September brings a balance of trytond internals and business-module refinements. The server now retries queued tasks that were dropped because a worker died, enforces request timeouts for the whole request, and exposes routes so RPC endpoints can be registered declaratively. On the user side, European VAT numbers are now validated in the background, stock periods close themselves, and the IBAN editor formats the number as it is typed-in. All of this builds on our last LTS release 8.0.
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Changes for the User
Accounting, Invoicing and Payments
The automatic VIES check replaces the previous wizard for European VAT numbers. A background task validates new and modified EU VAT identifiers and refreshes them once the configured validity period has expired. The validity of the identifier is also checked when posting an invoice, so a stale or invalid VAT number is caught before the invoice is sent. The last validation-state and validation-date is displayed in the identifier view.
The party required setting can no longer be changed on an account that already has account moves. This avoids mixing moves with and without a party on the same account, which used to confuse later reports.
The redundant prefix is dropped from the statement and payment journals actions. So the menus for accounting, statements and payments no longer repeat the “statement” or “payment” word.
The IBAN of a bank account on a party is now formatted with spaces between groups of four characters on changing the field. This makes it easier to check the number was entered correctly.
The version of the Stripe API used by the payment gateway is updated to the latest one.
Stock, Production and Shipments
Stock periods can now be created and closed automatically by two scheduled tasks, automating the manual steps at the start and end of each period.
On a stock move that is linked to a shipment but opened outside the shipment form, the from and to locations are now read-only. This prevents the location domain inherited from the shipment from being bypassed. The domain is also enforced on stock moves, so each move matches at least one of the shipment’s two move fields: incoming moves or inventory moves.
User Interface
In the SAO client, tabs now scroll horizontally when they overflow the tab list. The scrolling is smooth for a nicer effect when adding a new tab.
New Releases
We released bug fixes for the currently maintained long term support series 8.0, 7.8, and 7.0.
Changes for Implementers and Developers
A mixin can now be added to the Database and TableHandler from the configuration. This is used by the gis module to register PostGIS as a backend mixin.
The Pool now exposes routes, so RPC endpoints can be registered declaratively using a Router.
The trytond request timeout is now enforced for the whole request, not just for individual queries. A threading timer injects an exception into the running thread when the timeout expires.
Queued tasks that were dequeued but never finished, because the worker was killed, are now retried by a scheduled task. The retry uses the finished_at timestamp and the task lock to know which tasks are still outstanding.
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