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+<h4><strong><font color="#cc6600"><font style="font-size: 20pt;" size="5"><i>Front</i></font></font></strong><strong><font style="font-size: 20pt;" size="5">Accounting
+Update</font></strong></h4>
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.4.1.</h2>
+<h3>This is a preliminary FrontAccounting ERP 2.4.1 release. </h3>
+This version provides a couple of new important features (in addition to all the <br>
+features merged from latest 2.3.26 release), but main development effort was <br>
+focused on internal architecture changes and cleanups to make future FA development <br>
+easier. <br>
+<br>
+At the time of release most of optional extension modules available from central<br>
+extensions repo has been also ported to 2.4 and should be mostly usable. Most Themes are<br>
+updated and many new Themes are available.<br>
+<br>
+Due to deep changes made under the hood, we highly encourage all current FA 2.3 users<br>
+to make test upgrades on a copy of your working installation connected to separate database<br>
+filled with your real company data. This will allow us find and fix any possible<br>
+upgrade issues before final 2.4 release. Please report any bugs/problems found via our <br>
+Mantis Bugtracker at http://mantis.frontaccounting.com.<br>
+<h3>Download instructions</h3>
+In Sourceforge FrontAccounting (http://sourceforge.net/projects/frontaccounting), select <br>
+Files -> FrontAccounting 2.4 ->2.4.1.<br>
+<br>
+For Windows users select the zip file. For all other users select the tar.gz file.<br>
+<h3>Notice for certain Windows wamp servers.</h3>
+Due to experienced long upgrade time for release 2.3 databases to release 2.4 on certain wamp <br>
+servers, we just ask you to be patience. It might take a while, but should end successfully. <br>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* Optional popup search enabled if this is true. $max_rows_in_search = 10 <br>
+
+ is used for maximum rows in search */<br>
+
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$use_popup_search = true;</span><br>
+
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$max_rows_in_search = 10;</span><br>
+
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.22.</h2>
+
+
+
+
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* Show average costed values instead of fixed standard cost */ In Enventory Valuation Report.<br>
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$use_costed_values = 0;</span><br>
+<br>
+/* Print Item Images on Sales Quotations. Set to 1 if so. */<br>
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$print_item_images_on_quote = 0;</span><br>
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.21.</h2>
+
+<h4>Crucial security patches:</h4>
+
+This version consists of crucial security patches and this applies especially to all publicly available servers, <br>
+ f.i. installations which are run in not fully trusted environment like public demos, shared accounts or SAAS.<br>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* Whether to allow sending new password by e-mail */<br>
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$allow_password_reset = false</span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.20.</h2>
+
+<h4>Crucial security patches:</h4>
+This version consists of crucial security patches and all guest FA
+installations (I mean whenever FA is run in not fully trusted
+environment) should be updtaed.<br>
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.17.</h2>
+
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/*<br>
+ Choose Exchange Rate Provider<br>
+ Default is ECB for backwards compatibility<br>
+*/<br>
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$xr_providers = array("ECB", "YAHOO", "GOOGLE", "BLOOMBERG");<br>
+$dflt_xr_provider = 0;<br>
+<br>
+</span>/*<br>
+ Set to true when remote service is authoritative
+source of exchange rates, and can be stored automatically without<br>
+ manual edition. Otherwise exrate is stored on first new currency transaction of the day.<br>
+*/<br>
+<span style="font-weight: bold;">$xr_provider_authoritative = false;<br>
+</span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.16.</h2>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4><span style="font-weight: bold;">/*<br> </span> Optional sorting new sales documents lines according to item code<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>*/<br>$sort_sales_items = false;<br><br>/*<br> </span>Trial Balance opening balance presentation option.<br> When set to true past years part of opening balance is cleared.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>*/<br>$clear_trial_balance_opening = false;</span><h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.14.</h2>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* default print orientation. 0 = Portrait, 1 = Landscape */<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$def_print_orientation
+= 0;</span><br>
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.13.</h2>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* No check on edit conflicts. Maybe needed to be set to 1 in certains
+Windows Servers */<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$no_check_edit_conflicts
+= 0;</span><br>
+<h2>Important Notes for release 2.3.12.</h2>
+<h4>New global flags in config.php (config-default.php):</h4>
+/* <br>
+ Display a dropdown select box for
+choosing Company to login if false.<br>
+ Show a blank editbox only if true where
+the Company NickName<br>
+ will have to be manually entered. This
+is when privacy is needed.<br>
+*/<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$text_company_selection</span>
+= false;<br>
+<br>
+/* Should FA hide menu items (Applications, Modules, and
+Actions) from the user if they don't have access to them? <br>
+ 0 for
+no 1 for yes<br>
+*/<br>
+<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$hide_inaccessible_menu_items</span>
+= 0;<br>
+<br>
+/*<br>
+ Brute force prevention.<br>
+ $login_delay seconds delay is required
+between login attempts after $login_max_attemps failed logins.<br>
+ Set $login_delay to 0 to disable the
+feature (not recommended)<br>
+*/<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$login_delay</span>
+= 30;<br>
+ <span style="font-weight: bold;">$login_max_attempts</span>
+= 10;
+<h2><strong></strong>Important Notes for release
+2.3.5.</h2>
+Change in the behaviour of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Recurrent
+Invoices</span>.<br>
+<ul>
+<li>Now
+the Last Sent day is stamped with the former Last Sent (or Begin date
+the first time) + months + days. Before the Last Sent day was stamped
+with tthe creation date (today). The Invoice date is still todays date.
+</li>
+<li>If you for some reason want to make a pause in the
+recurrent
+invoices, you can now edit the Last Sent day in the Management section
+of Sales tab.</li>
+<li>Before the days value, together with a month
+value, decided which day in the month the invoice was due..
+ This
+does not work now. You can change the day in the
+month you
+want the recurrency to happen by setting the Last Sent day with the new
+day in the Management section. </li>
+<li>If you create a new Recurrent Invoice the Beginning date
+can be set to the day in the month you want the recurrencies to be due.</li>
+</ul>