New Tryton release 4.4
Publicado: 2017-05-01 18:00:00+00:00
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We are proud to announce the 4.4 release of Tryton.
This release see many work to make Tryton even more customizable by reusing or
improving common design patterns of existing modules, but still continues to
extend the features with new modules.
There is also a good effort in improving the security of the application.
It contains also many bug fixes and performance improvements.
This release see the removal of the set of DAV modules (webdav, calendar,
party_vcarddav etc.). Those modules were based on the no more maintained
PyWebDAV library and they did not
support Python 3.
The side effect is that now the full server stack is Python 3 compatible.
Of course the migration from previous series is fully supported. Some manual
operation may be required, see migration from 4.2 to 4.4.
Major changes for the user
- The URL entry that was set at the button of every tab has been replaced by a
button on the toolbar. The button allow to display the URL and copy it to the
clipboard. This allow to have more vertical space in the client for the lists
and the forms.
- A common need, when user customize the report template from the client, is to
encode the new translations. This is now very easy thanks to the addition of
two actions on the report to set and synchronize the translations. A new
relate button allows to open the list of all translations linked to the
report. The same feature is also available for the views.
- The desktop client used until now the security model Trust On First Use. But today with the
raise of service like Let's Encrypt, it is very
easy and cheap to have a valid SSL certificate but such certificate are
renewed very often. So it was no more practical to use TOFU model so the
client now validate the certificate of the server using CA of the system or the
one configured. The fingerprint of the server is still used as check to
prevent to fallback to a plain HTTP connection.
Accounting
- The period and the fiscal year can be locked definitively. It was already
possible to close them to prevent to post anything on them but it was always
possible to re-open them. Some countries (like French) has a requirement to
have a mechanism that can not be re-open. This is why we have added the lock.
- The invoice sequences have been simplified. They now use a list of extensible
criteria to choose which sequence to use for an invoice. This design is very
flexible and allow to implement the country specific requirements very
easily.
- It is now possible to mark a supplier has having direct debit access. In this
case its payable lines will not be shown in the list of lines to pay. This
prevents to pay them by mistake while the supplier will issue a direct debit.
- Often a company has only one payment journal. In this case now it will be
directly filled in the payment wizard.
- To ease the task of reviewing the account entries, the statements put the
line number and description in respectively move and line description.
- The analytic accounting has now a rule engine. It allows to apply rules when
posting accounting moves without any analytics. The rules can be based on the
account, the journal and the party, but of course as usual, those criteria
can be easily extended.
account_invoice_correction
This new module allow to correct the price of a posted invoice line. It adds a
new wizard which allow the user to select the line to correct and create a new
invoice with for each line two opposite ones. This way the user can change the
price of the positive line and keep the statistics and the anglo-saxon
accounting correct.
account_payment_stripe
This new module adds the support of Stripe as
receivable payment method.
The module support many Stripe accounts, one per payment journal.
It provides checkout method via browser form for payment or to register a party
as Stripe customer.
The processing of the payment is done asynchronously by a cron task.
Commission
- It is now possible to use product category as criteria to match a commission
plan.
Product
- The price list has now a new criteria based on the category. It matches
products that are linked to the category (standard or accounting).
product_price_list_dates
This new module adds a start and end date to the price list lines like that the
price list change can be planned in advance. There is a relate from the price
list to open the lines like that the user can use the filter.
Production
- A new producible checkbox is added to the product. This allow to restrict the
product that can have a BOM.
Purchase
- The purchase price is now displayed on the product search list from the
purchase line.
- It is now possible to edit the delivery date of a purchase line. The
computation from the supplier lead time is not always possible, but often the
supplier can provide an accurate delivery date. So it is good for the supply
planning to have a good accuracy of the planned deliver dates.
- It is now possible to see the requests from which a purchase line was
created. This gives more information to the purchaser in case he has to
negotiate the quantity for example.
Sale
- The sale price is now displayed on the product search list from the sale
line. This allow the salesman to discuss the prices of similar product with
the customer.
- It is allowed now to leave the lead time of a product empty. There are cases
where a company can not define a lead time for selling a product. Then the
generated stock move will not have any planned date.
sale_subscription
This new module defines the basics to support subscription of recurring
services. And periodically invoice them based on consumption created recurrence
rules.
sale_advance_payment
This new module allows to manage advance payment on the sale. An advance
payment term can be linked to a sale which will create advance invoices when it
is processed. The payment of those advance payments can condition the execution
of the supply and the shipping of the sale. The amount of each invoice is
computed using a formula based the sale amount.
