Release Notes

MyCollab is an open source Collaboration Platform of Project Management, CRM and Document.

MyCollab is licensed under the Affero GPL 3 terms.

You can checkout our latest development source codes at https://github.com/esofthead/mycollab

For further information, please visit:

• https://www.mycollab.com/
• https://community.mycollab.com/

Contact the MyCollab team at:

• Our Q&A page https://www.mycollab.com/qa/
• Our web form https://www.mycollab.com/contact/

System requirements

MyCollab requires a running Java Runtime Environment (7 or greater), Java command should be presented in PATH environment and MySQL (InnoDB support recommended).

Please have a look at MyCollab requirements

• http://community.mycollab.com/installation-guideline/

Installation

1. Download MyCollab Binary File mycollab-x.xxx-dist
2. Follow installation guideline at https://community.mycollab.com/installation-guideline/
3. If you already installed MyCollab and you want to upgrade to MyCollab latest version, this link https://community .mycollab.com/upgrade/ will instruct steps to make your task easily

If you want to understand more MyCollab advanced configuration settings, please visit the link https://community .mycollab.com/configuration/. You will finish reading and understanding in a matter of minutes.

Last changelog

Version 5.0.8

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.7
• Upgrade libraries: HirakiCP, Jackrabbit, Commons-Email, Jetty

Improvements & New Features

• Parse html better, display rich html text smoothly
• Improve code quality overall
• Optimize the hash query and improve the site performance a little bit
• Revise the Gantt chart display
• Remove redundant assets and libraries to reduce the size of downloaded file size
• Support send email via StartTls or Ssl/Tls protocols

Bug Fixes

• Search project may throw exception in some special case
• Export report document is sometimes failed
• Upload file in page editor throws exception
• Add a new project page throws exception
• Fix several bugs relate to Gantt chart
• Display the new user information when user re-login by another account
• Fix missing assets in email template
• Some views can not display well on internet explorer browser
• Crm menu does not refresh if user logout then login with two different accounts

Version 5.0.7

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.6
• Upgrade other libraries

Improvements & New Features

• Revise the runner process. Important for auto upgrade feature
• Remove redundant images assets
• Change the default cdn url
• Change the default browser cache of vaadin
• Add context support for project
• Improve sending email with various SMTP settings
• Add warning message if user ask retrieve password without configuring SMTP (#fix per user's feedback)

Bug Fixes

• Minor bug fixes on IE browsers when user press button
• Email subject of task group has project name is null

Version 5.0.6

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade other libraries

Improvements & New Features

• Redirect to the server host instead localhost after installing successfully
• Minor change in task display
• Add help menu in view
• More comprehensive message to instruct user understand field value better
• Request user change username for the first time login after installation
• Increase the size of database connection pool to 50 for heavy load sites
• Improve the build process

Bug Fixes

• Display the error message when user upgrade MyCollab failed due to the file permission
• Did not display detail error message when validate form but the empty string
• Install MyCollab in Internet Explorer has several issues

Version 5.0.5.1

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.5

Improvements & New Features

• Revise the notification window to makes it looks nicer

Bug Fixes

• Can not send email in port different 25 in several cases
• Fix log location
• Exception when get the default user avatar

Version 5.0.5

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.4
• Upgrade other libraries

Improvements & New Features

• Revise CRM comments and history features to make it similar than project module
• Revise the layout of CRM module
• Display comment in CRM activity stream
• Support font awesome in emails
• Minor bug fixes in reporting
• Cache reflection fields hence upgrade the app performance up to 5%
• Add time summary for task group, milestone, component, version views
• Allow system admin can change the SMTP setting on the fly
• Enable gzip compression for assets by default
• Replace the old log4j library by logback

Bug Fixes

• Checkbox in Chrome, IE has the unintended border
• Other minor CSS issues on IE, Firefox

Version 5.0.4

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.3
• Upgrade Jetty Server version
• Upgrade other libraries

Improvements & New Features

• Auto update the new MyCollab version
• Ask system admin or warn users need to set up smtp setting for features which need to send email
• The new project file module
• Revise the application variable scopes
• Support quick review with instant tooltip
• Revise the task list display
• Minor improve on page view
• Display uploaded file size
• Add detail information for uploaded file in tooltip
• Display the friendly timezone name in tooltip

Bug Fixes

• The default created time of user should match with the default timezone
• The empty list view of bug, component and version has the horizontal scrollbar
• Fix links of MyCollab document

