v1.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 07 June 2009

Downloading & Installing

The only official distribution site is Sourceforge. Check out the Installation page to get started.

Reporting Problems

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New Features

• A permissions caching layer:
  • Previously all permissions were calculated at runtime, now they are re-calculated for a given user whenever any of that users’ permissions or Roles are changed reducing runtime queries by 90% in some cases;
  • Also allows questions along the lines of “who has access to this project?” to be answered without recalculating all user’s permissions;
  • Provides a screen to review any users’ permissions for anything in the system;
• Overall permissions improvement:
  • Now the system assumes no permissions on an object until a Role or specific Permission describes otherwise;
• A user interface overhaul - rounded corners, we’re web2.0 ready!
• Improved installer:
  • A dotProject to web2project converter detects and handles all versions of dotProject from v2.0;
  • An upgrade manager detects the current web2project version and applies database changes as required, similar to Migrations;
  • Added numerous configuration/requirement validations and specific error messages were applicable;
• Added a number of new fields to the Contact object to accommodate new IM systems;
• Added the beginning of a “hook” system similar to Drupal:
  • Reworked the queuescanner.php to automatically detect and call any hook_cron methods on system objects;
  • Issue 74 - Implemented an iCal feed (in ./calendar.php) to automatically detect and call any hook_calendar methods on system objects;
• Added the ProjectDesigner to core;
• Improved the getUser call to only retrieve active users in the system;
• Simplified the various add/edit screens to only retrieve data relevant to the current context;
• Added the ability for potential users to request an account for the system, made this ability toggle-able by the admin;
• Added the ability for contacts to update their information without logging in, etc;
• Added a check that will warn and stop a user from trying to upload/attach a file if the underlying filesystem permissions are incorrect;

Bugs Closed

• Added database indexes/primary keys to selected tables;
• Fixed the fonts issue on the gantt charts to use the distributable FreeSans font as opposed to Arial;
• Fixed the default priority to zero (normal) for new projects;
• Fixed the locales and appearance of the change password interface;
• Added proper permissions checking to all dropdowns, selections, etc within the class methods;
• Fixed the color picker (Projects) to work on all browsers;
• Fixed some broken queries that were showing all contacts regardless of the company filter;
• Fixed the permissions so that it is possible to view and edit events with no project association;
• Converted the System Lookup Values from being a line-delimited single field to being individual database fields;
• Fixed the w2pgetImage function to default to the web2project theme if the image is missing in the selected theme
• Issue 24 - Missing Installer PHP Page
• Issue 38 - Date format in task logs doesn’t make my Short Date Format
• Issue 50 - Task name cannot contain quotes.
• Issue 58 - Enter key should work the same way as “save” button in creating new task
• Issue 59 - Contacts module doest not show all contacts
• Issue 65 - Forum permission add/edit does not work well
• Issue 66 - Duplicate email notifications
• Issue 68 - No validation checking on date ranges in Task Create/Edit
• Issue 70 - Can’t search for info in the Project Location field.
• Issue 72 - file list empty in project view.
• Issue 75 - Going from user list to department causes error if default tab on department is projects
• Issue 76 - Under certain conditions the task owner ends up set to 0 causing the task to vanish
• Issue 77 - Search that contains a parenthesis ( ) causes an error anywhere in search
• Issue 78 - Task dependencies not cascading
• Issue 79 - Hide forum tab if Forum module is not active
• Issue 81 - Contact detail unable (Access Denied) to be edited even by the Admin account
• Issue 82 - Event details become unable (Access Denied) to be edited even by the Admin account
• Issue 83 - Expected Duration of Hours Calculated is incorrect
• Issue 87 - Quotes in Item Names Damage Permissions
• Issue 108 - Edit a project, see crash
• Issue 113 - Button ‘new contact’ in contacts tab of department view does not work
• Issue 114 - Catchable fatal error when clicking on ‘Projects’ tab of the department view
• Issue 116 - Column count doesn’t match value count at row 1 - Forum module configuration
• Issue 117 - PDF print out puts the forum topic on the same line as the content
• Issue 118 - Selecting contact in a project - CLick Continue nothing happens + not updating contacts immediatly
• Issue 120 - Catchable error when clicking on “task per user” button
• Issue 122 - Missing argument 1 for CTask::getAssignedUsers() in tasksperuser.php
• Issue 123 - White text not readable
• Issue 124 - Javascript error when setting user permissions in “View User” mode (Flat View Only)
• Issue 125 - Project Location is required by database, but not by UI
• Issue 126 - Logging in with no roles results in crash
• Issue 127 - Inconsistent security behavior with projects / task assignment
• Issue 128 - PHP crash on clicking “Task List” button under “My Tasks To Do”
• Issue 129 - Tasks never show in TODO list without elevated permissions
• Issue 130 - Editing “Archive” status projects results in crash
• Issue 131 - Multiple “archive” tabs exist on project screen after upgrade from dotProject
• Issue 132 - Switching companies on the projects tab causes crash
• Issue 133 - No departments are being listed in the departments module
• Issue 134 - Potential dotProject Conversion Issues
• Issue 136 - Go to edit a department, none of the fields are populated
• Issue 140 - WPS-Redmond missing some image files in RC1
• Issue 141 - Percent Complete Calculations Vary
• Issue 144 - Spelling error in Access Denied message
• Issue 146 - Project details not displayed for newly created projects
• Issue 147 - Add permission item list shows inactive projects
• Issue 149 - Assigned Users not listed when viewing the task
• Issue 151 - Task list on Day View in Calendar is not displayed correctly
• Issue 155 - USER’s ROLE: “LOCK” Icon takes to EDITing role instead of “clipboard” icon.
• Issue 160 - Child tasks not displayed in toto Gantt
• Issue 166 - New Project form allows submission of project with no assigned company resulting in orphaned project
• Issue 167 - Empty list of tasks when nef file is added
• Issue 171 - Project Location, when left empty, causes crash
• Issue 172 - Cannot use commas (“,”) when specifying budgets

Misc Changes/Improvements

• Security:
  • Improved the datatype validation, SQL Injection protection, and anti-XSS code;
  • Removed various data access calls from numerous Views, refactored all of these to the Models;
  • Simplified and centralized all the permissions checks to reduce duplication
• Refactoring:
  • Removed tickets.inc.php from the search objects;
  • Removed the {class}_func.php files and the ./functions folder by merging the functions into the relevant classes;
  • Tweaked the module reordering code to keep the order id’s contiguous in order to prevent id’s from “drifting” out of order;
  • Cleaned up the double quotes to use single quotes where applicable;
  • Cleaned up the Installer’s sql to get rid of various magic numbers;
  • Added department email and type fields. Department Types with Lookup values support;
  • Reduced the overall Lines of Code (LoC) by approximately 18%;
• Deprecation:
  • Replaced all instances of the “dPconfig” variable with the “w2Pconfig”;
  • Adopted and converted the outgoing mails to PHPMailer lib;
  • Removed the old gateway.pl code for sending emails;
  • Removed unnecessary files and code where applicable;

Open/Known Issues

• The cascading dependencies are still not 100%. Although long chains (A->B-C->D->E) work fine and tasks with multiple dependencies work fine, there are a limited number of scenarios where dependencies do not behave as expected.
  • One such scenario is when you have a Dynamic Task A with children chain (B->C-D->E) and Task F which is dependent on Task A. If B, C, D or E shift, they shift the rest of the chain as expected and the Dynamic Task (A) as expected but unfortunately F does not get updated.