Release Notes & Roadmap

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Tentative:

• New: Standalone Configuration App
• New (EE only): CAS Server & Client implementation
• New (SKR03/SKR04): Datev Import/Export
• New: ASCII CSV based Import/Export of Accounting settings
• Scipio Demo migration to Ignite Admin themes
• New UI Element: Searchbar for Backend Applications
• New (EE only): Mobile App wrapper for iOS / Android, based on Apache Cordova
• New (EE only): POS Implementation
• New (EE only): Updated LDAP Integration
• Entity Migration Tools
• Migration to Gradle
• CMS: Better Multi-Lang support
• Improvements on UI / Automated Tests
• Solr Improvements
  • Script to create Schema more easily
  • Migration to v.7 or ElasticSearch

• Build-Tools
  • Added download tasks for all preconfigured database drivers
• Continuous Integration
  • Added JaCoCo support (https://www.jacoco.org/jacoco/trunk/index.html)  – becomes preferred code coverage utility
  • Rework of Cobertura Integration (http://cobertura.github.io/cobertura/)
  • Added Travis integration (https://travis-ci.org/)
  • Added Code Climate Integration (https://codeclimate.com)
  • Added SonarCloud support (https://sonarcloud.io)
    For connecting to sonarcloud, use:

    ./ant sonar -Dsonar.organization=... -Dsonar.login=...

• Better & complete German translations
• Updated Seed-Data & Revised Seed loading
• Git-Addons Improvements
• Better US-Letter support
• Better Email Templates
• Support for Bitcoin values in applications & new Bitcoin and Lightning labels
• Templating toolkit
  • Added <@qrcode macro for qr code generation
  • @alert_markup: fix space generation (js bugfix)
  • @cell: fix style parameter
  • Improved image generation and added srcset support to <@img macro
  • Added support for style attributes on code macro
  • Added word-wrap on code blog, to fix a visual bug for overflowing code blocks.
• New utility functions
• Overall stability improvements (large rework of all components)
• Better Websocket support
• Updated: Marketing component
• Updated Order Management Screens
• Updated Warehouse Management Application
• Updated: Setup component (fully functional)
• Updated demo data generators
• New (EE only): Excel Plugin
  • Order Data
  • User Data
  • Product & Category Data
• New: Angular Shop prototype (released)
• New: Workeffort component
• New: Manufacturing Component
• New (EE only): Project Management component
• Theme Improvements
  • Ignite Admin & Shop improvements
  • Security / dependency fixes for all themes
• New (EE only): Support for additional payment providers
  • Bitcoin (Lightning) Payment support
  • Redsys
  • Stripe
• New: Intellij Plugin
• Security Updates
• Dependency Modernization

• New: Scipio Plugin Shop (Released: https://shop.scipioerp.com/)
  • New:  Webstore for an easy access to the enterprise addons & themes.
  • New (EE only):  Downloadable European Accounting standards (SKR 04, SKR 07, KMU-Kontenrahmen etc.) – released over time
  • New (EE only):  Downloadable Shop Extensions
  • New (EE only): Apache Camel component
  • New (EE only): Social Shop Login
    • Facebook
    • Google+
    • LinkedIn
    • Twitter
• New: SEO & Store Improvements
  • Speaking URLs (Released on Github)
  • Sitemap-Generator (Released on Github)
  • Simplified URL Configuration
  • New: URL Filter and Optimized Servlets
  • New: User Ratings & Review system (with management screens in Catalog Manager)
• New: Scipio Setup Component
  • Simplified Configuration process, covering:
    • Organization
    • Accounting
    • Warehouse / Facilities
    • Store
    • Catalog & Products
    • System users
  • Graphical Workflow
• Templating Toolkit improvements
  • Improved img macro implementation
  • Lookup-field improvements
• Updated Party services
• Human Resource
  • Updated Application process
  • Updated Profile screens
• RTL (right-to-left) theme support
• Performance Improvements
  • Admin Dashboard
  • Party Management
  • Order Management
• Apache Solr search optimization & various bugfixes
• New: CMS component
  • New: Graphical Page editor
    • Page-Treeview
    • Automatically lists existing requests of all Website endpoints (incl. controller entries)
    • Can override existing requests
    • Compatible with default Scipio rendering
    • User-friendly Page editor built entirely on-top of template definitions
    • Extended Wysiwyg editor
      • Media Gallery
      • Custom Tags
      • Automated Links
  • New: Graphical Template editor (for Assets, Templates, Variables, Scripts)
    • Divided between Page- and Asset-Templates (smaller components)
    • Allows creation and editing of freemarker templates
    • Allows creation of variables that are rendered as fields in Page editor
    • Supports templating toolkit & OFBiz macros as well as widget rendering
  • New: Media Editor
    • Allows creation and editing media files (video, images, audio) stored in database
  • New: Menu Editor
  • New: CMS Groovy file editor
    • Create and manage script that are called prior to page rendering (available for assets & templates and on specific pages)
• Updated: CRM component
• New: ANT tasks to create components:
  • “create-component-shop-override” for a shop-component that inherits functions from original shop component and simplifies the customization process
  • “create-theme” for an empty theme component with recommended folder structure and examples
• Apache Solr improvements
• New: MariaDB Support
• Changed: Removed support for outdated databases (Sybase, Daffodil & Axion)
• Changed: Entity Export now creates zip files stored in database.
• Security fixes
  • Apache Solr Upgrade
  • Various other libraries
• Various Bugfixes