Version 5.0.3

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.2
• Upgrade other libraries: Spring framework, Jackrabbit, SLF4J etc

Improvements

• Easier to navigate among projects
• Add search of generic assignments to project
• Revise and do several bug fixes the file module
• Support tooltip for multi select component
• Display pretty time on label and detail date tooltip
• Add description for the project generic assignment
• Revise the invite project member view

Bug Fixes

• Edit project member throws exception
• Display bug context menu properly according to coordination of mouse
• Can not change the project information
• Correct year format of contact birthday
• Prevent the issue of can not view task or bug because the project short name is invalid
• Do not display year in birthday combo box

Version 5.0.2

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.4.1
• Upgrade other libraries

Improvements

• Add help message for project views

Bug Fixes

• Template select the default locale if the user locale is not existed
• The activity stream service throws exception when saving project page in several special cases
• Export project page include the title in the document
• Saving comment may throw exception in several cases
• Email notification for the created item does not display the detail of information

Version 5.0.1

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade libraries version

Improvements

• Optimize SQL query and there are some processes are 2x faster !!!
• Add custom notifiers
• Support default button in windows
• Improve search result of task list
• Support tag for tasks, bugs
• User is able to manage the favorites
• User is able to select the notifiers when he creates the new bug
• Display number of items in the search panel
• Support tooltip for project message widget
• Screen navigator works more efficiently
• Add more strictly validation constraint to project task

Bug Fixes

• Attachment box in Safari display wrongly
• Query project member tasks show wrong items
• Query project roles did not work
• Export task list to document throws exception
• Can not sending email in several cases

Version 5.0.0

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.3.10
• Upgrade Spring frameworks to 4.1.5.RELEASE
• Upgrade several Vaadin addons
• Upgrade all libraries up-to-date, there are few name are Infinispan, Apache commons, etc

Improvements

• Check the latest version notification
• Replace icons by font awesome
• Revise task group layout
• Support sub tasks for project task
• Simplify application configuration (for developers) to utilize convention over configuration
• Using Scala for several back-end components such as scheduler
• Allow assign user in task view
• Allow deselect assignee in bug or task
• Revise project and crm views
• Revise the related bug relationship
• Remove redundant css elements
• Fix layout issues in the Internet Explorer browsers

Bug Fixes

• Load the empty list of projects throws error in some special cases
• Internal issue causes the lazy views load infinitely
• Save crm call throws exception
• Update time logging but not update the project information immediately
• Tooltip of several entities do not display properly
• Time logging display the double value wrongly some times
• Gantt chart display to miss the last day of task
• Default permission of guest role is wide open

Version 4.5.5

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.3.5
• Upgrade HirakiCP to 2.2.5
• Upgrade Jackson to 2.4.4
• Upgrade Infinispan to 7.0.2
• Upgrade several Vaadin addons

Improvements

• Add user comment to the activity stream

Bug Fixes

• Display the activity stream in CRM dashboard may show the duplicated items
• Not thread safe when saving bugs, tasks
• Navigate user account throws exception
• Display full comment content are enclosed with crm note

Version 4.5.4

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Spring framework to 4.1.2.RELEASE
• Upgrade HirakiCP to 2.2.4
• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.3.4
• Upgrade AspectJ library to 1.8.4

Improvements

• Make the right widgets fly over when user scroll to the bottom in the task list view
• Revise Task, Bug, Risk, Problem, Milestone read views
• [Mobile] Make the back button associates to native back action to improve the navigation performance
• [Mobile] Support thumbnail for attachment
• [Mobile] User can preview attachment easily
• [Mobile] Support display hyperlinks for assignee, task, task group, milestone etc
• [Mobile] Revise time logging component
• [Mobile] Revise the mobile toolbar display
• [Mobile] Replace icons for better UI experience

Bug Fixes

• Fix timezone issue for datefield component
• Can not send email if user switch to the locale not in the supported list
• Can not get the log date for time logging in several rare browsers
• [Mobile] Back button does not work properly
• [Mobile] View title is not aligned center in iOS
• [Mobile] Can only upload one file in iOS

Version 4.5.3

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade AspectJ library to 1.8.3

Improvements

• The new MyCollab mobile is released! This is the alpha release, use it at your own risk.
• All description supports rich text
• Clean html in rich text to help html display html string correctly
• Display the crm activity stream properly when there is several items user can not access
• Display attachments in thumbnail mode
• Allow users can search in their following ticket list

