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Mantis Bugtracker

Mantis Bug Tracker
MantisBT logo (2012).png
Mantis screen shot.jpg
MantisBT Actual Working Mode Screen Shot
Original author(s) Kenzaburo Ito
Developer(s) Various (Open source contributors)
Initial release 2000; 17 years ago (2000)
Stable release
2.1.0 (January 30, 2017; 3 months ago (2017-01-30))
Preview release
2.0.0 beta 3 (October 2, 2016; 7 months ago (2016-10-02))
Repository github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt
Development status Active
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in 49 languages
Type Bug tracking system
License GNU General Public License version 2
Website www.mantisbt.org

Mantis Bug Tracker is a free and open source, web-based bug tracking system. The most common use of MantisBT is to track software defects. However, MantisBT is often configured by users to serve as a more generic issue tracking system and project management tool.

The name Mantis and the logo of the project refer to the Mantidae family of insects, known for the tracking of and feeding on other insects, colloquially referred to as "bugs". The name of the project is typically abbreviated to either MantisBT or just Mantis.

Kenzaburo Ito started development of the Mantis Bug Tracking project in 2000. In 2002, Kenzaburo was joined by Jeroen Latour, Victor Boctor and Julian Fitzell to be the administrators and it became a team project. Version 1.0.0 was released in February 2006. Version 1.1.0 was released in December 2007. In November 2008, after a long discussion, the project switched from using the Subversion revision control tool to Git, a distributed revision control tool. In February 2010, version 1.2.0 was released. In July 2012, the MantisBT organization on GitHub became the official repository for the Project's source code.

An event-driven plug-in system was introduced with the release of version 1.2.0. This plug-in system allows extension of MantisBT through both officially maintained and third party plug-ins. As of November 2013, there are over 50 plug-ins available on the MantisBT-plugins organization on GitHub.

Prior to version 1.2.0, a third party plug-in system created by Vincent Debout was available to users along with a variety of different plug-ins. This system was not officially supported by the MantisBT project and is incompatible with MantisBT 1.2.0 and later.


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