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-<h2>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
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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
+</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
+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>
+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>
<h2>Important Notes</h2>
<p>Upgrade process can be done only by administrator of the first
company created during FrontAccounting installation. This person is
considered as a site admin who have granted access to potentially
dangerous setup options, like Setup/Software Upgrade.</p>
-<p>In the following description sections related to older FA versions are
-prefixed with <span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[color tags]</span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">
+<p>In the following description sections related to older FA
+versions are
+prefixed with <span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[color
+tags]</span><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
. Y</span>ou can skip tagged fragment safely if currently FA
application is newer than the version in tag.</p>
-<p>Upgrade process consists of up to four stages, some of them are
+<p>Upgrade process consists of up to four stages, some of them
+are
optional:</p>
<ol>
- <li><p>Application source files update
- </p>
- </li><li><p>Database upgrade – this step is needed only during
- upgrade which involves change in major application version number
- (e.g. from 2.2.x to 2.3.x), and sometimes during upgrade from beta
- release to stable version. Otherwise this step can be skipped.</p>
- </li><li><p>Final cleanup – is needed when some old source files,
- obsoleted by new release should be removed.</p>
- </li><li><p>New features configuration – this is optional step
- needed for most major releases and some minor ones.
- </p>
-</li></ol>
-<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Before starting upgrade ensure nobody
+<li>
+<p>Application source files update </p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Database upgrade – this step is needed only during upgrade
+which involves change in major application version number (e.g. from
+2.2.x to 2.3.x), and sometimes during upgrade from beta release to
+stable version. Otherwise this step can be skipped.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>Final cleanup – is needed when some old source files,
+obsoleted by new release should be removed.</p>
+</li>
+<li>
+<p>New features configuration – this is optional step needed
+for most major releases and some minor ones. </p>
+</li>
+</ol>
+<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">Before starting upgrade
+ensure nobody
is using the application and make database backup for all companies.
To be on safe side backup also old source files, especially those
locally customized (if any).</p>
files update</span></font></font></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="">Compare new
</span></strong><strong><i><b>config.default.php</b></i></strong><strong>
-</strong><strong><span style="">file with the old
+</strong><strong><span style="">file with the
+old
</span></strong><strong><i><b>config.php </b></i></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">and
add all n</span></span></strong><strong><span style="">ew
settings (if any). </span></strong>
</p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.2beta]</span></span></strong></p>
-<p><strong> <span style="">$show_users_online = 0;</span></strong></p>
+<p><strong> <span style="">$show_users_online
+= 0;</span></strong></p>
<p><strong> <span style="">$def_print_destination
= 0;</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="">$dflt_date_fmt=0;</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="">$dflt_date_sep=0;</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="">$table_style,table_style2
changed</span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.3beta]</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong> <span style="">$alternative_tax_include_on_doc=0;</span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates = 0;</span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates
+= 0;</span></strong></p>
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.3RC1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
</p>
<p><strong><span style="">Application version
variable unless this is set in config.php file. If you want current
release version to be displayed on every FA update just remove or
comment out $version variable in </span></strong><strong><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">config.php</span></span></strong><strong><span style="">.</span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.3RC2]</span></span></strong></p>
-<p><strong> <span style="">$save_report_selections = 0; // A value > 0 means days to save the report selections.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
-2.3]</span></span></strong></p><p><strong> <span style="">$save_po_item_codes = 0; // show item codes on purchase order </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="">$def_print_destination = 0; // default print destination. 0 = PDF/Printer, 1 = Excel</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="">$alternative_tax_include_on_docs = 0; // 1 = print Subtotal tax excluded, tax and Total tax included</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates = 0; // suppress tax rates on documents. 0 = no, 1 = yes.</span></strong></p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"></span></span></strong>
-
-<strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;"></span></span></strong><h2><strong><b>2. Database upgrade</b></strong></h2>
-<p><strong><span style="">This step can be skipped
+<p><strong> <span style="">$save_report_selections
+ = 0; // A value > 0 means days to save the
+report selections.</span></strong></p>
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
+2.3]</span></span></strong></p>
+<p><strong> <span style="">$save_po_item_codes
+ = 0; // show item codes on purchase
+order </span></strong></p>
+<p><strong><span style="">$def_print_destination
+= 0; // default print destination. 0 = PDF/Printer, 1 = Excel</span></strong></p>
+<p><strong><span style="">$alternative_tax_include_on_docs
+= 0; // 1 = print Subtotal tax excluded, tax and Total tax
+included</span></strong></p>
+<p><strong><span style="">$suppress_tax_rates
+= 0; // suppress tax rates on documents. 0 = no, 1 = yes.</span></strong></p>
+<strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></strong><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;"></span></span></strong>
+<h2><strong><b>2. Database upgrade</b></strong></h2>
+<p><strong><span style="">This step can be
+skipped
for small version updates i.e. when you have already installed
FrontAccounting version 2.3.1 or later. Before database upgrade is
done on all company databases backup file is created automatically to
upgrade in forced mode check box 'Force Upgrade', and press 'Upgrade
System' again.</p>
<h2>3. Final cleanup</h2>
-<p>Remove or rename install folder in main FrontAccounting directory.
+<p>Remove or rename install folder in main FrontAccounting
+directory.
</p>
-<p>After upgrade is installed you can remove files obsoleted by new
+<p>After upgrade is installed you can remove files obsoleted by
+new
FrontAccounting version. Also old, unused settings <span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">can
-be removed from </span></span><i><b>config.php</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
+be removed from </span></span><i><b>config.php</b></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">
file.</span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4">a.
Source files cleanup</font></font></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.2beta]</span></span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">/includes/reserved.inc
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">/includes/reserved.inc
– removed.</span></span></strong></p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
</p>
<p><strong><span style="">/admin/db/v_banktrans.inc
<p style="margin-top: 0.42cm; page-break-after: avoid;"><font face="Liberation Sans, sans-serif"><font size="4"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">b.
Config.php cleanup </span></span></font></font>
</p>
-<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;">[<FA
+<p><strong><span style=""><span style="background: rgb(235, 97, 61) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">[<FA
2.2RC1]</span></span></strong><strong> </strong>
</p>
<p><strong><span style="">$security_headings,
-$security_groups arrays – moved to database (see Access Setup)
-</span></strong>
+$security_groups arrays – moved to database (see Access Setup) </span></strong>
</p>
<p><strong><span style="">$def_app – moved
to user configuration in database.</span></strong></p>
admin intervention can be necessary to set thing after changes to
their best state. Below you will find description of new settings
available after upgrade.</p>
-<p><br><br>
+<p><br>
+<br>
</p>
<p>----------------------</p>
-<ul></ul>
+<ul>
+</ul>
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