1 2.25.1 ("The Feel-Good vibe")
2 * Drop libgnome and libgnomeui dependencies.
3 * Make google-breakpad support optional (but enabled by default).
4 Thanks to Sjoerd Simons.
5 * Obtain the real path of the crashed process by looking in /proc.
6 Thanks to Sam Morris and Matt Keenan.
7 * Add an option to delete the included file after bug-buddy has
9 * Implement a logger for pasting critical and fatal warnings in the
11 * Include the loaded GTK+ modules in the stacktraces sent to bugzilla.
12 * Update google-breakpad to SVN r290.
13 * Compile with all the GLib/GTK+ deprecation flags.
16 * Hide the "Send" button after clicking it
17 * Make the breakpad module resident (Matthias Clasen)
20 * Disable Solaris from the google-breakpad supported OS
21 * Adapt gnome-breakpad for loading by XSettings (requires GTK+ 2.14.2
22 and gnome-settings-daemon 2.24.0)
23 * Many translation updates
26 * Fix a runtime warning
29 * Standardize the desktop file (Pacho Ramos)
30 * Clean up X11 includes
31 * Many translation updates
33 2.23.90 ("Live in Paris")
35 * Remove dependency on gnome-desktop
37 * Many translation updates
41 * Remove unused command line switches
42 * Update and ship a man page
43 * Remove dependency on libgnomecanvas
44 * New Tango icon (thanks to Andreas Nilsson, Michael Monreal
46 * Add a context menu to copy the bug URL when a bug has been reported.
47 * Add a dialog to warn the user to review the crash description if it is
48 too short (thanks to Diego Escalante Urrelo).
49 * Many cleanups of the source tree.
50 * Some other misc bug fixes
55 * Correctly install bug-buddy.png
59 * Port to GIO (Cosimo Cecchi)
60 * Completely remove the NetworkManager dependency (Cosimo Cecchi)
61 * Fix some leaks (Hans Petter Jansson)
67 * Fixes to the new minidump code.
68 * Some more bug fixes :)
70 2.19.0 ("Young Explorer")
72 * Build a GTK_MODULE invoking bug-buddy on segfaults.
73 * Add support for dumping a minidump file if no debug symbols are present.
77 * Removed Application from .desktop file (Christian Kirbach)
79 2.17.4 ("Oslo by night")
81 * Don't register with the session manager (Dan Winship)
82 * Fix invalid read in the gmenu code (Mark McLoughlin)
83 * Search for desktop files in the autostart dir too (Fer)
84 * Compiler warning fixes (Christian Persch)
85 * String fixes (Priit Laes, Andre Klapper)
86 * Updated translations:
87 - Updated ar: Djihed Afifi
88 - Updated be: Ihar Hrachyshka
89 - Updated bg: Vladimir Petkov
90 - Updated da: Peder Bach
91 - Updated dz: Pema Geyleg
92 - Updated en_CA: Adam Weinberger
93 - Updated en_GB: David Lodge
94 - Updated et: Priit Laes
95 - Updated fi: Illka Tuohela
96 - Updated fr: Robert-André Mauchin and Jonathan Ernst
97 - Updated he: Yair Hershkovitz
98 - Updated ko: Changwoo Ryu
99 - Updated mk: Jovan Naumovski
100 - Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
101 - Updated pl: The GNOME PL Team
102 - Updated pt: Duarte Loreto
103 - Updated pt_BR: Og Maciel
104 - Updated sl: Matic Zgur
105 - Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
106 - Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
107 - Updated uk: Maxim Dziumanenko
108 - Updated vi: Clytie Siddall
109 - Updated zh_HK: Chao-Hsiung Liao
110 - Updated zh_TW: Chao-Hsiung Liao
112 2.17.3 ("Paris connection")
115 * Lock some text on the report
116 * Detect sensitive words (regarding privacy) on the report
117 and add a warning and highlight them
118 * Lot of UI and strings clean ups (Dennis Cranston and Andre
121 * Don't submit reports with less than 3 steps in the trace
122 * Do not block the UI while gdb is working!
