Changelog 4.2.x¶

4.2.0 (2021-03-28)¶

[Accounts / authentication]¶

• Defect #33601: Additional email addresses are not displayed in user profile page
• Feature #1237: Add support for two-factor authentication
• Feature #3369: Allowed/Disallowed email domains settings to restrict users' email addresses
• Feature #32998: Change the default value for "Default Gravatar image" to "Identicons"
• Feature #33126: Support custom fields when exporting users to CSV
• Feature #33347: Include updated_on and passwd_changed_on columns when exporting users to CSV
• Feature #34241: Include twofa_scheme (two-factor scheme) column when exporting users to CSV
• Patch #34071: handle AuthSourceExceptions in User.try_to_login

[Activity view]¶

• Feature #1422: Date selection for Activity Page
• Feature #32248: Change the default value for "Days displayed on project activity" setting to 10
• Feature #33602: Add an interface to filter activities by user
• Feature #33692: Improved view of the activity page

[Administration]¶

• Feature #32672: Add Check all / Uncheck all button to filters in permissions report
• Feature #34258: Create tracker by copy
• Feature #34307: Create custom field by copy

[Attachments]¶

• Defect #33357: rendering extra "--" footer of git patch attachment
• Feature #7056: Download all attachments at once
• Feature #18555: Show warning when attempting to attach more than the allowed number of attachments

[Calendar]¶

• Defect #32194: Calendar page lacks buttons to manage custom queries

[Code cleanup/refactoring]¶

• Defect #33392: Fix invalid selector in function displayTabsButtons()
• Defect #33562: Some tests in ApplicationHelperTest are declared as private
• Patch #32054: Add test for 4 byte characters (emoji) support
• Patch #32653: Fix random test failure due to missing call to set_tmp_attachments_directory in WikiControllerTest
• Patch #32813: Clean up toggleMultiSelect js function
• Patch #32888: Use stylelint to avoid errors and enforce conventions in CSS files
• Patch #32890: Fix violations reported by Stylelint
• Patch #32924: tmp/pdf directory is no longer necessary
• Patch #32927: CSS selector in test_index_should_show_warning_when_no_workflow_is_defined is too specific
• Patch #32929: Add missing fixtures to AttachmentsControllerTest
• Patch #32937: test_revisions_latin_1_identifier should be skipped on Windows
• Patch #33069: Update copyright year in source files to 2021
• Patch #33226: Skip thumbnail tests if ImageMagick convert command is not available
• Patch #33268: Add missing test: ProjectCustomField creation
• Patch #33315: IssuesSystemTest#test_bulk_watch_issues_via_context_menu randomly fails due to Capybara clicks out out of context menu
• Patch #33342: Remove unused i18n key "label_overall_activity" and "label_overall_spent_time"
• Patch #33367: Use more efficient "exists?" instead of "first" in tests when checking the existence of rows
• Patch #33376: Add missing fixtures to VersionsHelperTest
• Patch #33384: jQuery: replace deprecated size() method with length
• Patch #33393: Remove unused i18n key "notice_no_issue_selected"
• Patch #33567: Fix typo in watchers_controller.rb
• Patch #33700: Add missing fixture to Redmine::ApiTest::ProjectsTest
• Patch #33728: Remove an unused variable in Query#add_chained_custom_field_filters
• Patch #33785: Add missing fixture to TimelogControllerTest
• Patch #33786: Add missing fixture to UsersControllerTest
• Patch #34119: Fix selenium chrome options so files are downloaded to tmp/downloads in system tests
• Patch #34122: Store inline autocomplete data sources in a JS variable
• Patch #34166: Fix wrong comment for Mailer.deliver_lost_password
• Patch #34169: MessagesControllerTest#test_post_new randomly fails
• Patch #34269: Allow system tests to run on remote Selenium hub (eg: Docker)
• Patch #34321: Add missing fixtures to AttachmentsControllerTest
• Patch #34444: Remove unused key :preview from Redmine::AccessKeys::ACCESSKEYS
• Patch #34492: Fix passing a wrong parameter to assert_select in API test for 'GET /users/:id'
• Patch #34745: Remove unused i18n key "text_min_max_length_info"
• Patch #34750: Remove unsupported encodings ISO-2022-KR and ISCII91 from Setting::ENCODINGS
• Patch #34789: Fix misplaced comment in config/settings.yml

[Custom fields]¶

• Defect #5354: Updating custom fields does not trigger update to "updated_on" field in the customized object
• Defect #33930: 500 error when attempting to create custom field enumeration with empty name
• Feature #30776: Drag and drop file upload to file type custom field
• Feature #32783: Redirect to index page instead of edit page after creating a new custom field

[Documentation]¶

• Defect #32795: Remove RubyGems from Requirements in doc/INSTALL
• Patch #33208: `--without rmagick` option for bundle command is no longer necessary

