Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk

December

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2013

• Framework
  Securing User Password - OFBIZ-4958
  • A new security feature has been introduced. It helps users to protect the password from unauthorized guesses. User password is to be set in per-defined pattern, where administrator can set her/his own pattern's definition as per company policy. Error messages localisation is a bit more involved...

November 2012

• Framework
  • Debian Moved to Attic

October 2012

• Complete Japanese translation

September 2012

• Framework
  • Workflow Moved to Attic

August 2012

• Framework
  • Lookups improvement when using the read-only feature, examples in example component
  • Overhauled Job Scheduler - less chance of saturating the server under heavy load, better multi-delegator handling
• Accounting
  • Completed French translation

July 2012

• Framework
  • Minerva and XAPool Moved to Attic
  • Overhauled Mini-language. New grammar, 40% performance improvement.
  • Performance Metrics framework added. Controller can monitor request performance and switch to a different view under heavy load.
• Product
  • Improved Price Rules UI (2nd phase)
• POS
  • Right to Left (RTL) layouts now available, hence easier use of the POS in, for instance, Arabic languages.
  • Arabic language translation

June 2012

• Framework
  • More Vietnamese labels
  • Seleniumxml Moved to Attic
• Applications
  • More Vietnamese labels

May 2012

• Framework
  • Improved controller documentation (site-conf.xsd)
  • Added distributable element in web.xml files.
  • ij.script and derbytools-10.8.2.2.jar Moved to Attic
• Manufacturing
  • Improved help screens
• Shark
  • Moved to Attic

April 2012

• Framework
  • Moved guiapp component inside specialpurpose/POS component
  • Enabled NOT-IN operator to performFind
  • New hideResultInLog service attribute
  • Added a .xmlcatalog.xml for XML catalogs
  • CatalinaContainer now respects <distributable/> nodes for web.xml files
  • Unifed admin port and key setting: single point of definition in start.properties
  • New ant target for downloading mysql driver
  • New ant task which uses YUICompressor to dynamically minify js and css files
  • Adds 1 to all ports, but jndi and rmi ports (see r1330778), in test container in order to be able to run concurrently an OFBiz instance and a test instance on the same machine.
  • New js and css compressableMimeTypes in ofbiz-container (Tomcat related)
  • New generic EMAIL_PASSWORD EmailTemplateSetting (used to send a new password at user request)
  • Allows build.xml in hot-deploy folder to build components in a specific order
• SFA
  • Added Dependent Country State Drop Downs to SFA New Postal Address
  • SFA Postal Address now uses Country State Drop Downs
• Ecommerce
  • Edit Contact Information now uses now Dependent drop-downs
  • Creation of new user now uses Dependent drop-downs
• Project Mgr
  • Improved help screens
• Facility
  • Edit Contact Information now uses Dependent drop-downs
• Party
  • Party Manager Postal address now uses Dependent drop-downs

March 2012

• Framework
  • More than 50% of labels have now a Vietnamese translation, more to come in next months
  • Integrated JSR-223. Now OFBiz services and events can be written in any JSR-223 compliant scripting language. OFBiz includes support for bsh, Groovy, and JavaScript.
  • A series of enhancements to enable the ability to implement services/events in Groovy (or other scripting languages) in a declarative style similar to Minilang
  • Add jQuery Mobile library
  • Upgrade Jetty to Version 8.1.2
  • Upgrade Apache POI to version 3.8
  • Upgrade Groovy to version 1.8.6
  • Webslinger component removed
  • Webslinger moved to Attic
• Product
  • New getCategoryTrail service to calculate category trail. To be used mostly for ecommerce
• Ecommerce
  • Add Product Reviews to the profile Screen

February 2012

• Framework
  • upgrade Birt to 3.7.2 1293999
  • upgrade Log4j to 1.2.16 1293808

January 2012

• • 's not new but was not working for a moment. The geo location works again, for both Google Map and OpenLayers

November 2013

• Framework
  • Introduced Tomcat's JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener (read why at OFBIZ-5395), most useful when used with an external applicaiton server (whith redeployment phases)

October 2013

• Framework
  • It's now possible to use a port offset parameter to run an instance on another set of ports (all are handled with the offset). See ant -p for more, look for "portoffset". It works also for tests (ant run-tests) but a weird issue with testSOAPSimpleService service, so I did not commit this part yet.

June 2013

• Framework
  • More Czech translations
  • Allow to dynamically set the log level for a class or package

May 2013

• Framework
  • Added a mean to collect and show the Requests Events durations using Metrics framework added (there is no threshold handling for event metrics)
  • Some more Russian common labels

April 2013

• Framework
  • Added the possibility to force the user to reset his password in a pre-defined regular interval of time
  • Some more Russian common labels

Februrary 2013

Complete Chinese translation

January 2013

• Framework
  • Allow a whole controller or/and request/s to override a default 302 in case of redirect

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• Depreciation screens for fixed assets now show mapping to GL Accounts JIRA-4636

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