July 31, 2018 — OTRS, the world’s leading provider of open source Help Desk and ITIL® V3 compliant IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, today announces the 29th patch level release of OTRS 5s.
Please note, that from now on we will only officially support versions OTRS 4 and OTRS 5 and following versions.
Important for Updating
- From a previous version of OTRS 5:
- Make sure you run
bin/otrs.Console.pl Maint::Config::Rebuildafter the upgrade so that the configuration is refreshed. Otherwise the system may not work. - If you upgrade from OTRS 5 Patchlevel 2 or earlier, please run
scripts/DBUpdate-to-5.plonce during the upgrade to fix possible issues with dysfunctional notification tags. - if you upgrade from OTRS 5 Beta 5 or earlier, you should manually update all ticket notifications that are set to be shown in agent preferences. In the ticket notification management admin screen for each notification, scroll down to „Notification Methods“ and check the „Send by default“ checkbox from the „Email“ section on each notification.
- Background information: „Send by default“ is a new feature introduced in OTRS 5 RC1 that adds a new layer of control to administrators to decide if an enabled notification method is used by default or not if an agent has not directly specified this preference. This option is now set by default on new systems or upgrades.
- Make sure you run
- From OTRS 4.x: Please consult our admin manual
for detailed instructions.
What’s New
- Add explicit information for robots.
- Added improvements to the support data collector plugins.
Bug Fixes
- Bug#13978 – User and customer preferences may override user data.
- Bug#13722 – Translation of ticket notification header uses the system language instead of recipients preferences.
- Bug#13961 – ExternalTicketNumberRecognition not working correctly with spaces.
- Bug#13790 – Toolbar Fulltext Search will not care for archiving settings.
- Bug#13936 – Notification looses text for ‚Additional recipient email addresses‘ when sizelimit 200 characters is exceeded.
- Bug#13945 – Archived tickets won’t be moved with StorageSwitch command.
- Bug#13938 – Statistic: Internal Server Error when invalid date is set for x axis.
- Bug#13942 – Wrong title in browser window in statistics screens.
- Bug#13927 – Ticket Merge: „No merge state found! Please add a valid merge state“ – Articles are invisible till next action.
- Bug#13839 – When doing a search from change management the results window does not expand.
- Bug#13672 – Auto response names are not translated in Auto Responses screen of the Admin interface.
- Bug#13923 – Sender name in article created by queue move „window“ only shows FirstName.
- Follow-up fix for Bug#13734 – Set the last valid Status Merge to invalid is allowed.
- Bug#13912 – Generic Agents looses text for notes when sizelimit 200 characters is exceeded.
- Bug#13893 – Wrong descriptions for some system configurations.
- Bug#12479 – Reply to a ticket locks the ticket and cancel unlocks it but does not reset owner.
- Bug#13900 – Password authentication issue in Fedora 28 operating system.
The detailed ChangeLog can be found at: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/blob/rel-5_0_29/CHANGES.md.
Browser Support
- JavaScript is required to use OTRS.
These browsers are not supported:
- Microsoft Internet Explorer before version 10
- Firefox before version 10
- Safari before version 5
We recommend using the latest version of your browser because it has the best JavaScript and rendering performance. Dramatical performance varieties between the used browsers can occur with big data or big systems. We are happy to consult you on that matter.
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