Release Notes

General

On average, every page in the backend is 3.7 times faster to load and render. Website and eCommerce are 2.7 times faster to load controllers. Spreadsheet-based reports replace the various dashboard views/actions.  Create custom 'Property' fields on your tickets, leads, tasks, and articles.

Accounting - Localization

Added localization for: Bulgaria, Kenya, Pakistan, and Serbia. Improved localization for: Belgium, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United States of America. Updated localization for: Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, Hungary, Indonesia, Mongolia, Norway, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Taiwan, and Turkey.

eCommerce

Upload multiple pictures of a product in bulk; display them in a grid or carousel.  Prevent visitors from adding some products to their carts (catalogue mode). Customers can be notified when a product is back in stock. If using Google Places API: provide address autocomplete and validation during the eCommerce checkout.

Knowledge

Manage your company knowledge with a dedicated app.

OCR

Uploaded invoices and expenses are validated in the background by the OCR to make the interface more responsive. The manual field matching interface on invoices was improved.  Activate the digitization of vendor bills and customer invoices separately. Enhanced the partner detection on Invoices using bank account numbers and partner auto-complete information.

Project

Manage documents directly from tasks with the 'Documents' smart button. The Project Updates' side panel was revamped to better track the profitability of projects, providing an overview of costs, revenues, margin, and budget.  Deliver services automatically or manually by linking them to project milestones with the right invoicing policy. 

Sign

Send signatures requests in a specific order, ensuring signatories only get notified when it is their turn to sign the document. Access documents waiting for your signature and documents you sent out more easily with new menu entries. Improved document sharing behavior.

Time Off

Create 'Stress days' where employees cannot ask for leaves. From the dashboard, view the Validity Date of your available leave allocations. Users can delete their own approved and refused time off, provided they didn't start yet.

Accounting

Added a new analytic widget on invoices to ease analytic distribution, analytic plans, and analytic distribution models. Improved the bank reconciliation widget's navigation, interface, and readability. Updated the navigation throughout the Accounting app to avoid technical views and allow for an easier transition between different screens.

Barcode

Define per operation type what needs to be scanned or not: source location, product, serials, package, destination location. Serials and lots are now folded by default; scrolling them when unfolded was improved; view the expiration date. View supplier reference on receipts.

Inventory

At the level of Operation Types, decide how to automate the creation of batches, either per contact, carrier, or destination country.  Automate replenishment on specific locations by setting them as Replenishment Locations. Revamped all reporting; move easily from one report to another; reworked menus.

Manufacturing

Create operation dependencies on the BOM that dynamically influence both the planning and status of work orders.  Complete redesign of the work order Tablet view; four different types of BOM Improvement Feedbacks are now available from the Action menu; employees can log in to work centers and work orders, individually or simultaneously.

Online Appointments

The Appointments web page was revamped.  Appointment types created from the website are automatically published and work out-of-the-box thanks to default reminders and schedules.

Recruitment

Set skills on an applicant; they will be transferred to the employee if created.  CVs can be digitized to automatically extract the following information: name, email, and phone. Access CV previews directly in the app. Send documents to sign to applicants.

Spreadsheet

The Spreadsheet library has been open sourced in LGPL. Convert an uploaded XLSX file to Odoo Spreadsheet for edition. See records on list() function. Added a new set of functions to get accounting measures (e.g., balance, credit, and debit).

Website

Access the backend view of products, events, and appointments in one click with a new button. Use the new category of image shapes called 'Devices' to make images look like they are in a device (phone, tablet, computer).  Enable grid mode on a building block to get full control of its elements.

Accounting

Prevent errors with a "To check" button on entries. Get currency symbol on documents and manage exchange rate easily. Manage foreign VAT. Get payment tolerance mechanism to automaticaly reconcile or partially reconcile payment and invoice. Carry over taxes amount from one period to an other.

Localization

Localisation done for Czech Republic, Slovakia. Taxes management improved for Netherlands and Germany. Voucher added for China. DDT and taxes management for Italy. US get 1099 reporting easier. EDI integration for Peru. EHF3 supported for Norway.

Calendar

Share your schedule or an appointment type to schedule a new meeting. Get leads from appointment. Improvement in recurring event synchronization. Get notify when a new appointment is created.

Human Resources

Appraisal: access rights reviewed, integrated with survey. Approvals: define if the approvers is mandatory or not. Atetdnace: manage extra hours. Customize employee's departure reasons. Ease configuration of employee schedule and part time. Accrual Time Off management.

Barcode

Manage batches with suggestion, at the opening of receipt/delivery. Edit quantity and packaging. GS1-128 Parser. Define package type with scanners. See location of a product with the barcode scanner.

CRM

Smart lead assignation. Spot duplicate of opportunities. Centralize infotaion thanks to outlook or gemail connectors. Forecast sales on opportunities

Discuss

Edit or delete messages. Video or audio calls integrated. invitation meeeting. Add emoticon as rectaion to a message. Get members of a group at a glance.

