<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <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 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 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 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 href="mailto:sgreen@redhat.com">sgreen@redhat.com</a> <a href="http://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank"><img src="cid:part5.00070609.05020909@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 href="http://www.redhat.com/" target="_blank">www.redhat.com</a> Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatapac" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatjapan" target="_blank">Red Hat Japan</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/redhatkorea" target="_blank">Red Hat Korea</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/JBossAPAC" target="_blank">JBoss APAC</a> Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/red_hat_apac" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a href="http://www.twitter.com/redhatanz" target="_blank">Red Hat ANZ</a> LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3124596" target="_blank">Red Hat APAC</a> | <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4068303" target="_blank">JBoss APAC</a> </div> </body> </html>