Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Bugzilla 3.0 Released (New Version)

Bugzilla is a open-source Bug tracking tool. Many companies are using this open source tool for managing the software development process.

New Features In Bugzilla 3.0

Custom Fields

Bugzilla now includes very basic support for custom fields.
Users in the admin group can add plain-text or drop-down custom fields. You can edit the values available for drop-down fields using the "Field Values" control panel.Don't add too many custom fields! It can make Bugzilla very difficult to use. Try your best to get along with the default fields, and then if you find that you can't live without custom fields after a few weeks of using Bugzilla, only then should you start your custom fields.

mod_perl Support

Bugzilla 3.0 supports mod_perl, which allows for extremely enhanced page-load performance. mod_perl trades memory usage for performance, allowing near-instantaneous page loads, but using much more memory.If you want to enable mod_perl for your Bugzilla, we recommend a minimum of 1.5GB of RAM, and for a site with heavy traffic, 4GB to 8GB.If performance isn't that critical on your installation, you don't have the memory, or you are running some other web server than Apache, Bugzilla still runs perfectly as a normal CGI application, as well.

Shared Saved Searches

Users can now choose to "share" their saved searches with a certain group. That group will then be able to "subscribe" to those searches, and have them appear in their footer.
If the sharer can "bless" the group he's sharing to, (that is, if he can add users to that group), it's considered that he's a manager of that group, and his queries show up automatically in that group's footer (although they can unsubscribe from any particular search, if they want.)
In order to allow a user to share their queries, they also have to be a member of the group specified in the querysharegroup parameter.
Users can control their shared and subscribed queries from the "Preferences" screen.

Attachments and Flags on New Bugs

You can now add an attachment while you are filing a new bug.
You can also set flags on the bug and on attachments, while filing a new bug.

For more features

To download Bugzilla 3.0 Released (Updated version)