Virgil,
> We added a custom field after several issues were entered. While we can
> provide the expected value on new issues and then update that value on
> those issues, we cannot update the custom field on issues that
> were created
> before the custom field was created. The custom field is shown as
> available, it allows us to use the Update button to open a popup for
> maintaining the custom field, but any changes made to that field are not
> saved when we use the Update... button in the popup after typing the
> change.
>
Thanks for the bug report! We just fixed this in the bitkeeper repository
and will release 1.2.2 sometime next week with the fix.
--Joao