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WebIssues 2.0.0 released

Submitted by mimec on 2020-05-08

The first official version of WebIssues 2.0 is now available for download. You can find all the packages for the WebIssues server and desktop client on the Downloads page. You can also go to the Demo page to access the online demo.

The most important features in this release include:

  • Completely redesigned, modern, responsive user interface
  • New desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux, based on Electron
  • Improved mechanism of alerts which displays notifications directly in the main window and sends email notifications when enabled
  • Resetting user passwords via email
  • Support for multiple email inboxes

The summary of the new features of version 2.0 is also shown in this presentation:

I would like to thank all people who helped me test the latest version, suggested improvements and provided feedback about the beta version. Also big thanks to all the translators. If you would like to help translating WebIssues to your language, please join the WebIssues project in Crowdin.

The documentation for users and administrators of version 2.0 can be found at https://doc.mimec.org/webissues-guide/.

If you have problems related to installing, configuring and using WebIssues, or some other questions, please visit the Support forum. Ideas and suggestions for improvements can be submitted using the Feature requests forum. Use the Issues tracker on GitHub to submit bugs.

WebIssues 2.0.0-beta.1 released

Submitted by mimec on 2020-03-02

The first beta version of WebIssues 2.0 is available. Go to the Beta version page to see a short video presentation, access the online demo and download the beta packages for testing. The most important features in this release include:

  • Completely redesigned, modern, responsive user interface
  • New desktop application for Windows, macOS and Linux, based on Electron
  • Improved mechanism of alerts which displays notifications directly in the main window and sends email notifications when enabled
  • Resetting user passwords via email
  • Support for multiple email inboxes

At the moment, version 2.0 is avaliable in English, Polish and Portuguese (Brazilian) languages. Other translations are incomplete; if you would like to help in translating WebIssues to your language, please join the Crowdin project.

The updated documentation for users and administrators can be found at https://doc.mimec.org/webissues-guide/. 

If you have problems related to installing, configuring and using WebIssues, or some other questions, please visit the Support forum. Ideas and suggestions for improvements can be submitted using the Feature requests forum. Use the Issues tracker on GitHub to submit bugs.

WebIssues 1.1.5 released

Submitted by mimec on 2017-05-17

The latest release of WebIssues adds a few minor features and fixes some bugs. It is now possible to quickly filter issues by project in the global list of issues. This way you can quickly switch between projects without having to navigate between folders. The issue history now displays projects names in addition to folder names for move operations, to avoid ambiguities when projects contain folders with the same name. The drop down list of issues displayed when creating a view or an issue is now filtered so that non-administrator users don't see all users in the system, only users that share the same projects. The mobile client was also slightly improved in this version, to make it easier to use on small mobile devices.

Thanks to the great community of open-source translators, the new version of WebIssues adds support for three new languages: Hungarian (for both Web Client and desktop client), Norwegian and Serbian (for Web Client only). Finally, problems with compiling the desktop client when using the latest version of Qt have been resolved.

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WebIssues 1.1.4 released

Submitted by mimec on 2015-08-10

The most important new feature in the 1.1.4 release of WebIssues is the simplified mobile version of the Web Client, designed for mobile phones and other devices with small screens. The program detects if the user is using such device and automatically redirects to the mobile version. It is also possible to manually switch between the full and mobile versions of the user interface. To switch to the mobile version, select the Mobile version option in the top right corner of the page. To switch to the full version, expand the tools menu using the button in the top right corner of the page and select the Full version option.

The Desktop Client was ported to Qt5 for better performance and stability. This change doesn't affect the users of the pre-built Windows installers, however if you build WebIssues from sources, you will now need version 5 of Qt; compilation with version 4 is no longer supported.

This version also fixes a number of bugs, including but no limited to:

  • Fixed support for long TLDs in email addresses; fixed encoding in outbound emails so they no longer cause problems with email servers which do not handle 8-bit encoding properly; fixed handling illegal line breaks in inbound emails so they are not rejected.
  • Fixed handling large lists of drop down items in both the server and the client; previously sufficiently large lists of items could crash both the server and the client.

WebIssues 1.1.3 released

Submitted by mimec on 2015-03-11

The latest minor release of WebIssues adds the possibility to archive and unarchive existing projects. When a project is archived, it is completely hidden from the projects tree and all folders and issues stored in it become inaccessible. However, unlike deleted projects, archived projects can be easily restored when necessary. This feature is especially useful when you have many projects and some of them are obsolete, but you don't want to lose any information in case it becomes necessary to recover it.

This release also fixes a potential security vulnerability in the WebIssues Web Client which makes it possible to inject JavaScript code into the page using specially crafted drop down list items. Although there is no evidence that this vulnerability can be exploited in any way by users who don't already have full administration rights to the WebIssues system, it is recommended to update existing installations to the latest version.

Some other minor bugs were also fixed in this version, including changing project access by project administrators in the Web Client, populating user drop down lists in public projects in the Desktop Client, sorting folders in drop down lists in the Web Client and closing issue details after search in the Web Client.

Finally, thanks to the contributors to the WebIssues translation project, a Chinese translation was added to both the Web Client and the Desktop Client, and a Turkish translation is also available for the Web Client.

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