Change Log

This is a rough list of changes between released versions.

To see where Trac is going in future releases, see the ​Roadmap.

1.1.x Releases

1.1.x releases are development releases leading eventually to Trac 1.2. See them as kind of snapshots of ​source:trunk.

No guarantees of feature and API compatibility is made from one 1.1.x release to the next.

1.1.4

(March 24, 2015)

Highlights of the changes:

• Performance improvements with MySQL/MariaDB (​#3676).
• Click on Permissions Admin page table row toggles all checkboxes in the row (​#11417).
• Configuration sections are written to trac.ini when enabling a component through Trac Admin or the web administration module (​#11437).
• Subscription rules can be reordered by drag and drop (​#11941).

See also the ​1.1.4 and the detailed release notes for ​ 1.1.4 and ​ 1.0.4/1.0.5 (as 1.1.4 contains all the fixes done for 1.0.4 and 1.0.5).

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1.1.3

(January 13, 2015)

The following list contains highlights of the changes:

• The ticket creation step can be configured in the Trac Workflow and the workflow controls are present on the NewTicket page (​#2045).
• New notification system that can be extended by plugins (​#3517).
• New preferences panel for notification subscriptions (​#4056).
• Wiki page version comments can be edited by users with WIKI_ADMIN (​#6573).
• Improved positioning of Add Comment section and author field on the ticket form (​#10207).
• The delete confirmation pages warn if attachments will also be deleted (​#11542).
• Removed support for ​SilverCity, Enscript and PhpRenderer syntax highlighters (​#11795).
• Combined Date & Time and Language preference panels as Localization (​#11813).
• Groups and permissions can be used in the workflow set_owner attribute (​#11839).

See also the ​1.1.3 and the detailed release notes for ​ 1.1.3 and ​ 1.0.3 (as 1.1.3 contains all the fixes done for 1.0.3).

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1.1.2

(October 23, 2014)

The following list contains highlights of the changes:

• Dropped support for Python 2.5. Trac can no longer be run on Python 2.5 as incompatible changes have been made in the source code (​#11600).
• The new ticket workflow action may_set_owner is similar to set_owner but the owner defaults to the existing ticket owner rather than the current user (​#10018).
• The new option [ticket] optional_fields specifies ticket select fields that are treated as optional (i.e. an empty value is allowed) (​#10772).
• Line number and row highlighting annotations can be specified for WikiProcessor code blocks (​#10834).
• The default handler can be set as a session preference (​#11597), and the default value for all users can be set from the Basic Settings admin page (​#11519).
• Attachments can't be added to read-only wiki pages (​#11244).
• Tables on the admin pages have a Select all checkbox in the header (​#10994).
• Submit buttons are disabled if the required items are not selected (​#11056).
• The Admin Permissions page has a Copy Permissions form for copying permissions between users and groups (​#11099).
• The new option [milestone] default_retarget_to determines the default milestone for retargeting tickets when a milestone is deleted or closed, and can be specified from the Milestone admin page (​#10010).
• The retarget select is not shown when closing or deleting a milestone which has no tickets associated with it (​#11366).
• Clear default buttons allow the ticket system default values (e.g. default_milestone, default_version) to be cleared through the corresponding admin pages (​#10772, ​#11300).
• The TitleIndex macro supports relative path prefixes when used on wiki pages (​#11455).
• ​CommitTicketUpdater will recognize a ticket reference that includes a trailing #comment:N or #comment:description (​#11622).
• The Tickets column of the milestone table on the Milestone admin page contains links to the query page showing all tickets associated with the milestone, grouped by status (​#11661).
• Authz policy can be used to restrict access to the Report List page using the resource id -1 (​#11697).

See also the ​1.1.2 and the detailed release notes for ​ 1.1.2, ​ 1.0.2 and ​ 0.12.6 (as 1.1.2 contains all the fixes done for 1.0.2 and 0.12.6).

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1.1.1

(February 3, 2013)

Trac 1.1.1 starts the 1.1.x development line leading to 1.2 with some new features and a few not-so-disruptive changes.

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• Added support for custom ticket fields of type time (​#1942)
• In new tickets, custom time ticket fields may default to an absolute or relative date / time (​#10853)
• In Trac Batch Modify, custom time ticket fields can be changed with a date(time)picker popup control (​#10854)
• Optionally display the component of tickets in their timeline entries ([timeline] ticket_show_component setting) (​#10885)
• Fixed batch modification when no fields are changed (​#10924)
• Dynamic variables can be used in the report title and description (​#10979)
• jQuery upgraded to 1.8.3, jQuery UI upgraded to 1.9.2 and jQuery UI Timepicker upgraded to 1.1.1 (​#10976)
• Dropped support for Python 2.5, either Python 2.6 or Python 2.7 is required (well, as it happens, 2.5 still works, that's a bug ;-) )

See also the ​1.1.1 and the detailed release notes for ​ 1.1.1, ​ 1.0.1 and ​ 0.12.5 (as 1.1.1 contains all the fixes done for 1.0.1 and 0.12.5).