Usability

Auto save and edit by clicking on a field. CTRL-k command to perfomr actions like chat or get a menu. Improvement in import wizards.

Documents

Read only mode in spreasheets. LSX export. More options in formating or cells formula

Payment

Mollie as new payment service provider. In stripe possibility to tokenize user cards using a redirect. Adyen: refund managermnt. Authorize.net support ach payment.

Point of Sales

Assign several responsible to a task. Manage task dependanceies. Share the kanban list view of projects with portal users. Get an order upsell activity when a prepaid service is close to being fully consumed.

Website

Smart website configurator. Animated shapes to give even more life to the website. All themes have a new, more modern look.

Marketing

Jinja to Qweb in emails. Schedule emails from a calendar view. Get a new editor to buil the email. A/B testing. Feedback sent to the responsible 24h after a sms sending. Youtube and instagram added in social marketing.

Inventory

Cyclical inventory by location. Count anything, anytime, without inventory adjustment. Select several ready moves of a given picking type and group them in a new batch. Reserve, unreserve, and change priorities directly in the forecast report. Define putaway rules for package types.

Manufacturing

Set an analytical account on Manufacturing Orders and track costs of production in real-time. Work order status related to material availability. MPS: Row options to consider demand last year and the year before. Cost management by products.

Project

Assign several responsible to a task. Manage task dependanceies. Share the kanban list view of projects with portal users. Get an order upsell activity when a prepaid service is close to being fully consumed.

Automatic Entries

Apply Automatic Transfers to specific partners; making inter-company transactions easier; one wizard for both, accrual and transfer preview entries in the wizard.

Payments

Improved batch payments error reporting. Batch Payments are now compatible with SEPA Credit Transfers.

MRR

Handle recurring revenues and manage renewal intervals, via used-definable plans.

Documents

Manage documents through the list view as you would in the kanban view (download, drag and drop, ...).

Certifications

Choose between six templates for your certification, so your students can share them on social media.

Reporting

24 hours after a campaign is launched, a recap is sent to the user responsible for it to share the initial results.

Salary Configurator

Make the "Customize Your Salary" configurator available in additional countries.

Usability

Unification of the form views of Project tasks and Field Service tasks to ensure a smoother workflow.

Feedback

Sync product description changes from Sales Order to Manufacturing and/or Purchase Orders.

Usability

MTO route replaced by a more flexible approach based on automated replenishment.

Usability

Warning when trying to invoice without "invoiceable lines" - suggesting a configuration change.

Packages

Automatically weigh delivery packages when connected to a scale.

Collaborative Pads

Display collaborative rich text pads in the portal to further collaborate with your customers.

Flexible Consumption

Increase the scope of flexible consumption, allowing to update confirmed MOs and consume components, which weren't part of the initial BOM.

Usability

Combine Routings and Bills of Materials. Operations are now listed in a new tab of the BOM.

Usability

Phone numbers can now be modified on the fly when sending an SMS.

Exceptional Pay

Manage which "other inputs" are available on a payslip by defining which structure types can use them.

Roles

Define several default roles on your employees to get relevant shift templates and to send them the right open shifts.

Cash Rounding

Set a cash rounding in the PoS in the same way that accounting cash rounding works.

Many2many List

A user is now able to edit a many2many list field related to a model he only has read access to.

Builder

The Anchor system has been reviewed. Anchors are generated automatically based on the first title within a section, or the snippet name, as applicable.

Mobile

The visibility of columns can now be toggled on mobile devices.

Usability

Use keyboard shortcuts and discover the full screen mode for an immersive experience in your website builder.

Applicants

Change job position, stages, medium, priority, and responsibility in the list view. Create reports on reasons why applicants weren't hired.

Analytical Accounting

Track any kind of revenue linked to the analytic account of your project.

Demo Data

Added demo data in some applications to ease the testing experience.

Setup

Speed up the installation process (chart of accounts and languages).

Reporting

List of records can now be accessed from most pivot views. Filter data on last 5 years; group by more than 2 group by.

Activities

New activity view

Snailmail (IAP)

Improved usability and error management when sending letters through snailmail.

Gantt

New Gantt view with Drag & Drop, resizing and records creation with easy clicks.

Access rights

Groups have been renamed to be more business-oriented. Administrator instead of manager and reorganization by application.

Timezone

Warn the user when his timezone is not set.

Kanban

Sequences can be reordered from the kanban view.

Date Filters

New date filters (by month, quarter, year).

Multi-company

Allow the user to interact with documents across multiple companies at once. Share product by or not by adding a company on it

Maps view

Display records and routing on maps.

Custom Lists

Each user can add or hide some columns in list views, in order to tailor the screen to their activity with just the needed fields.

