roundup 2.4.0b1

A simple-to-use and -install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. Highly customisable.

I’m proud to release version 2.4.0 beta 1 of the Roundup issue tracker. This release is a bugfix and feature release, so make sure to read docs/upgrading.txt to bring your tracker up to date.

The 67 changes, as usual, include some new features and many bug fixes.

Note that you should run roundup-admin ... migrate to update the database schema version. Do this before you use the web, command-line or mail interface and before any users access the tracker.

You can install it with:

pip install roundup~=2.4.0b1

(preferably in a virtual environment). To download it, use:

pip download roundup~=2.4.0b1

then unpack and test/install from the tarball.

Among the notable improvements in 2.4.0 from the 2.3.0 release are:

• new classhelper component thanks to a team of students from CS682 at U-Mass Boston. This fixes many issues with the old classhelper. It is implemented as a web-component and needs REST interface access. It will fall back to the classic classhelper if REST is not available or if the browser does not support web-components.

• fix Windows Python installation using pip. It used to go into an infinite loop during install or download. Also fix installation of shared files (templates) so roundup-admin can find them.

• using @current_user as a value in a search URL for a user property will use the current logged in user. Now you can share searches like: “My issues” as “my” will become the current logged in user.

• login failures to the REST/XML-RPC interfaces are now rate limited to limit password guessing attacks.

• utf8mb4 is the default charset for MySQL. This requires migrating your database using the mysql client. You can choose to keep the older character set in config.ini.

• PostgreSQL services defined in pg_service.conf can be used. PostgreSQL schemas are supported to eliminate the need for the roundup user to have database creation/deletion privileges.

• fix out of memory issue when importing larger trackers into PostgreSQL.

• multiple roundup-admin improvements: display protected properties (like creation date), better formatting of output, command history. Also on windows, pyreadline3 is supported to provide an editable interactive command line.

• an experimental wsgi performance improvement in 2.3.0 is now now the default and is opt-out.

• new template functions: utils.readfile and utils.expandfile. Javascript that is included in the Python core will be moved to external files and be able to have values from Roundup substituted in the Javascript.

• allow content-type of a template to be set from inside the template. This allows returning json or xml from a template without a .json or .xml extention.

• fix import/export on windows to use Unix style line endings fixing export/import on Windows and making exports portable across platforms.

• various other Windows platform fixes including test suite fixes.

• sqlite version 1 and StructuredText support removed.

The file CHANGES.txt has a detailed list of feature additions and bug fixes (67) for each release. The most recent changes from there are at the end of this announcement. Also see the information in doc/upgrading.txt.

If you find bugs, please report them to issues AT roundup-tracker.org or create an account at https://issues.roundup-tracker.org and open a new ticket. If you have patches to fix the issues they can be attached to the email or uploaded to the tracker.

Upgrading

If you’re upgrading from an older version of Roundup you must follow all the “Software Upgrade” guidelines given in the doc/upgrading.txt documentation.

Note that you should run roundup-admin ... migrate for all your trackers to update the database schema version. Do this before you use the web, command-line or mail interface and before any users access the tracker.

Roundup requires Python 2 newer than version 2.7.12 or Python 3 newer than or equal to version 3.6 for correct operation. (Python 3.4 or 3.5 may work, but are not tested.) Note that Python 2 support is being removed from the CI platforms, so you should deploy new trackers with Python 3 and plan on upgrading older trackers from Python 2 to Python 3. See the upgrade guide.

To give Roundup a try, just download (directions above), unpack and run:

python demo.py

then open the url printed by the demo app.

Release info and download page:

https://pypi.org/project/roundup/

Source and documentation is available at the website:

https://www.roundup-tracker.org/

Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:

https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/mailman/

About Roundup

Roundup is a simple-to-use and install issue-tracking system with command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry “Track” design competition.

Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such as “description”, “priority”, and so on) and provides the ability to:

1. submit new issues,

2. find and edit existing issues, and

3. discuss issues with other participants.

The system facilitates communication among the participants by managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable “out of the box” with any Python 3.6+ installation. It doesn’t even need to be “installed” to be operational, though an install script is provided.

It comes with five basic issue tracker templates

• a classic bug/feature tracker

• a more extensive devel tracker for bug/features etc.

• a responsive version of the devel tracker

• a jinja2 version of the devel template (work in progress)

• a minimal skeleton

and supports four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and postgresql).

Recent Changes

From 2.3.0 to 2.4.0

TBA