Stock
- The shipments now record the employee responsible for some states. For
example the employee who received the supplier shipment; the employee who
picked and packed the customer shipment etc.
- The internal shipment has now a request state. This allows to have similar
design as for production by creating request long time in advance and
recompute them as far as they stay in request state.
- The customer shipment can have the same picking/storage location and output
location. This allows to support more warehouse workflow. For example, using
grouped internal shipment for the picking, this is often known as wave
picking.
- If an order point exists for a specific type (purchase, production etc.),
this disable the other supply methods.
- The internal shipments are now generated recursively because creating an
internal shipment can generate a new need of another internal shipment. Now
the generation is looping as long as it is needed.
- All the different wizards that created supply records for each type have been
merged into a single wizard. This allow to ensure that all supply records are
created at once, leaving the system in a coherent state.
- The order point has now a maximum quantity. If this quantity is reached by
the location then the extra quantity will be shipped to the defined
overflowing location.
- Just like there is a warning on the supply wizard for late supplier moves,
there is also now a warning for late customer moves. By default Tryton
consider that customer moves not performed on time, will not be done and so
they are no more supplied. This warning ensure the user will take care of
those late moves by canceling or replanning them before computing the stock
supply.
stock_shipment_measurements
This new module adds the computation of the weight and volume of the shipments
and packages. This is a central place where this computation can be shared
between different modules.
Major changes for the developer
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The Property fields have been removed in favor of the MultiValue based on the
MultiValueMixin and ValueMixin. The Property fields were used mainly to
provide multi-company capabilities but the API is based on context attribute
only which makes them very difficult to use without having record rules to
ensure not mixing between company. The new API allows to get values without
using context and this will allow us to remove the multi-company record rule
in future release.
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The col attribute in the view can have a negative value to create an
infinite number of column. This is very useful for group that are designed
to get an undetermined number of field.
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A new domain has been added to the window action. This domain evaluation is
reevaluated when the context is changed. This creates more dynamic windows.
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All the domain computation can be override by a method domain_<field name>
on the Model with until now the exception of the Function fields. This makes
the API more coherent and allow to create more performant SQL query for
Function fields by using for example joins.
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Two new capabilities check methods have been added to the Database back-end:
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has_select_for which allows to use the SELECT ... FOR to lock specific
rows instead of the all table.
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has_window_functions which allows to use the SQL window functions.
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A better independence between the fields and the backend has been implemented
in this version. This allow external modules to define new kind of fields.
For example, a set of GIS fields is
under development based on those improvements.
- The fields define now which methods should be configured for RPC
- A generic SQL type is defined by the fields and it is on the back-end
responsibility to convert into its specific version.
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The order definition for a column support the extra keywords for ordering null values.
The available keywords are: NULLS FIRST and NULLS LAST. For SQL back-end
that does not support the keywords, the order is converted into an equivalent
SQL query thanks to python-sql.
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The Many2One fields on ModelSQL can now target just ModelStorage.
Tryton will not try to create a foreign key constraint on the table in that
case.
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A new filter attribute has been added to all xxx2Many fields. This filter
is used to limit the records returned by the getter of the fields. So it is
like domain but without being a constraint for the setter. This allows to
replace some Function into plain fields. This review still needs to be done for all modules.
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The cache management is automatically done now in the Transaction. This
allows to ensure the consistency and integrity of the cache but also ease the
usage of trytond in Python script.
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A new security measure against brute force attack on the login has been
implemented. A new max_attempt parameter in the configuration determine the
number of attempt before the server answers unconditionally Too Many
Requests for new login attempts. This lasts for the timeout period.
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Some constraints have been added to the user password to enforce good
security practice. Those constraints are:
- a configurable minimal length which is 8 by default.
- a list of forbidden password. This list is stored into a file defined in
the configuration. By default there is no list but it is useful for
example to forbid the name of the company etc.
- a minimal ratio of non repeated characters.
- the password must be different of the login, email and name of the user.
Product
- New methods ceil and floor have been added to the Unit of Measure. They
have the same API as round.
Production
- For better accuracy of production quantities, the input quantities are ceil
and the output quantities are floored. This reflect better the really than
rounding the quantities.
Stock
- The default product location uses the MatchMixin pattern now. This makes it
easier to extend with new criteria.
- The computation of the maximum lead time has been improved to be more
accurate by summing all the lead times to get the biggest path possible.
It also adds extra lead times like the biggest supplier lead time.