Bugzilla

Last night, we released Bugzilla 4.2.4, 4.0.9 and 3.6.12 to fix several security issues. Bugzilla 4.2.4 also notably fixes some crashes with Oracle when viewing buglists. Oracle support in 4.2.4 is definitely much better than in previous 4.x or 3.x releases. We also released the first release candidate of Bugzilla 4.4, which we expect to [...]

I saw several requests about how to use GMail as server to send bugmails from Bugzilla. I also saw too many (bad) articles about how to hack Bugzilla to make it work. Most were suggesting to install 3rd-party applications and to badly hack the source code, especially when installed on Windows. Forget all that! What [...]

Bugzilla installations running Oracle as their database server fail to display flags, tags and keywords in buglists. Oracle crashes with: DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: ORA-30482: DISTINCT option not allowed for this function (DBD ERROR: error ... [More] possibly near <*> indicator at char 313 ..., group_concat(<*>T_CLOB_DELIM(DISTINCT map_tag.name, ', ')) tag All the details are in bug 780053. The [...] [Less]

All those of you who are administrators of a Bugzilla installation already had to configure products in the past. Most of you probably found it was pretty hard to configure security correctly on these products: Entry, MemberControl, OtherControl ... [More] , Canedit, editbugs, canconfirm, editcomponents. What’s all this and how do they interact with each other? I made [...] [Less]

I saw several admins being confused about why their Bugzilla installation stopped working after upgrading to Bugzilla 4.3.3. First of all, remember that 4.1, 4.3, 4.5, etc.. are developement releases, not stable releases! Stable releases are of the ... [More] form 4.0, 4.2, 4.4, etc… Now, the reason for this specific issue is because we added  “Options -Indexes” [...] [Less]

I think now is a good time to give you some news about the current development of Bugzilla. First of all, we are very close from releasing Bugzilla 4.2.3 and 4.3.3. There is one blocker left which needs its patch to be reviewed, and we can start the release process. Hopefully this will happen this [...]

I got an email this morning from the maintainer of Testopia to inform me that Testopia 2.5 is finally released! This is the first version to work with Bugzilla 4.2.1 (if you are still running Bugzilla 4.0.x or 4.2, upgrade to 4.2.1 first). The announcement has not be made official yet, but this should be [...]

During the week-end, I received a pertinent email from a former Bugzilla developer who replied to an email I sent to all reviewers about the pretty low activity in the Bugzilla project during the current development cycle. He argued that one of the reasons which made him go away, and which probably took some other [...]

We released Bugzilla 4.3.1, 4.2.1, 4.0.6 and 3.6.9 a few hours ago, and they all contain 2 security fixes. All installations are highly encouraged to upgrade to these new releases. Bugzilla 3.6.9 and 4.0.6 only contain the two security fixes mentioned in the security advisory. Bugzilla 4.2.1 also contains a pretty large list of bug [...]

You probably noticed that there has been no activity related to the development of Testopia, a Bugzilla extension, for more than a year. The reason is that its maintainer, who was the single contributor to this project, had a new job and has no time to work on it anymore. Consequently, the latest version of [...]