Question

FogBugz 8.7.58 is now available for Windows and *nix. What's in it?

Answer 1

This is a bugfix-only release.

The FogBugz 8.7.57 release contained a performance regression which impacts some licensed FogBugz accounts. The symptom is that some FogBugz requests, seemingly at random but at a frequency of at least once a minute, will take an increased amount of time.

This time is spent building a cache which is meant to reduce the response time of all FogBugz pages.

In many environments the time required to build this cache is negligible, however some environments experience a delay of 5 to 10 seconds, and we've had some reports of delays as high as 20 seconds.

We recommend using FogBugz 8.7.58 in place of 8.7.57.

Update 2/13/2012: The 8.7.58 FogBugz + Kiln installer bundle is available for download.

Update 1/27/2012: 8.7.58 is currently only available for FogBugz-only licensed installations. A new FogBugz + Kiln installer bundle will be released in the coming weeks which will include FogBugz 8.7.58. Our support team has a patch which can be easily applied to 8.7.57 installations which will fix this bug -- If you're running 8.7.57 but still waiting on the bundled installer, contact our support team and we can patch your installation.

Answer 2

I just upgraded from 8.6 to 8.7 on my linux server and am seeing a monumental performance jump in the responsiveness of the web application. People are wowed . Thank you!