Dear Community Members, +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Release Note ++++++++++++++++++++++++ We are proud to announce OTRS 2.1.7 (Playa Esmeralda). This is the latest release of OTRS 2.1, and contains some bug fixes. For a complete list see below. The OTRS team recommends all OTRS 2.1.x users to upgrade to OTRS 2.1.7. Changes: ======== o Added rpm packages for Fedora Core 4, 5 and 6 to auto build service. o Updated Kernel/Language/pt_BR.pm translation file - Thanks to Fabricio Luiz Machado! o Fixed bug# 1551 - decode_mimewords() in ArticleWriteAttachment() dies due to utf-8. o Fixed bug# 1650 - crypt/sign bug in AgentTicketCompose screen. o Fixed bug# 1659 - Uploading and Saving Pictures in MSSQL won't work with bigger Files (~700KB). ->MSSQL ONLY<- You also need to change some tables by using: ALTER TABLE web_upload_cache ALTER COLUMN content TEXT NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE article_plain ALTER COLUMN body TEXT NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE article_attachment ALTER COLUMN content TEXT NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE article ALTER COLUMN a_body TEXT NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE standard_response ALTER COLUMN text TEXT NOT NULL; ALTER TABLE standard_attachment ALTER COLUMN content TEXT; ALTER TABLE sessions ALTER COLUMN session_value TEXT; ALTER TABLE xml_storage ALTER COLUMN xml_content_value TEXT; ALTER TABLE package_repository ALTER COLUMN content TEXT NOT NULL; o Fixed upload cache problem in win32 with .pdf files. o Fixed bug# 1442 and 1559 - ArticleFreeKey and ArticleFreeText default selection does not work. o Fixed ticket# 2007031242000149 - session backend fails to insert sessions bigger the 4k on oracle database backend. o Fixed ticket# 2007022342000586 - attachment problem with oracle backend if utf-8 is used. Download: ========= o ftp://ftp.otrs.org/pub/otrs/ (Germany/Hamburg) (a full list of all download mirrors (ftp/http/rsync) is available at http://otrs.org/download/) MD5 message digest (128-bit) checksums: ======================================= 590a982ad6a3c9f4940879e54f398d39 RPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm 13282fb7c14b57c59093c0e91378ae1e RPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm d623846a3011d8fbc9655baf2e04451b RPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm 679e332fa5be9dd59ce610e13d8f7075 RPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm ee948722bf78aaa8cc33c6df4f39333f RPMS/suse/10.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm 1e09fd805db46d2064e780144e8d1f6d RPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm c0d644b7f9ef7ac2203ca17af13d7e2e RPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm 83a06dceb2bea2aeb6e16fe96729c6e0 RPMS/fedora/4/otrs-2.1.7-01.i386.rpm 2ab2f32eeacc59b9d0face6a23ba1e03 SRPMS/suse/7.3/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm a8b3e6cd84f920fa1de3371ff4ff7fd1 SRPMS/suse/8.x/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 4e9cf138ac0203c4067566e71639b7ea SRPMS/suse/9.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm cfae6299f10ca6beaa18905e732012de SRPMS/suse/9.1/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 512352b89c0d5e7b18e42f1ee2a0b113 SRPMS/suse/10.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 3cd64b6f747d9fc61cb9c12256798e99 SRPMS/redhat/7.x/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 415c1313db06c7c675489e736e7fefc2 SRPMS/redhat/8.0/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 7e6dd736549ebfc364a10bb61e6676ad SRPMS/fedora/4/otrs-2.1.7-01.src.rpm 2646432d4d00bbe5e5284e4f242a553a otrs-2.1.7.tar.gz 05c12c945ca1e7b89c56ac7b3c38031e otrs-2.1.7.tar.bz2 Important for Upgrading: ======================== For those folks who are using OTRS 2.0 and want to upgrade to 2.1 please read the UPGRADING and INSTALL files. Bug Reporting: ============== Although OTRS 2.1 has been tested before, we appreciate your contributions and bug reports. You, the OTRS Community, has always been an invaluable source of helpful suggestions, fair comments and well skilled testers to us. Therefore a great "THX!" goes out to you! o http://bugs.otrs.org/ ((enjoy)) Hauke Jan Boettcher Sales & Marketing Director ((otrs)) :: OTRS GmbH :: Norsk-Data-Strasse 1 :: D - 61352 Bad Homburg Fon: +49 (0) 6172 681988 10 :: Fax: +49 (0) 9421 56818 18 http://www.otrs.com/ :: Communication with success!