Status Update for May 2009

This is the second installment of the status update series, which refers to the month of May 2009. You can see the consolidated updates on our wiki in a status update page.

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