Dolibarr - What's new in 21.0 - DevCamp Nancy 2024.pptx
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The document outlines the new features and enhancements in Dolibarr version 21, including improved PHP compatibility, security updates, and a revamped user interface. Key changes involve significant reductions in technical debt, the introduction of new field formats, and enhancements in look and feel, such as improved tooltips and popup notifications. Additionally, new modules and APIs have been introduced, along with a dedicated merge process for maintenance, encouraging contributions from third-party developers.
Dolibarr - What's new in 21.0 - DevCamp Nancy 2024.pptx
- 1. DevCamp 2024 - Nancy Laurent Destailleur – Dolibarr Merger Mastodon: https://pouet.chapril.org/@LaurentD_Eldy/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-destailleur/ Twitter/X: @LaurentD_Eldy @DoliCloud License: CC-By-SA Dolibarr ERP CRM What’s new in v21
- 2. - New features reported by ChangeLog file: 187 (including 47 for developers) Summary of v21.0
- 3. - Statistics on number of commits and developers (v21 data not yet complete, nb of commits reduced due to squashing during merge started at end of v18) Summary of v21.0 Stats here not yet complete Start of squashed merges here
- 4. ● Compatible with PHP version >= 7.1 and <= 8.3.* (may be 8.4.* ?) Compatibility - Libraries update
- 5. Code quality ● Enhancement on CI/CT platform. ○ Check presence of secret keys in “pre-commit”. ○ Use of $conf->global->mymodule->enabled completely removed, replaced with isModEnabled(‘mymodule’) and is now blocked by the CI/CT.
- 6. Code quality ● Code for the management of bank lines categories has been aligned with common category management code.
- 7. Code quality The technical debt was again very seriously reduced. ● Phpstan: From 5 038 (v20) to 152 (v21) - at level 6 ● Phan: From 10 214 (v20) to 2 500 (v21)
- 8. ● Recommended security options (since v20): ○ MAIN_RESTRICTHTML_ONLY_VALID_HTML = 1 (using libxml) ○ MAIN_RESTRICTHTML_ONLY_VALID_HTML_TIDY = 1 (using php-tidy) ○ MAIN_RESTRICTHTML_REMOVE_ALSO_BAD_ATTRIBUTES = 1 ○ MAIN_SECURITY_CSRF_WITH_TOKEN must be set to 3. Check your modules! ● Add an applicative Deny Of Service protection per IP on most public pages. ● Add an applicative anti brute-force protection into security setup Security enhancements
- 9. ● More sensible business data encrypted by default (like BAN) ● Add a tool to decrypt an encrypted string. Security enhancements
- 10. ● Can ask a check on a the Dolibarr association “blacklist” when deploying a module Security enhancements
- 11. ● Architecture for Captcha submodules New tab “Captcha” in security setup to manage captcha submodules Security enhancements
- 12. ● New field formats : Stars (modulebuilder and extrafields) Duration (extrafields) ● Replace some combo boxes with simple click choice => 4 clicks to set the nature of a third party before, 0 to 3 now. Example: Nature of a third party, Nature of a member, … Look and feel v21
- 13. ● More grouped buttons (Create … in contract, intervention …) ● The Browser notifications does no more use the Browser dependant Notification API, but use the native Dolibarr popups. Look and feel v21
- 14. ● On widgets, when no data exists, add button to create a record after the message ● On the popup to select columns, the filter input is always visible. Look and feel v21
- 15. ● Tooltips on detail of amount (even for amount in the foreign currency) on popup of a total price. Look and feel v21
- 16. Look and feel v21 ● A better “copy to clipboard” component ● The margin section can now be hidden/collapsed (with persistent user choice remind) A tick replaces the text (no more broken layout)
- 17. Look and feel v21 ● The WYSIWYG editor menu is now reduced when used on smartphones A click open the editor in fullscreen mode with the complete menu
- 18. Look and feel v21 ● Can have rounded borders on all tables and lists (setup done in global Display setup).
- 19. Look and feel v21 ● The tab “Attached files” is now lighter (using the + to add new record) Before After
- 20. Look and feel v21 ● Can set a subtitle under titles (automatically hidden on smartphones)
- 21. New features ● Can attach automatically a PDF document on generated PDF no need of external module.
- 22. New features - For users and developer ● The OAuth module can be used for any simple generic Oauth servers. Example: mastodon. ● Support “multi-tenant” for Microsoft Office365 OAuth.
- 23. New features - Generic graphic report tool ● A first version of a generic graphic report tool available in Home - Tools
- 24. New features - For developer ● More APIs ● More Hooks
- 25. Official Docker package ● Available on https://hub.docker.com/dolibarr (updated by github actions)
- 26. Contribution process ● Experimentation of a dedicated Merge team (2 people) for v18 maintenance for a multi- approbator merge process on maintenance versions. Branch develop Branch v18 (1 merger + 2 approbators) => Need to develop some github actions to make a multi-approbator process more efficient, by removing the overload period ( ) PR Auto-feedback CI Fix Re-merge/Re-push Merge PR Third-party developers feedback Conflict Auto-feedback CI Conflict Approval A Assign approbation Merge Third-party developers feedback Approval B Fix Re-merge/Re-push Approvers feedbacks
- 27. New repositories and remind of old ones ● Remind of existing repositories ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-docker (source to update docker image) ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-foundation (resources from the association) ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-resource-integration (resources “as is” for migration or interface from/to external system) ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-community-dev (tools for developers not in /dev) ● New repositories ○ https://hub.docker.com/r/dolibarr/dolibarr (at docker, updated from github actions) ○ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr-community-modules => repository to store official modules that need to be updated with a different frequency than Dolibarr released …
- 28. New repositories … to be integrated into the “Search external modules” feature… Should be readable in a next version directly from Dolibarr, like we have for DoliStore…
- 29. The complete list of all changes is here: https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr/blob/develop/ChangeLog To contact me… Mastodon: https://pouet.chapril.org/@LaurentD_Eldy/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurent-destailleur/ Twitter/X: @LaurentD_Eldy or @DoliCloud License: CC-by-SA Thank you…