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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.

December 2011

  • Framework
    • Upgrade Tomcat to 7.0.23
    • Upgrade ant to 1.8.2

November 2011

  • Framework
    • New date time format methods (with JavaDoc)
    • Update jQuery to Version 1.7 and the jQuery UI libraries to version 1.8.16
    • Upgrade to Tomcat 7
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • Update the Jackrabbit Library to version 2.3.3
    • Add Query support, to query the repository using SQL2 / JQOM query syntax

October 2011

  • Product/Manufacturing/Order
    • Managing of lot number and tracking
    • Better promo code generation, to avoid similar characters like: O and 0
  • Human Resource
    • Payrol history for employee on profile screen
  • Framework
    • Update the Derby Database to Version 10.8.2.2
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • Optimize the File handling
    • Some code improvements for a better stability
    • A new (quick) content chooser in the sandbox area

September 2011

  • Catalog/order/Ecommerce
  • Framework
    • Mini Language <set> operation supports now groovy syntax in the from-field attribute
    • Update the jQuery Validation Plugin to version 1.8.1
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • Added multiple language support for all nodes using the new OCM layer
    • Added Versioning support for all nodes using the new OCM layer
    • Added a new API layer for an easier use

August 2011

  • All components
    • removed the website record from all component where there was no real front-end website.
  • Content
    • added an function on the website detail: 'SEO' to generate missing seo fiendly url's on a catalog, category, product and content level. entities records which have already a seo friendly alternative url are not touched
  • Scrum
    • Add a 'new backlogitem' button when selected an existing backlog item
    • It should be possible to delete a backlog even when hours are attached
    • the button 'billed' on a backlogitem to set the flag to billed, does not work, get an error message
    • if for a backlogitem, billed is no, the time entries are not combined into a single item on the invoice.
    • the email confirmation: Scrum - Your Sprint is started, has the wrong domainname in the sprint url: 127.0.0.1
    • Convert the service name 'addWorkEffortTimeToInvoice' to 'scrumAddWorkEffortTimeToInvoice' to allow a special grouping
    • Remove the causes for the entity warnings in the log, there were entity changes inside scrum, we do not expect using it yet but we can supply conversion programs if needed
  • Catalog/Ecommerce/order
    • add three optional parameters to the macro: <@ofbizUrl fullPath=true encode=false secure=false> which are pretty self explanatory and are needed to generate a proper url within emails
    • the product url on the order confirmation email didn't display because ofbizCatalogAltUrl don't return the URL when request not found: fixed
  • Marketing/content/ecommerce
    • create a many to many relationship between contact list and website, and update demo data, created screens in both components.
  • Party
    • preferences now properly listed by userlogim.
    • added a sortable mod/add date to the find list, to what has been changed and added.
  • HR
    • replace the HR company tree with a jquery version
  • Accounting/order
    • added a new accounting configuration option to generate invoice per order or per shipment. can be overridden at the order level included Junit tests too.
  • Framework
    • Update jQuery to Version 1.6.2
    • add the viewsize and viewindex parameters to the buttons on a list form to remember the page index and page size automatically
    • added spring libraries to be able to test events with junit example can be found in the accounting/order change
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • complete object content mapping refactoring
    • now using the jackrabbit OCM library to map the content from a node to the repository, which makes the code more generic
    • it is now possible to create Java Objects for each content use case (i.e blog, forum or product content)
    • the JCR implementation has moved back to the framework
    • there is no connection between the database and the JCR nodes anymore
    • see new implementation description and class diagrams here: Ofbiz Jackrabbit Branch Wiki Page
    • Update the Jackrabbit libraries to version 2.2.8

July 2011

  • Scrum
    • New component added which is in use for about one year in our company. More info what features are supported and how to get started can be found at our website....
  • Order
    • Added support to save auto-save shopping list for anonymous users. A schedule service will delete the auto-save shopping list for anonymous user that are not updated in last 30 days by default if no configuration is specified.
  • Marketing
    • several improvements and fixing of errors on the email list

June 2011

  • Content
    • Added SEO friendly url's similar to products, now also for content
    • Add a button/way to (re) generate keywords on content
  • Catalog
    • Now possible to add/upload links and images to a product Category
  • Jackrabbit Branch
    • container start refactoring
    • upgrade to Jackrabbit 2.2.7

May 2011

  • Framework
    • update derby to 10.8.1.2
    • update to jQuery 1.6.1 and jQuery UI 1.8.13
    • Added Ant Contrib and uses it where relevant
    • Make ofbiz working with the Amazon EC2 load balancer.
    • New Session timeout Handling for ajax requests
  • E-commerce and Catalog
    • Now possible to have SEO friendly url's in multiple languages and more....can be manually entered and updated but also automatically generated from the category or product name. how to use it...
    • In E-Commerce added a jQuery category tree only showing categories which have a related product or have a related category with a product. It has been tested in IE too. The showing of products from the tree is now using ajax and is only updating the middle of the screen
    • Improved Catalog interface moving detail function tabs to the right, replaced links with the menu widget and only showing when relevant.
    • Add an automatic product price currency conversion for e-commerce/order entry which can be switched off in a properties file.
  • Content
    • Added a content search function similar to the product and workeffort search function
  • Webpos
    • A new version of webpos fully rewritten and using a lot of jQuery for speed up the user interaction.
  • All components
    • Javadoc documentation working now correctly with ant build target docs and docs-all
  • Jackrabbit branch
    • i18n Support for Text and File content, content can now be stored in different languages.
    • The system automatically determine the language which should be loaded when the content is read.
    • Versioning for all Contents and Nodes / folders
  • HTML5 branch
    • A new branch to make Ofbiz HTML5 ready was created

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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