Bug Fixes

• Custom layout throws NPE
• Fix NPE when user navigate the project time tracking list
• Throws error if user save the empty page content
• Minor fixes in set the overdue title colors in project and crm items
• Error when user upload the invalid file name

Version 4.5.2

Library Upgrades

• Upgrade Spring framework to 4.1.1.RELEASE
• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.3.3
• Upgrade Camel to 2.14.0

New Features

• Make the new MyCollab installer for every platform: Windows, MacOS, Linux
• Install MyCollab as window service
• The new notification to remind user upload his avatar if he did not

Improvements

• Remove unused libraries for the community edition such as Dropbox, Solr to reduce the size of installer
• Tweak the error handling while init view
• Refactor the file module management
• Add more unit tests for crm, content, project services and use assertj instead of standard junit assert statements
• Revise the localization and date format associate to locale. It helps external developers can translate MyCollab to other languages easily
• Refactor the test module, using assertJ and JUnit TestRule instead of the custom JUnitClassRunner to make unit tests more flexible in enhancements
• Remove remote resources in setup assets. User can install MyCollab in their LAN network, we do not need an internet connection requires
• Remove the warning message of Jackrabbit

Bug Fixes

• Project Notification can not be sent in several special cases
• Minor bug fixes and new features for mobile edition
• Can not save audit log in several special cases
• Search time logging throws exception in several special input cases
• Fix NPE exception when there is several options has null value
• Minor bug fixes for file module
• Fix issue of can not reload the web context when we upgrade Jetty to 9.2.3
• Fix migration scripts could be failed with several MySQL versions

Version 4.5.1

Improvements

• Upgrade Spring framework to 4.1.0.RELEASE
• Upgrade Vaadin libraries
• Adding scheduler unit tests
• Project page could be exported into pdf format
• Project time logging is displayed in multiple layouts
• User can add comment to project component and project version
• Validate project shortname is unique in account
• Make links of bug and task are readable
• Add tooltip to pretty time display

Bug Fixes

• Save task in task read view throws exception
• Inconsistent time logging permission
• Throws exception if user saves an empty search criteria
• Return redundant task element for empty task list
• Switch view causes the right widget in task, bug display in the wrong position

Version 4.5.0

Improvements

• Upgrade libraries versions
• Revise project time tracking view
• Support version management in project page
• Support date format associate to user's locale
• Break mobile app into 2 sub apps: CRM and Project Management
• Reload site after user change information to make this change is applied immediately
• Improve error handling in event bus implementation
• The project time tracking views support multiple views
• Create the default task group when user create the new project
• Support more search criteria for bug
• Support display inline more image file types different than jpg/png

Bug Fixes

• Page path is cached across projects
• Milestone simple view display wrongly
• Display date time field correctly with user custom timezone
• Can not display username in phase detail view if the display name is empty
• Log user is removed when user update task status
• Can not trace activity when user update several kinds of items

Version 4.4.0

Improvements

• Add new page composer in project module
• Allow users can archive project
• Revise milestone list view to allow user can edit, delete milestone
• Revise invite project member that displays user avatar in suggested list
• Display total open bugs, due bugs in bug dashboard
• Clean user session resources properly
• Optimize image sizes

Bug Fixes

• Tooptip use the default system language instead of user defined language
• Component and Version do not show the marker of complete right
• Ambiguous email field search criteria in CRM account search page
• Project permissions are cached across projects
• Show project permissions wrongly in Japanese locale

Version 4.3.3

Improvements

• Update Japanese localization
• Update mobile module
• Support chart localization
• Support gantt chart localization
• Improve page template
• Upgrade Vaadin version to 7.2.6
• Improve UIs of projet views includes Bug, Task, Version, Component, Milestone
• Allow users delete comments
• Having the new Time Tracking feature

Bug Fixes

• Remove border of Create Project button
• Fix assignment table header misses border
• Fix several broken unit tests
• Fix css issues of email template
• Edit project view is not consistent to other views
• Can not display Japanese in several servlets
• Can not display well on Safari browser due to Vaadin profiler

Version 4.3.2

Improvements

• Update Japanese localization
• Upgrade Jasypt library up to 1.9.2
• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.2.5
• Upgrade Spring framework to 4.0.6.RELEASE
• Add the generic search module by using Solr
• Add permission review when user select role
• Simplify servlet error handler

Bug Fixes

• Add more tracked fields in version notification email.
• Fixed NPE when browser cookie is disabled.
• Fixed bug view render wrongly in some rare cases.
• Fixed overflow tooltip title if it is too long
• Minor bug fix of project activity stream
• Fixed confirm dialog body text size calculation wrongly
• Validate email fails in several email formats
• Fix bug view layout display wrongly in several cases
• Email misspelling issues

