In a blog post yesterday, Max Kanat-Alexander – a peer of the Bugzilla Project – discusses plans for Bugzilla 4.0 to be released by the end of the year.
Kanat-Alexander states the rationale for a “4.0″ version is based on the major UI improvements as well as improved WebServices support. From his post:
Bugzilla 4.0 will also have cross-domain WebServices support, via JSONP. As a part of that, the JSON-RPC WebServices interface can also now be accessed using HTTP GET and a simple query string in the URL, instead of having to POST a JSON object.
Also in the area of WebServices, we’re planning to have our most-requested WebService function implemented, Bug.update, so that you can update all the attributes of a Bug via the WebServices. There may be other good WebServices improvements which make 4.0, too.
A number of these features, as well as quite a few other changes, are available in Bugzilla 3.7.1, a preview (read: unstable) release of what will be in Bugzilla 4.0, as detailed in Kanat-Alexander’s blog post.
Additionally, updates are available for Bugzilla 3.2, 3.4, and 3.6.