123 * Reworked the email check code (Alex Jones)
124 * Updated Translations:
125 - Updated nb: Kjartan Maraas
126 - Updated sv: Daniel Nylander
127 - Updated hu: Gabor Kelemen
128 - Updated th: Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
129 - Updated fi: Ilkka Tuohela
130 - Updated es: Francisco Javier F. Serrador
131 - Updated he: Yair Hershkovitz
135 * Fix last minute problems on 2.17.1 with the link button
136 * Don't set priority/severity on non-crashers.
138 2.17.1 ("one more coin")
140 * Fix unreleased 2.17.0 version: Include po files on the
143 2.17.0 ("Coin, operated boy")
145 * Add more system info to bug-buddy reports (Alexander Larsson)
146 * Misc fixes (Kjartan Maraas, Ali Sabil, Brian Pepple,
147 Stephane LOEUILLET, Rob Bradford, Clytie Siddall,
148 Luca Cavalli and myself)
149 * Ask the user to fill the report in English (Claudio Saavedra and
150 Mariano Suárez-Alvarez)
151 * Add a X-GNOME-Bugzilla-ExtraInfoScript/bugzilla:extra_info_script
152 field to allow applications to run a custom script to collect
153 more information (based on an idea from Federico Mena-Quintero)
154 * Only load current application icon. Improves performace from 10%
156 * Limit stack traces deep (Ruben Vermeersch)
157 * Add a help button (Brent Smith)
158 * Use a new window to allow the user review the information. Allow him
159 to copy/edit this information.
161 2.16.0 ("bye bye dyckola")
163 * Fix a crash when focusing details-view
167 * drop local xml-rpc functions
170 * Show window while collecting .desktop files
171 * Use some heuristics as report summary
175 * Support for --include option
176 * Support for sending previously non-sent bug reports.
177 * Use own .menu file for reading all applications
178 * when invoked with --package and without --pid, don't assume it
180 * use theme-friendly icons
183 2.15.0 ("sendmail, no mas")
185 * bug-buddy-xmlrpc branch merged to HEAD
187 2.13.0 ("Mañana, mañana!")
190 - Update treeview headers when switching between
191 products/applications (Matthias Clasen)
192 - Fix LSB distro detection (Fernando)
193 - Set GnomeFileEntry in save mode when saving the report
195 - HIG fixes (Christian Perch)
196 - Center the main window (Christian Neumair)
197 * New and updated translations:
198 - Alexander Shopov (bg)
199 - Hendrik Richter (de)
200 - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
201 - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
205 - Christophe Merlet (fr)
206 - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
209 - Alessio Frusciante (it)
210 - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
212 - Slobodan D. Sredojevic (sr, sr@Latn)
213 - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
214 - Clytie Siddall (vi)
215 - Woodman Tuen (zh_HK)
216 - Abel Cheung (zh_TW)
218 2.12.2 ("Il vulcano")
219 * New and updated translations:
220 - Ales Nyakhaychyk (be)
221 - Vladimir Petkov (bg)
222 - Khandakar Muajhidul Islam (bn)
223 - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
224 - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
225 - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
227 - Iñaki Larrañaga (eu)
229 - Ignacio Casal Quinteiro (gl)
232 - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
233 - Timur Zhamakeev (ky)
234 - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
236 - Åsmund Skjæveland (nn)
237 - Kjartan Maraas (no)
238 - Guilherme de S. Pastore (pt_BR)
242 - Christian Rose (sv)
243 - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
244 - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
249 - Remove duplicate entries from app list (Matthias Clasen)
251 2.12.0 ("My fatal fate")
252 * New and updated translations:
255 - Yair Hershkovitz (he)
257 - Žygimantas Beručka (lt)
258 - Michiel Sikkes (nl)
262 * New and updated translations:
263 - Miloslav Trmac (cs)
264 - Kostas Papadimas (el)
265 - Adam Weinberger (en_CA)
266 - Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es)
270 - Yair Hershkovitz (he)
272 - Takeshi AIHANA (ja)
273 - Kjartan Maraas (nb)
274 - Kapil Timilsina (ne)
275 - Kjartan Maraas (no)
277 - Afonso Celso Medina (pt_BR)
282 - Theppitak Karoonboonyanan (th)
284 - Maxim Dziumanenko (uk)
285 - Clytie Siddall (vi)
287 - Woodman Tuen (zh_TW)
288 * New ukrainian translation (Maxim Dziumanenko)
292 - Fix gcc4 compiler warnings (Kjartan Maraas)
295 - Ported to GtkAboutDialog (Kjartan Maraas)
296 - Port to GtkComboBox (Michael Gossard)
297 - Sort frequently reported bugs list (Michael Gossard)
298 - Add support for LSB distributions
301 * Update to the new menu api (Mark McLaughlin)
302 * Fix a crash on startup (Olav Vitters)
303 * Translation updates
307 - Some translations updates
309 2.9.92 ("Magical Fenix")
311 - Lot of translations updates
312 - New Ukrainian translation of the documentation by
313 Maxim V. Dziumanenko <mvd@mylinux.com.ua>
315 2.9.91 ("Hänsel und Gretel")
317 - Port to the new libmenu API to get the list of available applications.
