What's New in FogBugz 5

260189: Grid view column controls

In Grid View, the user can now add, remove, widen, narrow, and move columns for case attributes.

252059: Drag-select multiple cases

Manipulate the cases in the grid as though they were a Windows list

265979: AJAX-based bug editing

Submitting a bug change uses AJAX: only grab new data from server

254926: Keyboard Shortcuts

Pervasive keyboard shortcuts in FogBugz 5.0 let experienced users navigate lists and menus faster. For menu browsing, support up, down, Home, End, PgUp, PgDown, 'j', and 'k'

310140: HTTP Compression

FogBugz 5.0 is compatible with server-side HTTP compression (use it!)

282178: IE7 Compatible

Many IE7 compatibility issues fixed

227745: Upside-down bugs

User can quickly flip the preferred up-down order of bug events

269207: Case ID Popups and grid view magnifier

Hovering your mouse over a case number shows you a summary of the case, including the most recent comment.

254925: AJAX for Project/Area/Fixfor/Snippet/Schedule

Quick editing popups and AJAX submissions for small changes such as Area/Holiday/Release/Snippets ... no longer requires a full page load to add/edit/delete these items.

274498: New browser versions

FogBugz 5.0 works great with the newest versions of Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, and Netscape.

255295: Fast filter saves

"Save Current Filter As" is now performed behind the scenes when viewing the filter. No page load is necessary.

320218: Due Date Time always 8:30am

Fixed the bug that caused the Due Time to be reset to 8:30 AM whenever it was changed on PHP fogbugz in certain locales.

288013: Release Notes bugevent

A new bug event is now generated whenever the release notes of a case are changed.

247712: Multiple file attachments

FogBugz 5.0 has support for attaching multiple files to a case simultaneously.

252581: Click Send Email shows "Bug" as default catgory

A case started by using the "Send Email" button from the FogBugz menu now has a default category of "inquiry" rather than "bug."

261728: Error on bad file attachment

FogBugz 5.0 stops bug submission on the server side and warns the user if the user tried to attach a file but the file was not found.

263122: Limit snippet browser size

FogBugz 5.0 ensures that the textarea for snippet browsing doesn't expand beyond the available browser window space.

272867: IE prev/next broken

A bug in Internet Explorer caused the "Next" and "Previous" buttons to work incorrectly; FogBugz 5.0 fixes this.

279835: Due dates disappear on reply

The due date of a case now remains, instead of being turned off, when a user replies to the correspondent in the case.

282818: User w/ no permissions for projects sees "undefined" in projects dropdown

FogBugz 5.0 gives improved warnings for permissions conflicts.

285547: Returned mails due to wrong mail address

Fixed bug in mail address resolution for autoreplies

278123: Preserve attachments on email forward

Forwarding an email in Fogbugz 5.0 by default attaches file attachments from the original email.

275642: Project permissions and mail addresses

If a user does not have write permissions on a project, don't let them see project's mailbox from: address when replying to email.

288981: Incorrect entities for foreign characteers in XML release notes

Proper encoding of foreign characters in XML release notes

291468: Autosort: MySQL Bayesian sort broken if only one area has been trained into

Fixed Autosort bug that caused problems on a MySQL database if attempting to sort email into a project w/ only one area that has received any training.

291976: MySQL discussion group stability

No more crashes for discussion groups on MySQL databases

248208: Title column in list view: Show first user-supplied words from bug event

In the Grid View of a list of cases, the user can now choose to view the titles of cases as Title, Title with Event, or Title with Comment.  Title with Event shows the most recent action on the case, and who performed it, in lighter text after the title.  Title with Comment shows the most recent comment on the case in lighter text after the title.

275578: Small "Resizing...", "Adding column...", "Sorting..." info

Operations that take a little time, like sorting a list, adding a column to a filter, and submitting a reply or edit to a case, now pop up a temporary status box to reassure the user.

