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Release Notes for Trac 1.6 Py3 Release

Trac 1.6 is the latest stable version of Trac.
These notes reflect the final status.

Highlights

• Dropped support for Python 2.7. Python 3.5+ is supported (#12130).

Maintenance Releases

Overview

1.6.1	3 / 26

Tickets with release notes

Milestone: 1.6.1 (3 matches)

Ticket	Release Notes
#13621	Fixed JavaScript error raised from ticket view when no workflow actions defined.
#13628	Removed workaround for Internet Explorer when post and redirect with hash.
#13629	Removed checking python -V because of checking trac-admin -v. Use python3 rather than python in shebang.

Development Releases

Overview

1.6	11 / 11

1.5.4	22 / 22

1.5.3	11 / 11

1.5.2	5 / 5

1.5.1	11 / 11

Tickets with release notes

Milestone: 1.6 (5 matches)

Ticket	Release Notes
#13575	Write data as binary to stdout in CGI frontend.
#13510	Use multipart module instead of deprecated cgi since Python 3.11 if the multipart available
#13603	Use datetime.fromtimestamp(..., utc) instead of deprecated datetime.utcfromtimestamp to avoid deprecation messages since Python 3.12.
#13604	Adapt to onexc of shutil.rmtree since Python 3.12 to avoid deprecation warnings.
#13608	Adapted functional tests to Selenium 4 and later.

Milestone: 1.5.4 (18 matches)

Ticket	Release Notes
#13449	Fix use of reload() which has been removed in Python 3.0, when mod_python is used.
#13492	Fix internal server error when uploading files using fcgi.
#13505	Fixed SEGV raised from SQLite cursor with Python 3.11.
#13403	Make fcgi frontend compatible with Python 3.
#13404	Make compatible with Jinja2 3 and MarkupSafe 2.1.0, and add workaround for AssertionError when Jinja2 3.0.0 is used.
#13405	Fixed incorrect rendering of Git version in System Information table.
#13409	Fix incorrect repository_dir metadata for Subversion repository.
#13459	Fixed wrong content_type for a file in Subversion repository when svn:mime-type is not set.
#13464	Allow bcrypt, sha-256 and sha-512 password hashes in htpasswd file. Added -t method option to contrib/htpasswd.py.
#13474	Fixed TypeError is raised from progress_bar.html when all intervals are 0%.
#13477	Fixed incompatible with Jinja2 3.1.
#13479	Fixed message extraction with Python3, Babel and Jinja2 3+.
#13483	Perfer text/* type in order to prevent rendering as an image for *.c filename with Pygments 2.11+.
#13488	Fixed wrong pagination links in search page.
#13494	Upgraded the bundled jQuery to version 3.6.3.
#13495	Fixed TypeError raised from changeset view when non-default property renderer is used and the quality is 1.
#13511	Use importlib rather than deprecated imp to load *.py plugin files.
#13565	Fixed generating apidoc with Sphinx 5 and adapt to Python 3.
Milestone: 1.5.3 (9 matches)
Ticket	Release Notes
#13378	Add workaround for SmtpEmailSender with unicode credentials.
#11538	ConfigurationError will be raised when there are duplicate sections and options in trac.ini.
#13236	Fixed TypeError when CommitTicketReference macro or wiki processor is used on the New Ticket form.
#13336	Fixed -d/--daemonize failure for tracd.
#13345	Fix global shutdown crashes while creating new database connection.
#13356	Fix double-destroying memory pool error from tracd server on functional-test
#13359	The minimum required setuptools version is 30.3.
#13361	Workaround for test failures due to changing locale on call of tidylib.tidy_document.
#13401	Avoid crashing when apr memory pools (parent and child) are destroyed by cyclic garbage collector.
Milestone: 1.5.2 (3 matches)
Ticket	Release Notes
#12130	Changed Python compatibility to 3.5+.
#13243	Fixed slow repository sync command for cached repository with many commits.
#13310	Bump setuptools requirement from >= 0.6 → > 5.6.
Milestone: 1.5.1 (5 matches)
Ticket	Release Notes
#3754	Open tickets can be retargeted from the Ticket Admin > Milestones page.
#12196	Added View Milestone contextual navigation to the Admin milestone edit page.
#12213	The default value is shown on the preferences page in the label of the default selection of various Select inputs.
#12965	Added option --no-default-data to trac-admin initenv, for creating an empty environment without any reports, permission groups or sample data (components, milestones, enums).
#13213	The [query] ticketlink_query value can be uniquely specified for each custom field using the ticketlink_query option in the [ticket-custom] section. This applies to all custom field types for which [query] ticketlink_query would be applied, which excludes text (format: plain and wiki), textarea and time fields.

Developer-visible changes

A detailed view of the API changes since 1.4.x can be found in TracDev/ApiChanges/1.6.

Code Name

The 0.11 release was dubbed "Genshi", 0.12 "Babel" and 1.4 "Jinja2" after the names of the Python packages that became closely associated to these Trac versions. The most significant change in 1.6 is Python 3 support, so it seems appropriate to name 1.6 "Py3".