From dkl at mozilla.com Tue Jul 7 20:56:10 2015 From: dkl at mozilla.com (David Lawrence) Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2015 16:56:10 -0400 Subject: [ANN] Release of Bugzilla 5.0 Message-ID: <559C3CEA.9040403@mozilla.com> Today the Bugzilla Project is extremely proud to announce the release of Bugzilla 5.0, the most exciting new version of Bugzilla in our history. It has been slightly over two years since we released Bugzilla 4.4 in May of 2013. This new major release comes with many new features and improvements to WebServices and performance. Bugzilla 5.0 is our best release ever, and we hope that you enjoy and appreciate the results of these last two years of hard work by our entirely-volunteer community. Please note that the release of Bugzilla 5.0 also marks End Of Life for the Bugzilla 4.0 series, meaning that there will be no further updates for the 4.0.x series, even if there are serious security issues found in that series. We recommend that all installations running the 4.0 series upgrade as soon as possible to 5.0. Download -------- Bugzilla is available at: https://www.bugzilla.org/download/ Release Notes & Changes ----------------------- Before installing or upgrading, you should read the Release Notes for this version of Bugzilla: https://www.bugzilla.org/releases/5.0/release-notes.html It is VERY IMPORTANT to read the Release Notes if you are upgrading from one major version to another (such as 4.4.x to 5.0). To see a list of all changes between your version of Bugzilla and the current version of Bugzilla, you can use the chart at: https://www.bugzilla.org/status/changes.html The Bugzilla Update ------------------- You can see the latest updates from the Bugzilla Project and the status of Bugzilla development on The Bugzilla Update: https://bugzillaupdate.wordpress.com/ Also, you can follow the Bugzilla Project on Twitter for frequent updates on new features being developed in Bugzilla, our current release plans, and much more: https://twitter.com/#!/bugzilla Report Bugs ----------- If you find a bug in Bugzilla, please report it! Instructions are at this URL: https://www.bugzilla.org/developers/reporting_bugs.html Support ------- You can ask questions for free on the mailing lists (or in IRC) about Bugzilla, or you can hire a paid consultant to help you out: Free Support: https://www.bugzilla.org/support/ Paid Support: https://www.bugzilla.org/support/consulting.html About Bugzilla -------------- Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System." Defect Tracking Systems allow individuals 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 thousands of organizations across the globe, and is widely regarded as one of the top defect-tracking systems available. See https://www.bugzilla.org/about/ for more details. -- David Lawrence Release Manager, Bugzilla Project From mcote at bugzilla.org Wed Jul 29 16:34:56 2015 From: mcote at bugzilla.org (=?UTF-8?B?TWFyayBDw7R0w6k=?=) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:34:56 -0400 Subject: Bugzilla 4.2 will be EOL on 2015/11/30 Message-ID: <55B900B0.3040100@bugzilla.org> As discussed on the Bugzilla developers mailing list/newsgroup[1] and confirmed by project leads, Bugzilla's new release policy is to end-of-life the oldest supported major version four months after a new major release. Since this is the first time we're enacting this policy, we've extended the date to be 4 months from today rather than from Bugzilla 5.0's exact release date (July 7th). Thus Bugzilla 4.2 will be end-of-lifed on 30 November 2015. This means no fixes of any kind will be issued for Bugzilla 4.2 from that date onwards. As usual, all Bugzilla admins are encouraged to upgrade[2] to the latest version of Bugzilla as soon as possible, especially those running 4.2 or earlier. To expand a bit further on our new EOL process, after a new major release, we will support three major releases (including the new one) for four months. After four months, we will drop support for the oldest one. We will continue to support the remaining two until four months after the next release. For example, currently we support 4.2, 4.4, and 5.0. In four months' time we will drop support for 4.2 and support only 4.4 and 5.0. When the next major version comes out, perhaps 5.2[3], we will support 4.4, 5.0, and 5.2. Four months later, we will drop support for 4.4 and support only 5.0 and 5.2. Mark C?t? Assistant Project Lead, Bugzilla [1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla/vBGTf7SvOWg [2] https://bugzilla.readthedocs.org/en/5.0/installing/upgrading.html [3] It may be 6.0 if there are major and/or breaking changes.