Bugzilla:Software Matrix

Introduction

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Bugzilla 3.0

In general, see the release notes and the information for Bugzilla 2.22.X .

Perl

• It has been suggested that problems with Perl's Email-Send module might be solvable by upgrading Perl 5.8.4 to 5.8.8.

Windows: ActiveState Perl

• Some problems, specific for Bugzilla 3.0, have been reported about "Attempt to free unreferenced scalar" during install, using editusers or editproducts.
  • Not all windows-installations seem to be affected.
  • Using Apache, the errors are logged in the log-file, using IIS the problem is shown to the user. In both cases the problem still remains.
  • You can help finding the exact source of / solution for this problem by mailing the support list: mozilla.support.bugzilla

Bugzilla 2.22.X

Perl

Windows: ActiveState Perl

ActiveState Release Archive

Version	Status	Comments
before ActiveState Perl 5.8.1	NOT OK <- is this still true if you do 'ppm remove CGI' && 'ppm install CGI.pm' ?	Bugzilla needs CGI.pm version 2.93 or higher
ActiveState Perl 5.8.1	OK	Minimum Requirement
ActiveState Perl 5.8.4	OK
ActiveState Perl 5.8.6	NOT OK	bug in Time::Local 1.10
ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 (build 817)	OK	No problems reported due to use of this version.
ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 (build 819)	OK, but see comments.	Can't locate IO/Wrap.pm in @INC Run 'ppm install IO-stringy' to fix the problem
ActiveState Perl 5.8.8 (build 820)	OK, according to this message.

Specific Modules

see release notes

MySQL

Version	Status	Comments
MySQL 4.0.14 or higher	OK	Minimum Requirement
MySQL 4.1 or higher	OK	reset the password using OLD_PASSWORD (for windows: see win32install.html)
MySQL 5.0.24a	OK	reset the password using OLD_PASSWORD
MySQL 5.0.25 and higher; MySQL 5.1.12 and higher	OK since 2.22.2 and 2.23.4	(TEXT and BLOB columns do not support DEFAULT values)

DBD::mysql

Version	Status	Comments
DBD::mysql 2.9003 - 3.0002	OK
DBD::mysql 3.0003 - 3.0006	NOT OK	Active statement handles not correctly closed
DBD::mysql 3.0007 and higher	OK
DBD::mysql 4.005	NOT OK	boot_DBD_mysql symbol could not be found in perl/site/lib/auto/dbd/mysql

PostgresSQL

Version	Status	Comments
PostgreSQL 7.3.x	OK	Minimum Requirement
PostgreSQL 8.x	OK

Apache

Version	Status	Comments
Apache HTTP Server 2.0.X	OK
Apache HTTP Server 2.2.X	OK	if using mod_perl, mod_perl 2.0.3 or higher is required, due to a bug in handling ExecCGI in PerlConfigRequires in Apache 2.2

IIS

Version	Status	Comments

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