Today we are releasing Deskzilla 1.7, the next version of our desktop Bugzilla client.

The new version supports Bugzilla 3.2+ and also contains a number of improvements. Here's a recap of the new stuff:

• Support for Bugzilla 3.2 with all new types of custom fields and custom workflow;
• Due to some optimizations, the practical limit to the number of downloaded bugs is raised to 25000 (we're still working on version 2.0 with no practical limit);
• You can now edit bugs by dragging and dropping them on queries — if possible, the bugs will be changed so that they satisfy the query's filter;
• Support for voting;
• Searching by "user in CC list" filter and "Edit CC List" dialog;
• Keywords improvements: it's now possible to pick keywords from a list when editing a bug and build distributions by keywords;
• Deskzilla is now able to minimize into system tray (on Windows) instead of closing or minimizing into Task Bar;
• Bugs export/import allows you to select and copy a number of bugs into Clipboard as text URLs using Copy & Paste. Later you can import a list of bug URLs into Deskzilla by pasting URLs on a query or local tag;
• It's now possible to search for text when viewing a text attachment;
• When creating a new bug, you can now set its initial status;
• Bugs download is now faster.

The upgrade is recommended and free for licensed users. If you have evaluated Deskzilla 1.6.1 or older version before, you can try the newest Deskzilla again for 30 days without getting any additional license.

To upgrade from a previous version:

• Backup your workspace, as the new version will perform certain non-backwards-compatible changes on the local database;
• Install the new version over the old one and start Deskzilla;
• Perform full synchronization using File | Synchronize;
• Restart Deskzilla;
• If you have any queries based on Keywords, they most probably will not work until you edit and fix them.

Thank you for using Deskzilla!

Igor Sereda
ALM Works Team

Links:

• Download Deskzilla
• Features
• Change log
• Discussion forum