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| title: Apache OFBiz News - January 2019 |
| date: '2019-02-22T00:00:00+00:00' |
| categories: ofbiz |
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| <h2>Apache OFBiz News January 2019</h2>
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| <p>Welcome to our regular monthly round-up of OFBiz news. This month we have more news about OFBiz chat room migration from HipChat to Slack, planning to move from SVN to GIT, along with our usual list of features and improvements. <br /></p>
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| <h2>OFBiz is now on Slack</h2>
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| <p>OFBiz chat room is migrated to Slack from HipChat. To join the OFBiz chat room, please follow the steps below.</p>
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| <p>1.) Create a Slack account using ASF's invite link - <a href="https://s.apache.org/slack-invite">https://s.apache.org/slack-invite</a><br />2.) Join the #ofbiz channel - <a href="https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel">https://s.apache.org/ofbiz-slack-channel</a></p>
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| <p>Please <strong>do not</strong> discuss OFBiz related topics in the #general channel.</p>
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| <p>Thanks, everyone who is involved in this effort.</p>
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| <h2>Moving from <span>Subversion (SVN)</span> to GIT</h2>
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| <p>The community is planning to adopt Git version control system for source code management. We are hopeful, the use of Git would make things much easier for collaboration.<br />To get more details on this discussion, please refer <a href="https://s.apache.org/svntogit">here</a>.<br /></p>
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| <p>Thank you Hans Bakker for the initial proposal. Thanks so much, Taher and Michael for reviving this thread and sharing thoughtful insights.<br />Thanks, Jacques, Deepak Dixit, Julian, Nicolas, and everyone who actively participated in the discussion and shared your valuable inputs. Indeed, this will be an impactful change. <br /></p>
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| <h2>New features and improvements</h2>Functional enhancements and improvements as well as updates of <g class="gr_ gr_127 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="127" data-gr-id="127">third party</g> libraries and source code refactoring:
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| <h3>Framework</h3>
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| <ul>
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| <li>Upgrade of Refactor ControlFilter (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10449">OFBIZ-10449</a>)</li>
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| <li>Refactors boolean returns from methods in UtilHttp, ServiUtil, UtilValidate, TemporalExpression and ShoppingCart (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10725">OFBIZ-10725</a>)</li>
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| <li>Upgrade of Groovy 2.4.13 to 2.4.16 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10762">OFBIZ-10762</a>)</li>
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| <li>Extracts verification of certificates in "RequestHandler" (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10450">OFBIZ-10450</a>)</li>
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| <li><g class="gr_ gr_106 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="106" data-gr-id="106">Simplifys</g> "entity.model.ModelField#EncryptMethod" enum (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10763">OFBIZ-10763</a>)</li>
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| <li>Refactors EntityCondition (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10691">OFBIZ-10691</a>)</li>
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| <li>Sets Copyright to 2001-2019</li>
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| <li>Updates Apache commons-<g class="gr_ gr_107 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="107" data-gr-id="107">fileupload</g> to version 1.3-3 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10770">OFBIZ-10770</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces jQuery.bind() with jQuery.on() (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10758">OFBIZ-10758</a>)</li>
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| <li>Sets "ModelFieldType" class members to private (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10773">OFBIZ-10773</a>)</li>
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| <li>Removes unneeded code in "entity" component (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10777">OFBIZ-10777</a>)</li>
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| <li>Upgrades jquery-validation plugin from 1.17.0 to 1.19.0 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10785">OFBIZ-10785</a>)</li>
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| <li>Upgrades jQuery 1.11.0 to jQuery 3.2.1 (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9978">OFBIZ-9978</a>)</li>
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| <li>Updates "<g class="gr_ gr_108 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="108" data-gr-id="108">convertUom</g>" service and given priority to "UomConversionDated" entity (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10747">OFBIZ-10747</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces Inline js with External js in renderDateTimeField macro (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9848">OFBIZ-9848</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces Inline js with External js in renderDateFindField macro (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9850">OFBIZ-9850</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces Inline js with External js in renderFieldGroupOpen macro (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9853">OFBIZ-9853</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces Inline js with External js in renderTextField macro (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9844">OFBIZ-9844</a>)</li>
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| <li>Translates es-CL in AccountingUiLabels (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10784">OFBIZ-10784</a>)</li>
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| <li>Adds translations es and es-CL (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10815">OFBIZ-10815</a>)</li>
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| <li>Removes unneeded code in ObjectType (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10771">OFBIZ-10771</a>)</li>
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| <li>Updates and cleans deprecated code after release 18.12 creation (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10761">OFBIZ-10761</a>)</li>
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| <li>Adds session tracking mode and make cookie secure (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6655">OFBIZ-6655</a>)</li>
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| <li>Cleans EntitySync push and pull functionalities (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10818">OFBIZ-10818</a>)</li>
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| <li>Provides <g class="gr_ gr_109 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="109" data-gr-id="109">funcionallity</g>: Navigate from a domain to another with automated signed in authentication (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10307">OFBIZ-10307</a>)</li>
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| <li>Upgrades Apache Tika to 1.20 (CVE-2018-8017/CVE-2018-17197)</li>
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| <li>Adds: Unit test case for service - CustRequestPermissionCheck (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-8958">OFBIZ-8958</a>)</li>
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| <li>Adds: Unit test case for service - <g class="gr_ gr_110 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="110" data-gr-id="110">createPayment</g> (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9083">OFBIZ-9083</a>)</li>
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| <li>Adds: Unit test case for service - updatePaymentGatewayConfig (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9115">OFBIZ-9115</a>)</li>
