Re: Upgrade Gnatsweb on sources

[Yngve Svendsen <yngve.svendsen@clustra.com>]

At 20:20 08.05.2001 -0600, Tom Tromey wrote:
>What changes will we notice?  Also, will it work with the current
>gnatsd?  I don't think we're ready to upgrade that.  Anyway, I'm for
>it.  I can do it whenever you say it is safe, upgrade-wise.

Yes, 2.8.0 is meant as a sort of wrapup release for the Gnatswebs 
supporting gnatsd 3.x.

There aren't any major new features over Gnatsweb 2.6, but some usability 
features such as URL marking and automatic redirects have been added. A 
proper help text has been added, external stylesheets are supported, and 
some problems introduced in 2.7 beta were corrected. I have also tightened 
the locking routines a bit, so there should now be little chance of 
Gnatsweb leaving PRs locked after edits.

I am enclosing the NEWS file from 2.8.0 below. Unfortunately, there was no 
NEWS file in 2.7 beta, so the changes from 2.6 are somewhat more extensive 
than what's outlined below. All in all, I am quite certain that there won't 
be any negative consequences from upgrading.

By the way, a new Gnats release will be announced tonight, bearing the 
version number 3.113.1. This release fixes the three most serious bugs 
encountered in 3.113. It is a bug-fix release only, but I'd recommend that 
you upgrade it also. It should be an easy drop-in replacement for 3.113.

Let me know what you think.

- Yngve



Current Version: 2.8.0
See the file ChangeLog for the details of all changes.

Changes from 2.7 beta to 2.8.0
* Both the Gnats and Gnatsweb version numbers are now displayed in the
   main page footer.
* If a user pressed the 'Stop' button of the browser right after
   pressing 'Submit' on the Edit PR page, the PR would not be properly
   unlocked. This has been fixed in a hopefully watertight way.
* If edits were submitted to a locked PR, Gnatsweb would not catch the
   error, and instead display a confusing error message saying that the
   PR had been modified since you started editing it. Gnatsweb now
   properly warns of a locked PR and stops the submission.
* Documentation updates to avert problems when people install Gnatsweb
   on top of a multiple-database Gnats.
* The page banner is now a little smaller, and the text "gnatsweb" is
   now displayed in a smaller typeface.
* On the Advanced Query Page, we now display a line below 'Closed
   After' and 'Closed Before' reminding users to uncheck 'Ignore
   Closed'.
* A bug where users would be able to create new PRs with PR numbers
   composed both out of letters and numbers has been corrected.
* When a non-existing PR number was typed into the 'view' or 'edit'
   textboxes on the front page, no error message would be given, and
   the user would be presented with a blank PR. Checks have been added
   to prevent this.
* Internet Explorer users are now being properly redirected to the
   Gnatsweb main page after submitting an edit.
* Internet Explorer would try to give downloaded attachments the same
   name as the gnatsweb script file itself. This has been fixed.
* Editing PRs with attachments caused Gnatsweb 2.7 beta to crash. This
   has been fixed.
* URLs in PR text are now being automatically converted to clickable
   links when PRs are displayed.
* Fixed a bug where HTML tags in PR fields weren't being properly
   escaped before being displayed in the query results.
* It is now possible to link an external stylesheet to all Gnatsweb
   pages. The Gnatsweb-generated HTML has been thoroughly cleaned up in
   order to support stylesheets better.