Roundup 2.4.0 beta 2 release

Hello All:

I'm proud to release version 2.4.0 beta 2 of the Roundup issue
tracker. This release is a bugfix and feature release, so make
sure to read docs/upgrading.txt (
https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev_docs/docs/upgrading.html) to
bring your tracker up to date.

I expect the final release to happen on July 13th.

The 67 changes, as usual, include some new features and many bug
fixes.

See details and cautions on upgrading at:

    https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev_docs/docs/upgrading.html

Note that you should run `roundup-admin ... migrate` to update the
database schema version. Do this before you use the web, command-line
or mail interface and before any users access the tracker.

You can install it with:

   pip install roundup~=2.4.0b2

(preferably in a new virtual environment). To download it, use:

   pip download roundup~=2.4.0b2

then unpack and test/install from the tarball. Docker users can:

   docker pull rounduptracker/roundup:2.4.0b2

then run it in demo mode using the instructions at:

  https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev_docs/docs/installation.html#running-=
in-demo-mode-with-docker

using the docker image above. For those on an ARM platform, 2.4.0b2
docker images are available at:

   rounduptracker/roundup-development:multi.

Among the notable improvements in 2.4.0 from the 2.3.0 release
are:

   * new classhelper component thanks to a team of students from
     CS682 at U-Mass Boston. This fixes many issues with the old
     classhelper. It is implemented as a web-component and needs
     REST interface access. It will fall back to the classic
     classhelper if REST is not available or if the browser does
     not support web-components.

   * fix Windows Python installation using pip. It used to go
     into an infinite loop during install or download. Also fix
     installation of shared files (templates) so roundup-admin
     can find them.

   * using @current_user as a value in a search URL for a user
     property will use the current logged in user. Now you can
     share searches like: "My issues" as "my" will become the
     current logged in user.

   * login failures to the REST/XML-RPC interfaces are now rate
     limited to limit password guessing attacks.

   * utf8mb4 is the default charset for MySQL. This requires
     migrating your database using the mysql client. You can
     choose to keep the older character set in config.ini.

   * PostgreSQL services defined in pg_service.conf can be
     used. PostgreSQL schemas are supported to eliminate the need
     for the roundup user to have database creation/deletion
     privileges.

   * fix out of memory issue when importing larger trackers into
     PostgreSQL.

   * multiple roundup-admin improvements: display protected
     properties (like creation date), better formatting of
     output, command history. Also on windows, pyreadline3 is
     supported to provide an editable interactive command line.

   * an experimental wsgi performance improvement in 2.3.0 is now
     now the default and is opt-out.

   * new template functions: utils.readfile and
     utils.expandfile. Javascript that is included in the Python
     core will be moved to external files and be able to have
     values from Roundup substituted in the Javascript.

   * allow content-type of a template to be set from inside the
     template. This allows returning json or xml from a template
     without a .json or .xml extention.

   * fix import/export on windows to use Unix style line endings
     fixing export/import on Windows and making exports portable
     across platforms.

   * various other Windows platform fixes including test suite
     fixes.

   * sqlite version 1 and StructuredText support removed.

The file CHANGES.txt has a detailed list of feature additions and
bug fixes (67) for each release. The most recent changes from
there are at the end of this announcement. Also see the
information in doc/upgrading.txt.

If you find bugs, please report them to issues AT
roundup-tracker.org or create an account at
https://issues.roundup-tracker.org and open a new ticket. If you
have patches to fix the issues they can be attached to the email
or uploaded to the tracker.

Upgrading
=========

If you're upgrading from an older version of Roundup you must
follow the Software Upgrade guidelines given in the
doc/upgrading.txt documentation. Online at:

   https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev_docs/docs/upgrading.html

Note that you should backup your database and run `roundup-admin
... migrate` for all your trackers to update the database schema
version. Do this before you use the web, command-line or mail
interface and before any users access the tracker.

Roundup requires Python 2 newer than version 2.7.12 or Python 3
newer than or equal to version 3.6 for correct operation. (Python
3.4 or 3.5 may work, but are not tested.) Note that Python 2
support is being removed from the CI platforms, so you should
deploy new trackers with Python 3 and plan on upgrading older
trackers from Python 2 to Python 3. See the upgrade guide.

To give Roundup a try, just download (directions above), unpack
and run:

   python demo.py

then open the url printed by the demo app.

Release info and download page:

    https://pypi.org/project/roundup/2.4.0b2/

Source and documentation is available at the website:

    https://www.roundup-tracker.org/dev_docs/

Mailing lists - the place to ask questions:

    https://sourceforge.net/p/roundup/mailman/

About Roundup
=============

Roundup is a simple-to-use and install issue-tracking system with
command-line, web and e-mail interfaces. It is based on the
winning design from Ka-Ping Yee in the Software Carpentry "Track"
design competition.

Roundup manages a number of issues (with flexible properties such
as "description", "priority", and so on) and provides the ability
to:

(a) submit new issues,
(b) find and edit existing issues, and
(c) discuss issues with other participants.

The system facilitates communication among the participants by
managing discussions and notifying interested parties when issues
are edited. One of the major design goals for Roundup that it be
simple to get going. Roundup is therefore usable "out of the box"
with any Python 3.6+ installation. It doesn't even need to be
"installed" to be operational, though an install script is
provided.

It comes with five basic issue tracker templates

* a classic bug/feature tracker
* a more extensive devel tracker for bug/features etc.
* a responsive version of the devel tracker
* a jinja2 version of the devel template (work in progress)
* a minimal skeleton

and supports four database back-ends (anydbm, sqlite, mysql and
postgresql).

Recent Changes
==============

From 2.3.0 to 2.4.0

TBA

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John Rouillard
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