Bugzilla

This is just a quick note to let you know that once we branch for Bugzilla 4.4 in May, I will commit a patch which will make Bugzilla 4.5 and newer to require Perl 5.10.1 as a minimum. This means Bugzilla won’t support Perl 5.8.x anymore. So Bugzilla 4.4 will be the last release to [...]

There has been some complains these last few days on IRC and in the support mailing-list/newsgroup that admins couldn’t upgrade their Bugzilla installation to 4.2 due to the lack of a CVS mirror for this branch. As announced 3 years ago in the developers mailing-list and on b.m.o., and 1.5 years ago on the bugzilla.org [...]

Now that Bugzilla 4.2 is released, I could finally focus on enhancements instead of fixing blockers and doing QA. This week, I decided to spend some time to improve the performance of Bugzilla. My main focus was show_bug.cgi, i.e. bug reports. I plan to look at other CGI scripts soon, hopefully within 2 weeks. You [...]

We released Bugzilla 4.2 today, exactly one year after our previous major release, 4.0! Bugzilla 4.2 now supports SQLite, lets you create attachments simply by pasting text into a text field, can send bug changes notifications in HTML format ... [More] , supports more complex queries, lets you disable old target milestones, versions and components (so that you [...] [Less]

We released Bugzilla 4.2rc2, 4.0.4, 3.6.8 and 3.4.14 a few minutes ago. They all contain various security fixes which are described in the Security Advisory. 4.2rc2 should be our last release candidate before 4.2 final, which we expect to release in the 2nd half of February. On the other end, 3.4.14 is very likely our [...]

After a very long delay due to some nasty blockers, we finally released Bugzilla 4.2rc1 last night! Just to name a few new features or improvements: SQLite is now supported and becomes the 4th supported database besides MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle. Its support must still be considered as experimental, though. It is now possible to [...]

I just created an «official» Bugzilla page on Google+: https://plus.google.com/104215203522965843895. Feel free to look at it from time to time to get the latest news about the Bugzilla development.

A few weeks ago, kernel.org was compromised. Today, it’s the turn of WineHQ.org with all its credentials stolen (email addresses and encrypted passwords). Who is next? Note: I won’t give any price to the winner.

If you are like me and want to compile DBD::Oracle to use with Bugzilla and your installation of Oracle 10g XE, simply type the following command from the bugzilla/ root directory: ORACLE_SID=XE ... [More] ORACLE_HOME=/usr/lib/oracle/xe/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/server LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib ./install-module.pl DBD::Oracle Of course, you must have installed oracle-xe-univ-10.2.0.1-1.0.i386.rpm already. This should save you a few headaches to make it work. [Less]

More than 3 months after our last releases, we finally released Bugzilla 4.1.3, 4.0.2, 3.6.6 and 3.4.12 last night. Bugzilla 3.6.6 and 3.4.12 are security releases for our old supported branches. Bugzilla 4.0.2 contains security fixes and several ... [More] useful bug fixes, including: The Bug.create() WebService method now throws an error if you pass a group [...] [Less]