318 - Fix the applets loading.
322 - Updated Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Estonian and German
327 - Use the command line option --include-file to include a file
328 - Skip the product/component pages if the application is
329 passed on the command line (also show its name in the
333 - Added a kill command line argument for killing that pid after
334 the bug report is sent (this is useful for calling bud-buddy
335 inside your application when a non-segfaulf crash occurs, like
336 in python code or scheme, etc...)
341 - Disable build of outdated documentation translations
342 - Fix core file MIME handling
343 - Open documentation in the right section (Shaun McCance)
346 - Update documentation (Shaun McCance)
351 2.7.92 ("Ojos verdes)
360 - Updated Albanian translation (Laurent Dhima)
361 - Updated Swedish translation (Christian Rose)
362 - Updated az translation (MÉtin Æmirov)
363 - Added Bosnian translation (Kenan HadžiavdiÄ)
364 - Updated Malay translation (Hasbullah Bin Pit)
365 - Updated Russian translation (Leonid Kanter)
366 - Updated Simplified Chinese translation (Funda Wang)
367 - Updated Ukrainian translation (Maxim Dziumanenko)
368 - Updated Catalan translation (Jordi Mallach)
369 - Updated Finnish translation (Sami Pesonen)
370 - Updated Basque translation (Iñaki Larrañaga)
371 - Updated Korean translation (Changwoo Ryu)
372 - Updated Albanian translation (Laurent Dhima)
373 - Updated Portuguese translation (Duarte Loreto)
374 - Updated Hindi translation (Guntupalli Karunakar)
375 - Updated Brazilian Portuguese translation (Estêvão Samuel Procópio)
376 - Updated Danish translation (Ole Laursen)
377 - Updated Bulgarian translation (Rostislav Raykov)
378 - Updated German translation (Christian Neumair)
379 - Updated Serbian translation (Danilo Å egan)
380 - Updated Hungarian translation (Andras Timar)
381 - Updated Tamil Translation (Dinesh Nadarajah)
382 - Updated Japanese translation (Takeshi AIHANA)
387 - Fix some strings after the freeze (#136191, #140053)
388 - Add scroll bar to description bug text box.
392 - Code clean up by Simon Frankau:
393 * Use buddy_error for error dialogs
394 * Removed unused variables
395 * Fix memmory leaks in gdb code
396 * state machine rearranged
398 2.6.0 ("Almodóvar did it again!")
402 - Fix a compiler error (bug #135625)
406 - Updated Brasilian translation (Gustavo Noronha Silva)
407 - Updated Bengali translation (Khandakar Mujahidul Islam)
408 - Added Punjabi translation (Jaswinder Singh Phulewala)
409 - Updated Welsh translation (Telsa Gwynne)
410 - Added British translation (Gareth Owen)
412 2.5.92 ("We are the champions")
416 - Update to application/x-core MIME type
418 - Disable Back button when debugging is the first page
422 - Update translated docs (Glynn Foster)
425 2.5.90 ("I love it when a plan comes together")
429 - Fix a crash when going back from the email page. Thanks to Simon
430 Frankau for fixing this (bug #126449)
432 - Fix a crash when checking versions twice (bug #134167)
434 - Load product list after failing guessing.