• External library updates: Apache FOP 2.2, Freemarker 2.3.25, and many more
• New: Addons Directory
  • New: Addon mechanism
• New & Updated: Accounting Screens (Rollout began Jan. 25th 2017)
  • Widget & Controller Refactoring
  • Removal of AP/AR sub-components (merged with & redirecting to accounting)
  • Updated Menu Structure
  • Updated / Revised Report screens
  • Updated Chart of account screens
  • New: Chart of account tree
  • New: Transaction Overview
  • New: Transaction CSV Export
  • Creditor / Debtor Screens
• New: Service to auto-update daily currency conversion rates
• New: Partial Page Renderer for AJAX based page reloads (Rollout began May 16th 2017)
  • Supported Types: RequestURI, View
  • Partial or full page rendering (rendering target selection)
• New: Email template rendering (Rollout began Jan. 25th 2017)
• New: Revamped email templates (Rollout began Jan. 25th 2017)
• New: Tabs macro, based on (Foundation, Bootstrap) (Rollout began Mar. 23rd 2017)
• New: revamped invoice templates (Rollout began Dec. 21st 2016)
• New (EE only): Magnolia Update to V 5.4.x
• New: Shop & Admin themes “Ignite” (Preview available on demo)
  • New: Experimental “TurboLinks” – a soft-reload feature for graphical interfaces. (Announcement)
• New: System messages
  • SECA & EECA in place for a variety of system messages (order creation, order cancellation, new tasks, new communication event etc.)
• New: USPS API Updated to v4 & misc fixes in shipping api implementation
• New: Split sidebar into “Actions” & “Navigation”
• Mass screen and menu updates and fixes (Rollout began Jan. 25th 2017)
• Complex menu widget changes (see widget-menu.xsd)
• Screen widget language additions and improvements, such as
  • Master if directive for actions
  • if-true/if-false shorthand conditions
  • Inline (groovy) script support (script element)
  • Inline (freemarker) template support (html-template element)
  • More versatile section element (for better actions-only screens)
  • More (see widget-screen.xsd and widget-common.xsd)
• CRM Screen Fixes
• Security fixes
• Various Bugfixes
  • CRM Chart screens
  • Order Manager Quickshipping
  • Shop Login Form – on enter event now triggers correctly
  • Theme fixes
  • Label fixes
  • Various other

• New: Extension of menu-widget definition for multi-level menu support and patterns for all backend applications (see Common and Admin components CommonScreens.xml & widget-menu.xsd)
  • Migration to multi-level nested menus
  • New: Common*AppSideBarMenu pattern
  • More control on highlighting
• New: Integration of Docs into the Admin App Sidebar (Development menu item)
• Templating Toolkit API standardization: (Ref: Updated templating toolkit docs)
  • Standardized language escaping behavior (HTML, Javascript, etc.) across all macros (description in htmlTemplate)
  • Enhanced security for all templates, enhanced macro abstraction and reuse
  • Changes to widget renderer HTML escaping behavior: all now consistently use point-of-use escaping
  • Enabled screen HTML auto-escaping on all major HTML rendering vectors that previously used different escaping methods, notably widget renderer macros (affects macro implementation view of data model – now consistent and safer)
  • All URL generation macros now offer escaping options and can be escaping-aware (default behavior of stock @ofbizUrl unchanged, for compatibility)
• Content URL generation (ofbizContentUrl) fixes
• Updated Template standardizations in all applications
• New: Screen directives for *Screens.xml files (see widget-screen.xsd)
• New:  Various Decorator Updates & Simplifications
  • Common*AppDecorator simplifcation: We added an extra wrapper around main-decorator to simplify other screens/decorators and enhance extensibility (previously problematic w.r.t. permission handling)
  • New pattern for missing decorator handling (via mainDecoratorLocation), for all applications, using new screen-settings directive and auto-included settings system (based on presence of CommonScreens.xml) – designed to solve webapp extensibility problems in stock Ofbiz and simplify decorator locations
  • *ContentWrapper utility class simplification – now behave like most other variables (no StringWrapper – screen auto HTML escaping instead)
• New:  Better label utilities: getLabel and variants – support explicit arguments from templates to labels in the label map (missing in stock ofbiz)
• Various Theme updates
• Template and screen refactors and fixes for all applications (various)
• Framework and library fixes
• Various Bugfixes

• New: templating toolkit (standardization of html in freemarker &
  widgets)
• Includes new standardizes elements
• New: Foundation CSS based Backoffice themes
  • Metro (a modern admin theme)
  • Base (an unstyled foundation theme)
• New: Modern E-Commerce theme
  • Foundation-Shop
• New: Modern e-Commerce store
  • Demo:  https://ce.scipioerp.com/shop
  • Several Bugfixes
    •  Code clean-up
    • Migration of templates to templating toolkit
• New: Modern backoffice applications
  • Demo:  https://ce.scipioerp.com/admin
  • Migration to templating toolkit
  • Simplification & standardization of UI Elements
  • New & Updated screens
  • Various bug-fixes
  •  Update on all menus (so that they are coherent & understandable)
• Various Bugfixes to the framework
• Groovy file rewrites
• Label fixes
• General code clean-up
• Updated rendering engine
• Full solr integration
• Migration towards new Scipio ERP application set
  • Accounting (combines AP, AR, Accounting)
  • Asset Management
  • Catalog Management
  • Facility Management / Warehouse Management
  • Manufacturing
  • CRM (replaces SFA, parts of Catalog management)
  • Human Resource Management
  • Order Management
  • User Management
  • Shop
  • Solr
• Marked undesired functionality for removal in future Scipio ERP releases
• New (EE only): Bootstrap Material CSS based premium Backoffice theme
• New (EE only): Magnolia Enterprise CMS integration (“Mace”)
  • Full integration into the rendering flow
  • Ubiquituous API for Magnolia & Scipio templates
  • New: Request-Flow Magnolia Application for creation and editing of requests
  • New: Magnolia Applications for direct access of Scipio ERP functionalities
  • New: Example implementation of Magnolia templates for Webstore overrides