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What's New in Roundup 0.8
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For those completely new to Roundup, you might want to look over the very
terse features__ page.

__ features.html

.. contents::

In Summary
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(this information copied directly from the ``CHANGES.txt`` file)

XXX this section needs more detail

- create a new RDBMS cursor after committing
- roundup-admin reindex command may now work on single items or classes

- roundup-server options -g and -u accept both ids and names (sf bug 983769)
- roundup-server now has a configuration file (-C option)
- roundup windows service may be installed with command line options
  recognized by roundup-server (but not tracker specification arguments).
  Use this to specify server configuration file for the service.

- added option to turn off registration confirmation via email
  ("instant_registration" in config) (sf rfe 922209)



Performance improvements
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We don't try to import all backends in backends.__init__ unless we *want*
to.

Roundup may now use the Apache mod_python interface (see installation.txt)
which is much faster than the standard cgi-bin and a little faster than
roundup-server.

There is now an experimental multi-thread server which should allow faster
concurrent access.

In the hyperdb, a few other speedups were implemented, such as:

- record journaltag lookup ("fixes" sf bug 998140)
- unless in debug mode, keep a single persistent connection through a
  single web or mailgw request.
- remove "manual" locking of sqlite database


Logging of internal messages
============================

Roundup's previously ad-hoc logging of events has been cleaned up and is
now configured in a single place in the tracker configuration file.

The `customization documentation`_ has more details on how this is
configured.

roundup-mailgw now logs fatal exceptions rather than mailing them to admin.


Security Changes
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``security.addPermissionToRole()`` has been extended to allow skipping the
separate getPermission call.


Password Storage
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Added MD5 scheme for password hiding. This extends the existing SHA and
crypt methods and is useful if you have an existing MD5 password database.


Permission Definitions
----------------------

Permissions may now be defined on a per-property basis, allowing access to
only specific properties on items. 

Permissions may also have code attached which is executed to check whether
the Permission is valid for the current user and item.

Permissions are now automatically checked when information is rendered
through the web. This includes:

1. View checks for properties when being rendered via the ``plain()`` or
   similar methods. If the check fails, the text "[hidden]" will be
   displayed.
2. Edit checks for properties when the edit field is being rendered via
   the ``field()`` or similar methods. If the check fails, the property
   will be rendered via the ``plain()`` method (see point 1. for additional
   checking performed)
3. View checks are performed in index pages for each item being displayed
   such that if the user does not have permission, the row is not rendered.


Extending Roundup
=================

To write extension code for Roundup you place a file in the tracker home
``extensions`` directory. See the `customisation documentation`_ for more
information about how this is done.


8-bit character set support in Web interface
============================================

This is used to override the UTF-8 default. It may be overridden in both
forms and a browser cookie.

- In forms, use the ``@charset`` variable.
- To use the cookie override, have the ``roundup_charset`` cookie set.

In both cases, the value is a valid charset name (eg. ``utf-8`` or
``kio8-r``).

Inside Roundup, all strings are stored and processed in utf-8.
Unfortunately, some older browsers do not work properly with
utf-8-encoded pages (e.g. Netscape Navigator 4 displays wrong
characters in form fields).  This version allows to change
the character set for http transfers.  To do so, you may add
the following code to your ``page.html`` template::

 <tal:block define="uri string:${request/base}${request/env/PATH_INFO}">
  utf-8
  koi8-r
 </tal:block>

(substitute ``koi8-r`` with the appropriate charset for your language).
Charset preference is kept in the browser cookie ``roundup_charset``.

``meta http-equiv`` lines added to the tracker templates in version 0.6.0
should be changed to include actual character set name::

Actual charset is also sent in the http header.

Web Interface Miscellanea
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The web interface has seen some changes:

Editing

Templating
  We implement __nonzero__ for HTMLProperty - properties may now be used in
  boolean conditions (eg ``tal:condition="issue/nosy"`` will be false if
  the nosy list is empty).

  We added a default argument to the DateHTMLProperty.field method, and an
  optional Interval (string or object) to the DateHTMLProperty.now

  We've added a multiple selection Link/Multilink search field macro to the
  default classic page.html template.

  We relaxed hyperlinking in web interface (accept "issue123" or "Issue 123")

  The listing popup may be used in query forms.

Standard templates
  We hide "(list)" popup links when issue is only viewable

  The issue search page now has fields to allow no sorting / grouping of
  the results.

  The default page.html template now has a search box in the top right
  corner which performs a full-text search of issues. The "show issue"
  quick jump form in the sidebar has had its font size reduced to use less
  space.

Web server
  The builtin web server may now perform HTTP Basic Authentication by
  itself.

.. _`customization documentation`: customizing.html