438 - Kill the confirmation dialog
440 - Set the FileChooser in save mode for saving bug reports
442 2.5.3 ("No name release")
446 - Fix Application cooment (Vincent Untz)
448 - Some build fixes (Jason Leach, Alexander Winston, Vincent Berger)
450 - Fix typos in schemas
454 - If GNOME version is older than 6 months suggest upgrading
456 - Use GtkFileChooser in entries
458 2.5.2 ("Franco Corelli")
462 - Preserve bug description
464 - Don't hardcode FileChooser size
466 - Don't add closed products
470 - Report Irix, Fedora and Gentoo "distributions"
472 - Show only Applications we can submit bugs to bugzilla (Bug #129138)
474 - Use a radio button to switch between Applications/Porducts view
476 - Add application/product name to component page (Bug #128349)
478 - Ported to gtk_icon_theme_*
480 - Add translators to about dialog
482 - Port configuration to GConf
484 2.5.1 ("Mi mamá prefiere GNOME")
488 - Load again component list
492 - Use GtkFileChooser in the non-glade stuff (Jan Arne Petersen)
494 2.5.0 ("He tardado 10 minutos en atarme las botas")
498 - Fix some mem leaks (Kjartan Maraas, bug #125396)
500 - Disable deprecations (Sivaiah N)
502 - Fix crash when trying to debug a non-found program (Vincent Untz,
507 - Don't show up to three windows at a time (Vincent Untz, bug #110817)
514 Sami Pesonen (Finnish)
515 Dafydd Harries (Welsh)
521 Duarte Loreto (Portuguese)
522 Sanlig Badral (Mongolian)
523 Stanislav Visnovsky (Slovak)
524 Kjartan Maraas (Norwegian)
525 Metin Amiroff (Azerbaijani)
526 Evandro Fernandes Giovanini (Brazilian Portuguese)
527 Priit Laes (Estonian)
528 Guntupalli Karunakar (Hindi)
529 Sami Pesonen (Finnish)
531 Alessio Frusciante (Italian)
532 Francisco Javier F. Serrador (Spanish)
533 Andras Timar (Hungarian)
540 - Workaround for a bugzilla.gnome.org bug
542 - Fix a free (bug #117806)
544 - Fix a crash (bug #117809)
546 - Unify copyright strings (Christian Neumair)
550 - Fill version entry with unspecified if version is not know
551 after selecting a product (bug #117934)
554 2.3.3 ("I have given up smoking")
558 - Strings fixes and corrections (Thanks to Luis Villa)
560 - Fix for #116085 (Using Gnome Distributor instead or Gnome-Distributor
561 made fail the report). Thanks to Andrew Sobala for tracking this.
563 - Fix a crash when reporting non-bugzilla bugs without Description field
565 - When handling gdb input, use ISO-8859-1 as orig encoding (gdb default) and
566 use a fallback for converting them into UTF-8 (Fixes problems with some
567 stacks with non-translatable characters)
569 - Without network connection, use latest donwloaded bugzilla files is they are
570 newer then the system installed ones.
572 - Correctly set "enhacement" and "critial" severities for feature requests and
573 crashes respectively.
575 - Set package version in the "crash+we know product+we don't know component"
578 - Use again applications-all-users:/// now that gnome-vfs bug is fixed
582 - Add accelerators to every option
586 - Remove confirmation dialog before submiting a bug
588 - Use different text templates for any kind of bug
590 - Use a combo menu for version entry (filled with bugzilla valid versions for that product)
593 2.3.2 ("In the neighbourhood")
597 - Fix crashin in products view (bug #114712), thanks to Ximian folks
600 - Fix for #104357, thanks to Jens Askengren
602 - Two typos fixed by Abel Cheung
606 - Read X-GNOME-Bugzilla-version from .desktop files and set version
609 - Don't add dupplicated applications (ie: If we have the same
610 application with differents .desktop files)
612 - Don't allow the user to modify Bugzilla headers in the email page
614 2.3.1 ("My brown paper bag")
618 - Go to debug page when invoked from crash.
