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osTicket 1.9.4 released

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Yesterday the folks over at osticket.com released the latest version of the 1.9 series, specifically the stable 1.9.4.  This version had not only a DPR (Developer Preview Release) and 5 RC (release candidates) before going live.  You can get this version via github or at http://osticket.com/download.  It features a slew of enhancements, bug fixes, and security updates.  Here is a list of them:

Major New Features

  • New ticket states (archived, and deleted) (#1094, #1159)

  • Custom ticket statuses (#1159)

  • Custom ticket number formats (#1128)

  • Full text search capabilities (beta)

  • Multiselect for choice fields and custom list selections

  • Phase II Multi-Lingual Support (User Interface) (see http://i18n.osticket.com and http://jipt.i18n.osticket.com) (#1096)

    • Active interface translations of 46 languages currently

    • Popup help tip documentation in all languages

    • Flags displayed on client portal for manual switch of UI language by endusers

    • Automatic detection of enduser and agent language preference as advertised by the browser

    • Improved PDF ticket printing support, including greater support for eastern characters such as Thai, Korean, Chinese, and Japanese

    • Proper support for searching, including breaking words for languages which do not use word breaks, such as Japanese

    • Proper user interface layout for right-to-left languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, and Farsi

    • Right-to-Left support for the HTML text editor, regardless of the viewing user’s current language setting

    • Proper handling of bidirectional text in PDF output and in the ticket view

Enhancements

  • Plugins can have custom configurations (#1156)

  • Upgrade to mPDF to v5.7.3 (#1356)

  • Add support for PDF fonts in language packs (#1356)

  • Advanced search improved to support multiple selections, custom status and flags

Improvements

  • Fix display of text thread entries with HTML characters (<) (#1360)

  • Fix crash creating new ticket if organization custom data has a selection field (#1361)

  • Fix footer disappearance on PJAX navigation (#1366)

  • Fix User Directory not sortable by user status (#1375)

  • Fix loss of enduser or agent priority selection on new ticket (#1365)

  • Add validation error if setting EndUser username to an email address (#1368)

  • Fix skipped validation of some fields (#1369) (regression from rc4)

  • Fix detection of inline attachments from rich text inputs (#1357)

  • Fix dropping attachments when updating canned responses (#1357)

  • Fix PJAX navigation crash in some browsers (#1378)

  • Fix searching for tickets in the client portal (#1379) (regression from rc4)

  • Fix crash submitting new ticket as agent with validation errors (#1380)

  • Fix display of unanswered tickets in open queue (#1384)

  • Fix incorrect statistics on dashboard page (#1345)

  • Fix sorting by ticket number if using sequential numbers

  • Fix threading if HTML is enabled and QR is disabled (#1197)

  • Export ticket "created" date (#1201)

  • Fix duplicate email where a collaborator would receive a confirmation for his own message (#1235)

  • Fix multi-line display of checkbox descriptions (#1160)

  • Fix API validation failure for custom list selections (#1238)

  • Fix crash adding a new user with a selection field custom data

  • Fix failed user identification from email headers if "References" header is sorted differently be mail client (#1263)

  • Fix deletion of inline images on pages if draft was not saved (#1288)

  • Fix corruption of custom date time fields on client portal if using non US date format (#1320)

  • Fix corruption of email mailbox if improperly encoded as ISO-8859-1 without RFC 2047 charset hint (#1332)

  • Fix occasional MySQL Commands OOS error from ORM (#1334)

Performance and Security

  • Fix possible XSS vulnerability in email template management (#1163)


 

You can read more about it at their at github.  They additionally released maintance release for the 1.7 and 1.8 series which should fix some of the issues in those.

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