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Main New Features In The OFBiz Trunk

These features correspond approximately to trunk changes since Release 4.0 (see children pages since 2007 at bottom). As always, OFBiz releases represent stable code while trunk versions include the latest and greatest functionalities.

May 2011

  • Framework
    • update derby to 10.8.1.2
    • update to jQuery 1.6.1 and jQuery UI 1.8.13
  • Webpos
    • A new version of webpos fully rewritten and using a lot of jQuery for speed up the user interaction.
  • All
    • Javadoc documentation working now correctly with ant build target docs and docs-all

The 11.04 branch was created on may 2nd.

April 2011

  • Framework
    • Add famfamfam icons library, not exploited yet
    • Better handling of required fields with help of JQuery validate function.
    • Add a Lookup for Portal Page
    • Add "MUNICIPALITY" to getStateList's search condition to make "municipality" of china visible in state list
    • Allow OFBiz to run under Jenkins
    • HTML Selenium testsuites can be run from webtools
    • blank firefox profile is added, so there is no need to change the https to http when doing functional testing
    • Update the HttpClient Library to version 4.1, the new version have some bug fixes and new security features
    • Update the lcal4j library
    • i18n the DateTime picker using the datejs library. The library converts date and time inputs as well as outputs
    • update to jQuery 1.5.2 and jQuery UI 1.8.11
  • Order
    • Add a parameter to forbid order decimal quantity
  • Product
    • Add a product price history
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • Implement first CRUD Operations for (normal) text content and files
    • Add some architecture proposals on the Wiki Page

March 2011

  • Framework
    • Update to jQuery 1.5.1
    • sonar ant task
    • when using selenium, downloads the selenium RC 1.0.3
    • Refactored Start.java
    • Refactored Container.java and ContainerLoader.java to get a better control of loading/starting/shutdown of containers
    • Hot-Deploy modules are now able to load their own container, therefore a hot-deploy-container.xml have to be created in the component config folder
    • Remove warnings from some classes to make them better maintainable
  • Content
    • Auto-detecting an uploaded document's MIME type using Apache Tika
  • Catalog
    • the category tree elements will now be sequence number sorted
    • creating of SEO URLs for categories and products
  • Googlebase
    • extend the security
    • URL Tagging to allow google analytics to report on the source
    • additional search parameter
      • ACTIVE_PRODUCT: is the product active in OFBiz
      • GOOGLE_SYNCED: is the product sync with google
      • DISCONTINUED_PRODUCT: is the product is in stock

February 2011

  • Applications components
    • Removed compilation warnings
  • Framework
    • Normal Links can now render there target content in a Layered Boxes (like the lookups)
    • Introduced widget.autocompleter.defaultMinLength in widget.properties and set it to 2: default minimum number of characters an user has to type before the ajax autocompleter activates (jQuery default is 1).
    • Added a css trick to have a vertical scrollbar when having dozens of items in autocomplete (using widget.autocompleter.defaultViewSize=100 for instance)
    • The UI Date Time Picker have new intervals to set more precise timestamps
    • Migration to Tomcat 6.0.32
  • Catalog
    • Product image management added
    • Batch processing for resizing and renaming of product images over the product image management
    • Cybersource Payment Gateway updated
  • E-Commerce
    • Deleted not needed JS Libraries to improve the page loading
    • Shoppingcart Unit Tests added
  • Theme
    • Fancybox for Theme preview
    • Fixed bugs in Drop Down Menu of Droppingcrumps and BlueLight Theme
    • A few visual changes in the BlueLight Drop down menu layout

January 2011

  • Demos
    • Thanks to ASF generosity (actually infrastructure team) we have doubled our available RAM. With now 4GB for trunk and stable, and some bugs fixed, the demo instances are far more reliable.
  • Applications components
    • Most of the java compilation warning has been removed.
    • Most of the java services having hard-coded return messages that has been internationalized.
  • Specialpurpose components
    • Most of the Java services having hard-coded return messages that has been internationalized.
  • Framework
    • A new Groovysh container, like the old Beanshell one. They are now both commented out by default for security reason
    • A new Layout Demo option has been added in Webtools. Useful for developers in order to follow UI best practices.
  • Marketing
    • The email list function has been completed and extended. More.....
  • Multi-tenancy
    • It is now easier to create a new tenant in OFBiz with ant task 'run-create-tenant' More.....
  • E-Commerce
    • A popular categories section was added to the e-commerce frontpage which is generated from the data warehouse of real orders. Also adjusted the sales reports from the data warehouse by week/month/year.
  • Catalog
    • Improved the category maintenance screens using a combined catalog/category jQuery tree and added a new 'category' find and list function.
    • DHL shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
    • USPS shipping integration now use the new Shipment Gateway Config features.
  • Ebay Store
    • Many improvements and bug fixes. The ultimate goal is to replace the Ebay component
  • Theme
    • The old FlatGray was updated. And present itself now in a new modern Look & Feel.
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