The bugtracking tool used by the openSUSE project is the Novell bugzilla and this system will be updated to a new upstream version (version 3.4) together with some changes requested by openSUSE community and Novell employees.

The date for this upgrade is Saturday November 14 at 9am mountain time (that is 16:00 UTC). Both Bugzilla and Testopia will be down for several hours on that day.

There is a long list of enhancements in Bugzilla 3.4 , the user visible ones include:

• Simple Bug Filing


• Email Addresses Hidden From Logged-Out Users


• Shorter Search URLs


• Dates and Times Displayed In User’s Time Zone


• “See Also” Field


• Re-order Columns in Search Results


• Search Descriptions


• Other Enhancements and Changes

Additionally the following visible changes have been implemented:

Of particular note is the change related to Severity=Blocker. We have introduced a new defect attribute named *Blocker.* This attribute can be set to Yes or *No.* To indicate that a defect blocks testing or development activities, set this attribute to *Yes.* The Bl