<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Greetings, REMINDER: Red Hat Bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com) will be unavailable on May 22nd starting at 6 p.m. EDT [2200 UTC] to perform an upgrade from Bugzilla 3.6 to Bugzilla 4.2. We are hoping to be complete in no more than 3 hours barring any problems. Any services relying on bugzilla.redhat.com may not work properly during this time. Please be aware in case you need use of those services during the outage. Also *PLEASE* make sure any scripts or other external applications that rely on bugzilla.redhat.com are tested against our test server before the upgrade if you have not done so already (see original email below). Let the Bugzilla Team know immediately of any issues found by reporting the bug in bugzilla.redhat.com against the Bugzilla product, version 4.2. A summary of the RPC changes is also included below <div class="" id="magicdomid30">RPC changes from upstream Bugzilla 4.2</div> <div class="" id="magicdomid31"> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li>Bug.* returns arrays for components, versions and aliases</li> <li>Bug.* returns target_release array</li> <li>Bug.* returns flag information (from Bugzilla 4.4)</li> <li>Bug.search supports searching on keywords, dependancies, blocks</li> <li>Bug.search supports quick searches, saved searches and advanced searches</li> <li>Group.get has been added</li> <li>Component.* and Flag.* have been added</li> <li>Product.get has a component_names option to return just the component names.</li> </ul> </div> <div class="" id="magicdomid38"> <div class="" id="magicdomid40">RPC changes from Red Hat Bugzilla 3.6</div> <div class="" id="magicdomid41"> <ul class="list-bullet1"> <li>This list may be incomplete.</li> <li>This list excludes upstream changes from 3.6 that we inherited</li> <li>Bug.update calls may use different column names. For example, in 3.6 you updated the 'short_desc' key if you wanted to change the summary. Now you must use the 'summary' key. This may be an inconeniance, but will make it much more maintainable in the long run.</li> <li>Bug.search_new new becomes Bug.search. The 3.6 version of Bug.search is no longer available.</li> <li>Product.* has been changed to match upstream code</li> <li>Group.create has been added</li> <li>RedHat.* and bugzilla.* calls that mirror official RPC calls are officially depreciated, and will be removed approximately two months after Red Hat Bugzilla 4.2 is released.</li> </ul> </div> </div> -------- Original Message -------- <table class="moz-email-headers-table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Subject: </th> <td>[Bugzilla-announce-list] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 4.2 Upgrade Public Beta</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">Date: </th> <td>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 10:23:39 +1000</td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th> <td>Simon Green <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:sgreen@redhat.com"><sgreen@redhat.com></a></td> </tr> <tr> <th nowrap="nowrap" valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th> <td><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bugzilla-announce-list@redhat.com">bugzilla-announce-list@redhat.com</a></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <pre wrap="">Greetings, The Red Hat Bugzilla team is happy to announce the first public beta release of the next version of Red Hat Bugzilla based on the upstream 4.2 code base. At this stage, we have pencilled in the upgrade to our production system on Monday May 21st at 2200 (10pm) UTC. We will confirm this date, and make an announcement of a release candidate closer to the date. Please test drive at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com">https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com</a> Over the years Red Hat has made substantial customizations to Bugzilla to fit into the Engineering tool chain. Over time the upstream has incorporated some of these customizations or solved them in different ways. Upgrading reduces our customization footprint (and thus maintenance) while bringing many bug fixes & enhancements. The main area of focus for our public betas is stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.6 code base should continue to work as expected in the new 4.2 release. These include various AJAX optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the JSONRPC and XMLRPC API. Please feel free to point your various scripts and third party applications that use the XMLRPC API at the test server to make sure they continue to function properly. There are numerous other changes behind the scenes that we haven't listed. The goal is to make sure that functionality that people have come to expect in 3.6 is possible in the new system. There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 4.2 release. For more detailed information on what has changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html">https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html</a> . The database is a recent snapshot of the live database so should be useful for testing to make sure the information is displayed properly and changeable. Also with a full snapshot it is possible to test for any performance related issues. Email has been disabled so that unnecessary spam is not sent out. So feel free to make changes to bugs to verify proper working order. We are asking for everyone to get involved as much as possible with testing and feedback on the beta releases to help us make this the most robust and stable release possible. Please file any enhancement requests or bug reports in our current Bugzilla system at <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com">https://bugzilla.redhat.com</a> . File them under the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 4.2. With everyone's help we can make this a great release. </pre> <div class="moz-signature">-- <meta http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> Regards, Simon Green Software Engineer DID: +61 7 3514 8135 Email: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:sgreen@redhat.com">sgreen@redhat.com</a> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank"><img src="cid:part5.08090004.06000201@redhat.com" name="graphics1" border="0" height="42" width="128" align="BOTTOM"></a> Red Hat, Asia-Pacific Pty Ltd Level 1, 193 North Quay Brisbane 4000 Office: +61 7 3514 8100 Fax: +61 7 3514 8199 Website: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank">www.redhat.com</a> Facebook: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatapac" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatjapan" target="_blank">Red Hat Japan</a> | <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatkorea" target="_blank">Red Hat Korea</a> | <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.facebook.com/JBossAPAC" target="_blank">JBoss APAC</a> Twitter: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.twitter.com/red_hat_apac" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.twitter.com/redhatanz" target="_blank">Red Hat ANZ</a> LinkedIn: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3124596" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4068303" target="_blank">JBoss APAC</a> </div> </body> </html>