Welcome to Launchpad 1.1.9! Before we get started, thanks for bearing with us while we delayed this release for a couple of days. We hate to delay a new roll-out but we'd rather release software that we're sure is ready for you to use. So, what's new this time round? * New "remote" branches: register a remote branch if you want Launchpad to monitor it and link to its code-browser but you don't want Launchpad to import the branch itself. Ideal for security related branches. * bzr+ssh is now the recommended way to upload a branch to Launchpad. sftp is still available. * We've updated the PPA terms of service to allow for a wider range of free and open licences. * You can now search for Incomplete bugs based on whether they've had a response or not. * If you add a bug watch in an external tracker that Launchpad doesn't already know about, you can add the new bug tracker at the same time. * Upstream projects now have a view to show all bugs that need to be forwarded to that project from a distribution. * All of a project's translation files are downloadable in a single tarball. * KDE plurals and context strings are now supported in translation imports and exports. There's plenty more in this release. Read on for details and subscribe to the Launchpad News blog to read about more about these new features: http://news.launchpad.net/ General Launchpad ================= * Milestone overview pages now show the total number of bugs an blueprints targeted against that milestone. (Bug 129815) * "Show all teams" on the project overview page now correctly links to the teams overview page. (Bug 114394) * When Launchpad is offline, you will now be able to see if it is offline for maintenance or offline unexpectedly. (Bugs 121828 and 125232) * The Launchpad Terms of Service, PPA Terms of Service and the new Privacy and Data Retention Policy are now on the Launchpad Help wiki via https://help.launchpad.net/legal Distribution management (Soyuz) =============================== * PPA uploads no longer trigger an email to the package maintainer. The person who uploaded the package will still receive an email. (Bug 136418) * PPA uploads no longer incorrectly close bugs associated with the original package in the primary Ubuntu archive. (Bug 137767) * Packages in team PPAs now show which team member uploaded the package. (Bug 136343) * Soyuz no longer performs the obsolete bzip2 dpkg pre-depends check when uploading packages that use bzip2 decompression. (Bug 131032) * Files from PPA packages that are superseded and subsequently marked as pending removal will now be removed automatically. (Bug 128126) * Source packages no longer require "debian/copyright". (Bug 134567) * Source package build pages now default to showing all builds, instead of only showing those currently building. (Bug 92960) * PPA acceptance and rejection emails now use PPA-specific wording. Previously, they shared the same wording as emails for uploads to Ubuntu. Specifically, the upload email no longer thanks the user for their contribution to Ubuntu and the rejection email now directs the user to launchpad-users if they want to query the rejection. (Bugs 136406 and 137661) * The status message for successfully built packages now also shows that package's current queue status - i.e. NEW, ACCEPTED or REJECTED. (Bug 32405) * Launchpad bugs that are identified in a package's changelog with the format "LP: #n" are now automatically linked to that bug's report. (Bug 116309) * The PPA Terms of Service now allow for licences approved by the Free Software Foundation, Creative Commons, Open Source Initiative and the Debian Free Software Guidelines. Code Branch Management (Code Hosting) ===================================== * In addition to hosted and mirrored branches, there is now a new "remote" branch type. Remote branches are tracked by Launchpad but the branch's code is not mirrored or hosted by Launchpad. It's also now possible to add a hosted branches through Launchpad's web interface, as well as by pushing the branch to Launchpad. (Blueprints branch-creation-refactoring and remote-branches) * Mirrored branch pages now show when the branch was last mirrored and when the next mirroring will happen. (Bug 74031) * Revisions shown on the branch overview page now link directly to codebrowse to show the diff for that revision. The formatting of the revision details makes sure that the revision number is no longer partially obscured under the portlets for branches that have many revisions. Example: https://code.launchpad.net/~bzr/bzr/trunk (Bug 133983) * bzr+ssh is now the recommended way to upload branches to Launchpad. Branch pages now show a bzr+ssh upload URL, rather than sftp. However, branches can still be uploaded using sftp. (Bug 133599) * Importing a Subversion repository's trunk branch whose name does not end in the word 'trunk' is now possible. (Bug 130883) * The code hosting FAQ now includes a link to a help page explaining how imports from Subversion and CVS repositories work - https://help.launchpad.net/VcsImports (Bug 106909) * Users are now able to create bug-branch links from the branch index page. Previously users were only able to link bugs and branches from the bug page. (Bug 43808) * A branch's owner can now delete that branch whether or not it has revisions. This applies only to branches that have no other references, such as subscribers, links to bugs and blueprints, or references in branch merge proposals. Previously, branches with revisions could not be deleted. (Bug 137658) * Users can now see a listing of all branches in a project group. Example: https://code.launchpad.net/bazaar (Bug 133987) * Clicking "Browse code" on a branch's page now shows the code browser's "files" page rather than the "changes" page. The "changes" page is still available through the link at the top of the code browse page. (Bug 134192) Bug Tracker =========== * Users can now specify binary package names on the global bug reporting page. (Bugs 117055 and 121242) * "Incomplete" has been replaced with "Incomplete (with response" and "Incomplete (without response) on the advanced bug search page. Existing URLs using the `Incomplete` status will continue to work. (Bug 50663) * Unassigned bugs that have "Incomplete" status for 60 days, in a particular context, will now be automatically set to "Invalid". Anyone with permission to change the bug's status will still be able to do so. If a comment is made on the bug, it will not automatically flip back to "Incomplete" status. Any bug watches linked to the bug will continue to synchronise their status with that of the upstream bug. (Bug 91925) * When adding a bug watch, if Launchpad doesn't recognise the external bug tracker it will ask if you want to register the new tracker at the same time. (Bug 4592) * The statuses of bug watches tracking bugs in Roundup trackers are now correctly synchronised. (Bug 67102) * Bugwatches are now compatible with more instances of the Mantis bug tracker. Most significantly this includes the ALSA bug tracker. (Bug 134309) * Entering an assignee on the advanced bug search form now automatically selects the correct radio button. (Bug 74443) * If an attachment is deleted from an otherwise empty comment that comment will not be displayed. (Bug 126224) * Upstream projects now have a view to show all bugs that need to be forwarded to that project from a distribution. (Bug 125788) * Short quoted passages and python interpreter output are no longer collapsed in messages. (Bugs 127879 and 128657) * On bug report pages, expanding an individual bug context shows the latest package version for that context. (Bug 134220) Answer Tracker ============== * Short quoted passages and python interpreter output are no longer collapsed in messages. (Bugs 127879 and 128657) * Question email notifications now include a Reply-To address that makes it clear that any replies to that notification will be published as a response in Launchpad. (Bug 134587) * Users can now specify binary package names when editing questions. (Bug 138409) Translations ============ * You can now download the complete translations for a product as a single tarball. (Bug 82721) * Translations pages have been further optimised to reduce timeouts. (Bug 30602) * A project's translation overview page now shows translations from the main development focus instead of defaulting to the first template imported. (Bug 118663) * KDE translation credits now have a "Launchpad Contributions" header. (Bug 133817) * The "See import queue" link in the "Actions" menu on the +translations page previously caused an error. This has been fixed. (Bug 135838) * Templates with KDE-style plurals and context strings can now be correctly imported and translated. When exporting .po files from a KDE-style template, you can choose to create either a standard or KDE-style .po file. (Bugs 3990 and 46982) -- Matthew Revell - talk to me about Launchpad Join us in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net
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