About:
GNATS is a portable incident/bug report/help request-tracking system which runs on UNIX-like operating systems. It easily handles thousands of problem reports, has been in wide use since the early 90s, and can do most of its operations over e-mail. Several front end interfaces exist, including command line, emacs, and Tcl/Tk interfaces. There are also a number of Web (CGI) interfaces written in scripting languages like Perl and Python.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
A myriad of bugfixes were made. A new standard field "Notify-List" was added, replacing the v3 X-GNATS-Notify field. The unused fields Quarter, Keywords, and Date-Required were removed from std. dbconfig. Password matching and the gnats-pwconv tool were broken in beta 1, and have been fixed. It is now possible to require fields to be nonempty on initial PR submission and also to specify that certain fields can never be empty. The manual has a new chapter called "dbconfig recipes" with usful dbconfig customizations that also illustrate the great power of dbconfig. The manual is now complete. Gnatsweb 4.0 beta 4 is included.

Author:
Yngve Svendsen [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.01/10.00 (2 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnats/
Tar/GZ:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnats/
Changelog:
http://savannah.gnu.org/[..]ChangeLog?only_with_tag=gnats-4_1-branch
CVS tree (cvsweb):
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gnats/
Mailing list archive:
http://savannah.gnu.org/mail/?group=gnats

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), No Input/Output (Daemon), Web Environment
[Intended Audience]		Developers, Quality Engineers, System Administrators
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C
[Topic]		Software Development :: Bug Tracking, Software Development :: Quality Assurance, Software Development :: Testing

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	4.1.0	07-Mar-2005	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
4.1.0	Minor feature enhancements	07-Mar-2005 01:06
4.0.1	Minor security fixes	17-Nov-2004 11:55
4.0	Major feature enhancements	01-Aug-2003 12:05
4.0 beta 2	Major bugfixes	02-Dec-2002 15:32
4.0 beta 1	Major feature enhancements	11-Jan-2002 01:57
3.113.1	Minor bugfixes	15-Oct-2001 22:29
3.113	N/A	08-Nov-1999 18:26

 Articles referencing this project

• Debian: New gnats packages fix arbitrary code execution
  by Patrick Lenz , in Security
  Tue, Nov 9th 2004 10:55
  

 Comments

[»] New GNATS maintainer
by Yngve Svendsen - Oct 18th 2002 06:34:50

Andrew Gray is the new maintainer of GNATS. Here is Andrew's posting to the help-gnats mailing list:

Following Milan's decision to step down as GNATS maintainer, I volunteered and have been appointed GNATS maintainer by RMS.

My immediate plans are to go through outstanding bug reports and then produce a second 4.0 beta release. Other than a couple of patches I have not worked on GNATS development before now, so it will take me a little while to get "up to speed".

Andrew Gray

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[»] GNATS 4.0 beta 2 approaching
by Yngve Svendsen - Oct 15th 2002 04:14:27

Even though we lost our primary maintainer of GNATS (someone willing to take over?), we are working hard on resolving bug reports and applying submitted patches. A qualified guess puts a beta 2 around mid-November.

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