October 01 2007

Hi All,

I'm pleased to announce that Simple Invoices 2007 10 02 has now been released! - Note: This release has been delayed for the last few days as I've been celebrating Geelongs victory over Port in the AFL Grand Final - refer below for photos and details – Go CATS!!

This is our first major release is just over 4 months and alot of 'under the hood' work has gone into this release

Main changes:

• Updated UI and menu system
• More preferences moved from config/config.php into the System Preferences page
• Add more items into an itemised ot consulting invoice via the edit page
• PHP5 5 and above only
• How PDFs are generated has been updated - no need for $install_path in config.php

Full ChangeLog

• PHP5 and above only - Simple Invoices will no longer work on PHP4 servers
• Invoices now can be deleted- This is can be enabled via the System Preferences page
• Adding more items to an existing invoice via the edit page it now possible
• New javascript menu included - now works in IEs,FF and Opera
• New language select system - system language can now be changed via the System Preferences page
• All pages move to the smarty templating system
• Updated UI - were slowly moving away from our 37signals style UI to a more unqiue UI
• PDF system modified - $installation_path no longer required
• Authentication sql table added to the default install - so you now longer have to manually run the login sql to get authentication working
• How total invoices are stored in the DB has changed - now a total invoices gets stored as a product in the products table but set to not visible via the Manage Products page
• System Defautls renamed to System Preferences
• Authentication can now be set via the config.php file - no need to adjust include_auth.php anymore
• Customer add template fixed for if no name entered
• Issue 106 Edit tax rates bug fixed
• Report: Debtors owing by customer sql fixed
• SQL patch to alter tax rate to 3 decimal places

Changes since the beta

• PDF and emailing a PDF now work correctly

You can grab a copy of the release from our sourceforge site: Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=164303 Demo: http://www.simpleinvoices.org/demo

The Cats Grand Final victory over Port (aka the reason why this release wasn't done for the last few days) http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/09/30/sports/30afl.php

Cheers

Justin