What's New?

November 2006

• Saved Searches - Users can now save and share searches with others.
• Export XML without attachments.
• Full text search now includes attachment names.

June 2006

• Search
  
• Full text searching (root word, keyword)
• Multi-valued field selection.
• New interface.
• Searching on date ranges (mm/dd/yyyy - mm/dd/yyyy)
• Sorting by user defined date
  
• Mass Change (Managers only)
• Ability to notify users on submit/update of an issue.
• View user watching a particular issue (same interface as notify on submit/update)
• Ability to create groups of users for security purposes.
• Recent project portlet reconfigured to show only the last visited sites up to a specified number.  This is user configurable
• Recent projects portlet now shows number of assigned unresolved issues associated with  the logged in user for each project along with total unresloved issues
• Updated user management screens.  The screen now shows all projects the user is associated with. (Company Manager)

Updated Items:

• Enhanced error checking and reporting on submitted/updated issues
• New user submission page.
• Background export process with email notification on completion.
  
• Updated help

BackendFeatures

• PostgreSQL database transition. 
• Restructured comments field so that each comment is it's own record
• MD5 Checksumming on all attachments for enhanced single point storage
• Apache 2.2 server
• UTF-8 Support

• Display of user id when there is a duplicate name
• Added the ability to specify a project in an issue tag
• Added the ability to sort in the lookup editor
• The issue subject is now included in e-mail notifications
• Closed issues are now specified in the subject line of the notification e-mail
• Notifications are now sent when a description or comment is updated
• Number of duplicate e-mail messages to managers were lessened
• Submitters of an issue will not longer receive update notifications if they do not have view permission on the issue
• Required fields are now respected when issue is updated
• Some cryptic error messages were updated to provide more information.
• Developer comments are now uniquely identified when a user is viewing them.

• Additional options were added to many of the statistics, including date range searching on the top submitters. In addition, many of the statistics now return a selectable number of records. The different statistic types are now shown one at a time. There is a drop-down list of choices for selecting another statistic type.
• A new feature was added for simplifying the setup of a new project. When creating a project, you now have the option of either using the default fields and lookups, or using the settings from any existing project. If you chose to use the settings from another project, the new project will inherit all the fields (including order and field-specific options) and lookup values. The new project will not get the security settings from the other project. That must be still be set up manually.

• The boxes that were displayed after submitting and updating have been done away with. Now you will be taken directly back to the project home page. The exception is updating an issue from a search. In that case you will be taken back to that search. In both cases the success message will now be displayed in a statusbar at the top of the screen.
• If you are submitting or updating an issue and your session expires your work is no longer lost. Now, simply logging back in will complete the update or submit.
• The Project Statistics page has been updated. The lists of Top Viewed Issues and Top Watched Issues are now limited to open issues.
• In addition to being made inactive, fields can now be removed from your project permanently. Doing so will result in all of the data for that field being lost.

• Many improvements were made to the descriptions/comments. Using a new system of "tags", it is now possible to format text (bold, italic, etc...), quote previous text, have bullet lists, and many other formatting options. In addition, it is easy to add links to issues or users.
• A new mail system was added to Squish to make it easier to notify other developers in your projects. An external mail package is no longer necessary to send notifications to other Squish users.
• You can now add multiple attachments to a description or comment.
• The 50 character limit on text fields has been lifted. Project managers may now set the length of a text field up to 255 characters.
• A new "Project Statistics" tab was added to project pages for project managers. These include top submitters, viewed and watched issues. In addition, managers can view a cross-tab of open issues based on who they are assigned to and any other user-defined lookup.
• Case-insensitive searching on descriptions and comments was added.
• Add to Watchlist button in bug view no longer causes a page reload. It is now possible to add/remove an issue to your watchlist with unsaved work.
• All buttons in the system were replaced with images. This provides a more consistent look and feel between the different browsers.

• Timezone support has been added to Squish. All timestamps (i.e. date last modified) will be adjusted to display according to each users timezone. A user can change his or her timezone by visiting their 'My Account' page.
• The automatic URL detection for issue descriptions and comments has been improved. URL's no longer have to be surrounded by white space. This will fix any previously mis-detected URL's.
• Company Administrators will notice that the interface for user management has been improved significantly.

• On the search screen the Basic Search and Advanced Search have been combined into a single search. This allows for searches which were previously impossible.
• The verification of new accounts has become a more simplified process. Once a user recieves the confirmation e-mail all he/she has to do is click the link to activate the new account.
• New preferences have been added to user accounts. Most significant is the option to be e-mailed when a change is made to an entry that you submitted. To see or change the new options simply go to the My Account screen.
• There is now a link on the company homepage for e-mailing the Company Admin to request a project.
• The report and detail printouts have been changed to make them a little nicer to look at.
• A few bugs were fixed including a problem with searching dates.

• Project Member information has been added to the project homepage.
• The layout of the project homepage has changed in order to keep the look of the system more consistent

• Navigation has been changed to make it more flexible.
• User and Developer comments are now displayed together according to the order in which they were submitted. This makes it much easier to read when there is a discussion going on between users and developers.
• You can also now include links into your descriptions and comments. For more information on how to do this please refer to the on-line help.
• Some other minor usability changes were made