The LedgerSMB project is proud to announce the release of 1.5.0, the start of a new line of maintenance releases.

This release can be summarized as a major user experience boost through improvements in performace, look and stability. Performance improvements are being achieved by moving from per-request-invoked CGI-scripts to a preloaded-PSGI application as well as moving to a single-page web application using the Dojo toolkit.

On the project's website both installation instructions and upgrade instructions are available.

UI changes

• LedgerSMB now frameless (ChrisT)
• Full use of Dojo widgets (ErikH)
• Compressed/compiled Dojo for better performance (JohnL)
• Reports and screens can now be bookmarked (Chris T)
• Optionally can add unapproved trans. to some reports (Chris T)

Price Matrix Enhancements

• Quantity discounts can be set in the pricematrix (Chris T)
• Price matrix now filters on currency (Chris T)

Template changes

• All document templates (including INCLUDEs) now in-database (Erik H, #854)
• 1.4's <?lsmb LETTERHEAD ?> now <?lsmb INCLUDE letterhead ?>
• 1.3's INCLUDE extensions dropped;
• <?lsmb INCLUDE letterhead.tex ?> -> <?lsmb INCLUDE letterhead ?>

Code Cleanup

• Relying on Plack for webserver integration; stub scripts removed (ChrisT)
• Removed LedgerSMB's custom dojo page loader (ErikH)
• Removed dead code (coveralls.io used for identification) (ErikH)
• Removed dependency on Class::Struct (ChrisT)
• Removed all inserts into chart view (ChrisT, GH 931)
• Removed long-broken French chart of accounts (ChrisT)
• Removed unused saved trial balance components (ChrisT, GH 775)
• Source tree restructuring: libraries in lib/, docroot in UI/ (ErikH)

API Enhancements

• Moved a great deal of code into PGObject framework on CPAN (ChrisT)
• Session handling committed before main action (Chris T, GH 943)

Quality assurance

• Verification of pre-defined Chart of Accounts files (ChrisT)
• Assurance of completeness of 'use'-tested source files (ErikH)
• Extended 'use'-tests to cover full set of source files (ErikH)
• New tests validating source code requirements, such as (ErikH)
  • Reject code using certain modules (Data::Dumper, Carp::Always, ...)
  • Reject code which isn't formatted correctly
  • Reject code which uses certain constructs
• Basic verification of PO (translation) files (ErikH)
• Basic automated in-browser testing through SauceLabs.com (ErikH/ChrisT)
• Basic automated in-browser testing with PhantomJS (ErikH)

Internationalization

• Expansion of web based translation support through Transifex (ErikH)

ChrisT is Chris Travers
ErikH is Erik Huelsmann
JohnL is John Locke