The LedgerSMB development team is happy to announce yet another new
version of its open source ERP and accounting application.
This release contains the following fixes and improvements:
Changelog for 1.5.21
* Clarify message after changing password through Preferences (Nick P)
* Fix errors in ODS report tepmlate's title page (Nick P)
* Fix #3642: Taxform report generation failing (Erik H)
* Detect BOM to determine UTF-8 CSV imports (Erik H)
Nick P is Nick Prater
Erik H is Erik Huelsmann
For installation instructions and system requirements, see
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.5.21/README.md
The release can be downloaded from our download site at
https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Releases/1.5.21
The release can be downloaded from GitHub at
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/releases/tag/1.5.21
Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command
$ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.5.21
These are the sha256 checksums of the uploaded files:
0262e77b9651521eca30bc69621dcdb68e7d13667facdaf845ad9bab23efc79e ledgersmb-1.5.21.tar.gz
1d1d2c858b46c22f0c29f201b42732a9d3b60c81f7bd0340c22031674b228683 ledgersmb-1.5.21.tar.gz.asc
Hi,
After the LedgerSMB 1.6.0-beta2 release of last week, work has continued
and we've found and solved several issues. We're now releasing 1.6.0-rc1
with the fixes listed below for your testing. Please send feedback to
devel(a)lists.ledgersmb.org or file your issues through GitHub (
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues).
Fixes in LedgerSMB 1.6.0-rc1 (over 1.6.0-beta2):
- Fixed file (document attachment) uploads
- Fix (invoice, etc) template uploads
- Fix SQL Ledger migration script execution
With special thanks to Nick Prater who found and fixed all of them.
Please note that we're releasing 1.6.0-rc1; this means we think this code
is production ready and that the database schema is stable. You're highly
encouraged to try this version, however, if you run it in production (even
though some of the developers are), you should consider yourself an early
adopter. We'd highly appreciate your testing and feedback.
For an overview of the changes in version 1.6, please check our release
notes: https://ledgersmb.org/content/16-release-notes; for an in-depth
listing of the changes since 1.5, see our Changelog:
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/master/Changelog#L2-L60
As always, the release can be downloaded from the download site:
https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Beta%20Releases/1.6.0-rc1/
Or Docker images can be pulled through:
$ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6
With our Docker Compose file (
https://github.com/ledgersmb/ledgersmb-docker/blob/1.6/docker-compose.yml),
you can set up a full evaluation environment with a single command:
$ docker-compose up -d
from the directory where the docker-compose.yml file is stored.
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
Hi,
After the LedgerSMB 1.6.0-beta1 release of last week, work continued on the
regular high pace and we've found and solved several issues. We're now
releasing 1.6.0-beta2 with the fixes listed below for your further testing.
Please send your feedback to devel(a)lists.ledgersmb.org or file your issues
through GitHub (https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues).
Fixes in LedgerSMB 1.6.0-beta2 (over 1.6.0-beta1):
- Stricter checking for failure during schema setup and updates
- Multiple fixes for schema updates from 1.4 and 1.5
- Database version check not happening (regression) fixed
- Fix regression in rendering of aging reports, warehouse listing and
recurring transactions listing
- Add a validity constraint to the password-duration setting
- Clarified error message in case of failure to set password through
Preferences menu
- Fix password reset button and Save groups buttons in setup.pl
- Invert the meaning of the checkmark in the Payment/Receipt screen
- Remove execute bit from *.po (translation) files
- Remove SourceForge list address from translation files (replace with
current ledgersmb.org address)
- Fix title pages for ODS, XLS and XLSX templates
- Fix no data showing up in PDF output for reports
- Fix broken permalinks to search output
- Restore Save popup when downloading report output
The list of changes in 1.6 (over 1.5) is at
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/master/Changelog#L2-L60
The release tarball can be downloaded from
https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Beta%20Releases/1.6.0-beta2/
Or pulled from Docker Hub using the command
$ docker pull ledgersmb/ledgersmb:1.6
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
Hi,
In the chat we just discussed that 5.18 has been released in 2014 and is
long past its support timeframe. In order to prune the ever-growing number
of combinations to test on, we're eliminating Perl 5.14 and 5.16 from the
test framework and from the list of supported versions, making 5.18 the
lowest supported Perl version for 1.7 whenever it gets released. (Note: we
can always decide to choose a higher minimum number, if it takes too long
to finish 1.7.)
Regards,
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
Hi,
This is to let you know that I've just finished uploading LedgerSMB
1.6.0beta1 (taken from our repository at commit hash 9956baac) for
early-bird testing and evaluation purposes to
https://download.ledgersmb.org/f/Beta%20Releases/1.6.0-beta1/ . Note that
the difference between the uploaded tar and the git commit is that the tar
contains our minified Dojo Toolkit dependency.
