FogBugz 8.13.104
The Project Groups feature looks great.
There are some fixes to the URL Trigger feature. URL Trigger had some longstanding bugs: it wouldn’t always let you change from GET to POST, and even if your trigger was set to use POST it would still send the request via GET. This was problematic because the parameters would end up in your Web server log. And, even worse, if the parameters had too much data for the query string, the trigger would run into an error, and your server would never get the ping. Now, there should be no length limit because URL Trigger actually uses POST—although, confusingly, the way you tell it which parameters to send is by writing a query string. There is still a bug where every time you edit the URL trigger you have to click the “POST” checkbox again.
The new design is fine in most ways, but unfortunately the main body text color has changed from black to gray, which makes it lower contrast and harder to read. It is not so easy to see this in the example screenshots because the only body text is the two occurrences of “Hodor!”. However, in actual use, there are paragraphs of gray text occupying the bulk of the page.
There’s also a minor bug in that FogBugz’s sort indicator triangles are now upside down. That is, if your list is sorted A-Z the triangle will be shown with the point at the bottom.
There’s a new bug where resolving or closing a case will often bring up a modal alert that says:
Are you sure you want to leave this page?
Your case hasn’t been submitted yet, are you sure you want to leave?
It is not fun to see that many times throughout the day. Since this is hosted software, there’s no way to revert to an earlier version until the bug is fixed. The bug seems to only affect Safari, but I don’t like using other browsers. Turning off the Performance Upgrade also helps but has its own downsides.
Update (2015-07-05): The sort indicator arrows have been fixed.