[Email notifications]¶

• Feature #16006: Include attachments in forum post notifications
• Feature #32628: Notify users about high issues (only)
• Feature #33002: Include attachments in news post notifications
• Feature #33099: Add a link to the issues list in reminder email
• Feature #33834: Show open/closed badge in email notifications
• Feature #34787: Ability to set default value for "I don't want to be notified of changes that I make myself"

[Email receiving]¶

• Feature #34794: Allow newlines and quote characters within mail body delimiters

[Feeds]¶

• Feature #15212: Atom feed on project with subprojects should show in article title the name of the project

[Filters]¶

• Feature #33296: Load default custom queries when running redmine:load_default_data rake task

[Forums]¶

• Defect #32156: No left padding for first level entries in discussion board list
• Feature #3390: Ability to add watchers to forum threads

[Gems support]¶

• Patch #32453: Update capybara (~> 3.31.0)
• Patch #32468: Update Rouge to 3.26.0
• Patch #32530: Update RuboCop to 1.12
• Patch #32531: Update RuboCop Rails to 2.9
• Patch #32763: Update mini_magick to 4.11
• Patch #32782: Update pg gem (~> 1.2.2)
• Patch #32805: Update request_store to 1.5
• Patch #32841: Drop support for Bundler prior to 1.12.0
• Patch #32906: Update i18n (~> 1.8.2)
• Patch #32950: Update simplecov to 0.18
• Patch #34159: Update RuboCop Performance to 1.10
• Patch #34339: Update net-ldap to 0.17
• Patch #34443: Update roadie-rails to 2.2
• Patch #34579: Use 'webdrivers' gem to manage the Chrome driver for system tests
• Patch #34969: Remove dependency on MimeMagic

[Hook requests]¶

• Patch #34072: Hook after plugins were loaded

[I18n]¶

• Defect #33186: field_activity should be used rather than label_activity in the context of time tracking
• Defect #33232: Hard-coded error messages in ApplicationController
• Defect #33426: Error messages for Wiki macros are not internationalized
• Patch #33741: Decimal separator for Dutch locale should be a comma

[Importers]¶

• Feature #22913: Auto-select fields mapping in Importing
• Feature #28198: Support issue relations when importing issues
• Feature #33102: Import user accounts from CSV file
• Feature #34762: Display more detailed error message when attempting to import malformed CSV file

[Issues]¶

• Defect #10084: Disabled trackers of subprojects are listed in project overview
• Defect #32125: Issues autocomplete may not find issues with a subject longer than 60 characters
• Defect #32471: Layout of the custom field edit page is different between the single edit page and the batch edit page
• Defect #33255: Issue auto complete doesn't work for custom fields with text formatting enabled on issue bulk edit page
• Defect #33419: Show only valid projects on issue form when the issue is a subtask
• Defect #34185: Trackers of subprojects are not displayed in the Issue summary page
• Feature #4511: Allow adding user groups as watchers for issues
• Feature #28471: Query links for subtasks on issue page
• Feature #31881: Add "behind-schedule" CSS class to issues
• Feature #33254: Show open/closed badge on issue page
• Feature #33418: Bulk addition of related issues
• Feature #33832: Move the "Private" badge next to the "Open/Closed" badge
• Feature #34303: Allow to add subtask from context menu
• Feature #34798: Show project tree instead of subprojects in the project selector when you create a new issue
• Patch #33329: Improve watchers functionality to mark the users that are watching a non visible object and to not return watchers that cannot see the object
• Patch #33437: Add missing icon class to items with icon-checked class in the context menu

[Issues filter]¶

• Feature #34700: Allow to use watch_by filter in the global issues list

[Issues list]¶

• Feature #32240: Add download buttons in Files columns of the issues list

[Performance]¶

• Defect #33289: Updating time tracking activities in project setting may take too long time
• Patch #33244: Replace "**" method with bitwise left shift in Tracker#disabled_core_fields and Tracker#core_fields
• Patch #33664: evaluate acts_as_activity_provider's scope lazily
• Patch #34150: Use match? instead of =~ when MatchData is not used
• Patch #34153: Use sum instead of inject(0, :+)
• Patch #34160: Replace Hash#merge! with Hash#[]=
• Patch #34161: Replace gsub with tr, delete, or squeeze
• Patch #34399: Use sum { ... } instead of map { ... }.sum

[Permissions and roles]¶

• Feature #13767: Export permissions report to CSV
• Feature #33945: Allow normal users to delete projects with permission

[Plugin API]¶

• Defect #33290: Unnecessary database access when IssueQuery class is defined
• Patch #33453: Add plugin CSS classes to plugin settings views

[Project settings]¶

• Defect #34032: Project settings tab contains two items with the same id

[Projects]¶

• Defect #33733: No trackers are selected for new projects
• Feature #32818: Add a system setting for default results display format of project query
• Feature #32944: Always preserve the tree structure in the project jump box
• Feature #33174: Show groups in members box on project overview page