Version 4.3.1

Improvements

• Upgrade Reflections to 0.9.9-RC2
• Upgrade Guava to 15.0
• Support Japanese in reporting
• Internalization reporting module
• Improve UIs
• Update mobile edition

Bug Fixes

• Can not save user in some special case
• Minor bug fixes in inviting project member
• Can not assign new role to project member
• Notification Dialog has useless header
• Minor UI bugs on IE
• Can not 'remember password' in IE

Version 4.3.0

Improvements

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.2.4
• Upgrade HirakiCP to 4.2.0
• Update mobile edition
• Improve Gantt chart display
• Add Simple view of phase
• Support Japanese localization
• Emails are localized per language
• Support lazy load view
• Allow user can select the default system language
• Focus in system stable by adding many unit tests and refactor the system

Bug Fixes

• Exception is thrown when user save customized view
• Exception is thrown when user save search result
• Can not save login credential in mobile edition
• Can not add new role or edit role name of existing item
• Save duplicate monitor items

Version 4.2.0

Improvements

• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.2.2
• Upgrade Apache Camel to 2.13.1
• Refactor reporting engine and improve the output of report
• Adjust JVM parameters to avoid the PerGem error
• Update icons to make UI more intuitive
• Add welcome message for view that has empty retrieved items.
• Add push service in Vaadin to lazy load heavy task on UI
• Remove border of buttons
• Texts of emails

Bug Fixes

• Invite and accept invitation causes NPE in several exceptional cases.
• Can not assign role to new user
• Several wrong link in emails
• Calendar style issue
• Can not save edit role
• Link of following ticket is wrong

Version 4.1.1

Improvements

• Refactor tooltip generator for Project and CRM module
• Allow user choose create new item in read view
• Improve localization service, and move texts in localization files
• Upgrade Spring framework to 4.0.5.RELEASE
• Upgrade Jackrabbit to 2.8.0
• Upgrade Flyway to 3.0
• Upgrade Resteasy to 3.0.7
• Upgrade Vaadin to 7.2.0

Bug Fixes

• Align button and text on the top in read view
• Customized view display wrongly

Version 4.1.0

Improvements

• Boot time of application is much faster than previous version in some OSes
• Email template of task and bug are re-ordered fields more logically
• Cache spring service classes to init application context faster
• Support user localization.common
• Make install process easier for non-tech users
• Add gantt chart
• Upgrade Vaadin library to 7.1.15

Bug Fixes

• Application can not allow users upload big file size
• Fix NPE of email sending when user create then delete item before the email is sent out
• Fix date issue in email update of project milestone, and crm meeting
• Cut username display name if it is long too in bug dashboard
• Align user name center in standup report display
• Display empty string if user does not enter their last name

Version 4.0.0

Improvements

• Redesign application user interface
• Redesign email template
• Dynamic query builder and let user can save query parameters for next search
• Upgrade MyCollab libraries to higher version
• Revise standup report and time logging feature
• Improve code structure and simplify email processing procedure

Bug Fixes

• Mass update in CRM module throws exception in several special cases
• Fix exception throw when user back to previous screen
• MyCollab cache views even when user sign out the site
• Upload file in Chrome display upload window two times
• Fix several wrong links in email
• Improve datasource configuration to avoid site open many connections if the site is under heavy load
• Fix database connection bottleneck in unit test cases if we run all batch tests

Version 3.0.0

Improvements

• Upgrade UI architect from Vaadin 6 to Vaadin 7
• Refactor to share common codes for both web desktop and web mobile.
• Update icons for CRM types and tabsheet
• Update icons for Project types and tabsheet
• Make icons more consistent of size and color
• Add Convert Lead feature
• Add decision role field to Contact Opportunity relationship and add new edit view for this relationship
• Remove print button in all pages
• Add mobile implementation (not ready for production yet)
• Upgrade MyCollab libraries to higher version

Bug Fixes

• Mass update account, contact in CRM module throws exception
• Permission check in Case view is wrong
• Navigate previous and next project member throws exception
• Update user account throws exception
• Export risk, problem list throws exception
• Schedule runner can not send reports in some cases
• Display activities throws exception in some cases
• Invite member does not send when first name is null
• Do not display tooltip of lead and contact if first name is null
• Can not save search result in CRM module
• Fix spelling mistakes