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| </ul>
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| <h3>Plugins</h3>
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| <ul>
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| <li>Replaces jQuery.bind() with jQuery.on() (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10758">OFBIZ-10758</a>)</li>
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| <li>Updates <g class="gr_ gr_111 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="111" data-gr-id="111">multifex</g> theme as per new markup (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10118">OFBIZ-10118</a>)</li>
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| <li>Provides UI improvements on <g class="gr_ gr_112 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="112" data-gr-id="112">splitship</g> page of <g class="gr_ gr_113 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="113" data-gr-id="113">ecommerce</g> (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10730">OFBIZ-10730</a>)</li>
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| <li>Improves <g class="gr_ gr_114 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="114" data-gr-id="114">ecommerce</g> main-decorator (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10790">OFBIZ-10790</a>)</li>
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| <li>Uses Bootstrap to style <g class="gr_ gr_105 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del" id="105" data-gr-id="105">e-commerces</g> promotion screen (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10793">OFBIZ-10793</a>)</li>
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| <li>Replaces Inline js with External js in renderDateFindField macro (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9850">OFBIZ-9850</a>)</li>
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| <li>Adds session tracking mode and make cookie secure (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-6655">OFBIZ-6655</a>)</li>
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| <li>Provides <g class="gr_ gr_115 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="115" data-gr-id="115">funcionallity</g>: Navigate from a domain to another with automated signed in authentication (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10307">OFBIZ-10307</a>)</li>
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| </ul>
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| <h2>Bugfixes</h2>Functional and technical bugfixes:
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| <h3>Framework</h3>
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| <ul>
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| <li>Fixes: Function parseBigDecimalForEntity is in wrong location (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10689">OFBIZ-10689</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: When using Select2 for multiple selects the field is too narrow in "no results" case (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10682">OFBIZ-10682</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Wrong German translation in <g class="gr_ gr_116 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="116" data-gr-id="116">PartyUiLabels</g> (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10786">OFBIZ-10786</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: "EntityOperator#getId()" is not used in the framework (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10607">OFBIZ-10607</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: ObjectType:doRealCompare returns null instead of a boolean in few places (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10812">OFBIZ-10812</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Impossible secure and autologin cookie names when <g class="gr_ gr_117 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="117" data-gr-id="117">mountpoint</g> contains a slash inside its name (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10766">OFBIZ-10766</a>)</li>
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| <li>Corrects behaviour of Autologin cookies (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10635">OFBIZ-10635</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: In packing, only use reservations with stock on hand (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9677">OFBIZ-9677</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Unable to add additional product images from catalog (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10673">OFBIZ-10673</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Failed registration for virtual hosts with similar mount points (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10765">OFBIZ-10765</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Page dropdown list on <g class="gr_ gr_118 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="118" data-gr-id="118">categorydetail</g> page broken (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10787">OFBIZ-10787</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Invoice date is not displayed on findInvoice screen (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10620">OFBIZ-10620</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Product tags section displays "Update" button, despite of having no results (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-9642">OFBIZ-9642</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Errors and warnings in <g class="gr_ gr_119 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="119" data-gr-id="119">webtools</g> ArtifactInfo (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10760">OFBIZ-10760</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Users name is displayed on <g class="gr_ gr_120 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="120" data-gr-id="120">ecommerce</g> even after user logs out (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10666">OFBIZ-10666</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Blank page is displayed on <g class="gr_ gr_121 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="121" data-gr-id="121">ecommerce</g> (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10741">OFBIZ-10741</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: PartyId misses in <g class="gr_ gr_122 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="122" data-gr-id="122">EditEftAccount</g>.<g class="gr_ gr_123 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="123" data-gr-id="123">ftl</g> (party) when you create an EFT account from the quick finalize page (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10680">OFBIZ-10680</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: ModelForm.java is using an incorrect parameter name for sorting if a form extends from another form</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Disable widget verbose property on context doesn't works for rendering <g class="gr_ gr_128 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling" id="128" data-gr-id="128">ftl</g> template (<a href="http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/ofbiz-commits/201901.mbox/%3C20190130162025.629843A0100@svn01-us-west.apache.org%3E">r1852533</a>)</li>
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| </ul>
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| <h3>Plugins</h3>
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| <ul>
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| <li>Fixes: Themes can't be changed in <g class="gr_ gr_124 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="124" data-gr-id="124">webpos</g> (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10767">OFBIZ-10767</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: Page dropdown list on <g class="gr_ gr_125 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="125" data-gr-id="125">categorydetail</g> page broken (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10787">OFBIZ-10787</a>)</li>
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| <li>Fixes: List Request page seems distorted of <g class="gr_ gr_126 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="126" data-gr-id="126">ecommerce</g> component (<a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-10621">OFBIZ-10621</a>)</li>
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| </ul> |
