Redmine

We have picked a date and time for the first Redmine Developer meeting . It will be held on irc at 2010-04-30 at 14:00 UTC (check your local time). Everyone is welcome to attend and participate:

• Developers
• Contributors
• Plugin developers
• Users
• People interested in getting involved in the Redmine community
• Others who have nothing better to listen to on Friday

I'm hoping this meeting will help communicate the overall vision of the Redmine project and also involve more of the community in the project. I hope I can see you there.

Eric Davis

Giovanni Clement has written a Chrome extension that lets Redmine users quickly access their issues.
It's called QuickRedmine and is available in the Google Chrome extension directory.

After the extension is installed, go to the extension options to configure your Redmine URL.
It adds an icon to your Chrome tool bar where you can type an issue ID to view it. It also lists the last viewed issues.

Subtasking, one of the most requested features was committed in trunk a few weeks ago (r3573, r3618).

To start adding subtasks, you need to enable the new 'Manage subtasks' permission. Then, go to an existing issue and hit 'Add' in the subtasks section. Priority, start and due dates, progress, estimate, spent time are automatically rolled-up to parent issues.

The gantt chart was adjusted to display the issue hierachy:

A 'Parent task' column can be added to the issue list. Sorting by this column will make the issue list display the issue tree as well.

This new feature will be part of Redmine 1.0.0 (RC) release.

Redmine 0.9.3 was released to Rubyforge yesterday. This is a bug fix release for the 0.9.x series of Redmine that includes 30 bugfixes since the 0.9.2 release. To upgrade, follow the upgrade process on the wiki.

This bug fix release can be found at Rubyforge.

Redmine 0.9.1 (aka 0.9 final) is now available, you can get it at Rubyforge.

A release candidate for the new stable branch 0.9 was published today.
You can get it at Rubyforge.

Upgrading from a previous release is pretty straightforward, the few steps to follow are described in RedmineUpgrade.
The release is packaged with Rails 2.3.5.

The 0.9-stable branch was added in r3244.
A release candidate will be made available in a few days but you can start testing it by checking it out at:

http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/branches/0.9-stable

It runs with Rails 2.3.5 so make sure you have the proper gems installed.

gem install rails -v=2.3.5

Here is a quick summary of the major improvements that 0.9 brings:

Unlimited project nesting

In previous Redmine versions, project hierarchy was restricted to only 2 levels (root projects and one children level).
You can now create parent/child projects without any limitation.
Internally, the project hierarchy now relies on nested sets to avoid performance drop on deep project trees.

Versions inheritance

Projects can now share their versions with other projects in different ways.
Each version of a project can be shared with:

• subprojects
• projects in the project hierarchy: ancestors + descendants
• projects in the project tree: root project + all its descendants
• all projects

User groups

You can define user groups and add groups to projects with their own permissions.

User permissions

Users can now have multiple roles on a project.
This makes it easier to combine different sets of permissions.

Project creation by non-admin users

Non-admin users can now be allowed to create projects or subprojects.
Two permissions are available:

• create project: this can be given to registered users so that they can create root projects
• create subprojects: this can be given to project members (eg. project managers) so that they can add subprojects to their projects

Project copy

Administrators are now able to copy an entire project with its data (members, issues, versions...).

Issue list improvement

• Dynamic columns selection
• Sort on multiple columns, including custom fields
• Issue grouping
• Ability to adjust custom query filters without editing the query

This release adds protection against potential CSRF attacks.

Migration is done as usual but you need to generate a secret before restarting the application.
From your Redmine directory, simply run the following command once:

rake config/initializers/session_store.rb

This release fixes a few bugs as well.
Download 0.8.7.

If you are not able to upgrade to 0.8.7 but want a fix for this security issue, you can install the following plugin from Eric Davis:
http://github.com/edavis10/redmine_security_4216 (Redmine 0.8.x required)

This release fixes a few bugs and vulnerabilities.

As previous 0.8.x releases, it's still running with Rails 2.1.2.
You can see the list of changes in the Changelog and download it at Rubyforge.