Import

Improved error management on import.

Languages

Translate directly from the form view with the new translation modal. The new language code, replacing the globe, helps you know the language you are working with. Preview of mail in different language

Calendar

The user interface of the calendar view was completely redesigned with some small new features such as the possibility to answer to an event directly from the event popup.

Documents

Customize the style (colors, font) of your documents.

Search Panel

Search panel now available from any multi-record view.

Ribbons

New ribbons for form views.

Column Resizing

Columns of editable lists resized to improve comfort.

Signature Widget

New signature widget to request signed confirmation in any process.

Export

Quick export on list to export easily what you see on the screen in a spreadsheet

Product

Allow drag & drop on extra product media to sequence them.

Cohort View

New cohort view to analyze retention or churn rates over time.

Dashboard

Dynamic dashboards with UX inspired by Google Analytics. Dashboards can include any graph, cohort, or KPI.

Configuration Bar

New configuration bar in Sales, eCommerce, Invoicing & Accounting to help users configure the system.

Activities

Support for recurring activities, email templates, and a new view to check all activities at a glance.

Import

Lots of usability and speed improvements including a new interface to import files and import templates. The system learns data mapping to auto-detect columns, and detects data formatting (e.g. dates, floats).

Email Digest

Get KPIs sent by email periodically according to your preferences: new leads, opportunities won, revenues, & cash, tickets closed, open tasks, etc.

Email Template

Harmonize UI and improve the content of default email templates.

Full Keyboard Support

Press Alt to highlight shortcuts and navigate with the keyboard in forms, list and kanban views.

Date Filters

Easily filter dates (today, last week, this quarter...) including flexible grouping of data by date (by day, week, months...).

Sharing Links

Easily share access to documents, or the customer portal.

Access Rights

A user is either a portal user,  a public user or an employee with system access.

Right-to-Left

Support for languages that read right to left such as Arabic. 

Demo Data

Demo data has been improved, based on an office furniture business.

Calendar

Select the first day of the week.

Quick Create

In kanban views, the quick create has been improved to display more fields in the card. (no popup anymore)

Performance Optimization

Backend operations are between 2x and 3x faster. All frontend views have been redeveloped from scratch to speed up load times and reduce flickering.

New Design

A new design with a more vibrant color scheme, optimized to adapt to all screen sizes and devices.

Improved Settings

Global search across all settings, improved design, and the ability to switch from the settings of one app to another.

Report Templates

Configurable and beautiful templates for your report, customization through studio, better file naming of PDFs.

Kanban Headers

Progress bar on kanban headers, clean animations, ability to filter on the progress bar with a simple click.

Activities

Schedule next activities and get clean notifications. Activities are integrated with VoIP, calendar, and notes.

New Widgets

Domain selector, fields selector, placeholder generator for email templates, advanced address blocks.

Menus and Dashboards

New dashboard for project and website. Split of sales and CRM. Catalog menus in business applications.

Notifications

Improved push notification mechanism, great feedback and rewards are now delivered with a rainbow animation.

Images

Images and PDF preview in messages. Click to preview and navigate through these documents.

Mobile Discuss

The discuss application has been reworked for a better user interface on Android and iOS mobile interfaces.

Menus

Burger menu and account menu better adapted to mobile.

Mobile UI

Improved navigation in Kanban views, improved burger menu and user preferences menu.

ENTERPRISE

New Android Mobile App

New native app for phones featuring faster load times, native notifications, account management, and native widgets for date, time, email, phone, and relational fields.

Onboarding Tips

New onboarding tips showing a tour of tool-tips to help new users get started with Odoo.

Quick Creation

New mechanism to quickly create new records without leaving the kanban view. for CRM, Projects and Recruitment.

Access rights

Human Resources access rights have been split by apps: Recruitments, Timesheet, Appraisals, Leaves, Expenses.

Planners

New configuration planner for eCommerce. Existing planners have been improved too. Planners completion are now per company.

Keyboard navigation

New shortcuts and quick menu access / search feature.

Translations evolution

When updating a field that is translated in several languages, an alert warns the user to update translations.

Simplified configuration

Settings on the company form have been moved to the Configuration menu of the related app.

File Import

Improved import tool: auto-detect date locale and float formats, filter proposed fields based on values.

Multi-companies

Easier configuration of multi-companies environments, and access rights. New company switcher in the top bar.

Developer mode

Improved developer mode with more features. Accessible from the Settings app.

Simply beautiful

Based on Material Design. Simple, clear, and great to work with.

Faster

Data loading is fast. Instantaneous apps switcher.

Simple filters & groups

Predefined filters allowing to view most useful data in one click.

Easy navigation

Rearranged menus to bring what you need closer to your fingers.

Fully mobile

The design will automatically and rightly adjust menu, lists, forms & fields to the size of the PC, tablet or mobile phone.