Status Update for June 2009

This is the latest 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 June 2009

• Maintenance packs
  • Openbravo ERP 2.50 MP2 was released to the community on June 30, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP5 was released to professional subscription customers on June 16, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.40 MP6 was released to professional subscription customers on June 19, 2009
  • Openbravo ERP 2.35 MP13 was released to professional subscription customers on June 10, 2009
  • Note: Openbravo ERP 2.50 Professional Subscription SMB Appliance released on June 15

• Core enhancements:
  • The following enhancements have been completed and released as part of 2.50 MP2:
    • Ability to generate a provisional Balance Sheet report for open periods (feature request 9069)
    • Ability to search Windows, Tabs and Fields by module (feature request 9022)
    • Support for BLOB data types in DAL (feature request 9313)
    • The publicly usable java classes should be defined and all non-public ones should not be accessible by modules (feature request 9317)
    • Change tab name from 'Salary Category' to 'Cost Salary category' (feature request 9044)
    • Performance: Add infrastructure to VariablesBase class to allow for technical validation of request parameters (feature request 9500)
    • Performance: Use the new ignoreValues features of sqlc to speed up filters with value '%' (feature request 9549)
    • Performance: Ignore the value '%' in select which use like (feature request 9545)
  • The following enhancements are available in the pi code repository and will be released as part of 2.50 MP3:
    • Performance: optimize Product selector on oracle to be faster with many products (feature request 9562)
    • Performance: remove extra request for the MessagesJS in generated pages (feature request 9727)

• Defects
  • A total of 130 defects have been resolved, with the following breakdown by severity:
    • 12 critical
    • 87 major
    • 27 minor
    • 4 trivial

• Infrastructure
  • Added support for POS in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com
  • Worked on stabilizing the ERP smoke tests in the Continuous Integration framework at builds.openbravo.com

• Documentation
  • Completed the ERP 2.50 Developer's Guide
  • Good progress on the ERP 2.50 Configuration Guide
    • Completed section on Projects

In addition, the Openbravo Community released the following new 2.50 compatible modules:

• Fiscal Calendar Enhancements
• Fiscal Calendar Enhancements Template
• Report Sales by Month
• Romanian chart of accounts
• Romanian language for Romania
• Romania Administrative Departments
• Translation: Arabic_Saudi Arabia (ar_SA) for Openbravo 2.50

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
    • Inter-company Invoices

• We also advanced in the definition of the next version of the Spanish Localization pack intended for the Community as well as the Spanish Professional Localization intended for Professional Subscription customer.