Woow!!! Congratulations to all of you! Thank you Alex for taking the lead on this efforts.
Let's keep building! J Logo ( https://www.fiter.io ) *Javier Borkenztain* *| CEO* *e:* jav...@fiter.io *w:* fiter.io ( http://www.fiter.io ) *m:* +598 97980801 twitter icon ( https://twitter.com/Fiter_io ) youtube icon ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfWztdFtHI3PwaSLAEcwTNQ ) linkedin icon ( https://www.linkedin.com/company/fiter-io ) Sent via Superhuman ( https://sprh.mn/?vip=jav...@fiter.io ) On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 8:18 PM, Aleksandar Vidakovic < al...@apache.org > wrote: > > 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 >