620 2.3.0 ("Sex, lies and Div-Xs")
624 - Print the progress label only when all files/sizes are calculated
627 - Use "Distributor" from gnome-version.xml instead of "Vendor"
632 - Use the bug-buddy icon in the about dialog (Fixes #104445, Alex
635 - By popular request, include distribution version in the bug report.
637 - New first page when invoked from scratch, asking the user to select
638 the "kind" of bug he wants to report. Set priorities and keywords
642 2.2.102 ("Oh na na na"):
646 - Fix a crashing bug when sending a bug report for a product without
647 X-Gnome-Bugzilla stuff in its .desktop file (#104599)
653 - Get gdb backtraces as non-UTF8 so we can read invalid UTF-8 strings
657 2.2.100 ("I should be there, baby!"):
661 - Workaround for all-applications gnome-vfs bug.
663 - Change "Refresh" button to "Update" (bug #101693).
665 - Some text corrections (bugs #86410, #99564)
670 - When reporting a bug from scratch, after the app is selected, if
671 the component is known, preselect it. Thanks to Kristian Rietveld
673 - Use the GNOME 2 cool logo for GNOME products.
675 2.2.99 ("Rain Dogs"):
679 - fix incorrect url (bug #86711)
681 - fix a leak (bug #95981, Kjartan)
683 - make file saving (bug #84914)
688 - Try to update bugzilla files only once a day, and get first md5sums
689 to check if it's really needed. New update dialog (HIG compliant) at
692 - When invoked from crash, skip Application/product and component
693 step, because we have the info from .dekstop file. If invoked from
694 scratch, skip only product step. We should be able to autoselect the
695 component, but cannot do with gtktreeview.
697 - Get GNOME version from $prefix/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml
699 - Use hash tables for components and products
701 - Present the user a list of applications from all-applications:///
702 Get bugzilla component and product from the .desktop entries (and
703 query bonobo-activation for applets).
704 Allow to choose between Applications of Bugzilla products.
706 - Port to GnomeIconTheme
712 - make stack saving work (bug #80334)
714 - fix 'cancelling bug-buddy makes old app hang' (bug #86404)
716 - gdb truncation bug (#82722)
720 - prompt the user before overwriting a file (#84914)
726 - mime handling for core files should work now (Alex Graveley)
730 - Docs updated for GNOME 2 version (Eric Baudais, Chris
733 - Man page from Debian (David LaBissoniere)
739 - Fixed to not totally break with automake 1.[56] (bug #74390)
741 - Don't allow selections of the mostfreq list (Wayne Schuller,
744 - Don't go to the mostfreq page when it is empty (bug #76405)
746 - Comply with UI guidelines for some dialogs (Archit Baweja,
751 - See if removing AM_PROG_LIBTOOL breaks anything
753 - Use the new network properties thing instead of our own
760 - fix .desktop file for gnome 2 install (Seth Nickell)
762 - fix dynamic export ldflags (bugs #77035 and #76384, thanks
767 - handle g_convert() not returning anything
773 - uses glade-2 now, so libglade-convert is no longer needed
775 - add ability to save/copy stack trace w/o having to go
776 through all the steps (fixes #77891)
778 - run gdb with 'bt full' rather than just 'bt' (fixes #78675,
785 - Back button isn't the default button
787 - Fix possible crash when saving to a file, and display which
788 file it was saved to at the end (Wayne Schuller, bug #73675)
790 - Update docs for GNOME 2.0 version (Kevin Conder, bug #71189
794 - Support for GNOME's most frequently reported bugs
796 - Print which app generated the core file with the bug report
802 - don't allow mails from root@ (b.g.o #57490)
806 - redesigned druid to be easier to use and more sane
808 - respects themes a bit more and looks more like GnomeDruid
814 - convert xml to UTF-8 so that non-ascii characters display
819 - display frequently reported bugs
821 - build with less deprecated functiosn
823 - use new GTK 2.0 button layout
825 - add a tag to the bugzilla email if a gnome 2 app crashed
831 - Clean up GtkDialogs
833 - Other misc. porting fixes and cleanups.
