{"id":90,"date":"2008-04-25T19:09:53","date_gmt":"2008-04-26T03:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mantisbt.org\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2015-01-16T10:17:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T15:17:05","slug":"mantis-120a1-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mantisbt.org\/blog\/archives\/mantisbt\/90","title":{"rendered":"Mantis 1.2.0a1 Released"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first dev release for Mantis 1.2.x series. The highlights of this version include:<\/p>\n

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  1. New manual (in Docbook<\/a> format)<\/strong> – A lot of work has been done into putting together a consolidated up to date documentation. There is more to be done, but I believe we are heading in the right direction. We’ve chosen to go with Docbook XML as the format for the source of the documentation. This can be compiled into several formats including PDF<\/a> (hosted on scribd, will try to update this regularly), single page HTML, multiple page HTML, etc. So far we have two manuals: administrators guide and developers guide. Eventually the administrators guide may be split into administrators guide and users guide.<\/li>\n
  2. Plugins support<\/strong> – This is probably the most valuable addition in the 1.2.x release. In the past it was possible to extend Mantis via the use of custom functions. However, the places where this was available was limited and it wasn’t aiming for development of full plugins, but rather was designed to just tweak certain behavior. With the introduction of plugins, the Mantis community and the developers will be able to add non-core behavior to Mantis, use it, and share it with others. The plugins APIs and events will mature over time and will offer more integration point, however, we will do our best in order to avoid breaking changes, specially with incremental releases. For a sample plugin, see the Twitter<\/a> clone add-in that is installed on the official bug tracker<\/a>, we would like to hear from you there \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n
  3. Refactoring Wiki drivers into plugins<\/strong> and addition of WikkaWiki<\/a> and TWiki<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Global categories<\/strong> – Users can now define a set of categories that are shared across all projects.<\/li>\n
  5. Freemind<\/a> support<\/strong> (in browser \/ export) – This is similar to the relationship diagrams are already available in Mantis. However, the Freemind features comes with a built in Flash viewer (hence, easier to get up and running), includes details about the issues, relationships, attachments, statuses, links, etc. It is also possible to export a Freemind file<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  6. This releases also includes major improvement in the export code and the ability to define columns to include in View Issues, Print Issues, CSV, and Excel export via the GUI.<\/li>\n
  7. And sixty<\/strong> more features, enhancements and fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Note that this release only supports PHP 5.1 and above (see “Dropping PHP 4.x Support<\/a>“<\/em>). Although our bug tracker is now running on this release, we don’t recommend using this release in production environments.<\/p>\n

    The digests for the mantis-1.2.0a1.tar.gz file are:<\/p>\n