Add ability to serve a custom dashboard as the SelfService home page
• Fix datepicker icons for dark-theme
• Add UI for editing and displaying the SortOrder associated with an article
• Fix colors for selectionbox for dark-theme
• Fix bootstrap tooltip colors for dark-theme
• Fix dropzone colors for dark-theme
• Fix EditConfig tab and active colors for dark-theme
• Fix a:visited color change for dark-theme
• Tweak error widget styles to improve display in elevator themes
• Widen input box in Find a user portlet on RT at a Glance
• Use ticket update page layout for "Update ticket" portlet on jumbo page
• Align "Time to display" in footer
• Fix upload file type custom fields in inline edit forms
• Add "CustomFieldView" column type for view-only custom field values in search results
• Fix an error loading the SavedSearches component on the RT at a glance page
• Center comment/reply messagebox on bulk update
• Replace cf hints with tooltips on bulk update
• Fix padding for custom field inputs on bulk update
• In lifecycle editor, update mapping form submission parsing to handle '-' in lifecycle name
• Add new article portlets to the available self service components
• Add Top and Newest Articles portlets for self service
• Add a Home menu item to self service to mirror regular RT
• Display article content in a titlebox container
• Reduce the min-width of self service article list
• Fix naming mismatch preventing system txn/asset/chart saved searches from being added to dashboards
• Order articles in SelfServiceTopArticles by SortOrder
• Fix col layout for transaction custom field values
• On approval ticket display, switch to div to not create illegal nested links
• Make pagination with many linked tickets in linked queue portlet work
• Fix overlap of wrapped long values in forms
• Remove extra, unmatched closing div on Login/Logout pages
• Handle multipart attached emails when TreatAttachedEmailAsFiles is enabled

REST2 API

• Add basic article/class endpoints to REST2
• Add REST2 support for fetching attachment details with selected fields
• Attachment content is now base64 encoded when returned
• Abstract code to process file uploads to avoid duplication for REST2
• In REST2, handle lazy-created custom role groups that don't exist
• Add support for merging tickets in REST2
• Support take/untake/steal for tickets in REST2
• Accept an array of link params on record create for linking multiple tickets
• Add support for updating record links
• Allow attachments to be added when a ticket is created (thanks gibus and puck!)

Administration

• On the RT Portal admin page, set parent height to make iframe take up the whole height
• On user admin page, fix user data link overlap for dark-theme
• 'use' REST2 in web handler as PSGIWrap needs it for the web installer
• Make GnuPG file extensions more easily configurable
• Add .gpg file extension support to RT::Crypt::GnuPG
• Bump DBD::Pg to 3.8.0+
• Allow updating a lifecycle from an invalid value to a valid option on queue admin pages
• Add ShowEditLifecycleConfig option to disable lifecycle admin pages
• Obfuscate passphrase in %SMIME, %GnuPG and %GnuPGOptions on system config page
• In the rt-munge-attachments utility, allow header and content munging to be disabled by flags
• Allow specifying of transactions for rt-munge-attachments to munge
• Make inputs wider on scrip create/modify pages
• Center content on scrip create/modify pages
• Add SelfServiceShowArticleSearch configuration option
• Display TreatAttachedEmailAsFiles as boolean in web UI
• Add option to disable password prompt when creating tokens
• Mark config items containing regexp immutable
• Use JSON format for array/hash items in system config edit web UI
• Find full path for processing acl files on upgrade to work with newer perls

Internals

• Refactor code so we can add history endpoints to new classes more easily
• Avoid permission check to get CF type in CustomFieldValueIsEmpty
• Avoid permission check to get CF CanonicalizeClass
• Confirm the queue default value in %ServiceAgreements is a hash before using it as one
• Extract PriorityAsString config mapping in a method
• Accept string priority values in SetPriority
• Convert to absolute path before executing initialdata files
• In lifecycle mappings, move 'MaybeRedirectForResults' code after mapping updates
• Cache custom field values in mason to improve performance of inline edit
• Allow class-level rights to show self service articles
• Switch to Obfuscate callback for $DatabasePassword/$LDAPPassword configs
• Remove special handling of password like core variables on configuration page
• Fix uninitialized warnings for empty nested dependency
• In ShowCustomFieldCustomGroupings, accept arg for inline edit form action URL
• Drop useless queue parameter in loc call that doesn't have placeholders
• Fall back to "RT::Ticket" item for extended classes in %InlineEditPanelBehavior
• Respect extra query params to build page menus for all search pages
• Check "ShowArticle" right beforehand to get accurate number of articles

Documentation

• Document new FileExtensions config option for GnuPG
• Add missing mapping to lifecycle docs example
• Update existing lifecycle docs screenshots
• Update screenshots in docs with 5.0 versions.
• Fix the image path for subscriptions in feeds doc
• Update README link to backups doc
• Add support for linking POD in subdirectories for README/UPGRADING docs
• Fix MimeType in REST2 doc example
• Move asset examples to their own section in docs
• Update lifecycle docs for lifecycle UI
• Fix asset search endpoint in doc examples
• Fix rt-setup-fulltext-index --dry-run flag docs
• Update instructions for lifecycle mapping page to mention assets
• Document steps to fix home pages with saved search errors
• Document time zone dependencies in MariaDB for charts
• Document switch to JSON instead of Perl for System Configuration editor
• Document the options for modifying links via REST2
• Add take, untake, steal endpoints to docs
• Add documentation for using attachments via REST2

Testing and Developer

• Don't clean gpg stuff if tests are skipped
• Skip gpg homedir creation if tests are going to be skipped
• Add REST2 tests for articles/classes
• Add callback for modifying the group query on self service tickets page
• Add tests to delete group members from web UI
• Add test for the formatted transaction output.
• Add callback to modify CSS files loaded in header
• Test setting lifecycle from an invalid value to default on queue admin page
• Test ticket custom field updates with names containing spaces in REST2
• Fix BeforeMessageBox callback location on Bulk Update page
• Make sure $user always exists to simplify Obfuscate callback a bit
• Test tickets with custom roles applied later
• Add tests for the lifecycle Mappings.html page
• Fix typo in lifecycle_mappings test
• Make admin_queue_lifecycle.t happy when RT_TEST_DEVEL is not enabled
• Update dashboard tests for the format change of system saved searches
• Add tests for system non-ticket saved searches in dashboards
• Add tests for system non-ticket saved searches in MyRT
• Update unit test for JSON entry of hashes/arrays rather than Perl
• Test ticket merge in REST2
• Test ticket steal/take/untake in REST2
• Add REST2 tests for ticket link updates
• Test custom field uploads on ticket create for REST2
• Skip "links" html formatter tests if it's actually "elinks"
• Add AfterQueueAddresses callback for queue admin page

A complete changelog is available from git by running:
git log rt-5.0.0..rt-5.0.1
or visiting
rt-5.0.0...rt-5.0.1