ERP/Status Update

Contents 1 Status Update for August 2009 2 Status Update for July 2009 3 Status Update for June 2009 4 Status Update for May 2009 5 Status Update for April 2009

Status Update for August 2009

• Maintenance packs
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP8 was released to professional subscription customers on August 20, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.35 MP14 was released to professional subscription customers on August 10, 2009

• Modules
  • The following new 2.50 compatible modules have been released:
    • CIF and NIF validator
    • Inter-company Documents
    • Tax Report Launcher

• Core enhancements:
  • The following enhancements have been completed and released as part of 2.50 MP4 (Sep 2nd):
    • Support for Extension Points for Order and Invoice Post procedures (feature request 10257)
  • The following enhancements are available in the pi code repository and will be released as part of 2.50 MP6:
    • Support for logging in the Eclipse Console 10329)
    • Ability for a module to add accounting support for a new document as part the standard Accounting Process 10265)
    • Adding a format.xml.template 6162)

• Defects
  • A total of 130 defects have been resolved, with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 9 critical
    • 68 major
    • 45 minor
    • 8 trivial

• Infrastructure
  • Completed the stabilization of the ERP smoke tests in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com

Finally, we made progress in the following areas that have not been released during the month of August:

• Openbravo lead modules:
  • We made progress in the development of the following extension modules which are not yet published:
    • Human Capital Management
    • Orders Awaiting Delivery Report
    • Shipments Awaiting Invoice Report
    • Mass Invoicing
    • Mass Advanced Payment
    • Business Partner Debt Consolidation
    • Direct Debit form of Payment
  • We also advanced in the definition of the next version of the Spanish Localization pack intended for the Community as well as the Spanish Professional Localization intended for Professional Subscription customers

Status Update for July 2009

• Maintenance packs
  • Openbravo ERP 2.50 MP3 was released to the community on July 30, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP7 was released to professional subscription customers on July 17, 2009

• Modules
  • The following new 2.50 compatible modules have been released:
    • CIF and NIF valiation (Spanish Localization)
    • Tax Report Launcher
    • Inter-company documents

• Core enhancements:
  • The following enhancements have been completed and released as part of 2.50 MP3:
    • Performance: optimize Product selector on oracle to be faster with many products (feature request 9562)
    • Performance: remove extra request for the MessagesJS in generated pages (feature request 9727)
    • Application Dictionary: single record UI pattern (feature request 4113)
    • Disallow to create client record in Client window (feature request 3437)
    • Heartbeat Configuration and Registration windows are edit only (feature request 486)
    • Accounting: Create new Sub-Account per BPartner or Product (feature request 9888)
    • Asset Management: Asset report for depreciation schedule (feature request 9887)
  • The following enhancements are available in the pi code repository and will be released as part of 2.50 MP4:
    • Accounting: Add C_DOC_TYPE_ID as a dimension to the FACT_ACCT table (feature request 10002)
    • Accounting: Ability to add additional processes as post actions to the Accounting Process (feature request 10017)
    • API Enhancement: Include getChildOrg() and getChildTree() methods in OrganizationStructureProvider class (feature request 10126)

• Defects
  • A total of 277 defects have been resolved, with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 17 critical
    • 166 major
    • 85 minor
    • 9 trivial

• Infrastructure
  • Worked on stabilizing the ERP smoke tests in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com

• Documentation
  • Good progress on the ERP 2.50 Configuration Guide

In addition, the Openbravo Community released the following new 2.50 compatible modules:

• Chart of Accounts France
• Taxes: configuration for France
• Translation: French France (fr_FR)
• CRM
• Phidias Pack Base
• Phidias Skin

Finally, we made progress in the following areas that have not yet been released:

• Openbravo lead modules:
  • We made progress in the development of the following extension modules which are not yet published:
    • Human Capital Management
    • Orders Awaiting Delivery Report
    • Shipments Awaiting Invoice Report
    • Mass Invoicing
    • Mass Advanced Payment
    • Business Partner Debt Consolidation
    • Direct Debit form of Payment
  • We also advanced in the definition of the next version of the Spanish Localization pack intended for the Community as well as the Spanish Professional Localization intended for Professional Subscription customers

Status Update for June 2009

• Maintenance packs
  • Openbravo ERP 2.50 MP2 was released to the community on June 30, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP5 was released to professional subscription customers on June 16, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP6 was released to professional subscription customers on June 19, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.35 MP13 was released to professional subscription customers on June 10, 2009
  • Note: Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription SMB Appliance released on June 15

• Core enhancements:
  • The following enhancements have been completed and released as part of 2.50 MP2:
    • Ability to generate a provisional Balance Sheet report for open periods (feature request 9069)
    • Ability to search Windows, Tabs and Fields by module (feature request 9022)
    • Support for BLOB data types in DAL (feature request 9313)
    • The publicly usable java classes should be defined and all non-public ones should not be accessible by modules (feature request 9317)
    • Change tab name from 'Salary Category' to 'Cost Salary category' (feature request 9044)
    • Performance: Add infrastructure to VariablesBase class to allow for technical validation of request parameters (feature request 9500)
    • Performance: Use the new ignoreValues features of sqlc to speed up filters with value '%' (feature request 9549)
    • Performance: Ignore the value '%' in select which use like (feature request 9545)
  • The following enhancements are available in the pi code repository and will be released as part of 2.50 MP3:
    • Performance: optimize Product selector on oracle to be faster with many products (feature request 9562)
    • Performance: remove extra request for the MessagesJS in generated pages (feature request 9727)

• Defects
  • A total of 130 defects have been resolved, with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 12 critical
    • 87 major
    • 27 minor
    • 4 trivial

