Release Notes/3.0MP0

Contents 1 Openbravo 3.0 MP0 available 1.1 What's New 1.2 Fixed issues 1.3 Known issues 2 Download Details 3 Online Demo 4 Installation 5 Extensions 6 Other resources and links 7 Special thanks

Openbravo 3.0 MP0 available

Release date: June 15th, 2011

Openbravo 3.0 MP0 is the first maintenance pack of the 3.0 series.

This release delivers a fully functional 3.0 distribution intended for:

• Evaluation
• Development
• Production

Check out what's new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the next release of Openbravo. As always, you are encouraged to tell us what you think, by raising an issue in issues.openbravo.com or discussing it in the Early Releases Discussion forum.

What's New

The Openbravo 3 delivers features that maintain the Openbravo ERP product positioning and impress end users, developers and implementers.

Openbravo 3 maintains the product's position of both technological and functional leadership in the open source ERP environment, and Openbravo 3 delivers technologies that support this.

The functional core of Openbravo 3 has also been significantly enhanced relative to the previous release (2.50), delivering features that impress through the product's ease of use and clear functional flows. This includes a completely new user interface, extensions and enhancements to specific core workflows, while reducing the functional footprint to exclude workflows that are not considered core.

The new Openbravo 3 features and functionality fall under several different categories:

• - Core: (Included in the core, licensed under Openbravo Public License.) The key features here include:
  • Advanced Payables and Receivables Management, which delivers a completely new, simplified and intuitive user experience when working with Payables and Receivables. Includes
    • Financial accounts management
    • Automatic payment status management
    • Payment methods with associated business logic
    • Remittances
    • Bank statement reconciliation redesign within the remittance.
    • Electronic bank statement reconciliation
    • Easy view of payment status of an invoice
    • Easy view of invoicing / delivery and payment status of a SO
    • Multi-Currency
  • A significantly enhanced Application User Interface, including
    • A new Workspace that includes a home tab "portal style" with widgets containing role based information, such as KPIs, saved searches, news feeds or performance charts.
    • A multi-tab application layout in which several functional flows can run in parallel, with ability to switch from one to other
    • An agile and productive environment including : Master – Detail, Editable Grid “a la spreadsheet”, Grid filtering and sorting, New Selectors, etc.
    • The Query List widget as an easy customizable reporting, analysis and navigation tool
    • A powerful navigation mechanism through the web of information (direct navigation, linked items)
    • A configurable UI, supporting user specific settings in grids.
    • And many other “out of the box” capabilities: quick launcher, recent documents, sticky notes, attachments, images, etc.
  • State of the art architecture, including:
    • Modular bottom-up (extensible & overwriteable through modules)
    • Model-Driven Development (MDD) at run time
    • Pure RIA/Ajax architecture:
      • Completely decoupled User Interface and Business Logic
      • Front-End <-> Back-End communication through standard Web Services
      • DataBase operation through standard ORM
    • Easy to Upgrade/Update
    • URL addressable (all the context included as URL parameters)
  • A significantly enhanced Platform infrastructure, including:
    • Fine-tuned performance, ready for high volumes of Users and Data
    • Updated 3rd party libraries
    • Clean code base
• - Extension Module: (Same as core from licensing perspective.) Key features here include:
  • Booking Control
  • Timing of VAT and
  • Human Capital Management enhancements.
• - Premium Features & Modules: (Same as core from licensing perspective, requires a subscription to use, at no additional cost to subscribers.) Key features here include:
  • Configurable Workspace that supports personalized information, such as graphical components showing KPIs across all domains.
  • Audit Trail providing a complete audit of data changes
  • Premium Modules
    • Project & Service Management
    • Production Management & MRP
• - Commercial Extension Module: (Requires a subscription to install and use, licensed under Openbravo Commercial License, at no additional cost to subscribers.) Key features here include:
  • Openbravo POS Synchronization Web Service
  • Accruals and Deferrals
  • Mass Payments in Advance
  • Business Partner Debt Consolidation
  • Gross Amount on Invoice Line
  • Professional Localization Packs
    • Spain Professional Localization Pack
    • U.S. Professional Localization Pack
    • Italian Professional Localization Pack
  • Multi Dimensional Tax Report
  • Initial Data Load
  • Easy Extensible Attributes
• - Commercial Extension Module: (Requires a subscription to install and use, licensed under Openbravo Commercial License, at additional cost.) Key available modules here include:
  • Advanced Asset Management
  • Credit Management: Dunning
  • Payment Priorities
  • Advanced Matching Algorithm
  • Inter-company Documents
  • Accounting Tabs for Transactions

Check the complete list of the new functionality in the Openbravo development roadmap. Available features are marked with a delivered sign ).

