# Ditz 0.5 distributed issue tracker released

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**Created:** [August 21, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ditz-0-5-distributed-issue-tracker-released/146518 "2008-08-21T22:32:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 21, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/ditz-0-5-distributed-issue-tracker-released/146518/1 "2008-08-21T22:32:28Z")

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Ditz version 0.5 has been released!

This release features two new plugins and a host of bugfixes and  
enhancements.

Just ‘gem install ditz’, or visit [http://ditz.rubyforge.org](http://ditz.rubyforge.org).

Ditz is a simple, light-weight distributed issue tracker designed to  
work with distributed version control systems like git, darcs,  
Mercurial, and Bazaar. It can also be used with centralized systems like  
SVN.

Ditz maintains an issue database directory on disk, with files written  
in a line-based and human-editable format. This directory can be kept  
under version control, alongside project code.

Ditz provides a simple, console-based interface for creating and  
updating the issue database files, and some basic static HTML generation  
capabilities for producing world-readable status pages (for a demo, see  
the ditz ditz page).

Ditz includes a robust plugin system for adding commands, model fields,  
and modifying output. See PLUGINS.txt for documentation on the  
pre-shipped plugins.

Ditz currently offers no central public method of bug submission.

Changes:

## 0.5 / 2008-08-20

- ditz tarball now installable without requiring rubygems
- commands now take their own arguments. use ‘ditz help’ to see them.
- ‘todo-full’ has been replaced with ‘todo --all’
- all commands that required comments now take --comment and  
–no-comment
- new git-sync hooks git-sync for synchronized git usage
- new issue-claiming hook for claiming issues for oneself
- update hook now called on project.yaml as well as changed issue yaml  
files
- hooks no longer run twice if a project devel root is under a home  
directory
- when editing a field in an editor, comments are now at the bottom of  
the  
buffer
- ditz now acceps issue ids as well as issue names on the commandline
- ditz edit takes a --silent option to avoid generating a log message
- a ‘reconfigure’ command has been added
- various webpage tweaks
- more unix-centrisms fixed