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Release Notes for Trac 0.12 Babel Release

Preliminary Note:
Trac 0.12 is now being finalized.

We're about to release 0.12beta1 and the final release is not far away… Help us getting it out of the door by testing it and telling the world how great it is!

The following notes are still a bit incomplete.

Highlights

• Localization of Trac in dozens of languages, using ​Babel.
• Multiple Repository Support per environment
• Improved Wiki, more powerful syntax and nicer user interface with automatic preview in side-by-side editing mode
• Improved Ticket user interface, with editable comments and automatic preview

Detailed User Visible Changes

Wiki

• Wiki user interface
  • show Last Modified … link on the lower right side of the page
  • show clickable wiki page name path on the upper left side of the page
  • improved wiki preview
    • normal mode, with the editor on top of the preview
    • side-by-side mode with the editor on the left side of the preview, along with automatic preview as you type
  • attachments are listed in a collapsed section
• WikiFormatting improvements:
  • lists can now start right at the beginning of a line
  • improved WikiCreole compatibility
  • better '>' quote support (arbitrary wiki text can now be quoted and rendered correctly)
  • much improved pipe-based syntax for tables (support for headings, column spans, cell alignment)
  • added several new wiki processors
    • #!td and #!th for building complex tables with arbitrary wiki content
    • #!htmlprocessor for embedding HTML comments in rendered pages
  • more direct help for macros ([[?]] gives a short list of all macros and [[macro?]] provides help for the given macro)

Ticket System

• comments are now editable (a.k.a. #454) with automatic preview; you can also see previous versions of the comments and what has been changed
• nicer comment preview (positioned closer the the comment editor, no longer on top of the ticket box, and automatic preview as you type)
• collapsible attachments, change history, and ticket modification sections

Roadmap and Milestone

• In the roadmap, milestones without due date can be filtered out

Reports and Custom Queries

• Improved custom queries:
  • support for Created and Modified fields (even as criteria, see TracQuery#QueryLanguage)
  • OR'ed clauses (tickets having performance in description OR performance in summary)
    • in the user interface
    • in query: links and [[TicketQuery]] macro, for example:
      • query:?description=~performance&or&summary=~performance,
      • [[TicketQuery(description=~performance,or,summary=~performance)]]

Repository Browser

• Show the Repository Index, in case more than one repository has been defined
• Remember last expanded folder in the URL and automatically re-expand it when visiting that URL again
• Separate sortable column for Author

User Preferences

A new tab has been added for selecting the language.

Timeline

• filtering by author
• filtering by repository, in case multiple repositories are defined

Caveats

• This release requires a database upgrade when upgrading from the 0.11.x series:

  trac-admin $TRAC_ENV upgrade
  

• PySqlite 1.0.x is no longer supported; use PySqlite 2 (preferably 2.5.x)
• PyPgSQL (Python bindings for PostgreSQL) is no longer supported; use psycopg2
• Text template processing has been changed from the ​legacy text template syntax to the ​new text template syntax. Overridden text templates placed in the templates folder of the environment must therefore be converted to the new syntax (typically the ticket e-mail template). Also, the [notification] ticket_subject_template option can now include arbitrary directives.

Developer-visible changes

A detailed view of the API changes since 0.11.x can be found in TracDev/ApiChanges/0.12.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to the growing number of people who have, and continue to, support the project. Also our thanks to all people providing feedback and bug reports that helps us making Trac better, easier to use and more effective.

Without your invaluable help, Trac would not evolve. Thank you all.

Finally, we offer hope that Trac will prove itself useful to like-minded programmers around the world, and that this release will prove an improvement over the last version.

Please let us know. :-)

The TracTeam ​http://trac.edgewall.org