The good folks over at osTicket.com have just made the 1.8.1 Stable tag over on the github project. This of course means that 1.8.1ST will be announced shortly. Here is a brief over view of the new enhancements, bug fixes, etc.
Enhancements
- Ticket filters support matching on email To and Cc fields (#529)
- Microsoft® TNEF emails are supported (#555, 0890481, #567)
- Popup summary and collaborator list on ticket queue page (#521)
Bugs
- New ticket by staff adds
recipient
andstaff
context to email templates (#527) - Forbid password reset for non-local users (#570)
- Allow an administrator to lift the force password change flag (#570)
- Locks are released on logout (#522)
- Text email footnotes are written as [title]#
- Fix E_STRICT annoyance from class.config.php (#518)
- Fix dashboard report timeframe for non-US date formats (#520)
- Fix dashboard report ending "period" (#520)
- Fixup Message-Id and Delivered-To for encapsulated messages (#528)
- Fix several issues with display and download of attachments (#530)
- Fix sending a reply email if requested not to (#531)
- Much better compatibility implementation of the
mbstring
module (#517) - Consider the
delivered-to
header in finding the system email (#535) - Only consider collaborators if the receiving system email is identified (#537)
- Do not consider
delivered-to
addresses as collaborators (#544) - Ticket variables are available in templates regardless of case (#545)
- Allow advanced search on any priority regression (#547)
- Assume iso-8859-1 MIME body encoding if not specified (#551)
- Fix email address list parsing on bad MIME headers (#560)
- Automatically detect file MIME type if not specified (ac42e62)
- Fix login issue when upgrading from osTicket 1.6 (#571)
- Add new features to the storage API to implement Amazon S3 (#515)
- Fix attachment corruption on some documents like PDFs (#576)
Performance and Security
- Reuse SMTP connections where possible (#462)
- Enforce max file size for attachments sent via API (#568)
- Support auditing login attempts (#559)
- Avoid auth strikeouts when not attempting a login (#559, #523)
You can of course download it from github at: https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket-1.8/tree/v1.8.1
Additionally a new tag for 1.8.0.3 has also been made which means that they are planning a bug fix release for the 1.8.0.2, and a 1.7.6 tag for a bug fix release for that 1.7 tree also.
update @ 12:11pm EST the osTicket blog has a nice little announcement article at: http://osticket.com/blog/103