Changelog

Groups: Description and organization of groups are now visible for non-admins.

Group Excel export: Includes email addresses of assigned users.

Menu customization: Drag & drop functionality implemented for personalized menu organization.

AI time savings tracking in timesheets with calculation and reporting features.

Cost search functionality supports plain number string searches.

Timesheet collision prevention on multiple button events.

Excel export functionality added to accounting record list page.

User registration process made more user-friendly for new employees.

Modal dialogs on calendar page support ESC key and click-outside closing.

2FA code input field with improved UX (numeric inputmode, autoComplete).

Excel export of timesheets with AI-savings data included.

Improved forecast and orderbook functionality with planning data.

History entries now support user comments for administrative changes.

Enhanced AG Grid implementation with German translations, filtering, and sorting.

Vacation validator improvements for edge cases with remaining days from previous year.

Sipgate contact synchronization service with configurable cron job scheduling.

Data transfer functionality with sanity checks and backup capabilities.

JCR memory leak fixes and improved repository management.

Enhanced user and group access control with menu visibility configuration.

Forecast export functionality with filtering by unit, customer, and projects.

Task wizard support for optional external groups.

Multi-selection improvements for employees in visitor book and vacation entries.

JCR memory leaks in DataTransfer module resolved.

DynamicButton disabled state during fetch operations.

Accounting record list page tooltips fixed.

Timesheet recent entries display corrected (kost2, project, customer info).

VacationValidator edge case handling for vacation day calculations.

NPE fixes in vacation account management and group services.

Task tree access checking improvements for timesheet editing.

Order forecast data and invoice cache handling corrections.

User group cache and right handling stability improvements.

Address forced deletion after MGC migration fixed.

History formatting and user comment handling corrected.

Various UI fixes for AG Grid tables and component rendering.

Excel export XML escaping for task titles in timesheet exports.

Cost assignment export improvements for invoice handling.

Login redirect functionality after authentication.

Calendar and timesheet page rendering issues resolved.

Employee selection improvements without autocompletion quirks.

Mass update functionality with proper Excel modification tracking.

Multiple deadlock issues resolved in caching and logging components.

Wicket session store size increased from 100kB to 2MB: prevents session loss on large pages.

CSRF token handling and exception registry improvements.

File stream handling corrections ensuring proper resource closure.

Enhanced administration capabilities with user group cache debugging tools.

System sanity checks with automated error reporting via email.

Improved cron job scheduling using separate threads to prevent blocking.

Database testing tools accessible via admin interface.

Configuration parameter management for AI time savings features.

Menu item visibility configuration by user groups.

Enhanced logging and exception handling for proactive error reporting.

CVE updates: Tomcat upgraded from 10.1.33 to 10.1.39.

Improved access control for addresses and address campaigns (marketing users only).

Enhanced user and group visibility restrictions for non-admin users.

CSRF protection improvements and token handling enhancements.

Wicket upgraded to version 10.5.0 with improved page store handling.

Spring framework updates and dependency management improvements.

AG Grid integration with advanced filtering, sorting, and column pinning.

React Router dependency management and compatibility fixes.

Enhanced Kotlin coroutines implementation for asynchronous operations.

JCR (Java Content Repository) improvements with RDB storage preparation.

Jackson library updates with Hibernate 6 module integration.

Excel processing improvements with Apache POI enhancements.

Database migration scripts and flyway integration updates.

Docker container improvements for multi-architecture support preparation.

Package dependency updates including security patches.

Gradle build system optimizations and test framework enhancements.

Source file headers updated to 2025 copyright year.

Own CardDav-Implementation for synchronization of contacts (tested with Apple contacts (macOS/iOS), Thunderbird).

Sipgate interface implemented for synchronization of address.

Calendar view improved.

Excel-Export of vacations for all employees, teams and colleagues.

Birthdaybutler for monthly birthday list.

Export of timesheets as xlsx.

Attachments to books added.

lots of minor improvements.

several bugs fixed.

The main calendar refactored (colors, functionalities, more customizable etc.)

Datatransfer-Plugin: Notification improved

Vacations

History of changes improved.

2FA-requests preserve now input fields.

lots of minor improvements.

Menu customization in classical version.

Yubikey now also supported in other browsers: Chrome, Edge etc.

several bugs fixed.

2FA (use SMS, mail, Authenticator app or Webauthn/Fido2 as 2nd factor for much more security.)

Password reset for users implemented (it’s only usable for users with configured 2FA / mail isn’t supported for password reset due to security reasons).

Scripts may be executed by users/groups without special rights (sudo functionality is supported). You may configure reports e. g. for project managers including financial data.

mass update and selection of invoices for e. g. bank transfers etc.

Datatransfer:

CSRF-Handling: if session token was changed, the user is able to simply reload the page for continuing.

mass update functionality refactored and improved.

pagination for result lists of new UI introduced.

Several minor bugfixes

Password reset for users: Admins may enter cell numbers of users to enable password for users without any configured 2FA.

2FA is now fully supported. You may configure:

Combination of DataTransfer and Merlin: Serial PDFs/Words may be automatically generated and sent to the personal boxes of the users/employees.

Scripting: example-scripts, include supported, new source editor supporting Groovy and Kotlin.

Combination of DataTransfer and Merlin: Serial PDFs/Words may be automatically generated and sent to the personal boxes of the users/employees.

Scripting functionalities improved.

Data protections improvements.

Several minor bugfixes

Ssh public key is also visible for non-admins.

2FA introduced (will be improved soon).

Word-Templating (Merlin): Word templating for letters, information, contracts etc. with serial execution including variables, if-else-expressions etc. inside docx (like Velocity-Scripting-engine). All users/emloyees may receive letters/contracts etc. (as Word and/or PDF-files) in their personal boxes via serial execution.
example template files included for a quick start.

Log viewer added (for admins as well as for users for tracking own activity for mass updates of time-sheets, usage of Merlin or Datev-imports)

Gender for users added: Used by Merlin (word templating) for creation of personalized letters, contracts etc.

DataTransfer-Plugin: encryption added

Exporting SEPA-cash transfers improved: special characters unsupported by banking software will be replaced/removed.

Features for deleting data such as addresses, employee, vacataion data etc. implemented due to privacy restrictions in the EU. The deletion includes also history entries.

Several minor bugfixes

Search for deleted entries (addresses etc.) fixed.

Search in history entries (keywords, users) fixed.

No restart after first installation required anymore.

During Shutdown some temporarily created directories (tomcat.* and projectforge-application*) will be deleted automatically.

using char[] instead of String for passwords.