Monthly Archives: July 2007

Issue Relationships now customizable

Posted on July 29, 2007 by vboctor

Starting Mantis 1.1.0a4, it is possible to add your own custom relationships. This means that you are no longer limited by “related to”, “parent of”, “child of”, “duplicate of” and “has duplicate”. Although the standard relationships ought to be enough … Continue reading →

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Mantis SOAP API out-of-the-box in v1.1.0a4

Posted on July 17, 2007 by vboctor

As of Mantis 1.1.0a4, MantisConnect web service will be released out-of-the-box with Mantis under the GPL license. The MantisConnect project will remain focused on the client libraries for the web service and useful tools on top of such libraries. MantisConnect … Continue reading →

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Evaluating a PHPMailer Vulnerability

Posted on July 15, 2007 by vboctor

A report was submitted to the Mantis team this week describing a vulnerability in the PHPMailer class. This class is used by Mantis to send notification emails for issue updates. The exploit takes advantage of a hole in how PHP … Continue reading →

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Mantis Permalinks for Filters

Posted on July 11, 2007 by vboctor

Up until Mantis 1.1.a03, it was possible to create filters, save them, mark them as public to share them with other users, but it was not possible to send a filter criteria Permalink (see #7982) that another user can visit … Continue reading →

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Mantis Integration with MediaWiki

Posted on July 10, 2007 by vboctor

In Mantis 1.1.0a1, a plug-in model has been implemented to support integrating with any Wiki engine. This release shipped with a plug-in that integrates with DokuWiki . Since then some users were asking about support for MediaWiki (which seems to … Continue reading →

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Mantis Blog and Twitter Integration

Posted on July 7, 2007 by vboctor

As part of running Mantis there is a lot of work that happens everyday, however, most users only know about it when they receive an email via one of the mailing lists or when they go to the website. There … Continue reading →

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Mantis Integration with CVS and Subversion

Posted on July 7, 2007 by vboctor

Mantis supports native integration with CVS and Subversion (SVN). In addition it can integrate with other configuration management applications via Scmbug (a Perl open source application). “Scmbug integrates software configuration management (SCM) with bug-tracking. It aims to solve the integration … Continue reading →

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