Changes to gnats/NEWS

[Yngve Svendsen]

Index: gnats/NEWS
diff -c gnats/NEWS:1.3 gnats/NEWS:1.4
*** gnats/NEWS:1.3      Sun Jul 14 17:20:25 2002
--- gnats/NEWS  Sun Nov  3 06:59:12 2002
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! Post-beta 1 changes
! ===================
  
  This list indicates the most important changes made since beta 1.
  
  - gnatsd.access has been renamed to gnatsd.user_access.
  
  
  GNATS 4.0 beta 1, December 2001
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! GNATS 4.0 beta 2, November 2002
! ===============================
! 
! This is the second beta release of GNATS 4.0.  We have a new
! maintainer, Andrew Gray, and development has picked up pace a bit.
! This release contains a great many bug-fixes and a limited selection
! of new or expanded functionality.
  
  This list indicates the most important changes made since beta 1.
  
+ - Myriads of bug-fixes have been made since beta 1.  See the ChangeLog
+   for details.
+ - A new field `Notify-List' has been added to the standard dbconfig.
+   This replaces the old GNATS 3 X-Gnats-Notify functionality.  E-mail
+   addresses entered in this field are used to CC people on PR changes
+   that generate Audit-Trail entries.  As part of this, the -c / --cc
+   option to send-pr was removed.
+ - The fields Cases, Quarter, Keywords and Date-Required have been
+   removed from the default dbconfig.
  - gnatsd.access has been renamed to gnatsd.user_access.
+ - Password matching and the gnats-pwconv utility have been fixed, they
+   were both broken in beta 1.
+ - Slightly redesigned access model.  See "Controlling access to
+   databases" appendix in the manual.
+ - It is now possible to require certain fields to be nonempty upon
+   initial PR submission by using the `require' keyword in the
+   `initial-entry' section of the dbconfig file.  Along with the
+   previously undocumented "on-change require" field definition keyword
+   this makes it possible to specify that certain fields can never be
+   empty.
+ - The manual includes a new appendix titled `dbconfig recipes',
+   containing dbconfig customizations that are hopefully useful in
+   themselves, but which should also serve to illustrate the great
+   power of dbconfig.
+ - The manual is now fully compliant with GNATS 4.
  
  
  GNATS 4.0 beta 1, December 2001