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Trac 0.11.6 has been released today. It contains two security fixes, a number of performance improvements and lots of bug fixes.

• Database connection pooling has been re-enabled for SQLite. This requires recent versions of both SQLite and PySQLite, so you may want to update those as well. In particular, the sqlite3 module bundeled with Python 2.6.4 is not sufficient.
• This release formally deprecates SQLite 2.x and PySQLite 1.x support, and it will be removed altogether in 0.12.
• Handling of timezones with DST has been fixed. In particular, it should now be possible to close milestones with an immediate completion time even when DST is active.

Only a single release candidate was done this time, despite a few minor issues popping up during testing. We are pretty confident that the fixes were correct, and we didn't want to delay the release any further, so that we could focus on 0.12.

This is likely to be the last release of the 0.11.x series. The focus of development is now on 0.12, which should be released by the end of the year, possibly early January. MultiRepos, here we come!

Today I'm celebrating my first anniversary of Trac development, and that year has been awesome. I have had the opportunity to work with great minds and very competent users, and in general to benefit from the great community that Trac has built (including making a fool of myself). Yeah, right, so English is not my native tongue. Sue me.

Trac 0.11.5 has been released today. This is a maintenance release from the stable branch, featuring many bug fixes but also a few very nice enhancements:

• svn:mergeinfo and svnmerge-integrated / svnmerge-blocked properties are now interpreted and rendered as links to the revision log. This makes Trac a very nice graphical frontend for svn mergeinfo, that is, for displaying merged and eligible changesets on a branch.
• User feedback has been improved by allowing notices and warnings to be displayed after POST operations, typically after submitting a form. This allows, for example, displaying the message "Your preferences have been saved." in the user preferences, instead of simply going back to the same page.
• Links to attachments now have a small icon next to them that allows downloading the file directly, without going through the attachment page.
• PostgreSQL and MySQL databases can now be backed up during upgrades, so the --no-backup option for trac-admin $ENV upgrade is not needed anymore.

Once again, the release process has worked very well, allowing to fix a few last-minute issues while the two release candidates were available for testing.

A new stable release of Trac has been released today as 0.11.4. It features fixes for a few regressions that slipped into 0.11.3, most notably for the PostgreSQL database backend and for Python 2.3, and a Python 2.6 compatibility fix.

The release candidates were a real improvement, as they allowed us to catch a regression that, quite ironically, made the "New Ticket" link on trac.edgewall.org non-functional. Also, having the release candidates out there for a few days gave us more confidence that we wouldn't have an issue pop up a few hours after the release (I'm crossing fingers that this doesn't happen anyway :-). A big thank you to those who tested the release candidates.

If you would like to help improve our releases by testing future release candidates, don't hesitate to register here, especially if you have a somewhat exotic configuration. You will be notified as soon as a new release candidate is available.

Trac 0.11.3 has been released today. It is a new stable maintenance release, and contains a few minor enhancements, as well as many bugfixes. The most notable changes are:

• Python 2.6 compatibility
• Custom text fields can be configured to use wiki formatting

Ton départ subit laisse dans nos coeurs un vide douloureux.

Tu vas nous manquer.

I've been submitting simple bugfix patches to Trac since July. Today, I have been granted developer status, that is, commit access to the Trac code base.

Trac is an awesome development management platform written in Python, itself an awesome programming language. I'm honored to be allowed to contribute to such a great software package, and I hope to be able to learn a lot from the excellent developers on the project.