Freeside:4.0:Changelog

Notes

This is the changelog for the 4.0 release.

For a more detailed, raw log of changes, see the git log

Customers

• New UI for customer view and edit pages
• Customers may have multiple, prioritized payment methods on file.
• Customer status "Prospect" has been replaced by "No packages", to avoid confusion vs. actual Prospects.
• Contact email addresses may now be shared among customers. Contacts who have access to multiple customers will be prompted for a customer selection upon self-service login.

Scheduling

• Enhanced scheduling UI with appointment drag and drop

Taxation services

• Support for taxation services: Avalara, EZTax (Billsoft), and SureTax

Ticketing

• Request tracker updated from 4.0 to 4.2 (4.2.12)
  • What's new in RT 4.2
• New style more closely matched to non-ticketing pages

Reporting

• Discounts included in gross amounts by default

Authentication

• Overhaul of the employee authentication system. Proper login screen with cookie-based authentication tokens, strong crypto for password storage, external authentication plugins for integration with existing employee databases, etc.

Services

• Strict secure password checking by default
• Service dependency rules

Message templates

• Upload and catalog inline images
• Option to route all template send actions through an external web service

Performance / Scalability

• Configuration cache improving UI performance
• Database foreign keys
• Various scalability improvements for very large customer bases (millions and tens of millions)