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1.0.x Releases

1.0.5

(March 24, 2015)

Trac 1.0.5 provides several fixes. The following are some highlights:

• Images are not rendered in the timeline (​#10751).
• Git tags are shown in the browser view (​#11964).
• Added support for journal_mode and synchronous pragmas in sqlite: database connection string (​#11967).

See the detailed release notes for ​ 1.0.5.

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1.0.4

(February 8, 2015)

Trac 1.0.4 contains a few fixes, including a fix for a regression in 1.0.3.

• Workflow action labels were not displayed unless name attribute was explicitly defined (​#11930).

See the detailed release notes for ​ 1.0.4.

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1.0.3

(January 13, 2015)

Trac 1.0.3 is a maintenance release containing numerous fixes and minor enhancements. The following are a few of the highlights:

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• Notification is sent when adding an attachment to a ticket (​#2259).
• Stylesheets and scripts are loaded during autopreview, resulting in proper syntax highlighting when code Wiki Processors are added (​#10470) and display of Workflow graphs without explicit autopreview (​#10674).
• Merge changesets are shown as differences against first parent, resulting in less noisy changesets (​#10740).
• Pygments 2.0 is supported (​#11796).
• Fixed error when completing the initenv Trac Admin command (​#11797).
• Performance improvement on systems with many thousands of authenticated users due to caching of Environment.get_known_users (​#11868).
• Distribution metadata of wheel package is supported and displayed on the About page (​#11877).
• … and more than 3 dozen total fixes!

See the detailed release notes for ​ 1.0.3.

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1.0.2

(October 23, 2014)

Trac 1.0.2 contains a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements, as well as a major update for many translations.

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• Subversion keywords are expanded and EOL substitutions made when viewing a file in the repository browser and when downloading a file (​#717).
• Notification email is sent to the old owner when a ticket is reassigned (​#2311).
• Ticket change history is updated when renaming and deleting a milestone, and when retargeting tickets to another milestone (​#4582, ​#5658).
• Numerous fixes for the Authz permissions policy in the browser/repository (​#10961, ​#11646), wiki (​#8976, ​#11067), admin (​#11069) and report (​#11176) realms.
• Multiple forms submits are disallowed (​#10138).
• ConfigurationError is raised if any of the permission_policies can't be loaded, preventing possible information leakage due to internal and installation errors (​#10285).
• Wiki toolbars can be disabled through a configuration setting (​#10837)
• The number of entries in a table is shown next to heading on applicable admin pages (​#11027).
• Cancel buttons are consistently located on all pages (​#11076).
• Focus is placed on a text element when an edit page is loaded (​#11084).
• The Edit conflict and Merge warning messages are always visible in side-by-side edit mode (​#11102).
• Improvements to the layout of the Report (​#11106, ​#11664) and Ticket pages (​#11471).
• Genshi 0.7 compatibility (​#11218).
• Numerous minor fixes for Git repository support.
• … and more than a hundred more fixes!

See the detailed release notes for ​ 1.0.2 and ​ 0.12.6 (as 1.0.2 contains all the fixes done for 0.12.6).

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1.0.1

(February 1, 2013)

Trac 1.0.1 contains a number of bug fixes and minor enhancements, as well as a major update for many translations.

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• Fix zip source download for large directories in Subversion repositories (​#10840)
• Performance improvement for the Roadmap, by caching milestone properties (​#10879)
• Added a select all checkbox to table of components for each plugin on the Plugins admin panel (​#9609)
• Restore the Modify link at the top of the ticket page, as it was in Trac 0.12 (​#10856)
• ListOption keeps values other than empty string and None in raw list as default (​#10541)
• Prevent possibility of multiple identical info or warning messages being presented to the user (​#10987)
• The BatchModify select-all checkboxes are toggled with tri-state behavior when the ticket checkboxes are toggled (​#10992)
• Update the ticket changetime to the current time when deleting a ticket comment (​#10486)

See the detailed release notes for ​ 1.0.1 and ​ 0.12.5 (as 1.0.1 contains all the fixes done for 0.12.5).

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1.0 'Cell'

(September 7, 2012)

Trac 1.0 is a major release adding refreshed user interface and improved DVCS repository support as the most visible changes.

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• The default theme looks more modern, especially on recent browsers (no effort has been made to make it look better on older browsers like IE6 or 7)
• The [TH:GitPlugin] has been donated by Herbert Valerio Riedel to the Trac project (many thanks!) and is now maintained here as an optional component
• As a consequence, the Subversion support has been moved below tracopt.versioncontrol as well
• The Git and Mercurial log view feature a visualization of the branching structure
• Usability improvements for the tickets, with a better support for conflict detection and resolution
• Integration of the [TH:BatchModifyPlugin], contributed by Brian Meeker (many thanks!) and is now maintained there as a default component
• jQuery/UI integration, featuring a date picker for date fields
• Improved integration with Pygments syntax highlighting
• ... and numerous smaller features added and bugs fixed since 0.12!

