[Erp5-users] ERP5 Release 5.5

[Klaus Wölfel]

ERP5 Release 5.5
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Nexedi is proud to announce the availability of release 5.5 of the ERP5 Open 
Source ERP. In 1.888 commits since release 5.4.7. , many ERP5 applications saw 
significant improvements (Accounting, CRM, DMS, e-Commerce, HR, Payroll, Trade, 
Web, Blog and Forum among others).

Release 5.5 most notably pushes ERP5's capabilities for 24/7 operation on 
clusters even further: ERP5 already supports since 10 years the development of 
business logic, forms and workflows online on live instances and the 
transparent distribution of changes on all cluster nodes thanks to the use of 
the ZEO distributed object architecture. With the introduction of ZODB 
Components, ERP5 Release 5.5 extends these capabilities to the core of ERP5: 
object schema definitions (property sheets), unit tests, functional tests and 
extension methods are now managed as distributed objects. This technology 
enables mainframe-like non-disruptive operation of ERP5's enterprise 
applications on standard hardware.

With the introduction of code mirror and ace editor for web development, ERP5 
becomes even more attractive for developers who would like to set-up ERP5 as a 
privately owned Open Source PaaS for business applications.

Finally, Release 5.5 is the first release offering Chinese and German 
Internationalisation (Translation and Accounting Integration) through ERP5 
Configurator.

ERP5 Release Information 
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Announcement: http://www.erp5.com/news-ERP5.release.5.5
ERP5 VM: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osoe/files/ERP5-ReleaseOSOE-5.5
SlapOS Git Tag: slapos-0.246 
ERP5 Revision: 8d22b65daad02460c0834e395223935a0ec161f

To try ERP5, we recommend to use the ERP5 Virtual Machine together with the 
tutorials of the OSOE Project. It provides a pre-configured ERP5 demo instance 
based on pre-defined business templates and categories. The Virtual Machine 
package includes the whole software stack of ERP5 and its dependencies. It is 
published as VMWare image.

To install the ERP5 VM, follow the tutorial How to install and use the ERP5 
VM: https://www.erp5.com/P-ERP5.Com.Howto.ERP5.VM

To try and learn ERP5, we recommend to follow the tutorial session of the OSOE 
project: ERP: Theory, Practice and Configuration:
http://www.osoe-project.org/osoe-Lecture.ERP.Configuration.Introduction

Release Highlights
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- ERP5 Accounting Added erp5_tax_return business template: Generic handling of 
VAT return in ERP5.
- ERP5 Accounting: Relate projects to accounting transactions for project 
based reporting and cost control.
- ERP5 Accounting: Add validators for IBAN & BIC.
- ERP5 Accounting: Added aged balance report.
- ERP5 Asset: Add erp5_research_item business template for managing research 
assets.
- ERP5 Budget: Improvements to budget consumption report.
- ERP5 Commerce: Improve support for multilingual online shops and user 
logins.
- ERP5 Configurator: Integration of Chinese and German Translation and 
Accounting Plan in Standard SMB Configurator.
- ERP5 Configurator: New Configurator Flavour: eBusiness Lotse.
- ERP5 Core: Transition of most business templates to ZODB Components: 
Property Sheets, Unit Tests and Extensions moved from the File System into 
ERP5's object data base ZODB
- ERP5 Core: Add History View for each document in the ZODB object database.
- ERP5 Core: Improvements of handling big data files (multiple GB) in ERP5.
- ERP5 CRM: Improve management of communication plans.
- ERP5 CRM: Improve response events (manual sender selection and automatic 
content type selection).
- ERP5 DMS: Enable streaming of video files.
- ERP5 Email Reader: Improve support with various IMAP Servers (thanks to 
Boris Kocherov from raskon).
- ERP5 Forum: Improveme displaying of discussion threads.
- ERP5 HR: Improvements to presence control, time management and ERP5 
Calendar.
- ERP5 Project: Translation of Requirement Lists directly in ERP5.
- ERP5 Payroll: Fix cumulated taxable net salary in reports.
- ERP5 Release: First release available directly through susestudio.
- ERP5 Security: User Interface Improvements on handling logins: Ignore 
leading- and trainling whitespace in logins.
- ERP5 Security: Added plug-in for access tokens.
- ERP PaaS: The use of Ace editor makes through the web editing of Python 
Scripts, unit tests, functional tests, extension methods and web pages more 
comfortable by enabling syntax checking with PyLint and syntax highlighting 
and comfortable search and replace.
- ERP PaaS: Added erp5_code_mirror business template: alternative editor for 
web programming.
- ERP5 Trade: Pricing: Add pricing optimisation preference.
- ERP5 Web: Improve front pages of blogs.

Acknowledgements
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For this release we would like to especially acknowledge the work of Boris 
Kocherov from raskon to improve ERP5 Email Reader support for various IMAP 
Servers.

Kind Regards,

Klaus Wölfel