Clickjacking protection in MantisBT 1.2.1

Mantis Bug Tracker 1.2.1 includes initial support for X-Frame-Options and X-Content-Security-Policy. These two browser security features aim to protect users against clickjacking attacks. If you’re unfamiliar with clickjacking, this presentation by Paul Stone at Black Hat EU 2010 provides an introduction to the topic. Essentially these options prevent a MantisBT site from being embedded within an IFrame on another website. Continue reading “Clickjacking protection in MantisBT 1.2.1”

Preselection of next highest value in "Change status to" dropdown

The “Change status to” dropdown on the view issue page used to select the first option in the list as the default. Choosing the default value in this way isn’t particularly useful because workflow states usually progress than regress. Continue reading “Preselection of next highest value in "Change status to" dropdown”

Source code repository integration with MantisBT 1.3.x

The built-in source code repository integration feature from the days of MantisBT 1.1.x has been removed in MantisBT 1.3.x. This feature is superseded by the SourceIntegration plugin available for use with MantisBT 1.2.0 and later versions.

The built-in source code repository integration feature from the days of MantisBT 1.1.x has been removed in MantisBT 1.3.x. This feature is superseded by the SourceIntegration plugin available for use with MantisBT 1.2.0 and later versions. The old in-built system had very limited capabilities and hadn’t been properly maintained for some time. Continue reading “Source code repository integration with MantisBT 1.3.x”

SourceForge Project of the Month

MantisBT has been named SourceForge Project of the Month for April 2010.

MantisBT has been named SourceForge Project of the Month for April 2010. The POTM blog post on SourceForge includes developer responses to an interview on topics relating to the MantisBT project and the wider open source community. In particular you may be interested to read the developer responses on the future direction of MantisBT and ways in which you can get involved. Continue reading “SourceForge Project of the Month”