See the full list in ​1.0.

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0.12.x Releases

0.12.6

(October 23, 2014)

Trac 0.12.6 contains fixes for a few issues:

• Subversion blame would fail for a path with URL-encoded characters (​#10386), a lower-case drive letter on Windows (​#10514), or a non-ascii filename with Subversion 1.7 (​#11167).
• Improved performance rendering svn:mergeinfo properties in browser view (​#8459) and changeset view (​#11219).
• Query with many custom fields would fail (​#11140).
• Zip archive had a timestamp with no timezone information (​#11162).
• Failure or incorrect ranges rendering log Trac Links (​#11308, ​#11346).
• Textareas in ticket view did not wrap correctly in IE 11 (​#11376).
• Emails were not being obfuscated in owner field on CSV export from ticket and query pages (​#11594).
• Locale data was not being included in egg in Distribute 0.6.29 and later (​#11640).
• Deleting a milestone would not delete its attachments (​#11672).
• Added support for Babel 1.0 and later (​#11258, ​#11345).
• Added support for ConfigObj 5.0 and later (​#11498).
• … and dozens more fixes!

See the detailed release notes for ​ 0.12.6.

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0.12.5

(January 15, 2013)

Trac 0.12.5 contains fixes for a few issues:

• upload of .mht files (​MHTML web page archive files) now works (​#9880)
• more robust parsing of attachment URLs (​#10280) and uploaded file names (​#10850)
• lots of improvement to the date formatting code, which is now much more robust when timezone and daylight saving time computations are involved (​#10768, ​#10863, ​#10864, ​#10912, ​#10920)
• no longer generate invalid JSON encoded data with Python 2.4 and 2.5 (​#10877)
• ... and fix a couple more minor defects (​#10967, ​#10892, ​#10923, ​#10858, ​#10835)

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0.12.4

(September 7, 2012)

Trac 0.12.4 contains only a handful of minor fixes.

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0.12.3

(February 6, 2012)

Trac 0.12.3 contains a few minor fixes and a few minor features.

• compatibility with Subversion 1.7 (​#10414)
• easier troubleshooting of common startup errors (​#10024)
• jQuery upgraded to 1.4.4 (​#10001)
• improve fine-grained permission handling in the source browser (​#9976, ​#10208, ​#10110)
• added compatibility with MySQL 5.5.3 utf8mb4 databases (​#9766)
• ... and dozens more fixes!

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0.12.2

(January 31, 2011)

Trac 0.12.2 contains a few minor fixes and a few minor features.

This list contains only a few highlights:

• install: improved robustness of Trac installation if Babel is installed after the fact (​#9439, ​#9595, ​#9961)
• notifications: support for Asian character width (​#4717)
• roadmap: fix display of progress bar in some corner cases (​#9718) and respect the overall_completion milestone group setting (​#9721)
• reports: reports and queries look much better, as the columns now keep the same width across groups; the absence of word wrapping in reports has been fixed (​#9825)
• web admin: improved layout (​#8866, ​#9963)
• web: it's now possible to log in different Trac instances sharing the same URL prefix (e.g. /project and /project-test) (​#9951)

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0.12.1

(October 9, 2010)

Trac 0.12.1 contains a few important performance improvements, some minor fixes and a few minor features.

This list contains only a few highlights:

• db: improve concurrency behavior (​#9111)
• fcgi: add an environment variable TRAC_USE_FLUP to control the usage of flup vs. bundled _fcgi.py (defaults to 0, i.e. use bundled as before)
• svn authz: improve compatibility with svn 1.5 format (​#8289)
• milestone: allow to set the time for the due date (​#6369, ​#9582)
• ticket: fixes for the CC: property (​#8597, ​#9522)
• notification: improved the formatting of ticket fields in notification e-mails (​#9484, ​#9494)
• i18n: added a configuration option to set the default language (​#8117)
• several fixes for upgrade (​#9400, ​#9416, ​#9483, ​#9556)

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0.12 'Babel'

(June 13, 2010)

Trac 0.12 is a major release introducing i18n and multiple repository support as the most visible changes.

The following list contains only a few highlights:

• The user interface is translated in a dozen of languages, provided the [Babel:] package is installed
• Multiple repositories can be associated to a single Trac environment; the repositories can be of heterogeneous types (svn, hg, git, darcs...)
• Usability improvements for the Wiki, with a nice side-by-side edit mode with automatic preview
• Richer Wiki syntax, with much improved support for tables, partial ​WikiCreole compatibility and numerous smaller improvements
• Usability improvements for the Ticket module, with automatic preview of comments while you type and possibility to edit or remove them later
• Improved Custom Queries (time fields, multiple disjoint conditions, a.k.a. OR queries)
• Timeline filtering by user
• ... and numerous smaller features added and bugs fixed since 0.11!

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Older Releases

For releases prior to 0.12, see ​TracChangeLog@95.