Hello All,

We are pleased to announce Red Hat's Bugzilla 5 beta [1]! We’re inviting all of you to participate.

We encourage you to test your current scripts against this new version and take part in the beta discussions on the Fedora development list [2]. Partners and customers may also use their existing communications channels to share feedback or questions. We ask that you provide feedback or questions by Wednesday, May 17th.

Here is a short list of some of the changes in Bugzilla 5:

• Major improvements in the WebServices interface, including a new REST-like endpoint, allowing clients to access data using standard HTTP calls for easy development.

• The UI has been significantly overhauled for a modern browsing experience.

• Performance improvements, including caching improvements to allow faster access to certain types of data.

• Red Hat Associates, Customers and Fedora Account System users can now log in using SAML.

• The addition of some of the Bayoteers extensions allowing features such as inline editing of bugs in search results, team management and scrum tools, etc.

• Ye Olde diff viewer has been replaced with the modern diff2html diff viewer

• Improved, updated documentation including a rewrite using the reStructuredText format, which allows documentation to be more easily converted into different formats such as HTML and PDF, etc

The official release date for Bugzilla 5 will be determined based on the beta feedback. We will communicate to you as the beta progresses.

For more information refer to:

https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=whats-new.html

https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=release-notes.html

https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=faq.html

https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/docs/en/html/using/index.html

https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/docs/en/html/api/index.html

Cheers, the Red Hat Bugzilla team.

1: https://beta-bugzilla.redhat.com/

2: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel%40lists.fedoraproject.org/