Finally I was able to put aside other projects for a little bit so that I could spend some time doing some needed updates to BugLogHQ. BugLog is a ColdFusion tool used to collect and aggregate bug reports from multiple applications on multiple servers.

This update pushes the version number to 1.5. The main new features are: (from the readme.txt):

Extensions are now stored on a database instead of an XML file

Creating a rule instance is now much more user friendly because application, host and severity codes can be selected via dropdowns; or can also be prepopulated from an existing bug report.

Added support for defining settings for multiple environments (dev,qa,prod1,prod2,etc). Once the environment is detected buglog can override any setting with custom values.

Added option to disable editing settings through the UI (useful if you have your config file versioned and only want to configure buglog that way)

Added the "BugLog Digest" which is a configurable and periodic email summary of all reports received in the last X hours.

Rewrote the "iphone" UI to be for mobiles in general (now its accessible at /bugLog/mobile), also there is an improved platform detection when going to /bugLog. If you go with any mobile browser you should get redirected to the new UI, otherwise you go to the regular desktop UI

Multiple bug fixes

Download the new version from here

Upgrading is pretty easy, you just need to replace your /bugLog folder with the new one and execute the appropriate sql script on your DB. You can find the upgrade scripts in /bugLog/install/migration/1_4_to_1_5/*.sql. Also, you might want to keep a copy of your /bugLog/config directory. After updating the /bugLog dir, you will need to manually edit the main config file in case you made changes to the default DSN/username/password values, all other config settings can be entered through the UI.

The first time you login to the /hq admin UI you will be prompted to update your password. Also, if you have any rules defined, once you to the Rules screen, you will be prompted if you want bugLog to copy all your rule definitions into the database. Just click 'Yes' and sit back and relax while BugLog does the hard stuff for you.

New Mailing List

Also, I created a Google Groups mailing list to provide a place where anyone could go for help or post any comments, suggestions or random thoughts about BugLog. To join, visit: http://groups.google.com/group/bugloghq

So, please take it for a spin and please let me know if anyone finds any bugs or find things that are not very clear.

Have fun!