v1.3 Release Notes

Release Date: 01 April 2010

Downloading & Installing

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Reporting Problems

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New Features

• Moved the upgrade process out of the /install folder and into the System Admin, automatically checks to make sure the user is an Administrator
• Added a system message in the System Admin to notify the Administrator when an upgrade has been uploaded but not applied
• Added CSS “minification” to the packaging process, reduces CSS filesize by 33%
• Added javascript “minification” to the packaging process, reduces javascript filesize by 80%
• Issue 89 - User Interface - Automatically parse URLs found in text areas (caseydk)
• Issue 271 - System Admin - Upgrade Manager: Notifications (caseydk)

Fixes/Bugs Closed

• Adjusted the moveTask() to automatically recalculate the percent complete for both projects when a task is moved from one project to another
• Updated the username check on public account creation to actually work
• Corrected task deletion to really be recursive
• Issue 336 - User Interface - Now all url’s in description/info fields are parsed into links (caseydk)
• Issue 341 - Tasks - asdf characters left in task logs descriptions (caseydk)
• Issue 358 - Projects - Department Information is Lost (caseydk)
• Issue 362 - Files - Can’t edit File information without upload (caseydk)
• Issue 365 - Tasks - task_priority treated as string (caseydk)
• Issue 366 - Tasks - Duplicate entry in task_departments on new task submission (caseydk)
• Issue 375 - Projects - Project progress ignores tasks that don’t have any work hours logged (caseydk)
• Issue 378 - Projects - parent project tooltip does not display description (caseydk)
• Issue 380 - Contacts - Call to undefined method CContact::getUpcomingBirthdays() (caseydk)
• Issue 381 - Files - After uploading the SVN version 967 of 1.22 in the names appeared to be wrong (incorrect code pages) (caseydk)
• Issue 382 - Contacts - If you assign a person to a company and do not assign a person to a department it crashes. (caseydk)
• Issue 386 - Contacts - Updating Conatct Date of Birth fails (caseydk)
• Issue 387 - Files - File versioning (caseydk)
• Issue 389 - Project Designer - Task Access not populated (caseydk)
• Issue 397 - Files - w2p_textarea function messes-up accents in file_description on files/index_table.php (caseydk)
• Issue 398 - Files - file_show_attr function doesn’t get file version and category values (caseydk)

Misc Changes/Improvements

• Added more unit tests for dependencies, access control, retrieving dependent tasks, and task retrieval, not distributed with v1.3
• Updated the system to eliminate more PHP 5.3 E_DEPRECATED warnings, the only ones left relate to PEAR Date
• Added the Polish translation to core
• Moved the mysql files around to prepare for additional multi-database support
• Cleaned up some method signatures to eliminate some E_STRICT warnings
• Updated permissions to allow a tasklog to be added even if the user can’t edit the task directly
• Deprecated the getDeny* functions, added functions with more logical names like canView and canDelete
• Added deprecation warnings to a number of functions/methods that will disappear in v2.0
• Cleaned up some default database values to be more consistent/logical
• Added timezone/daylight savings selection to the user preferences - this information is not currently used by the system

Open/Known Issues

• The cascading dependencies are still not 100% but very close. 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.
• If you upgrade from dotProject, you may have an oddity with your default theme/display as the name has changed. If this happens, edit your preferences, change to one of the existing themes, and save.