Congratulation On Thu, Apr 14, 2022 at 2:37 AM VICTOR MANUEL ROMERO RODRIGUEZ < victor.rom...@fintecheando.mx> wrote:
> Aleks, > > Just to say congratulations!!! > > Regards > > Victor > > El mié, 13 abr 2022 a las 18:18, Aleksandar Vidakovic (<al...@apache.org>) > 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 >> >
