Joe

This is to serve newbies as a point of contact in their local countries and not meant for any "race" to log more.

I guess we should also consider FIFO option in stock handling. So we need a field for this in the stock moves table. And of course a flag in the company setup for using this.

In my opinion we should try to assemble what we have decided so far. I will make a list and try to put developers on the various tasks.

Joe

CHANGELOG

New SysPrefs boolean variable added: long_description_invoice on 2020-06-13
Fixes PHP 7.4 bugs and security loophole in adding languages too as of 2020-08-04
Dimensions extended to AR/AP as well - 2020-08-12
TCPDF error introduced on 2020-07-04 has been fixed now.
New layout for Login page
This also has the PHP compatibility fix stated here.

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This is a 2.4.8 release, which is mainly bugfix release, but also contains a couple of improvements (see below for details).

Please report any bugs/problems found via our Mantis Bugtracker at http://mantis.frontaccounting.com.

Download instructions

In Sourceforge FrontAccounting (http://sourceforge.net/projects/frontaccounting), select
Files -> FrontAccounting 2.4 ->2.4.8.

For Windows users select the zip file. For all other users select the tar.gz file.

Common

• Bug 4980: The field characters size of "Memo" in voiding a transaction doesn't correspond to the field size in the database. Fixed by cutting the text to 60 characters in audit_trail.

• Bug 4987: In rtl languages, text aligned centered is printed aligned right in PDF documents. Fixed.

• Voided Documents Still Exist In Drop-down when printing. Fixed.

• Bug 5009: Page # on invoices counts up across invoices. Fixed for all documents.

• Count error when printing to Excel. Fixed.

• Formatting error in dashboard.inc fixed.

• Bug 4988: Auto Increase of Document References can't be disabled. Fixed.

• Uninitialized string offset in main.inc Fixed for php >= 7.0.

• Improved F2, F3 and F4 keys (Customers/Suppliers, Customer Branches and Inventory & Items) in Sales/Purchases forms.

• Added missing new install translation files, nb_NO and nl_NL.

• Backup and Restore: Added support for views

• Updated standard COAs (moved dates forwards).

Sales

• Credit Note Modification: fixed check whether transaction is editable.

• Limit editable stock items list in Sales Order, Credit Notes to 50 chars.

• Paged transaction inquiries optimized for maximum links in Sales and Purchasing. Allocate Customer Payments or Credit Notes: fully allocated payments with discount where still displayed even with settled option off, fixed.

• Report Sales Listing: fixed duplicate lines in report .

• Fixed misleading database error message in sales_order_db.inc.

• Added new attachment types for customer specific documents.

• Bug 5013: Zero invoices create zero payments and cause db error upon view payment. Fixed.

• Misspelled parameter in rep115.php, Customer Trial Balance. Fixed.

• Recurring invoices - improved period covered description.

• Customer Payment Entry - Scrolling behaviour when clicking All or None. Fixed.

• Sales Order Inquiry Sort Descending, Fixed.

• Bug 4904: Customer Credit Note: fixed invalid inventory GL postings for service items.

Purchasing

• Purchase Order View: fixed dates, added overdue delivery marker.

• Code cleanup in supplier_invoice.php and supplier_credit.php.

• Supplier Invoice: on form opening currency was not displayed for foreign supplier.

• Bug 4946: Inserting a supplier without the short name resets the whole form. Fixed.

• Bug 4944: The field characters size of Supplier's Reference is too short. Fixed.

• Supplier Invoice: Wrong alignment in 2 first columns when selecting items to invoice. Fixed.

• Paged transaction inquiries optimized for maximum links to Sales and Purchasing.

• Bug 4950: Field for supplier name is too short in the supplier form. Increased from 40 chars to maximum 60 chars in the Suppliers form.

• Added new attachment types for supplier specific documents.

• Tax rate displayed twice in rep209 (Purchase orders). Fixed.

Items and Inventory

• Inventory Adjustment: fixed error in adjustment entry when inventory notifications are switched on.

• Inventory Adjustment: negative adjustment should always use current average item cost.

• Bug 4920: Search icon in 'items table' wraps underneath select combo when screen width reduced. Fixed.

• Inventory Item Movements: Purchase Order Delivery and Credit Note has in reference column trans_no or Return memo presented instead of reference. Fixed.

• Inventory location transfer from sales kit did not work. Fixed.

Manufacturing

• Clone Manufactured Item -> Clone BOM.

Fixed Assets

• Fixed Assets Depreciation: removed invalid and obsolete audit record update.

Bank and General Ledger

• Audit Trail: regression in audit history (after sql strict mode related changes) fixed.

• Strict SQL related error when background journal transaction was saved. Fixed.

• Journal Inquiry Dates should follow the User Preference Transaction Days. Fixed.

• Show more relevant info in CounterPart Field, Journal Inquiry.

• Bug 5002: Journal Inquiry: incorrect amounts displayed for journal entries with more than one customer/supplier accounts, fixed.

• Bank statement report with 'All' Selection of Bank Accounts fixed.

• Amendment Required in rep601.php (Bank Statements) for voided transactions. Fixed.