845 - don't pass --nw anymore: seems to break things
851 - pass --nw to gdb (from Leonard Norrgard <vinsci@bugg.lnorrgard.com>)
853 - wrap mail bodies at 72 chars again (me)
855 - have gdb get stack traces from all threads (zucchi mentioned
856 the command on irc, but i don't know where he found it)
862 - translation updates
866 - allows bugzillas to use different parts of the config.xml
873 - touch files after we download them so that the cache
880 - set the From: header
882 - make sure the user knows the bug is going to be submitted
889 - libxml include path fixes
895 - Ximian Bugzilla support
903 - Fix a bug where the cache never gets updated.
905 - Don't access widgets after they have been destroyed when
910 * Rewritten to support bugzilla
912 * The UI should be nicer too
922 - Added a --include argument to set which file is included in
929 - lots of compilation warnings
933 - more strict email checks
937 - doesn't call gdb on directories (for evolution)
947 - make the text widget in the miggie combo a bit smarter
949 - fixed some i18n issues
954 - bugs #10159 and #9493
958 - window icon is now set
968 - gnome-mime is now used to try to guard against non-text
969 files being sent to the bug tracker
975 - all bugs on bugs.gnome.org that can be fixed are either
976 fixed or somewhat addressed
978 - Checks for version on TuboLinux
982 - much of the .glade was redone
984 - it is now possible to cc yourself on bug submitions
986 - you get a preview of the message before you send it
988 - (not finished) user documentation
990 - you can submit bugs to arbitrary people now
1000 - minor aesthetic tweaks
1008 - I don't think there needed to be any :)
1012 - Support for Debian and KDE's bug tracking system
1016 - including text files in the report is now possible
1022 - text areas now have their text wrapped when you send
1024 - correctly detect debian systems
1028 - it's now possible to add information to an existing bug report
1030 - can now query dpkg on debian systems
1032 - now detects Linux-Mandrake (patches readily accepted for
1033 detecting other distributions)
1035 - less druid pages, and prettier UI
1037 - availability of .deb and .rpm packages
1043 - possible crash when clicking on a clist with a blank 2nd
1050 - reorganized the druid a little
1054 - can now stop/refresh the gdb process
1058 No release announcement this time, I guess.
1062 - fix duplicate message sendome with qmail
1064 - make sure the user wants to overwrite a file
1066 - more descriptive error message when the .glade
1069 - do some stuff for when we aren't installed in
1072 - fix some warnings etc. for intl.
1080 I've made a couple of minor (but kind of important) fixes to bug-buddy.
1084 - ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/bug-buddy/
1088 - should more correctly determine the gnome-core version
1090 - change 'severe' severity to 'grave'
1101 I've just released the first version of bug-buddy, a graphical
1102 bug reporting utility.
1104 The goal of bug-buddy is to make reporting bugs very simple and easy
1105 for the user, while making the reports themselves more useful and
1106 informative for the developer.
1110 - ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/bug-buddy/
1114 - automatic stack trace gathering, either from a core file
1115 or from a crashed application. No messing with gdb :)
1117 - determines the versions of different components installed
1120 - can be started from gmc (double clicking on a core file)
1121 and from the crash dialog, if you have gnome-libs 1.0.53
1122 (October GNOME) or higher installed
1126 - libglade: 0.5 or later required (CVS version has some layout
1129 - gdb is required to obtain a stack trace automatically
1131 - gnome-libs 1.0.53 or higher recommended
1135 - yes, some information about your system will be submitted
1136 to the bug tracking system. This is limited to versions of
1137 system and gnome components, but I figure I should mention it.
1139 - bug reports for bug-buddy are appreciated