[Rails support]¶

• Patch #34966: Update Rails to 5.2.5

[REST API]¶

• Defect #11870: Users can delete their own accounts unconditionally via REST API
• Defect #30121: Projects API should not return invisible trackers
• Feature #22008: Associated Revision API
• Feature #33301: Add option to include enabled issue custom fields in projects#show API response
• Feature #33592: Include updated_on and passwd_changed_on columns in users API response
• Feature #34242: Include two-factor authentication scheme in users API response

[Rails support]¶

• Patch #32886: Rails 6: Use #media_type instead of #content_type to test the MIME type of a response
• Patch #32887: Rails 6: Use "render template:" instead of "render file:" in app/views/layouts/admin.html.erb
• Patch #32911: Rails 6: Fix deprecation warning "Class level methods will no longer inherit scoping"

[Roadmap]¶

• Defect #32860: Invalid links to versions with sharing in project tree
• Feature #7956: Show Roadmap tab when subprojects have defined versions

[Ruby support]¶

• Feature #31500: Ruby 2.7 support
• Feature #34142: Drop Ruby 2.3 support

[Security]¶

• Defect #34950: SysController and MailHandlerController are vulnerable to timing attack

[SCM]¶

• Defect #23055: Error with Fetch commits with Mercurial repository when log has invalid char
• Defect #27790: mercurial: error of double quotes in branch and tag names
• Defect #32153: Repository browser does not render previews for audio/video files
• Feature #8875: Allow manually fetching changesets
• Feature #34942: Support for Git repositories with default branch "main"
• Patch #32835: Make breadcrumbs of repository browser copy-paste friendly

[SEO]¶

• Feature #31617: robots.txt: disallow crawling dynamically generated PDF documents
• Feature #33658: robots.txt: disallow crawling login, register, and lost password form

[Text formatting]¶

• Defect #27780: Case-insensitive matching fails for Unicode filenames when referring to attachments in text formatting
• Feature #1575: Toolbar button to insert a table
• Feature #1718: Table column sorting
• Feature #32528: Make languages in Highlighted code button in toolbar customizable

[Third-party libraries]¶

• Feature #33383: Update jQuery to 3.5.1
• Patch #33424: Update Tribute to 5.1.3

[Time tracking]¶

• Defect #29838: Time logging via commit message does not work when the configured activity has been overridden on the project level
• Defect #33952: Spent time details are displayed in incorrect order when sorted by week and date
• Feature #32436: Add support for grouping by issue on timelog view
• Feature #33256: Show wiki toolbar for spent time custom fields with text formatting enabled

[Translations]¶

• Defect #32828: Fix typos in Russian translation
• Defect #32857: Fix grammatical agreement in translation for "parent issue" in pt and pt-BR
• Defect #34456: Fix Japanese translation for less_than_x_seconds and less_than_x_minutes
• Patch #32238: Improvement of the German translation
• Patch #32380: Change Italian translation for "news"
• Patch #33403: Change Japanese translation for text_file_repository_writable
• Patch #33763: Change Japanese translation for field_onthefly
• Patch #34418: Unify the translation of the word "relation" in Czech
• Patch #34659: Change Traditional Chinese translation for "watch" and "watcher"

[UI]¶

• Defect #33116: Successful deletion notice is not displayed after deleting some types of content
• Defect #33234: Vertical scroll bar in some browsers hide content
• Defect #34580: Custom field labels do not contain class "error" when the field value is invalid
• Defect #34805: Activity tab in cross-project menu is sometimes broken
• Feature #28392: Improve wiki headings style
• Feature #29285: Add "Assign to me" shortcut to issue edit form
• Feature #29473: Submit a form with Ctrl+Enter / Command+Return
• Feature #30459: Switch edit/preview tabs with keyboard shortcuts
• Feature #31589: Show warning and the reason when the issue cannot be closed because of open subtasks or blocking open issue(s)
• Feature #31887: Update jQuery UI to 1.12.1
• Feature #32764: Make form validation errors more obvious for users
• Feature #32976: Display avatar on add watcher dialog
• Feature #33167: "Add news" button in cross-project News tab
• Feature #33820: Auto complete wiki page links
• Feature #33908: Show an icon for a bookmarked project in the projects list
• Feature #34340: Make archived projects visually distinguishable in nested projects lists
• Feature #34417: Require explicit confirmation when deleting a user or a project
• Feature #34549: Add keyboard shortcuts for wiki toolbar buttons
• Feature #34703: "Copy link" feature for issue and issue journal
• Feature #34714: Move delete button for issues and journals to the dropdown menu
• Patch #34955: Update copyright year in the footer to 2021

[UI - Responsive]¶

• Defect #33913: Input fields of the login form are too small in height on mobile

[Wiki]¶

• Defect #31287: Ordering wiki pages should not be case sensitive
• Feature #32629: Add edit button to Wiki sidebar