Re: LedgerSMB 1.3.0 released

[ario <..hidden..>]

Congratulations!

ario


On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 14:07 -0700, Chris Travers wrote:
> The LedgerSMB development team is very proud to release LedgerSMB
> 1.3.0.  This release continues our strong commitment to security, data
> integrity, and and robustness, introducing improved functionality in
> many core areas, and adding new features that many businesses will
> find necessary.
> 
> This is the most significant release to date in many ways.  It is the
> most secure release, and it performs the best under heavy load.  At
> the same time, it also provides the most features that many businesses
> rely on heavily.  This means that LedgerSMB 1.3.0 is suitable for a
> much larger businesses and installations than previous versions.
> 
> LedgerSMB 1.3.0 is far more secure than previous versions.  This
> version brings the a number of important new features in this regard
> including:
> *  Fully enforced permissions
> *  Password expiry
> *  Modular password authentication using any method PostgreSQL can support
> *  Separation of duties provides additional protection against fraud
> and data entry error
> 
> Many areas of core functionality have been rewritten in order to
> improve them dramatically.  These include significant performance
> gains as well as added functionality.  For example:
> *  Reconciliation display is far improved, and has a system for
> processing incoming files describing lists of checks.
> *  Payment and Receipt processing is far more powerful, and performs better.
> *  Customers can now also be vendors, and vice versa, and multiple
> addresses, bank accounts, etc. can be tied to either.
> 
> At the same time, we have not stopped adding new features.  These
> include among others:
> * One can attach files to any financial transaction, order, or part
> * Batch processing of AR/AP/GL transactions, as well as payments and receipts
> * Fixed assets management and depreciation
> 
> At the same time, this is truly a major upgrade.  The templating
> system has been completely redesigned , so customized templates may
> need to be rewritten, and users cannot be migrated seamlessly.
> However, these are areas of one-time effort, and 1.2.x will be
> continued to be supported for some time, to give folks a chance to
> migrate slowly.
> 
> For those starting new installations, we highly recommend starting out
> with 1.3.0.  For those on existing 1.2 installations, we recommend
> making a practice run on a copy of your data before you start.
> 
> LedgerSMB 1.3.0 has the following known issues.  If you need this
> functionality, please hold off until 1.3.0 when we expect these issues to
> be resolved:
> 
> *  Language selection for printed invoices is not working.  We expect to
> have this fixed for 1.3.1.
> *  Timecard entry currently throws errors when timecards are saved.
> We expect this to be fixed for 1.3.1.
> *  There is an issue with the current RPM dependencies which we are
> currently working out.  RPM's forthcoming but maybe not for a couple of
> releases.
> 
> The complete changelog section for 1.3.0 is:
> 
> Changelog for LedgerSMB 1.3.0
> 
> Security:
> * Security is now robustly enforced on the db level (Chris T and Josh D)
> * New user interface to manage users (Chris T and Aurynn)
> 
> Separation of Duties:
> * Separate permissions for entry and posting to the books.
> * Voucher/Batch system (Chris T)
> * Draft system for unapproved transactions (Chris T)
> * Reconciliation is now subject to separation of duties (Chris T and Aurynn)
> 
> End of Year:
> * Close books and end of year transactions at once (Chris T and Aurynn)
> * Cannot close books where unapproved transactions are before yearend(Chris T)
> * Yearend/closed books now creates balance checkpoints for better performance
> (Chris T and Aurynn)
> * The prohibition against entering transactions into closed period enforced
> on a database level.
> 
> General Ledger/Journal:
> * GL reports filter by account (Chris T)
> * GL reports account is ajax-style autocomplete (John W)
> * Journal Entry screen now uses AJAX-style autocomplete for accounts (Chris T)
> * GL reference now populated by default in the initial screen (Chris T).
> * Files can be attached to financial transactions (Chris T)
> 
> AR/AP:
> * Files can be attached to AR/AP transactions (Chris T)
> * Project numbers can be displayed on AR/AP transactions report (Chris T)
> 
> Reconciliation:
> * Reconciliation is on new codebase!
> * Redesigned workflow (Chris T and Aurynn)
> * Optimized for high volumes (1000 transactions or more per run, Chris T)
> * Plug in model for bank import scripts (Chris T and Aurynn)
> 
> Payments:
> * Payments are on new codebase!
> * Redesigned bulk payment workflow/UI (Chris T)
> * Bulk payment optimizations for high volumes (5000 invoices per run, Chris T)
> * Redesigned single payment workfow/UI (David M)
> 
> Contact Handling:
> 
> * Contacts are now on new code base!
> * Customers/Vendors Now Can Be Tracked Together (Josh D, Chris T, Aurynn)
> * Multiple addresses and contact info stored per account (Josh D and Chris T)
> * Multiple read-only notes per account (Josh D, Chris T, and Lacey P)
> * Multiple bank accounts per customer/vendor account (Josh D and Chris T)
> * Track 1099 or equiv. forms for customers/vendors (Chris T and John W)
> 
> Invoicing:
> * Can now set sales tax amounts and rates per invoice if necessary (Chris T).
> * Files can be attached to invoices (Chris T)
> * Invoices can be placed on hold (Chris T)
> 
> Fixed Assets:
> * New Feature!
> * Group assets into classes to depreciate together (Chris T)
> * Depreciate assets using straight-line depreciation (Chris T)
> * Plugin model for time- or production-based depreciation methods (Chris T)
> * Dispose of assets --- full and partial disposal supported (Chris T)
> * Net Book Value Report (Chris T)
> 
> Development:
> * New API structure for new code (Entire Team)
> * Better error handling/display (Jason and Chris T)
> * Errors logged to httpd error log (Chris T)
> * Cleaned up file structure for charts of accounts (Chris T)
> * New UI and template system using TT (Seneca)
> * Form.pm deprecated.  New Object Oriented and data-driven model (Chris T)
> * Added ledgersmb-smallgray.css (Jeff K)
> * Stored procedure-based ORM for data model encapsulation in db (Chris T)
> * Many small forms moved to templates (Seneca)
> * Greatly expanded test cases (Chris T and Seneca)
> 
> 
> Misc:
> * Timecard lists project descriptions as well as numbers (Chris T)
> * Invoices can now be put on hold (Aurynn)
> * New CLI database creation routines  (Erik H)
> * New web-based db creation routines (Sadashiva A)
> 
> Database:
> * Redesigned database schema for contacts (Josh D)
> * Redesigned database schema for chart of accounts (Chris T)
> * Redesigned database schema for reconciliation (Aurynn and Chris T)
> * Redesigned database schema for payments (David M)
> 
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