February 16, 2016 — OTRS, the world’s leading provider of open source Help Desk and ITIL® V3 compliant IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, today announces the 7th patch level release of OTRS 5.
Please note, that from now on we will only officially support versions OTRS 4 and OTRS 5 and following versions.
What’s New
- Updated translations, thanks to all translators.
- Made both the Subject and Reference follow up checks optional, so that they can be turned off.
- Add new config setting Package::AllowLocalModifications. If this setting is active, local modifications will not be highlighted as errors in the package manager and the support data collector.
- Added a –quiet option to suppress console command output, thanks to Moritz Lenz.
- Added new button “Remove Quote” to richtext editor.
- Improved DBUpdate-to-5.pl to migrate notification config entries, thanks to S7.
Important for Upgrading
- From a previous version of OTRS 5:
- Make sure you run bin/otrs.Console.pl Maint::Config::Rebuild after the upgrade so that the configuration is refreshed. Otherwise the system may not work.
- If you upgrade from OTRS 5 Patch Level 2 or earlier, please run scripts/DBUpdate-to-5.pl once 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.
- From OTRS 4.x: Please consult our admin manual
for detailed instructions.
Bug Fixes
- Bug#11852 – Error in migration script with Ticket::Frontend::PreMenuModule.
- Bug#11820 – Match on !~ “int” for external articles not enough.
- Bug#11838 – New tabs opened from links in a sandboxed Iframe cannot execute JavaScript.
- Bug#11829 – Main and ticket menu subentries disappear.
- Bug#11819 – Error when trying to edit/create new customer agent while SMIME activated.
- Bug#11827 – Invalid or missing default ticket type throws error in log.
- Bug#11825 – Agent Notification Preferences cannot be set in AdminUser.
- Bug#11813 – Changing agent email address disables his notifications preferences.
- Bug#11818 – Missing required settings in default TicketConnecor SOAP yaml web service.
- Bug#11817 – SLAID from TicketGet response Article has wrong cardinality in WSDL.
- Bug#11803 – Got no ProcessEntityID or TicketID and ActivityDialogEntityID!.
- Bug#6350 – Sort order in “Auto Responses <-> Queues”, thanks to S7.
- Bug#11802 – Customer user can get access to all ticket data.
- Bug#11717 – Views with iFrames not scrollable on iOS.
- Follow-up fix for Bug#11696 – Queue overview displays Queues with no avaible tickets.
- Do not let customers know if other tickets exist or not (thanks to Renée Bäcker).
- Bug#11786 – Reference of undefined variable in AgentTicketSearch.
- Bug#11794 – Agent with quote in this name cannot list owner.
- Bug#11801 – Default value “Lock after follow-up” changed in Queue Management.
The detailed ChangeLog can be found at: https://github.com/OTRS/otrs/blob/rel-5_0_7/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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