Bugzilla 2.18 Goes Gold

bugger writes "After almost three years of development, the Bugzilla project has released long-waited Bugzilla 2.18. It contains many new features, a huge number of bug fixes, some security updates, and more. It is also the first Bugzilla version to run unmodified on Windows. In parallel, security release 2.16.8 and a new development snapshot 2.19.2 have been announced."

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Bugzilla with bug fixes?

[Pan T. Hose]

"After almost three years of development, the Bugzilla project has released long-waited Bugzilla 2.18. It contains many new features, a huge number of bug fixes, some security updates, and more."

A huge number of bug fixes? You mean it contains built-in, preloaded bug fixes for future bug reports? I had no idea it was even possible but it surely sounds like a useful feature. I will also probably use those security updates, for I have a lot of open tickets asking for them. This is a very good news.

Uh... What is Bugzilla?

[sanityspeech]

Taken from the about page:

Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack. Consequently, Bugzilla has quickly become a favorite of hundreds of organizations across the globe.

Re:Uh... What is Bugzilla?

[darkpurpleblob]

Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees.

Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors also provide usable search forms.

Can bugzilla see different products per login?

[The Wing Lover]

I've used bugzilla before on projects that were solely internal. But now I'm working for a new company that does custom software development for outside customers. I'd like each customer to be able to log in and see their own bugs, but not any of the other customers' (ie, other projects') bugs. Of course, developers should see all bugs.

So, is there a way to restricts the "products" that someone can see by login in Bugzilla?

Re:Can bugzilla see different products per login?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes.
As an administrator under Users->Select User->Edit User->Group Access

Patch viewing!

[ZiZ]

This is a marvelous new feature. From TFA:

Patch Viewer
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Viewing and reviewing patches in Bugzilla is often difficult due to lack of context, improper format and the inherent readability issues that raw patches present. Patch Viewer is an enhancement to Bugzilla designed to fix that by offering increased context, linking to sections, and integrating with Bonsai, LXR and CVS.

Now instead of just being able to see what's already changed, you can see what a proposed patch will change, where it will change it, and what the code nearby the patch is. It may seem like a small thing in any individual case, but this will likely save huge amounts of developer time.

Props to the Bugzilla team! They've always had a fantastic product, and this release looks like more and better.