[Mantisbt-announce] Mantis 1.0.0rc1 Released

[Victor B. <vi...@fu...>]

Hi all,

This the release candidate for the 1.0.0 release.  It contains about 70 bug
fixes and enhancements.  Major feature improvements include the addition of
an installer to initialize the database and main configuration, support for
custom actions in both the group and view pages, an option to put filter at
bottom of display, or eliminate it entirely, and a page to review your
sponsorships.  Other changes include performance improvements compared to
1.0.0a3, major fixes for RSS, fixes to filtering, access control, and the
signup page and much more.  Localizations for several languages have been
updated, and French-Canadian and Chinese Traditional UTF8 translations have
been added.

In addition, this release has undergone testing using MySQL and PostgreSQL,
with initial testing using MSSQL. The latter two of these are marked as
experimental in the installer, pending further user feedback.

All 1.0.0x users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.  Note that you
will need to upgrade the database to add the new indices what were added as
part of the performance improvements.

The final release should be available within the next few weeks, once we
receive some user feedback.

I would like to take this chance to thank all those who contributed to this
release.  Also now is a good time to send your updates for Mantis
localisation so that it can be integrated into the Mantis 1.0 release.

I wrote several tutorials relating to 1.0.0x releases that I posted to my
blog:
http://www.futureware.biz/blog/ 

These include:
- RSS Feeds in Mantis 1.0.0a3
- Customising Localised Strings in Mantis
- Customising View Issues, Print Issues and CSV Export
- Should Mantis support time tracking?
- Creating Sample Data for Mantis Testing
- Sponsoring issues in Mantis
- RSS Feeds in Mantis 1.0.0a2
- Localising Labels for Custom Fields
- Changelogs in Mantis
- Enumeration Custom Fields with Dynamic Possible Values
- Highlights of Mantis 1.0.0rc1

and others.  To keep yourself updated with the latest Mantis news, I suggest
you monitor the following RSS feeds:
http://www.futureware.biz/blog/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=5 
http://bugs.mantisbt.org/news_rss.php?project_id=1 

Also checkout MantisConnect which allows remote access to Mantis via any
programming language that supports web services.  It also has a client
library and a set of tools that are implemented in C# and can be used from
any .NET language:

http://www.futureware.biz/mantisconnect/ 

Regards,
Mantis Team