282597: Re-attachment of files in emails to customers

Replying to email no longer reattaches received attachments

283342: User can see client names he shouldn't in filter modification dropdown

Fix client/permissions bug permitting some users to see inaccessible client names when modifying filter

260559: Extra line in IE when adding release note

Internet Explorer users sometimes got an extra carriage return added to their release notes; this is now fixed.

252559: Bulk edit not picking up the correct Assigned to:

Bulk editing of cases now has improved handling for "Assigned To."

260625: 2.0 database won't upgrade to 4.0 (or 5 i guess)

Fixed a bug that had been causing database problems for upgrades from FogBugz 2.0

281121: Public submission page: attachment error = lost data

If an attachment error occurs on the public case submission page, don't forget data the user already provided

275710: Can rename filter to same as existing filter

When saving a filter over a previously saved filter, keep shared status of previous filter.

251916: Incorrect inquiry resolve default

The default "Resolved" type for an inquiry is now "Responded" and not "Duplicate."

291939: Some priority changes not preserved if one of them is problematic

Process of saving the descriptions of priorities no longer loses all of your changes if one of the supplied descriptions is empty

292409: Changing due date's time to within an hour of previous time gets no sChanges

Fixed: changing case's due time to a new time within the hour failed to create proper bug event description

275695: Putting space in front of discussion group name lets you have duplicate names

No longer allow duplicate discussion group names via whitespace differences

279207: Security: viewing source of a case shows me projects it shouldn't

A number of permissions problems fixed: source of pages no longer include any client/project information that is not accessible to user

281122: Public submission page: yellow helptip outgrows its container

Fix buggy yellow tooltip size on public submission page

304224: filter command icon consolidation

New filter toolbar condenses filter actions (save as/column control/switch to grid/rss) into icons w/ informative tooltips

301355: Check all instances of SELECT SUM for MySQL errors

MySQL SELECT SUM() bug fixed for more stable AutoSort

299715: I can't edit case 285641 - case with wicked-long plaintext email attachment

Faster loading of email cases w/ large plaintext attachments

305834: Snippets are cached on the client side

Cache snippets in external JS file instead of sending 'em down the wire for most page loads

308730: Snippet tryout box problems w/ "\\//\\" snippet

Better support for snippets named w/ slashes

311918: Due time should default to beginning of workday

Due time defaults to beginning of working day whenever due date is set

313325: Enter '3.1' in version field, but '3' is saved

When entering double values in either of our custom fields (Version/Computer), don't trim to integer

226978: Line feeds don't work in sCrToBr

Fixed bug in formatting of quoted email messages

253051: snippet inserted at end of email

Snippet placement bug fixed for email replies

255365: Upgrade: all existing filters get global column settings

When you save a filter, you also save the column choices and layout of your filter, so it'll look the same the next time you load it.

254911: Up/down column sort arrows

Arrows next to column names in grid view indicate sort order

257763: mysql crash with latest versions on windows mysql

FogBugz 5.0 has improved stability when using MySQL on a Windows server.

258223: Sorting search

We've improved the display of search results.

260196: Snippet newlines being lost

Carriage returns in snippets are now preserved.

261114: AJAX-ify subscribe and unsubscribe

Subscribing or unsubscribing to a case is now faster and doesn't require a page reload.

312898: repo.asp bug with Multiple Repositories

Fixed repo.asp bug causing problems for those using source control integration w/ multiple repositories

312305: mail notification email is almost useless

More information sent w/ notification messages generated from incoming email...include brief snippet of email text

283161: Why does My Cases filter include Assigned To column?

"My Cases" filter no longer includes redundant "Assigned To" column

318240: Alert when entering code into discussion group subject

A number of XSS safety fixes preventing javascript code from being entered into DB and executed on client

320895: Release Notes XML Format missing release title

Added release title information to XML formatted release notes

281788: Standalone search page

Clicking the "search" button will now take you to a search page that allows you to look in closed and open cases.

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