Fixed issues

Check the complete list of fixed issues and API changes.

Known issues

• 17040: install.source on 64 bits needs more than 1GB. It is recommended to increase the ANT_OPTS with -Xmx1280M at least.
• 16452: On Windows Openbravo won't start if the installation path contains a space
• Updating from previous 3.0 releases to 3.0 MP0 through Module Management Console, requires first to update to 3.0 RC7. Once the instance is in 3.0 RC7, next "Scan for Updates" will allow to update to 3.0 MP0.
• An upgrade path from Openbravo 2.50 to Openbravo 3.0 MP0 will be available with 2.50 MP31 (End of June 2011).
• It has been reported that in some cases the rebuild process requires more RAM memory. It is recommended to run the virtual appliances with at least 1.5GB of RAM. We plan to review and solve this issue in the following weeks.
• Not all the modules available for 2.50 are available with 3.0 MP0 but significant portion is. Openbravo plans to make 100% of its modules available for 3.0 in the coming months. The availability of third party modules is outside of Openbravo's control.
• 17760: When an order is invoiced in several invoices its expected payment details are wrongly generated.

Download Details

Please evaluate the Openbravo 3 System Requirements, prior to download.

In order to download Openbravo 3, please visit downloads.openbravo.com.

Online Demo

We have set up our online demo so that it's easier for you to test this 3.0 MP0 release. Select the Country and the language to log in. Check it out!

Installation

To install Openbravo 3, please follow the Installation Manual.

Extensions

There is a vast array of modules that extent the functionality of Openbravo 3. These include Extensions, Connectors, Localizations, Vertical and Horizontal Solutions, and Tools.

Please discover the full range of modular extensions in the Openbravo Forge (use the filter option to filter by Module Name), with an easy-to-browse catalog of commercial modules available in Openbravo Exchange.

Other resources and links

• Get information about previous releases in the Release History page.
• Detailed information about overall Openbravo 3.0 release progress is available in Openbravo 3.0 Release Status document.
• Openbravo 3.0 Documentation.
• Openbravo 3.0 Template Forge Project.
• Learn more about the benefits of Openbravo Professional Edition.
• Learn more about the open source Openbravo project

Related blog posts:

• Packaging Openbravo 3.0 as a distribution.
• Public Status Report for 3.0.

Special thanks

Finally, we give our thanks to the Openbravo Community which continues to support us with their valuable time and knowledge. In particular we would like to thank:

• Ben Sommerville, from Australian partner Eintel, for contributing the multicurrency functionality for Advanced Payables and Receivables Management.
• Valery Lezhebokov, an active community member, who contributed Notes and Linked Items functionality to Openbravo, took part in resolving significant amount of defects and wrote very helpful documentation about Eclipse setup as a development environment for Openbravo.
• Jan Hendrik Mensen, from Netherlands partner ClearDrop, for the valuable feedback to the design and functional specifications, extensive testing of the Openbravo and being very active in the Openbravo Forums.
• Sreedhar Sirigiri, a developer with our US partner TDS, for contributing functionality allowing users to add buttons to the toolbar from modules, and to clone orders.
• Thirumalai Kandasami, an active community member, who took part in resolving significant amount of defects and is providing invaluable support to our community through the forums.
• Asier Galdos, a developer with our Spanish partner Almis, who contributed several bug fixes, some widgets functionality and provided very valuable feedback about the development processes.
• Shankar Balachandran, an active community member, who is actively blogging about Openbravo and taking part in several development activities together with the Openbravo Development Team.
• Mallikarjun M, a developer with our US partner TDS, for contributing the ability to add filter clauses to the deep linking utility
• Rowinson Gallego, an active community member, who is collaborating in a number of activities with the Openbravo QA Team.

Many others collaborated with the Openbravo team in different ways. We can not mention all of you but we really appreciate your invaluable help. We also thank all Openbravo users for making Openbravo a huge success.

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