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 >
