Activity Digest: October 2015

This is an ongoing series of activity reports, published monthly, to highlight activity in the Taskwarrior project. Here is what happened in October 2015.

This is not a complete list of all activity, just work that results in a non-trivial change. For a full list, see the full Git history.

Date
2015-10-07- #1624: Dateformat wrongly interpreted fixed
2015-10-10- #???: clog 1.2.0 fails to build fixed
- Holidata: Added Ecuador dates
- Holidata: Added Colombia dates
- Task: Added Ecuador and Colombia holidays
- Task: Fixed crash bug in regex support
- Task: Allows zero-padded single-digit rc.dateformat elements
2015-10-11- Taskd: Improved error messages for the common case where task sync init was skipped
- Taskd: User may now override dh_bits, which has a better default of 2048
- Taskd: Per Mozilla guidelines, now prefers server-side ordering of ciphers
- Taskd: Removed default support for broken algorithms (SSLv3, TLSv1.0 (POODLE), 3DES in CBC mode, RC4, MD5)
2015-10-12- Clog: 1.2.1 released
- Vramsteg: 1.1.1 released
2015-10-13- Task: Fixed very old bug in date coercion
2015-10-15- Task: The Bash test framework gets an update
2015-10-16- #1739: Dates misinterpreted when no dateformat active fixed
2015-10-17- Tasksh: Automatic report and UDA setup for review command
- Tasksh: The diag command is now complete
- Task: 2.5.0.beta3 released
2015-10-18- Tasksh: Inherits the parallel test framework from taskwarrior
- Tasksh: The exec (or !) command is now complete
- Tasksh: The review command now takes a numeric argument indicating how many tasks should be reviewed, e.g. review 10
- #1740: on-modify hooks fail if date.iso is not set fixed
2015-10-21- Task: 2.5.0 released
- Task: 2.5.1 begins, which will be a bugfix and performance release
2015-10-24- Task: JSON decoder performance increased
2015-10-28- Task: Code test coverage raised to 90.6%, which helps find problems
- Task: Lots of unused code removed
2015-10-29- Task: Now defaults to 256-colors on all platforms
- Task: The columns command now shows whether an attribute is modifiable or read only
- Task: Mailing list for user discussions back in use: <https://groups.google .com/forum/#!forum/taskwarrior-user>.
- Task: Mailing list for developer discussions back in use: <https://groups.googl e.com/forum/#!forum/taskwarrior-dev>.
2015-10-30- #1728: Task: Use Task::identifier to reference the task fixed
- #1744: CmdContext uses a mix of both throw and std::cout to convey errors fixed
- Task: The diagnostics command now finds broken references between recurring task instances and templates