Among other things, we'll be using this upload to develop our Docker images
before the final 1.6.0 release. You're encouraged to do the same with any
dependencies and/or packaging procedures you may have and report your
problems either to devel(a)lists.ledgersmb.org or in the GitHub issue
tracker. Before filing a ticket, please check if a similar issue has
already been filed.
The changelog for the 1.6 release series can be found here:
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/blob/1.6/Changelog#L2-L59
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
Hi,
This is an announcement for translators: on Friday we branched 1.6 and
prepared it for translation. We expect to release 1.6.0 late this quarter
or early next quarter. Although translations can be done any time,
releasing 1.6.0 with complete translations makes for a much better
impression on new users of course.
To those who aren't translators yet: this is an opportunity to contribute
to the project! It's easy to become a LedgerSMB translator by navigating to
https://www.transifex.com/ledgersmb/ledgersmb/dashboard/ , click on the
"Help translate LedgerSMB" button and follow the sign-up steps. If you have
any questions regarding translation, please post to
devel(a)lists.ledgersmb.org.
Regards,
Erik
Hi,
Over at the LedgerSMB chat channel, we've been considering branching 1.6 to
start its stabilization period. With the merge of the most blocking
prerequisites this weekend (infrastructure to develop pre-upgrade tests
which run before schema&version upgrades) and with the impressive Changelog
as listed below "now" feels like a natural branchpoint.
We've taken a look at the issues which are marked to block 1.6 (
https://github.com/ledgersmb/LedgerSMB/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%…).
Of the three issues listed there, one (#2432) can easily be backported to
the release branch as it simply inverts the meaning of a checkbox. The same
applies to #3363, which is a development-half-finished on my part; it can
probably be closed pretty quickly as all that needs to be done is add an
extra field on all INSERTs into the GL table.
The last issue (#1077) looks like it's pretty large and won't be able to
make it into 1.6, unless there's someone to step up and invest a
significant amount of time in it in the coming weeks. Here, we think
delaying to the next release (and working on a representative test-set to
show the problem) is likely the only option we have as a project.
All-in-all, we seem to be at a natural point for branching 1.6.
Comments? Remarks?
Changelog for 1.6 Series
Forthcoming
User Interface
* Reports and search results exportable to XLS(X) (Yves L)
* Left menu replaced by a (faster) Dojo-based version (Yves L/Erik H)
Installation & Administration
* Added 'System Information' page to setup.pl for problem diagnosis (Erik H)
* Numerous improvements for the migrations and infrastructure (Yves L/Erik
H)
* Better detection of incorrect @INC paths (David G)
* Automatic date format selection using browser locale (Yves L/Erik H)
* No more warnings from database creation and upgrade (Erik H)
* Improved logging: various logs correlated using unique request IDs (Erik
H)
* Functions 'warn()' and 'die()' logged to debug logs (Erik H)
* Removed need for 'tempdir' and associated configuration option (Nick P)
* Removed numerous unused configuration options (Nick P)
* Specific output formats can be disabled in configuration (Yves L)
* Respect smtpuser and smtppass configuration options (Nick P)
* Add smtpport configuration option (Nick P)
Performance
* PSGI responses no longer written to file but kept in memory (Erik H/Yves
L)
Rewritten inventory tracking and adjustments
* Removed the need for the ill-understood 'Inventory Entity' (Erik H)
* Inventory adjustments GL transactions instead of dummy invoices (Erik H)
* SQL & in-browser(BDD) tests (Erik H)
Code cleanup
* Removed code duplication in
- Template handling framework (Yves L)
* Remove unused variables and unreachable code (Nick P)
* Remove fragments of REST framework never fully implemented (Erik H)
* Authentication handling centralized in request dispatch code (Erik H)
* Cleaned up handling of uploaded files in request handling (Erik H)
* Moved to Plack::Request (from CGI::Simple & LedgerSMB) (Erik H)
* Template format plugin cleanup and refactoring (Erik H/Nick P)
* Template handling code cleanup (Erik H/Nick P)
* Unreferenced UI templates deleted (Erik H)
* Centralized and more robust entry point for code in old/ (Erik H)
* Merge of SQL-Ledger 2.8 and 3.0 migration code; improved consistency
(Yves L)
* Improved cleanup of temp files and dirs after use (Erik H)
* Improved HTML structure (balanced closing/opening tags, etc) (Yves L)
* Factored HTTP response responsibility out of LedgerSMB::Template (Erik H)
* Moved request pre- and post-processing into custom Plack Middlewares
(Erik H)
Quality assurance
* Port testing of database routines to pgTAP (and Perl's 'prove') (Yves L)
* Enforce numerous Perl::Critic policies with code cleanup (Nick P/Rob R)
* Add tests for all template output formats (Nick P)
Erik H is Erik Huelsmann
Yves L is Yves Lavoie
Nick P is Nick Prater
Rob R is Rob Ransbottom
David G is David Godfrey
--
Bye,
Erik.
http://efficito.com -- Hosted accounting and ERP.
Robust and Flexible. No vendor lock-in.
