BugTracker.NET is a free open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

 web-based bug tracking system

Bug tracking system

A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system....

 and customer support issue tracking system

Issue tracking system

An issue tracking system is a computer software package that manages and maintains lists of issues, as needed by an organization...

. It was created by Corey Trager starting in 2002, using ASP.NET

ASP.NET

ASP.NET is a Web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic Web sites, Web applications and Web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages ...

, C#, and Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database server, developed by Microsoft: It is a software product whose primary function is to store and retrieve data as requested by other software applications, be it those on the same computer or those running on another computer across a network...

.

BugTracker.NET is free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

, licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License

GNU General Public License

The GNU General Public License is the most widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU Project....

 (GPL). It is built on other open source software including the full text search engine Lucene.NET

Lucene.net

Lucene.Net is a port of the Lucene search engine library, written in C# and targeted at .NET Framework users. It is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 license.-External links:* *...

, the rich text editor CKEditor, the javascript library jQuery

JQuery

jQuery is a cross-browser JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. It was released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig...

, and the mime parser SharpMimeTools.

It supports version control integration with the open source version control systems Subversion, Git

Git (software)

Git is a distributed revision control system with an emphasis on speed. Git was initially designed and developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on...

, and Mercurial

Mercurial (software)

Mercurial is a cross-platform, distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is mainly implemented using the Python programming language, but includes a binary diff implementation written in C. It is supported on Windows and Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Linux...

.

Security

The last known critical vulnerability for BugTracker.NET was in 2005, when Secunia

Secunia

Secunia is a Danish computer security service provider best known for tracking vulnerabilities in a large variety of software and operating systems.Numbers of "unpatched" vulnerabilities in popular applications are frequently quoted in software comparisons....

 warned of SQL injection

SQL injection

A SQL injection is often used to attack the security of a website by inputting SQL statements in a web form to get a badly designed website in order to dump the database content to the attacker. SQL injection is a code injection technique that exploits a security vulnerability in a website's software...

 vulnerabilities in version 2.0. This was fixed in version 2.02.

In January 2008, Secunia issued a less critical advisory concerning cross-site request forgery

Cross-site request forgery

Cross-site request forgery, also known as a one-click attack or session riding and abbreviated as CSRF or XSRF, is a type of malicious exploit of a website whereby unauthorized commands are transmitted from a user that the website trusts...

 and cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting

Cross-site scripting is a type of computer security vulnerability typically found in Web applications that enables attackers to inject client-side script into Web pages viewed by other users. A cross-site scripting vulnerability may be used by attackers to bypass access controls such as the same...

 vulnerabilities for versions prior to 2.72.

As of 2009-06-11, no new security vulnerabilities have been reported by Secunia

See also

• Bug tracking system
  Bug tracking system
  A bug tracking system is a software application that is designed to help quality assurance and programmers keep track of reported software bugs in their work. It may be regarded as a type of issue tracking system....
  
  
• Comparison of issue tracking systems
  Comparison of issue tracking systems
  This article is a comparison of issue tracking systems which are notable, including bug tracking systems, help desk and service desk issue tracking systems, and asset management systems...
  
  

External links

• BugTracker.NET home page
• BugTracker.NET project page at Sourceforge.NET
• Getting started with BugTracker.NET
• How to Build a Cost Effective Development Environment for Windows Server 200X