• Infrastructure
  • Added support for POS in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com
  • Worked on stabilizing the ERP smoke tests in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com

• Documentation
  • Completed the ERP 2.50 Developer's Guide
  • Good progress on the ERP 2.50 Configuration Guide
    • Completed section on Projects

In addition, the Openbravo Community released the following new 2.50 compatible modules:

• Fiscal Calendar Enhancements
• Fiscal Calendar Enhancements Template
• Report Sales by Month
• Romanian chart of accounts
• Romanian language for Romania
• Romania Administrative Departments
• Translation: Arabic_Saudi Arabia (ar_SA) for Openbravo 2.50

Finally, we made progress in the following areas that have not yet been released:

• Openbravo lead modules:
  • We made progress in the development of the following extension modules which are not yet published:
    • Human Capital Management
    • Orders Awaiting Delivery Report
    • Shipments Awaiting Invoice Report
    • Inter-company Invoices
  • We also advanced in the definition of the next version of the Spanish Localization pack intended for the Community as well as the Spanish Professional Localization intended for Professional Subscription customers

Status Update for May 2009

• Product releases
  • Openbravo POS 2.30 Community Edition was released in production status on May 20, 2009. This is a significant new release with extensive new capabilities; please see the Release Notes for details.
• Maintenance packs
  • Openbravo ERP 2.50 MP1 was released to the community on May 15, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP4 was released to professional subscription customers on May 26, 2009
  • Note: Openbravo SMB Network One appliance for 2.40 MP4 introduces an improved approach to apply maintenance packs.
• New sample modules:
  • The following new 2.50 compatible modules have been released:
    • Concepts -XmlEngine
    • Sample Report
    • Skin Module Example
• Core enhancements:
  • The following enhancements have been completed and released as part of 2.50 MP1:
    • Accounting templates (feature request 8467)
    • Ability to run jUnit test cases from the command line (feature request 8562)
    • Goods receipts Copy Lines window has 'order' label column instead of 'order line' (feature request 8529)
  • The following enhancements are available in the pi code repository and will be released as part of 2.50 MP2:
    • Ability to filter and group by bank account in the Payment Report (feature request 8162)
    • Display business partner in the Payment Report even when not grouping by business partner (feature request 8777)
    • Added PDF capabilities to the following reports (feature request 8474):
      • Bank Report
      • Cash Report
      • Invoice Tax Report
      • Expiration Date Report
      • Stock Report
      • Daily Work Requirements Report
      • Standard Costs Report
      • Production Run Status Report
      • Pending Work Requirements
    • Sqlc-generated data classes are not public unless explicitely declared as public (feature request 9230)
• Defects
  • A total of 149 defects have been resolved, with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 19 critical
    • 79 major
    • 45 minor
    • 6 trivial
• Infrastructure
  • Added the following automated tests to the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com
    • Database consistency check
    • Module installation test
    • Module integrity test
• Documentation
  • Good progress on the ERP 2.50 Configuration Guide
    • Drafted section on Pricing
    • Completed section on Assets
  • Good progress in the ERP 2.50 Developer's Guide
    • Completed the Concepts section
    • Added to the Examples section
  • Completed documentation on how to upgrade custom code to 2.50

In addition, the Openbravo Community released the following new 2.50 compatible modules:

• Elondra bmSales Integration
• Chart of accounts: Bulgaria
• Chart of accounts: Serbia
• Translation: Bulgarian-Bulgaria(bg_BG)
• Translation: Serbian Serbia(sr_RS) Srpski Srbija

Finally, we made progress in the following areas that have not yet been released:

• Openbravo lead modules:
  • We made progress in the development of the following extension modules which are not yet published:
    • Human Capital Management
    • Orders Awaiting Delivery Report
    • Shipments Awaiting Invoice Report
  • We also advanced in the functional specification for a future Spanish Professional Localization intended for Professional Subscription customers, in particular with the following tax declarations:
    • 110
    • 115
    • 123
    • 216
    • 349

Status Update for April 2009

• Product releases
  • Openbravo ERP 2.50 Production was released on April 15, 2009. This is a significant new release with extensive new capabilities; please see the 2.50 Release Notes for details.
• Modules
  • The following new 2.50 compatible modules have been released:
    • Chart of accounts: PGC 2007 General (general Spanish chart of accounts)
    • Chart of accounts: PGC 2007 PYMEs (Spanish chart of accounts for SMEs)
    • Translation: Spanish-Spain (es_ES) español-España
    • Alerts: Accounting (a set of alerts that monitor the proper configuration and execution of accounting processes)
    • Taxes: configuration for Spain (Impuestos para España)
  • The following new 2.50 compatible packs have been released:
    • Localization pack Spain (España)
  • We also made progress in the development of the following extension modules:
    • Human Capital Management
• Core enhancements:
  • Improved the Create Invoices from Orders window (feature requests 8173/8175)
  • Ability to apply price adjustments to a specific order line (feature request 8161)
  • Improvements in the Payment Report to show the sales representative (feature request 8164)
  • Ability to create lines from debt-payments  in the Cash Journal window (feature request 8468)
  • Support for early payment discount (feature request 8176)
  • The above enhancements are available in main and will be released as part of 2.50 MP1)
• Defects
  • A total of 338 defects have been resolved or rejected with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 14 critical
    • 184 major
    • 109 minor
    • 31 trivial
• Infrastructure
  • Launched the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com
• Documentation
  • Completed the 2.50 Upgrade Guide
  • Good progress on the ERP 2.50 Configuration Guide
  • Good progress in the ERP 2.50 Developer's Guide

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