Aleks,

Just to say congratulations!!!

Regards

Victor

El mié, 13 abr 2022 a las 18:18, Aleksandar Vidakovic (<[email protected]>)
escribió:

> Hi everyone,
>
> ... if you followed the mailing list and the PR requests on Github in
> recent weeks and months you probably know that we merged quite a list of
> new features, improvements and the usual bug fixes. In fact, I think we had
> a pretty decent run looking at what was already accomplished  and the
> almost completed changes:
>
>
>    - DONE: Migrated all old Spring XML configuration to Spring Java
>    configuration
>    - DONE: Major JAX-RS Jersey upgrade from 1.x to 2.x
>    - DONE: Major improvements to make Fineract more configurable (without
>    recompiles); database configuration cleaned up, SSL, cache, connection pool
>    are completely configurable now, no more hardcoded values
>    - DONE: Proper use of environment variables for configuration;
>    properties based configuration to select authentication scheme (again, no
>    recompiles)
>    - DONE: Improved and faster Docker image builds with Google JIB
>    - DONE: Introduced Asciidoc for documentation (existing documentation
>    migrated, ongoing effort)
>    - DONE: Support for JDK17 LTS (was JDK11 LTS previously)
>    - DONE: Automatic Gradle project versioning (was previously done
>    manually, Gradle plugin takes care of this now based on Git information)
>    - DONE: Dropped Drizzle JDBC driver; using now MariaDB JDBC driver
>    (that we can package with the distribution)
>    - DONE: Added support for PostgreSQL
>    - DONE: Replaced OpenJPA with EclipseLink
>    - DONE: Replaced Flyway with Liquibase for database migration
>    - DONE: Introduction of Lombok to reduce boilerplate code (ongoing
>    effort)
>    - DONE: Fixed Sonar security hotspots
>    - DONE: Introduced Cucumber BDD testing
>    - DONE: Work on making Fineract more modular started
>    - DONE: Build speed improvements
>    - DONE: Node aware job schedulers
>    - WIP: Alternative implementation for the reporting module based on
>    Eclipse BIRT (replacing Pentaho hosted at mifos)
>    - WIP: (Semi-) automatic releases with JReleaser
>    - WIP: Enforcement of architecture rules with ArchUnit
>    - WIP: Publish most recent documentation with every merge to develop
>    - WIP: Publish release and latest development stable Docker image on
>    Docker Hub
>    - WIP: Migrate integration tests to Cucumber and replace test
>    infrastructure (Gradle Cargo Tomcat plugin, external MariaDB setup) with
>    ready to use Testcontainers (working on test speed)
>    - ... and not to forget the numerous functional improvements!
>
> Let me take a moment to thank everyone who contributed with code and
> ideas, but also everyone who tried and tested Fineract and gave valuable
> feedback for bug fixes and improvements.
>
> I hope I didn't forget anything important in the list above, but I think
> it's safe to say that all these changes taken together are quite an
> important step forward. If you have a moment please also have a look at
> this year's GSoC proposals; quite an impressive list there and I hope that
> most if not all of the projects find their way into the upstream codebase
> this year. And finally we have more new features and improvements in
> preparation (that's maybe for a separate post).
>
> This is why I'd like to suggest having a new release 1.7.0 beginning/mid
> May 2022.
>
> The main focus recently has been to polish off some rough edges we might
> still have and most importantly to beef up the documentation for all the
> new features, but also to improve the existing documentation.
>
> Please let us know what you think and what else you need/would like to
> see in this release.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Aleks
>

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