v2.1 Release Notes

Release Date: 22 September 2010

Downloading & Installing

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

Reporting Problems

For more information, support, or to discussion upcoming features, please visit our Support Forums.

Any and all issues discovered should be added to our our Issue Tracking System. Feature requests should be marked as such and not described as issues. Please remember to mark Feature Requests as requests and not bugs.

If you’re not familiar with submitting a bug, please read my post: How To Submit a Bug

New Features

• When editing a Task, you can designate it as able to accept Tasklogs for other users. Specifically, when someone with Edit Task permissions adds a Tasklog, they can log the time for anyone currently assigned to the Task.
• Beyond the normal development this time, we spent a great deal of time consulting legal professionals to research the possibility of converting from the [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html GPL] to the [http://labs.metacarta.com/license-explanation.html#license Clear BSD] license. The good news is that it is possible, it’s just quite difficult. Regardless, we are pursuing this for a later release.

Fixes/Bugs Closed

• Applied some fixes to the contact_methods to eliminate some of the ‘ambiguous contact_id’ references that occur under Mysql 4.x
• Corrected the GanttRenderer to display all dependencies
• Fixed an incorrect permissions check in the CProjects class
• Fixed the add/edit fields in the Contacts module for IE7/8
• Fixed the missing Task Access array list in the Project Designer
• Tweaked the admin configuration screen t hide the SMTP password by default
• Updated the date handling in the email queuing to make sure they use the proper times
• Updated the iCal generation to pass this validator: http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/
• Updated the CTasklog class to handle fractions, simple integers, and cast strings to integers (zero)
• Issue 287 - Reports - No data displayed on Overall Report
• Issue 401 - Files - View previous file versions
• Issue 501 - Project Designer - Expand/Collapse function is not working in final release 2.0
• Issue 502 - User Interface - Skin web2project “Snow Ball Style” has a wrong menu layout
• Issue 503 - Core Infrastructure - Some users pref TIMEZONE incorrect after upgrade to 2.0,resolved
• Issue 505 - Files - Upload folders are not deleted
• Issue 512 - Calendar - Incomplete view of detail
• Issue 513 - System Admin - Viewing System Admin causes php error
• Issue 514 - Reports - Project Statistics Report doesn’t make match total task
• Issue 517 - Contacts - Bugs in Contacts - missing fields, unable to submit new contact…
• Issue 518 - Project Designer - Cannot assign user in IE8
• Issue 519 - Forums - Using forum generates some errors
• Issue 530 - Browser Compatibility - Forum buttons are displayed incorrectly in IE8
• Issue 531 - Resources - Unable to delete resource in Resources module
• Issue 534 - Links - edit icon/button does not work (IE8)
• Issue 535 - Links - URL handling
• Issue 545 - Permissions - Using department permission ADMIN can see a project listed “X” times
• Issue 550 - Reports - sort the tasks with task parent
• Issue 553 - Calendar - times mixed up
• Issue 554 - Calendar - Project and assigning to an event not working wel anymore
• Issue 558 - User Admin - User Email Defaults not saving
• Issue 561 - Calendar - Attendees failing to add to Events
• Issue 567 - Files - Email Notification not working when uploading/editing files
• Issue 569 - Calendar - Calendar event time doesn’t correspond to email event time
• Issue 570 - Links - Duplicate links listed
• Issue 574 - Translation/Languages - Invalid character on email message
• Issue 575 - System Admin - Import from AD via LDAP fails
• Issue 577 - Calendar - Not possible to set time from 0:00 to 23:59
• Issue 579 - Contacts - Fail to export contacts to csv

Misc Changes/Improvements

• Added extensive Unit Tests for the CDate class
• Cleaned up some of the HTML templates to get closer to full XHTML support - mostly login, lostpass, headers, and footers
• Implemented Unit Tests for the CTasklog class
• Made all kinds of formatting updates to be better in line with the PEAR coding standard
• Moved a number of functions out of hidden places into the deprecated_functions include for later removal
• Refactored all Gantt Chart creation out of the individual gantt.php files into the GanttRenderer class
• Simplified how some of the Reports are calculating data
• Simplified some project queries to make less joins and subqueries when possible
• Simplified the Department handling in the Projects module to be more consistent with our general form processing
• Simplified the permissions check in SmartSearch
• Started refactoring all the email templates into the EmailManager class
• Updated numerous Task Unit Tests to reflect the new class structure
• Updated the calendar to display the company and project name in the tooltip
• Updated the CW2pObject constructor to support instantiation where a class name/module name/table name may not be consistent
• Updated the order of the warning messages in the System Admin to be more logical
• Updated the Portuguese translation file
• Issue 251 - User Interface - Display buttons for all views in calendar
• Issue 467 - Core Infrastructure - Rename sql directories of dP
• Issue 529 - System Admin - End dates do not calculate correctly using custom TaskDurationType system lookup value
• Issue 533 - Links - New link button in tasks (everywhere?) should preset project and task ID’s
• Issue 549 - System Admin - Upon deinstalling a module the language for the module name is switched to English (for reinstall)
• Issue 555 - System Admin - Smtp password is displayed human readable
• Issue 565 - Tasks - showtask does not display priority if sysval is set to more than -1 0 +1

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.

System Metrics

Here are some core metrics that may be of interest to the geekier among us.

By running these commands, we get the metrics below:

# Assuming web2project is the your base directory

php phploc.php --count-tests --exclude=../web2project/lib ../web2project/

php phpcpd.php --exclude=../web2project/lib/ --exclude=../web2project/unit_tests/ ../web2project/

• Lines of Code: 65326 (10347 of comments, 54979 of code)
• Overall Cyclomatic Complexity/LoC: 0.09
• Classes: 80 (80 Concrete, 0 Abstract)
  • Lines of Code/Class: 816
  • Class Constants: 6
  • Methods: 781 (41 static, 740 non-static)
  • Lines of Code/Method: 83
  • Cyclomatic Complexity/Number of Methods: 7.83
• Functions: 208
• Constants: 57
• Test Classes: 11
  • Test Methods: 394
• 2.63% duplicated lines of code (~1445)