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Posted almost 10 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
This discussion took place three years ago, and we have been working very hard to make it happen. But we are now done: Bugzilla 5.0, the next major release of Bugzilla which will be released later this month on April 31, will be based on Python 3.4, meaning that Bugzilla 4.4 was the last major […]
Posted about 10 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
A quick note to let you know that starting with Bugzilla 4.5.2, which should be released soon (a few weeks at most), it now uses the HTML5 doctype instead of the HTML 4.01 Transitional one. This means that cool new features from HTML5 can now be implemented in the coming Bugzilla 5.0. A lot of […]
Posted over 10 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
 
Posted over 10 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
This week, Bugzilla turns 15! On September 18, 1998, Terry Weissman released Bugzilla 2.0, the first version written in Perl. A few days before, on August 25, 1998, the Bugzilla source code was committed to CVS for the first time, and was written in Tcl (Terry decided to rewrite it in Perl to attract more […]
Posted over 10 years ago by justdave
Much of this post is taken from a message I posted to the developers list a few days ago, so my apologies in advance to anyone reading it again. I’ve expanded on a few things and added the information about the upcoming meeting, so it’s probably ... [More] worth re-reading. For those unaware of the context, Frédéric … Continue reading Bugzilla Project Meeting Wednesday, July 17th, at 14:00 UTC [Less]
Posted over 10 years ago by justdave
Much of this post is taken from a message I posted to the developers list a few days ago, so my apologies in advance to anyone reading it again. I’ve expanded on a few things and added the information about the upcoming meeting, so it’s probably worth re-reading. For those unaware of the context, Frédéric [...]
Posted over 10 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
"Everything that has a beginning has an end". I joined the Bugzilla project in August 2004 (already 9 years ago) and fixed more than 1600 bugs (including a few bugs in Bonsai, Doctor and Testopia). I became an official reviewer in December 2004, only 4 months after my first contribution, and reviewed patches in more […]
Posted almost 11 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
We released Bugzilla 4.4 and 4.2.6 a few minutes ago. Bugzilla 4.2.6 is a bugfix release, and contains no security fixes. It adds support for MySQL 5.6 and fixes a crash with Oracle. Bugzilla 4.4 contains many new features: The searching system has been improved: it allows multiple search criteria to match one field; it […]
Posted about 11 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
So, Bugzilla 4.4rc2 is finally here! It took us more time than expected, but the performance bugs are all fixed and we also fixed two security bugs which are described in the security advisory. Bugzilla 4.2.5, 4.0.10 and 3.6.13 also contain these two security fixes, so you should definitely upgrade. Compared to 4.4rc1, the new [...]
Posted over 11 years ago by Frédéric Buclin
You may wonder what’s going on since we released Bugzilla 4.4rc1 on November 13. Well, very few bugs have been reported which seems to indicate that 4.4rc1 is pretty stable. But we also found that running some queries were very slow since Bugzilla 4.2. Bugzilla 4.2 got a major rewrite of its search code (Bugzilla::Search), [...]