[Bugzilla-announce-list] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Red Hat Bugzilla 3.6 Upgrade Public Beta

[David Lawrence]

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 3.6 code base.

Please test drive at:

     https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com

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 are stability. Functionality that currently works in our 3.4 code base should continue 
to work as expected in the new 3.6 release. These include various ajax optimizations, needinfo actor support, frontpage.cgi, product 
browser, several various UI enhancements, and of course the 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 3.4 is possible in the new system.

There are also numerous new features/fixes that are part of the upstream 3.6 release. For more detailed information on what has 
changed since the last release, check out the release notes page at https://partner-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html .

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 https://bugzilla.redhat.com . File them under 
the Bugzilla product and relevant component with the version 3.6. With everyone's help we can make this a great release.

Thanks The Red Hat Bugzilla Team


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